WE FINALLY MADE IT TO DELFT (and visited the royal delft museum)

In this episode, Michelle and Alex visit the mooie stad (beautiful city) of Delft. In addition to visiting the Royal Delft Museum to see delftware ("blue delft") being artfully made, they explore a restaurant that sells "Montreal meat sandwiches" -- how will it compare to the brisket sandwiches from Quebec?
Episode 75 · Filmed on July 13, 2023 · Delft, the Netherlands
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0:00 Introduction
0:24 Goedemorgen and coffee (Neef Rob)
1:07 Walking to Oude Kerk (Old Church)
1:42 Brunch ('t Postkantoor)
3:27 A draaiorgel-backed city walk
3:40 Gemeenlandshuis and kringloopwinkel
4:58 More beauty shots of Delft
5:35 Delft stadhuis (city hall), Drogisterij Salamander
7:07 Stadsbakkerij de Diamanten Ring
8:03 Walking to the Royal Delft Museum
8:19 Royal Delft Museum
10:45 Day Dream Cafe (montreal meat sandwiches)
12:53 Thoughts on Delft and wrap up
#expatlife #netherlands #delft
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[@kayhoorn]

A lot of Dutch people don't even know this. But the OG Willem van Oranje is buried in Delft. You can find the Mausoleum in de Nieuwe kerk. I paid my respects when i visited ;)🇳🇱

[@mver191]

Every royal family member is buried there.

[@tiniselles]

Your pronunciation of ‘uitsmijter’ was really good. You will find this dish on many lunch menus in The Netherlands😊

[@raymonddijkshoorn]

Hey Buncharted! Great video again. I work at the Delft Waterboard, and we see so many tourist around our 'office'. Tip: the inside of our building is also very very beautiful. You can visit it for free on 'Monument Day' (9 and 10th of September). Many collegaes dress up as they did hundreds of years ago and they take you on a tour/play where you can experience how things went in the old days.

[@jeffafa3096]

I work at the neighboring waterboard, Rijnland, and have been inside your office a few times. It really is beautiful, and a whole lot larger than you would expect when you see the front of the building 😄

[@renepeterse1884]

The “stadhuis” (cityhall) started as one of many local recidencies of the earl of Holland in the early 13th century. The marketsquare was actually his court and there was no church there yet. At some point the earl at that time gave that court to the city and the built a cityhall probably around the 14th century, around the original towers of the earls court. That place burnt down in 1536. Leaving only the sturdy 13th century tower remained. They built a renaissance cityhall around it. The architect is the most famous of Nederland; Hendrick de Keyser.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

You should have visited the grave of the founder of the Netherlands, William of Orange in the church and maybe the place where he was killed (including two probably fake bullit holes in the wall). Fun fact, William of Orange did not speak a word of Dutch (but did know French, English, German Spanish and Latin).

[@Blackadder75]

I bet he at least knew 'gotverdegotver' (or the 16th century equivalent)

[@EOOGamer]

Standing on the spot where we took our wedding pictures, and my parents too. Oude Kerk FTW :)

[@raatroc]

The oldest phamacie in the Netherlands is probably W.H. van der Meulen in Amsterdm, which is at least 325 years old. The great "fire" of Delft was in fact the explosion of the gunpowder reserve, that contained tens of thousands of pounds of gunpowder, in 1654.

[@Klaas_Kruik]

The great fire of Delft was on the 3rd of may 1536. And yes, there was also the big explosion on the 12th of october 1654. Two separate disasters, each flattening much of the city, more than a century apart.

[@Bduh2]

When I took my late wife to the Royal Delft factory/museum it was a dream come true for her. She always loved the art pieces but never thought she would actually be there.

[@Dutch1961]

Delft is a very touristic city but there are also a lot of international students in Delft that study at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). It's basically the MIT of the Netherlands. My son got his Masters Degree in Applied Earth Sciences at the TU Delft.

[@harrybruijs2614]

I don’t think in Eindhoven and Enschede they would agree with that MIT thing. They are all equal good, but all have there specialties, because their reason for existance is different. Delft for shipping, bridges, dams and levies infrastructure and the battle against water, Eindhoven because of Phillips and Twente because of the textiles industry and AKZO.

[@NecramoniumVideo]

Not many people know that Delft even has a small nuclear reactor at the nuclear research institute Delft University of Technology.

[@Dutch1961]

@@NecramoniumVideo yes, it's at the Meekelweg.

[@Blackadder75]

@@harrybruijs2614 Well I studied in Twente at the UT, but I won't deny that Delft is the #1 technical university in our country, but that is fine, the other two are also great.

[@Claudiaatje212]

You missed one of the Netherlands' historically most significant places! At Prinsenhof, the king's ancestor and Father of the Nation William of Orange was assassinated by Balthazar Gerards in 1584, and the bullet holes are still visible in the wall. Another important landmark in Delft: IKEA 😂

[@jeffafa3096]

3:52 The oldest governmental body still active today is actually "Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland" (in Leiden), which is slightly older than "Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland", the one located in Delft (1248 vs 1289 AD). A "gemeenlandshuis" used to be the office for these "waterschappen". Leiden has one as well, which is also still in use.

[@B0K1T0]

The city where I was born (and spent some 30 years of my life). Very happy in Rotterdam now, but will always love Delft 💙 Too bad you couldn't make it to Ladera, it's such a nice place and concept :)

[@Mesmancer]

Leuk om te zien. Betere inburgering kan ik me niet voorstellen :) Ga zo door!

[@mybabies1765]

Hi there, I am going to visit some cities in the Netherlands but Delft wasn’t in my plan. I will definitely visit the city thank you for this informative video 🙏

[@ramonamaramis]

Yay finally you've visited my former residential town🥳. The old city hall is btw not only a wedding venue, but also houses the local council of Delft! Groetjes van een former local Delft councillor😉

[@jf6395]

Fondue and welsh rarebit.... but not today because Summers 90° Even in our Montana mountains so today it would be a blood orange popsicle or sorbet

[@jsb7975]

The nice thing about all that history in the Netherlands is that you while looking for musea, you're standing right in front of it !🌹💕

[@Michael.Barath]

Great episode guys. Just keep with the Dutch it gets easier. Now that I live in the Netherlands I am enjoying going to the places you have highlighted. Thanks

[@the_shiny_wartortle_8913]

Nice video and your pronunciation of Dutch words gets better and better every time.

[@Jeroen1969G]

When I am in Delft, I always visited the big church at the Market. William the Orange is burried there, our founding father of the Netherlands. Have you been there too?

[@buncharted]

we walked by it but unfortunately didn’t go inside

[@Jeroen1969G]

@@buncharted maybe, a next time. I'm Dutch and does travelling a lot to the Dutch fortress cities. This cities are built in the eigthy years war between the Netherlands and Spain. They have a lot of hystory and are pretty nice to visit. There are big fortress cities, like Maastricht, but also more smaller cities. The smaller cities are often more authentic, surrounded by a citywall, ramparts and water to protect the city. Most of the time, you can walk on the ramparts surround the city, Naarden is beautifull. Nearby is the city Muiden. You can go also to the Muiden castle. It was in the past een prison off the government. Very famous is the fortress city Bourtange in the North of the Netherlands in the provence Groningen.

[@AlbertBos-rz2vs]

Hi guys, Great video again. The lady at the Delft blue museum is called “ proud Mary” .

[@ZinitzioGambini]

"Uitsmijter" is correct.

[@renevaanhold]

The Netherlands has got 22 "Hanzesteden". The top 5 to visit are: Deventer, Zutphen, Hattem, Elburg and Harderwijk.

[@lisahinds810]

Hi We are enjoying your videos as we are Americans who live in the UK the past 27 years and we spent lots and lots of time in Delft between 2018 and 2021... We have enjoyed biking all over Delft ,all the little bridges and especially the Belgian cafe in one of the squares. Of course, eating outside in all sorts of weather during covid times. One of the other things we've enjoyed outdoors is Delftshout, a kind of big outdoor green space with lakes and bike lanes and walking lanes and horse lanes. And it really feels like you're out of the city and there's many many flocks of herons and other birds. It would be kind of fun and interesting to see what nature things you find outside the cities. Also in Delft we enjoyed the botanical gardens. It's quite near TU DELFT campus.

[@gebkleinhans2665]

Don't forget to visit Leiden, it is bit like Delft and Gouda, only larger. Lots of canals and bridges.

[@MrRiLef]

Have you visited Groningen? The city so great they named it twice, like New York ;).You should make a video of Groningen city on a saturday night.

[@buncharted]

not yet but we have to visit it soon - we’re visiting every province by the end of 2023 :)

[@GoliathAngelus]

Good work..nice video!!

[@Richard-Volvo65]

Love your channel. Thnx for the content

[@neuron82]

Another amazing video!

[@Bramfly]

The shorts looked absolutely perfect on you for sure ❤, great video as always 🫶

[@mver191]

Michelle got a killer body anyway.

[@lennartvers1767]

You might know 'uitsmijter' as a bouncer at the door of you local discotheque or dancehall. It has the same meaning over here but also for this egg dish.

[@headingnorthwest]

Your pronunciation has improved so much! So glad you guys are making the effort to learn Dutch unlike a lot of other Americans moving here haha.

[@buncharted]

it can be discouraging sometimes knowing how long it'll take us to learn enough dutch to have a conversation with someone, even in the accelerated classes, but it's totally worth it - every time we order food or talk to a delivery driver in dutch :)

[@Krystalfaye]

That sandwich looks amazing

[@victoriakrechting5088]

Of you ever get to Delft again go to the restaurant named Hummus. Best falafel and baba ganoush in the netherlands. Oh and an amazing icecream shop around the corner.

[@clifffan3]

You have to go to Schiedam, very old city they have the biggest windmails and 1 windmail is the Noordmolen thats a restaurant, there are also a Jenever brandery and Museum from Ketel and they have a wisperboat. (fluisterbootI also very nice

[@janmango4692]

"Uitsmijter" is slang for "bouncer". It was originally meant as a quick to make late night snack for bouncers working in cafés and bars.

[@janjanssen9629]

Nice story, but not true… the dish is from somewhere around the 1900 (time before bouncers) and comes probably from Germany…

[@DenUitvreter]

'Uitsmijter' also means the last song, to get everybody out after. It used to be the late night snack in bars, before Febo existed.

[@janmango4692]

@@janjanssen9629 The dish, yeah. But not the name. Look it up. And there were no bouncers around 1900? That's new to me.

[@Leentvaar1964]

Great video again. Uitsmijter is allways the right choice!!

[@ghostindamachine]

Welcome to Delft! Lifehack for your Surinamese broodjes: ask for the yellow peppers (Ajuma) for some real heat

[@Paul_C]

Fire and in particular the largest in Amsterdam,, is which is why Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712) invented the firehose and made some improvements on the pump. And for your first lesson in Dutch, (old Dutch): ‘een buygelijke buys, om haar gedaante een Slang genaamd, die men kan verlangen naar eysch en welgevallen‘.

[@buncharted]

what does it mean? 😅

[@Paul_C]

@@buncharted word for word 'A flexible pipe, called snake for reason of her shape (slang) which can be lengthened as pleased'

[@jacques7799]

Ah, Delluf! Nice cosy little city. Thanks for the video, nice. Tourists, yes, but never annoying in my experience. Next? In Noord-Brabant Breda (small but nice and close to you) and Den Bosch. North? Zwolle in Overijssel and the city of Groningen in Groningen and Leeuwarden in Friesland. Not because these are the province capitals, but nice cities. Drenthe? Don't know.

[@buncharted]

we have a den bosch vlog but we need to go back - it was very rainy and cold that day!

[@guustflater8049]

Hi Michelle en Alex, Again a nice video! My favorites : Broodje “ros” and Broodje Tartaar (raw) with union pepper and salt!!!!

[@pel666]

Nice video again! My favourite Dutch comfort food is 'Hutspot met draadjesvlees', runner up is 'Stampot rauwe andijvie met spekjes en een Nederlandse Gehaktbal'. With a nice amount of gravy...we tend to build up the stew round, and make a deep indentation in the middle with a spoon to pour the gravy in.

[@buncharted]

yum!!

[@buncharted]

yum!!

[@Dutchbelg3]

I learned something! I did not know there was a place in the Netherlands were they perform waterboarding!? And it looks like they already performed it from the old days? Wow.. Always surprising facts on this channel! Or is this about the Hoogheemraadschap ? We will probably never know?

[@buncharted]

i thought the same thing in our cost of living video - you’re telling me i pay how much every year to get waterboarded by the government?!

[@Species6079]

​@@buncharted😂😂😂

[@jackvandersluis1723]

The tower, going up? Too much lunch! 😊 food looks great! Of course video! 👍👍👍

[@stephenrobinson3681]

In your exploration of Dutch and European food, it time to sample some Colmans English Mustard, all the taste of mustard with the kick wasabi. English tin-glazed pottery was also known as Delftware from the early eighteenth century, in homage to the Dutch originators. Love from northern England and keep up the explorations.

[@buncharted]

wow, that sounds so good! we love wasabi 😋 is there a certain type of cuisine that would have it at a restaurant or should we grab some at a grocery store?

[@valeryklumper]

@buncharted.....you can find Colemans at Albert Hein. Most likely in the ally with all the spices.

[@OverMotoren]

Ok... then here's an idea: go to Gent and buy some mustard there. However, the city alone is so awesome it's beyond words, so the mustard is just a bonus. However, try it. For real. Then get beer, beer and well.. some more beer. It's in Belgium, so they know beer.

[@buncharted]

challenge accepted 😄

[@OverMotoren]

Actually there's a million reasons to go there. It's SO good.

[@frankgeurts3912]

Sounds record Store ❤

[@bartlucassen9145]

Oeeee….uitsmijter my favorit 🤤

[@bigbro8439]

Great you two visiting so many places in The Netherlands. I am curious when you two go two the Northern Islands Terschelling or Ameland.

[@buncharted]

soooooon 😉

[@mrsaasmrsaas2742]

Eng translation for uitsmijter is bouncer. Love your videos. It's only a shame that you 2 left Rotterdam. My birthplace, and best city of the Netherlands. 😜

[@buncharted]

we didn't go far - we're basically there once a week 😅

[@johnalexander8682]

Een uitsmijter (a bouncer)... Nice!

[@marijkie9205]

My comfort food is kapsalon with chicken🤤

[@buncharted]

that's a good one 😋

[@vanderquast]

Delft is nice 😊 when are you going to the north of The Netherlands, to Drenthe? I recommand to visit Veenhuizen

[@buncharted]

north soon, but drenthe might not be until the fall - we've got a packed (and exciting!) schedule already planned over the next couple of months!

[@SALVATl0N]

Delft was our favorite

[@dvanurk]

You should visit Flevoland and then off course Urk in particular. Beautiful former! island. Do a “Steegjestocht”.

[@EdwinMartin]

Tips for cities and villages to visit: (maybe you already made video's about some of them and I missed those) - Zaandam - Fishing villages Volendam/Monnickendam/Marken - Groningen - Nijmegen - Den Bosch - Maastricht - Hoorn/Enkhuizen - A Frisian place

[@buncharted]

we've been to nijmegen, den bosch, and maastricht on the channel. a few of the others are currently on the schedule coming up... will take a look at the rest as well :)

[@bbl2100]

@@buncharted When you get up north, make a visit to fortress Bourtange in the province of Groningen. We build it against troops loyal to the king of Spain and it did well against the bishop of Münster plans to conquer Groningen.

[@edprins1760]

7 oudste drogisterijen van Nederland Jacob Hooy Amsterdam sinds 1743 Drogisterij Salamander Delft 1780. ( makes it the second oldest farmacie in the Netherlands) Drogisterij Van der Gaag Den Haag sinds 1796 Van der Pigge Haarlem sinds 1849 Drogisterij Woortman Utrecht sinds 1851 Drogisterij Bik&Bik In Leiden sinds 1860 Drogisterij Van Loon uit Oud-Tonge 1892

[@1walkgirl]

Heel fijn 🙂

[@kubrabenelli9117]

Nice little Spirited Away Delfts Blauw tile

[@buncharted]

we love studio ghibli ❤

[@TheGoudsmid]

Well, I gues it's official. You've got the best "foreigners in Holland " channel. I'm gladly city hopping along with you. Btw don't bother coming to Apeldoorn. (We have a great monkey zoo: "Apenheul", but that's it, not much else) Keep it up ❤ Visit Deventer

[@buncharted]

we posted a video from deventer a few months ago - it’s an amazing city!

[@MarcelVolker]

Although Paleis het Loo is also nice - but neither of these are *in* Apeldoorn. Have to agree unfortunately, when we were scouting to do other things in Apeldoorn aside from visiting the palace, we drew blanks 😐

[@frankgeurts3912]

Delft is famous for its Industry,NKF cable factorie

[@GanjaManJAM]

Next time in Delft you should definitely visit Il Tartufo, its Italian and im pretty sure it wont dissapoint .

[@AlbertZonneveld]

Netherlands is indeed a bit touristy. Netherlands gets 20 million foreign tourists a year. USA gets about 80 million foreign tourists a year. To be relatively the same as the Netherlands on capita that should be 360 million tourists To be relatively the same as the Netherland on area that should be 4.6 billion tourists But to be fair the 80 million tourists in the US do stay a bit longer.

[@buncharted]

i wonder how many of those 20 million tourists ever leave amsterdam 🤔

[@AlbertZonneveld]

@@buncharted Tourist from Germany snd Belgium will go anywhere.

[@Blackadder75]

why does the tower have 3 colors? Maybe they ran out of money and started again decades later in a new kind of stone

[@hildelouisevrijs774]

About mustard guys, we always buy the real Dijon mosterd, it is from France (the city Dijon) It is not an ij like in many words in the Netherlands, like uitsmijter. How to pronounce? You can find that in the computer….. It is real spicy. Maybe you know it already, otherwise just buy and try! (every supermarket has it) ❤️Hil

[@buncharted]

oh yes, dijon is very popular in the US as well. we were mostly familiar with american mustard though (the neon yellow stuff) which is disgusting and kept us from eating mustard for a very long time! so we were relieved the sandwich didn't have that 😂

[@henkhessel3651]

@@buncharted agree. You also might try Zaanse to Doesburgse mosterd (AH)

[@rmyikzelf5604]

About 3/4 through the video I'm slowly starting to fear you've missed just about the most important historical spot in the entire Netherlands. At least where it concerns the birth of the Dutch independent nation. Delft is where Willem van Oranje-Nassau (William the Silent), the de facto leader and catalyst of the Dutch revolt against Catholic zealot Spain oppression and tyranny (the Spanish Inquisition), was murdered in 1584. By a Spanish-paid assassin. Possibly fuelling the revolt to endure almost 80 years of on and off war for independence. (Finally officially secured in 1648). He's also buried there.

[@ankeleenders5557]

Neef Rob is the best!

[@NecramoniumVideo]

Did you guys visit the Prinsenhof? This is where Willem van Oranje was shot and killed, the bullet holes are still in the wall of the staircase.

[@B0K1T0]

The holes might have been moved a bit over time though ;) My grandfather sometimes told the story that one of his family members used to work there and sometimes had to fill up the bullet holes a bit when they were worn from visitors sneakily scraping off some material from it as a souvenir.

[@nicoanker1343]

I know something. You can go to the biggest PLUS Supermarket in The Netherlands in Wezep.

[@faithwilley3171]

I attempted to take your advice and have lunch at the Thuis by Ladera in Delft. Unfortunately, they don't open until 1700. :(

[@buncharted]

yes it is unfortunately dinner only :(

[@wm7195]

Comfort food in Groningen is eierbal.

[@buncharted]

so excited to try this!

[@B0K1T0]

Recently tried it in a bar where people from Goningen made it, best deep fried snack ever 👍 Can't wait to go to Groningen some time.

[@Raevan1957]

Good job you two, i recommend Hoorn or Medemblik to visit next. But wait your going back to the US? I realy enjoyed your vlogs.

[@buncharted]

we’re going back to the US??? don’t make us leave 😢

[@Raevan1957]

@@buncharted No off course not 😁, you still have a lot of area to cover.

[@andrewfuller9337]

I am English and don't understand the very vague expression 'one of the only'. Does it mean the only one or one of the few?

[@MxSheep]

would love too see the reverse culture shock video when you go back to the US. even though there will a be open doors.

[@ikke5212]

😉😊😊

[@dykam]

't is an shortening of het, kinda pronounced "ut" with a very silent u, rather than "te". In some cases it merges with the word after it, but here it doesn't.

[@buncharted]

ah, thank you! that's news to us 😅

[@levisiem4145]

Best city in Zuid Holland after Rotterdam

[@aislingbooks]

Off-topic: I have a question about your KZbin channel avatar: does 'buncharted' derive from 'be uncharted'?

[@buncharted]

kind of! we also call each other "bun" - so it's sort of both of those things combined :)

[@aislingbooks]

Hahaha - okay. Thanks

[@roykamaaina]

Didn't you folks climb the church tower?

[@buncharted]

not this time :) we were worn out from the walk to and from the museum!

[@pmvdmeulen]

You should have gone to BettyBoop with a SocialDeal. Kobuskuch apple pie is highly overrated but you can play boardgames. Market is fun. Chocolate shop is nice. Dille en kamille always fun in every city. There is a better brownie shop. You should sit on the busy plein watching people having a drink. Loveseats in the cinema are nice. Famous friet shop was great, but last time my sweet potato fries were fried too long. It's nice to sit at the canals.. they are much lower than in Amsterdam, I'm less scared to fall into it. My favorite pizzeria is in Delft. It's a nice busy quiet city, a little touristy but way better than the famous tourist cities.

[@buncharted]

haha, we almost went to betty boop. it looked like a lot of fun! what's the name of your favorite pizzeria?

[@davidjwz6688]

Have you had any issues yet communicating with Dutch people in the English language throughout all the places you have visited so far? Or has it all been buttery smooth?

[@buncharted]

well, we've been trying to do more in dutch. we don't take english menus, as an example, so we order everything by their dutch name. sometimes they hear our bad pronunciation and find someone that speaks english to help us though 😅

[@clifffan3]

My brother is married in that stadhuis

[@bertoverweel6588]

How on earth do you guy's keep so slim, when I smell on a brouwny I gain wight.

[@w.vanderkraan1827]

Delft is oke. Michelle is better.

[@nout1972]

I see the two of you non-stop munching and there isn't a gram of fat to be seen on your bodies. You lucky bastards! 😄There was a time I could get away with it as well...those good old days...

[@megamusictuber6017]

Funny to see a few buildings pass by in this video that I once gave a maintenance paint job.. haha. Nice video again guys.