We Spent the Day in BRESKENS 🇳🇱

[@astriduyttenbroek9862]

Nice vlog. Tip to eat mussels. Do not break the shell, but use an empty one as tongs/pincers to remove the mussel from the shell.

[@mennovanrij9334]

That's so nice! I used to live in Breskens for a couple of years when I was young, around the age of 6-7. We're talking mid-'60s. We used to live just behind the dunes, near the old ferry ramp. In a newly built park with all low bungalows. In hindsight, a great time. My parents knew that living in Breskens was only temporary. 2 yrs or so. My mother kept me away from school and home-schooled me. Every morning, we started with the school chores and then we went to the beach. In my memory, every single day. No matter the weather. Once back home and after dinner, I had to learn to read. I remember the old municipal swimming pool next to the Marina. A saltwater pool. I learned to swim there. Nobody wondered why a little boy was having swimming lessons instead of being in school! I remember going with my dad on the ferry to Vlissingen on stormy Saturdays. Just for the big waves. I guess that my love for sailing started there! And I remember making a 'lampion' (a lamp that you carry) around St. Maarten (± Halloween time) out of a sugar beet! With a small candle inside. Not only did it look great, it also smelled like caramel! Those sugar beets were all over the roads when the big machines harvested them to get them to the sugar factory. After 2 years, when we returned to the town where we originally came from, I went back to an ordinary school. No one ever noticed that I was home-schooled. Not bad for someone who was not a teacher by profession! Nowadays, keeping your kid away from school brings you in front of a judge and you leave with a hefty fine! Thanks for posting this video. It brings back very happy memories!

[@DJWezzyK]

You visited Breskens at the wrong time of the year. I always reccomend to visit during the "Visserijdagen". When it is super busy and there is a fair, a market, fish tastings and live music with international artists from time to time.

[@pleegjepleegje]

Bresjies dur is altied wat te doehn, Bresjies😅 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ_QhXSCnLGfmtksi=XxwE953kt9QkMqyy

[@fredelmo]

This is fun to watch, because this is where I do all my groceries 😊. I live in Groede, which is about 5 km away. And in summer 80% of the people you see here are indeed Germans, it's absolutely insane. And I've had to wait for chickens to cross the road there haha, always makes me smile when I see them walking around completely unbothered by anything.

[@christianvonhout997]

Nice vlog, I live in Zeeuws Vlaanderen, near Terneuzen, Vlissingen is what we call "de overkant" 😁

[@madamnicknack]

De goede overkant natuurlijk. 😉

[@lillekenatnek195]

Hey you guys talked about Perfetti Van Melle. They got a large factory in my hometown (Breda) and my parents used to have a summer job there back in the 80's lol

[@CakeboyRiP]

Vlissingen can feel like it is really far away. Breskens is on another league 😱 You two really know how to live. Love it! ❤

[@MotocrossRacingOnline]

Zeeuws Vlaanderen! This is my home area haha, There is lots more cool places to see like Sluis / Hulst / Terneuzen etc in this area, i'm personally from near the Philipinne / Braakman area with some nature & woods stuff and lots of farm fields hehe. The ferry to Vlissingen used to be a bigger different one to also transport cars before the Tunnel was created under the Westerchelde. All in all cool video and crazy to see American vloggers in spots i visit very often haha

[@WACONimages]

Nice! My hometown. Lived there till 2016. Now based in Utrecht. Not a good weather day it seems. Maybe visit again with summer weather. At the Spuiplein above the terraces you might have spotted the large billboard wide photo banners. Most of them are from my hand. Nice and unexpected to see Bresjes(in dialect) in your videos! If you might get there again but by car, you can drive over the Panoramaweg(road). A road where you drive at the seaside, Westerschelde side itself just outside Breskens.

[@B0K1T0]

3:40 In some of those places along the Dutch coast (esp. in Zeeland and the Wadden islands) they just assume anyone is German, especially if you're clearly a tourist 😅And they have their main focus at German tourists, like restaurants with their menus mainly in German etc.

[@MartijnPennings]

De 1e hit van de Nederlandse band Bløf heet "Aan de kust" en heeft de tekst: "hier aan de kust, de Zeeuwse kust, waar eenieder onbewust in het Duits wordt aangesproken". Misschien kunnen jullie een video maken waarin jullie de canon van Nederlandstalige popmuziek beluisteren?

[@spinshade]

I've noticed that every video you film in The Netherlands has rain at some point! LOL Since the weather is getting hotter again this week I propose you film in De Achterhoek so I can get some rain too for my allergies! Thanks! P.S. Thank you for exposing Buncharted I prefer you guys over them!

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Weather is much colder and rainier again the last 3-4 years, back to the normal of the 70's and the 80's. We were spoilt with warmer weather especially in spring and autumn in the period 1990-2020.

[@vast001]

The province Zeeland is visited by a lot of German tourists. Look up the lyrics of the song 'Aan de kust' by the band BLØF.

[@buncharted2]

haha yeah, we definitely noticed this, but why would she not assume we're dutch? we hadn't said anything yet 😂

[@vast001]

@@buncharted2 Part of the song lyrics 'Aan de kust' by BLØF: Hier aan de kust, de Zeeuwse kust Waar eenieder onbewust In het Duits wordt aangesproken

[@pleegjepleegje]

It's true. It even happens to the locals regularly.

[@lillekenatnek195]

Yea and its a saying that Germans go there because they like do dig foxholes. (its a common joke)

[@MsCheeta1987]

Ik heb zaterdag jullie kanaal ontdekt en zag dat jullie Kara en Nate volgen, die volg ik ook. Die zijn trouwens nu in Nederland, in Nijmegen. Ze gaan de Nijmeegse Vierdaagse lopen. Als jullie dat nog niet wisten. Bij deze. Ik vind jullie kanaal interessant Just discovered your channel on saturday and I noticed you are following Kara and Nate. I follow them too. They are in the Netherlands right now btw. In Nijmegen, they are gonna walk the Nijmeegse Vierdaagse. if you didn't know yet, now you know. Your channel is interesting

[@buncharted2]

can’t wait to see their video at the vierdaagse 😄

[@annemarel]

Omg! You guys were so close to my home. If I had known it, I would have invited you and showed you around!

[@madamnicknack]

So happy to see you visit a forgotten part of the Netherlands. There is so much to do (though it's better to have a car available). Many Dutch call it an island (even though it's fully attached to Belgium) or don't even know it's Dutch. 😕 About the German mistake. In Zeeland the majority of the tourists are German (in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen combined with Flemish), so often they start with German. When you are on the observation desk, behind you you see apartments. Even though Zeeuws-Vlaanderen usually has lower housing prices (the toll tunnel, the location and in comparison to other places, little high paying jobs), but the coast is very expensive with million euro apartments. A few weeks ago in Cadzand (a little more to the south) a holiday home was sold (so you can't stay there permanent) for 8 million euro.

[@LdeV26]

We don't have an ocean in the Netherlands, de Noordzee is a sea ;-)

[@janalberts6093]

Well, part of the Atlantic I would say.

[@DenUitvreter]

Mussels grow their own cutlery. Eating mussels with your hands means you take one clam, the entire bivalve, and pinch it to grasp a mussell from another clam and pull it out.

[@Pasunsoprano]

I knew one of the sons of the van Melle family. They are still very bummed out that the company was sold before the huge success of Mentos...He did tell me that he hates sweets because they had to try out every new thing and all the faulty candies were taken home every day.

[@Kimmermaid]

De Schelde the arms of the sea

[@janalberts6093]

You guy’s must have an incredible digestion that you stray so slim 😂

[@lillekenatnek195]

I like to eat haring met uitjes on my uitjes. #uitjes :D

[@umbertoyltp]

Yes I remember van Melle Fruitella, fruity flavoured toffee candy, from the sixties and on.❤

[@chrislaarman7532]

I used to be a shareholder (actually a mere certificateholder) of Van Melle from the early 1980s until the sale to Perfetti. There was no Van Melle willing to succeed as director of the company, and the Perfetti family business seemed a good match. - Mentos sweets were (are?) manufactured at Breda, Fruittella at Weert. As I remember it, licorice maker Klene had been taken over by Van Melle in the late 1980s. Like often, these three were family companies, preferring a good match over a one-time profit. Van Melle was in the vanguard of companies minding the environment (in Biblical Dutch: "goed rentmeesterschap"), even voluntarily including a "green" annual report beside the financial one. And they had a social annual report. A really great atmosphere! Yes, I think that Van Melle originated at Breskens, as did another sweets maker: Verduyn (Verduin?). Verduyn made these hard lemonade-like sweets with a liquid core. I seem to remember that Van Melle had also incorporated Verduyn. Trivia: cimmamon-flavored Mentos were produced at Breda, but for export only. According to a top dog (former CFO?), there was no market for those in the Netherlands. So I had Dutch friends bring me some of those (two rolls) as a souvenir from the USA... While on the subject: during the same period I happened to be a (real) shareholder of the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland. The SMZ would operate a ferry service between Vlissingen and (I assume) Harwich, with fast connecting trains (by the NBDS) running to Germany via Boxtel and Wesel, the "Duits lijntje", to Berlin. Later, Vlissingen was swapped for Hoek van Holland (Hook of Holland), and in 1989(?) the one-ship company was taken over by DFDS. It was another great company, and you'd better travel by train to the annual meeting on board at Hoek.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

@@chrislaarman7532 Interessant, ik was lang geleden een liefhebber van zowel Mentos als Fruitella.

[@Cybersanny]

About the German thing: Many German tourists visit the coast of Zeeland for their holidays. Even I as Dutch person who was born and raised in Zeeland will be initially addressed in German... I still don's know how to feel about it 😅

[@spoonwinnipeg2021]

I've had this same experience. We rented a house in Sint Maartensdijk (my Dutch summer home) and all the instructions were in German only.

[@_JoyceArt]

Everyone gets addressed in German in certain areas of the Netherlands. If they have a high percentage of German tourists, the probability of you being German is just high.

[@pleegjepleegje]

0:04 De Westerschelde.

[@Martinjr1975]

Stronthouse ? ;-)

[@madamnicknack]

If you come back and (promise not to film me 😉), I'll show you around. Know the good places to eat, to see (last day you should go flower picking in a pluktuin), go to Van Kessel or Vereecken for the best cherries (and liquors), go to boerderijwinkels (farmer shops), Heerenhoeve for ice cream, vla, yoghurt and tapped milk (pasteurized). Go to Ghent for the best vegan and vegetarian food and if you come in the thirth week of july for the Gentse Feesten, go to Philippine (mussle capital of the Netherlands) and go to het verdronken land van Saeftinge. ☺️

[@NoNameForNone]

Being talked to in german? We have the new zeeuwsch volkslied ("Hier aan de kust" by BLØF), it's about Zeeland. One of the lines is "waar je in het Duits wordt aangesproken" ("Where you are being spoken to in German") which is what happened to you. It's so common to see Germans on holliday that at some times of the year (hint, German holliday seasons) easier to just start talking German as it's the lingua franca at that point.

[@mhjmstultiens]

Haha, it must be the mustache! ^^

[@dennisdistant]

You know these types of videos's are really fun and it's because they are a little bit more chaotic and unorganized than your regular ones.

[@reviewerdiogeones5857]

You definitely should go back to Zeeuws Vlaanderen. From Breskens you should take the bus to Sluis, or rent a bike. It's not that far from Breskens.

[@buncharted2]

when we have more time 😅

[@roodborstkalf9664]

@@buncharted2 : Sluis is a small city, quite touristy, lot's of visitors from Flanders who come there to shop and eat. From there you can easily visit Aardenburg, Knokke, Cadzand, Het Zwin, Damme and Brugge.

[@madamnicknack]

​​@@roodborstkalf9664Skip Brugge, go to Ghent. Brugge is an open air museum with just tourists. Ghent has a student vibe (except for this week 😉 #GentseFeesten)

[@lekkerplantje9982]

Daar heb ik gewerkt Zeeland Breskens. Kermis. En ik kom uit Den Helder ❤

[@MartinWebNatures]

Guys, do you noticed the quality in food between USA and here in 🇳🇱? Even when it's snacks. Love your video again❤

[@Dutchbelg3]

I like the art installations. Did you see the beach-sided statues at Scheveningen yet? I love those statues: they are of 1 artist Tom Otterness in a lot of sizes and are pretty comical and a bit kawaii 🙂 Cute in their own way!

[@buncharted2]

no we haven’t! i’ll keep an eye out next time we’re over there!

[@joliendhollander]

Also very funny i am from Belgium i speak same language and my boyfriend also and ever time they speak Netherlands to me and to my boyfriend in English 🤣 so i get the menu in Netherlands and his English 🤣

[@Bduh2]

A lot has changed from the 60s to today. In the '60s we had real seasons but now, from what my family tells me, "Jeetje, het weer is KU...uh....bad"(a dirty word they still use 'till today and I don't like it) In regards to the chickens running around, that reminds me of Key West where they also just run in the wild.

[@303Resurrection]

I was in Breskens July 5 thru 12.

[@tvaandering]

Nice video again, Alex and Michelle. The fact that people think you speak German has nothing to do with what you look like. In the summer, both Zeeland and Harlingen (and some other places) are flooded with Germans tourists, that is the reason. Finally: Yes, that anchor is absolutely real and used at some point.

[@mikedehollander6848]

first time a saw you with the moustache and hearstyle i thoughtb you were french

[@buncharted2]

we went to a sauna in germany like two years ago and they assumed the same thing 😂

[@dustinbranham9746]

Did you say you want to explore it again "on not a bike?" Isn't it a good biking town? I thought every Dutch town was good for bikes.

[@buncharted2]

no we want to explore it again, but on a bike we didn’t see that much of the area since we didn’t rent a bike (we were too cheap and we didn’t have enough time that day)

[@ikke5212]

😊😊

[@fredvankempen2177]

@buncharted: "str[andhuis]", not "shtr"... :P

[@peterf1]

So, is buncharted2 like buncharted but with more hot sauce applied to the jokes? Love it. Keep growing!

[@buncharted2]

jokes should be in air quotes 😂

[@lekkerplantje9982]

Lighthouse = vuurtoren in Dutch language

[@Rimpelmans]

Next time you are mistaken for German, have Michelle say Straaaandhouse. There is no way anyone would think you are anything but American after that. :)

[@marcelrombouts8607]

Bresjens they call it locally. (source: my late mother from Vlissingen).

[@reviewerdiogeones5857]

Als halve zeeuwsvlaming zou ik zeggen Brêsjes

[@fredelmo]

​@@reviewerdiogeones5857 Als Groedenaar kan ik beamen dat er geen 'n' in Bresjes/Brêsjes zit!

[@MarceldeJong]

3:42 ah no, that's just Zeeland being Zeeland. Even I get addressed in German whenever I visit Zeeuwse steden. And I'm as Dutch as they come. You can even order in Dutch but you'll get the bill in German.

[@peterf1]

That's quite funny. So this American, of German heritage, fell in love with Zeeland on my first visit many year's ago. Walking on the beach near Zoutelande I see a group of teenagers having fun, being a little loud but nothing terrible. The thing is they had planted a good sized German flag, with pole, in the sand to mark their place. I came foolishly close to going over there to suggest this really isn't a good look given the history. But, common sense took over... they were just having fun, no insult intended. 🙂

[@kamsel79]

🤣🤣🤣 (B)Unhinged for sure!

[@Weekender]

StrandhUIs. Not strandhouse ;) You can do it!

[@ibovisser8061]

So manyGermans go too Zeeland I have a question, on the ferry is there a restaurant? The older ferrys had 2 restaurants, they where much bigger.

[@buncharted2]

no, they just had a couple of coffee and snack vending machines

[@ibovisser8061]

By the way, it is called, "de Westerschelde".

[@user-wi1wx5gu1c]

Still sorry for the weather

[@buncharted2]

no need to apologize, we don't mind it :)

[@TonyEbikemeJr]

its the tash. it makes you look german lol

[@renevaanhold]

No, the German one is only 3 centimeters wide.

[@davevanbeers6944]

People shouldn’t finger your bolussen. Especially in public 😊 That’s just rude. 😅 bedankt voor de aflevering.

[@vo4wb]

You look German a bit😅

[@buncharted2]

i’ll take that as a compliment 😂

[@ElMariachi1337]

All the pieces, pieces, pieces of weed 🤭

[@TheRealTMar]

Sounds like that server had a lot of trouble understanding and switching you two are a whole different deal. Doing your very best speaking Dutch and still get spoken to in German, ridiculous!

[@buncharted2]

ich möchte nederlandisch sprechen bitte