I am in the Netherlands, and as I the pleasure of welcoming Marianne and Kim,
I prepared them a breakfast as we do here, as usual
- With eggs, ... You will see yourself - We are well spoiled!
That's a great pleasure to do that all together, in Kim's country too!
(knock Knock knock) And Marianne!
- Hello ! -She arrives late, she was still sleeping
No, I need time to get ready in the morning
And my mother will also show us around the Netherlands she knows very well
- As she grew up here - That's it, it's really the countryside,
And normally when we are tourists, it's very difficult to see these corners,
because it's all small ways, with canals, small mills, etc.
So I'm going to show them a little few paths off beaten, they say?
- Off the beaten track - Off the beaten yards, that's it!
We hope to find mills, and cows, and sheep, and canals, and all that!
And grass!
- But first breakfast, and coffee! - I'm hungry ! She says Marianne often, "I'm hungry"!
This bridge is a typical Dutch bridge, who can elevate himself to pass boats and narrowboats
And that's the channel and when I was small so long ago, huh,
It was all frozen, because there were winters much colder than now,
and we went with the ice skates to school, so it was 6 km, we passed from one village to another
And the skates were wooden skates, so with a whole clan of friends,
We went by the canal to school!
Can you watch at least before filming?
- There is something ? - Oh yes, there is a spider!
Stop!
It's a bridge that was built in 1954, and at the time and during forty years,
people had to pay for to be able to cross in case of flood
So it was raised to allow the inhabitants to cross when the full extent of the fields,
which are here, were under waters, in case of flood
There are 59 pillars on the entire bridge, and 60 openings for the water to pass
Each pillar has, as you see behind me, species of red pistons
which will allow to raise the bridge to more 1.50 meters, in case of very strong rise of waters
- So, what's here? -Here, you are really in a very typical place in Holland
It smells like cow, already! There are pigs, animals, cows are out again
And here is the month of November, normally there is already snow,
but they are outdoors, like us first! And here you see the farms with thatch,
They make it still restored, often they will look for thatch in the Camargue, in the south of France
And here, and all around, there are typical farms of Holland
- Is it more for milk? - It's rather for milk!
- To make cheese! - It's cows to do cheese and yogurt
And when I was little, I was always going to play here, in the farms, and we took a blade of grass
We were shooting grass like that, and we milked the cows
and with the blade of grass, we took the milk, and the milk was hot!
It was super good as remember my childhood!
It's great Holland, it's beautiful! The bike paths, it's paradise!
Everything is flat, it's nice! There, there is a climb, inevitably, when I say it!
- How do you find the Netherlands? - Dish ! And it's wonderful, I love!
- What do we do as a circuit? - Here, I show you the "Veluwe", it's district where there are all the villages
- We are in a very special location from North Holland, it's called - the "Veluwe"
and it's an assemblage of fields and lands, for animals, which was built between two dikes
And these dikes have been specially built in case of flood, they have several dams,
and they can pump water into the river and inject it directly into the fields which are surrounded by dikes
To avoid excessive floods for small adjoining villages
They even raise the electrical poles! It is put on pylons to raise them!
You should know that the fields that are in the middle are still cultivable,
And also, there are a lot of farm animals, and in case of risk, they take them out
- And it's made available to irrigate - They did that too for tourism,
because now it's a lot safer for people who ride a bike,
In case there is a big disaster, when I was little I remember very well
that all the fields you see there it was completely flooded!
It was frozen, and we were ice skating on it!
So here you see a farm as they were before, in Holland
The farms were all very small house next door, and it's called "Bak Huis"
"Bak Huis" that means the little girl house for baking bread
Now it's lost, we make a second little house when there are friends, family ...
But it was in custom that all the farms had that
KIM! I am in pain !
- It must be said that it's been twice that you get! - Yes, it's the second time it's happened
That's it, there you see Dutch houses, and we see that there is no fence!
The Dutch have a horror of that, on the other hand they put a lot of time in their garden
There are some who put small trees, there are some who put sculptures
And besides, when we look at the houses, we see that there are practically no curtains!
Even when we walk in the evening, we look in, and we see them
We can say it's really free, but in fact it comes from afar,
because as I told you explained, Holland is very religious
Here it is rather Calvinist, and in the south, Catholic
But that's precisely to say, you see, we do not hide nothing, we do not drink alcohol, we do not do nonsense
So, we open! It's a little paradoxical
At the same time, it's nice because in the evening when you walk, you can see a little inside, you see the little lights
Because the Dutch, as it does not too beautiful, it's changing a little,
they put everything in their house, they put small candles, small lamps, it's very cozy!
- It's truly pleasent ! - And we notice that these gardens are wonderfully well maintained!
The grass is mown to the nearest centimeter, and when there is no grass, there is plenty small trees, and small shrubs
It's very, very cute!
And to end this beautiful day, we will go to a restaurant that is lost in the forest
and we will eat Pannenkoeken, it's typically Dutch,
It's thick crepes, you'll see exactly what it is! Here we go !
So here we are in front of our Pannenkoeken, it looks very much like a pizza,
but apparently the base is not at all made with the same ingredients,
it would look more like a very thick crepe, it is 3 cm tall this pancake!
It's totally typical of this part of Holland, it's done in a pan made specifically for Pannenkoeken
It's a recipe totally typical of the Netherlands!
To arrive in this restaurant, we cross the forest for more than a kilometer on very small forest roads
and we arrive at this place which is very warm, unfortunately it is very, very dark!
You see it, I enlighten myself with the laptop, but it's worth it!
I have a great Pannenkoeken, it makes me think to my childhood, and that is "Stroop"
it's going on the Pannenkoeken, it's a liquid sugar!
So we're going to eat because frankly, it's been days that we would like to come here!
We are hungry !
- Today, we have the chance to visit a mill! - This is the mill of "Vlijt"!
- But it's written "Vlijt"! - We're lucky because in fact we went to the tourist office,
We said we were from France, and we were making videos,
and they told us "We'll see with the gentleman who holds the mill, if he can show it to you! "
- So they're opening it for us this morning! - And we share it with you!
You must know that this mill is still functional, and they still use it to grind!
So you can buy flour, bread, I'm not sure, but flour is sure!
And the mills, it's really a iconic image of Holland,
We can not go to Holland and do not see mills!
Just here we see the flour that we can buy, directly produced at the mill!
There is flour to make bread, flour to make Pannenkoen,
and there is even flour special for gingerbread!
There we see big bags with the flour that goes to be shipped to the shops and everything
And when I was little, I was 2 or 3 years old, I came with my father, in the back of a small solex,
and we went to get the flour so that my mother makes us the bread, and the cakes
Because I lived 4 km from here!
So the mill is really well restored, the commune gave the money for that it keeps turning
There, we can not turn the wings, because they are in the process of restoring
But it's great that it stayed, because there are not many mills that are as well preserved
- What you see right there is pig fat! - Yeah, and in fact back then and it still is,
a little less, but at the time they used it for greasing belts that are made of leather,
And so it was dried pig fat which was hanging, it is not very appetizing!
- And we rub it on the thongs to lubricate the wheels - To lubricate the mechanism!
Exactly, so it's super interesting!
We're sorry for the inside of the mill, we could not shoot with the camera
because there is not enough brightness, we filmed with our cell phones
So the quality will not be the same, but you will have at least one point of view
There, it is a stone of the climate, it's 3000 years old
So the condition for saying time, when it is quiet, it means that there is no wind
When she moves a little, that means there is a little wind,
When she's across, that's means that there is a hurricane
If it's wet, it wants to say that there is rain
If it's white, it wants to say that there is snow
If we do not see it, it's the fog
If she fell, that wants to say that the chain is broken
And if it's not there at all, it wants to say that someone stole it!
This mill was built for the first time in 1620
And he was totally burned, because love at first sight in 1980
It has been renovated in four years, so it has been inaugurated, for the second time, in 1984
This mill turns only one once a week, on Saturdays
And he produces every week, about 100 kg of flour!
The funny thing is that we must also take into account wind, a windmill does not run without wind!
For this mill, it starts with a wind force 2, so between 10 and 15 km / h
And from 15 km / h, you can start grinding flour
They are obliged to provide 14 days in advance, in relation to the wind, to start grinding,
so they make lots of calculations to predict the coming wind!
The miller we met, we did not film him because they only speak Dutch, and we will not be able to translate that!
But he's been a miller for 40 years, and apparently, it takes 2 years of study to become a miller!
And this mill turns with 4 millers who alternate
It is a mill that is subsidized by the state, the state takes care of its mills,
subsidies for restorations, things like that is the state that provides
On the other hand, millers buy wheat, make flour, and sell flour
to individuals, or now also to large areas
It should be known that these millers are all volunteers!
- In 1850, there were 10,000 windmills! - And today, there are only 1100 left, of which 1000 are still functional
There are also 200 water mills in the Netherlands, that work with paddle wheels
- On that we leave you! - We hope you enjoyed this video,
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- On this, take care of yourself, friends! And we say to see you soon, kisses! -Ciao!
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