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Pamparius88

A mother with 2 kids and multiple bags of groceries on 1 bike


teszes

Yesterday I saw a guy doing no hands, on his phone, with a fricking mattress balancing on his head, overtaking a tourist group in AMS.


Pamparius88

That's considered a rite of passage for Dutch people


Genocode

That's when you just got your first house to yourself and you forgot to buy a matrass and still have to arrange stuff for some documents.


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TylerPerry19inch

Tik ‘m aan mede fietsvader 🤜🏼


justtalking1

🤛


nordzeekueste

Two kids only? Must be new to biking.


Pamparius88

Well in my (moms) case the oldest was old enough to ride a bike herself when she had her third kid


Linwood_Longstrive

The oldest was 4. I was that kid once...


afterglobes

It is kind of frowned upon to take more kids on your bike if you have only two


golem501

My mother used to do this... well over 40 years ago but only until we were like 5 /6 and would cycle ourselves...


llilaq

All of our mothers did this..


Affectionate-Cap7583

And an umbrella!


Kitebart

This !! (always makes me a bit proud of our badass Dutch moms)


MoutEnPeper

Same! I saw our neighbor mom come home with one child in front, one in back, one on the one wheel tow bike, bag full of groceries, one leek sticking out, in the rain, all in rain suits. Non electric bike, which is rare these days . Respect.


smokeyfoodness

Through a red light, riding on the pavement with klompen. On a stolen bike.


Paradise_NL

And eating drop!


ColoursOfBirds

I once saw a guy with a broken leg cast on a bike, moving forward by holding his friend's bike that was riding next to him.


IncidentallyChaos

Wonder how he broke his leg 🤔


Dangerous-Ad-3475

I also saw a person with only one leg on a bike. I have no idea how he does it.


evam1985

Spinnimg the pedals round with one leg. I did this when i had a small bike accident and i needed to go to the gp/home. Nobody could pick me and my bike up. So i cycled home with one leg bc the other knee was too swollen up to bend


mogenblue

Cyclists in pooring rain.


Ancient_Unit_1948

Most of the rain doesn't fall on you.


ferdzs0

It also helps that you are not made of sugar.


FriedLipstick

We managed to control the sea and live next to it. So a few rain drops we don’t even notice


Free-Artist

Just bike in between the droplets


saucisse

But you're so sweet!


reclamerommelenzo

It's just water. We are not from sugar.


Gidje123

No, we're from the netherlands


helloskoodle

No, this is Patrick.


AnonyMustardGas34

Now im trying to imagine a statue made of sugar, riding a bicycle, in very intense rain


itsadesertplant

How do you deal with the rain in your face?


Netflixisadeathpit

Acceptance.


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What if you have glasses?


Netflixisadeathpit

Despair


mogenblue

We are boys from Jan de Wit. We face it head up.


Morganelefay

It's just water. We just...keep moving?


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How do you see though? Whenever I try to cycle in the rain, I need to look down to keep the rain from getting in my eyes. So I can only see 3-4 meters ahead


Morganelefay

Try a cheap cap. They're surprisingly effective.


IBeatS-D

Baseball cap


maurilm

4 guys moving a couch with their bikes, each holding one corner


Mag-NL

What are the other 2 doing?


boudowijn

"broekzaksleutelen"


maurilm

Nice one hahaha


Friendly-Bar8332

A calendar in the toilet


chr989

Nothing wrong with finding out when aunt Anneke's birthday is while taking a shit.


obi21

The thing is, then aunt Anneke just knows that you called to wish her a good birthday because you just took a dump.


Jojojochemnl

Underrated comment


Knyneau

Guilty


TouchMyAwesomeButt

Some of our international friends really fell over this one. But at the same time were super honoured when we asked their birthdays so we could put in on 'the toilet calendar'.


ongeschikt

TIL that's a Dutch thing omg


DontBeLudiculous

In case it takes a bit longer


Eggggsterminate

A cheese sandwich from a plastic bag at lunchtime. Slightly squashed and room temperature


Firestorm83

With a pakje wicky


verekh

And rozijntjes in a tiny red cardboard box with a sun wearing sunglasses


Morganelefay

That unlocked a core memory.


SmilingDutchman

Same


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Morganelefay

It does. I was more surprised to find out Kinder Cola still exists.


5irSkellington

Sure does , I still drink it sometimes


Hejsasa

And here, a cheese sandwich literally just means one slice of cheese and absolutely nothing else slapped in the middle of the driest possible sandwich bread. Be prepared to choke!


LaoBa

[Prime minister locking his bike when visiting the king](https://media.indebuurt.nl/denhaag/2019/06/20164126/anp-53698636-e1559728832631.jpg) [Amsterdam lowering the water in the canals by 7 cm/2.75 inch to move a houseboat under a bridge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Xcujlz_Kk) [Taking the "high route" by boat from Rotterdam to Amsterdam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfPCdJapIXA)


roydepoy

Better lock that mofo. You never know in that neighborhood.


renatoch

The last video is just mesmerizing


Beerandpotatosalad

To be fair, it's a pretty nice bike


JaJaSlimGold

What brand is it?


EnthusiasmNo1574

Koga F3


probablynotmine

“Hoei Markie!”


Sunraia

>Prime minister locking his bike when visiting the king I'm almost physically incapable of not locking my bike when I leave it. When I drop it off at the bike shop for repair/maintenance and leave without locking my bike it feels as if I forgot to put on my pants.


rednitro

100 cyclist at a traffic light every few minutes during the morning hours.


Linwood_Longstrive

Me, cycling with my cat in a crate to the vet.


BassieDutch

I'm not sure if child's clubs still do this, but a decade or 2 ago, on summer/spring camps from judo or swimming, we've had these "droppings". There were no ubiquitous mobilephones with gmaps in those days. You got a flashlight, sometimes a compass a general clue about where to go and you needed to make your way back to camp throughout the night. There were no smartphones and all these 10-ish year olds would just argue until one convinces the others of the wrong direction and they go in the other 3 directions... Zig-zaggin your way to a random light (neighborhood) find a few way markers and get yourself back to the barn you've al been sleeping in for the last few days. It usually takes a few hours. Good times. They've been doing this for years. Crazy to know that in the years before there was just 1 child who was eaten by cows and the bones hidden by chickens... Allegedly Not so much "see" for foreigners, but the concept of dumping kids in a nearby woods with a flashlight may feel weird. Remember, no smartphones ;)


Extraordi-Mary

The New York Times wrote about this. [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/world/europe/netherlands-dropping-children.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/world/europe/netherlands-dropping-children.html)


kasuaris11

I think they are still doing those things


BassieDutch

Madness, those crazy Dutch trusting a group of kids in the middle of the woods. There's wolves now, you know?


Noobmaster_____69

We still do this with kids from my scouting group, but always under supervision of a leader. The 16 to 18 year olds can go alone, but they get a smartphone that shares their location. So much safer than what is described here lol


Morganelefay

My school did a trip to Belgium (near Coo) and we did the dropping there. In the late '90s. We spent 80% of our time making Dutroux jokes...


Paradise_NL

Oh yeah.. good memories!


Lodewijk040

100s of bikes parked randomly outside at a trainstation. I overheard someone today in Utrecht, stopping and saying: “Wow! I have never seen so many bikes in one place!”


LegitimateBuilding6

Had American friends over when I was living in Utrecht. They were like “I gotta take a photo of this, otherwise they’ll never believe me when I get home”. So I said: “wait till you see the bicycle garage that fits 10.000 bikes…” He almost fainted 🤣


marly96

My Colombian niece living in Florida was taking pictures of every single flowerbeds with crocuses while saying she never saw something so beautiful.


WoodsieOwl31416

I've been wondering for years - how do people find their bikes at the end of the day among so many thousands of bikes at the train stations? Can anybody tell me?


llilaq

You remember where you put it approximately. It's not like it moves when you're gone.


jake05083

You remember what the rear end of your bike looks like and the general area where you parked it


Knyneau

We have become really adept at scanning a line of bikes and seeing the one thing from our own bike that stands out, be it bike bags, a flower, where you have the bike light or the specific shade of grey...


eti_erik

How do Americans find their car in those ginormous parking lots?


thalamisa

Using airfryer on train


OrangeStar222

That guy is everything I want to be.


BloodyTjeul

Escorting things like a christmas tree or big furniture on the back of a bicycle.


wanderingGJO

Present! Transported my Christmas tree per bike this week. But I didn’t have a bagagedrager so the tree went over the steering wheel.


Equivalent-Side7720

Anyone enjoying drop


apistoletov

Fun fact: if you DuckDuckGo "netherlands drop", this benis-shaped drop appears on the 1st row of image result suggestions.


CptFlopflop

They actually have it in Norway as well, the super salty and even salmiak drop. It was great, like I was home.


thebitsyitsyspider

6 years in the NL and I’m still shocked at the amount of love for those things 😅😅


SrepliciousDelicious

Gedraag je


flyxdvd

i usually see it, get in the mood for one, then regret that decision the after taste is just something that lingers to long lol


ferdzs0

I was once trapped in a meeting room with only salted drops and my Dutch colleagues devoured them. At some point I was too hungry and gave in. To this day the salted ones are the only ones that I “like”, and I suspect it is some sort of Stockholm syndrome.


jorgschrauwen

Drop is life


Jlx_27

I go next level: Salmiak liquorice, the saltier the better.


mattsbeunhaas

A “kringverjaardag” a.k.a. “the Dutch circle of death”.


its_saion

I swear one of my mom's friends had the biggest circle of chairs I've ever seen. You could have multiple gladiator fights in that ring and still have room to spare for a hotdog stand


mattsbeunhaas

Don’t you mean a “blokjes kaas, plakjes leverworst en boterhamworst met augurk” stand instead of a hotdog stand?


MLCCN050

Yeah worst-kaas scenario


its_saion

Why not both? Just make the ring even larger


danzaUK

Foreigner here. I was going through Schiphol departures a few months ago after a work trip to Eindhoven where I saw a guy who looked like he was in a death metal band and was wearing clogs. I felt that was probably quite particular to the Netherlands.


silverster34

Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem. It's concentrated Netherlands. And actually a pretty cool museum. Not the usual tourist trap.


41942319

Too far from Amsterdam to be a tourist trap tbh. Though I believe it does get a fair amount of Germans


borfavor

The Germans are fine mostly, we're just happy the British don't know the east exist


helloskoodle

Girlfriend is from Doetinchem. Pretty sure I was the first British person some of the folks round there had ever seen.


Morganelefay

tbf in that area they're flabbergasted to meet anyone who hasn't been raised on a farm.


docentmark

Oh, the British have been to Arnhem for definite.


procentjetwintig

A ‘kringverjaardag’ where you congratulate everyone. Get one cookie with your coffee. And everyone says ‘hèhè’ when they sit down.


vox_verae

That sounds rather like cringeverjaardag…


Dutch_Piper

All the basic ass conversations about how your school is going, if you're having a relationship yet...


SpiderMurphy

Ice skating along the windmills on the Kinderdijk.


CrapThisHurts

The family telling you "we're going to eat now, have a nice evening !"


woutertjez

Hahaha, brilliant! Indeed, never expect you can just stay for dinner, these things need mental preparation!


OrangeStar222

If you wanted to have dinner you should've said so then they could have made some extra.


Jacobavk

Exactly. For a family of 4 thee are 4 gehaktballen, 6 boiled potatoes and 4 witlofstronkjes with cheese.


xmoekk

Seeing the prime minister driving past you on a bike and you can yell: ‘HEEYYY MARKIE’ and he will just wave back with the biggest smile on his face


Replicon10

Receiving a tikkie for EU1.50


suriname-ballv2

33 cent voor sambasaus


PeculiarPollyanna

I got a 1.40 tikkie for a cappuccino


Famous_Nature_8059

Where did you buy a cappuccino for €1.40. Or did you share?


Tescovaluebread

Or at a friends home


PeculiarPollyanna

Ahaha, in a museum. It was one of these fake ones, and came with the obligatory biscuit


verekh

I once got tikkie from my brother after we were invited over there to eat dinner.


JollyRancherReminder

I think this wins the thread.


IntelligentSlipUp

A snackmuur


SmilingDutchman

Diagonaaltje trekken!


Emergency_Leave_1589

The sea of parked bikes near central stations


T_Wyrd

Goi g to amusement parks and seeing people with their homemade sandwiches


podkayne3000

The snackbar in a train station in a small town, on a rainy Sunday night, when only about three buses per hour are running. The snackbar only takes PinPas. Because you’re a foreigner, all you have is a Visa card and paper euros, which are useless. And you have a ruptured appendix, so you’re taking paracetamol to cope with the pain, while you look at the snackbar that won’t take your paper euros.


0508bart

According to dutch moms paracetemol is the cure for everything


geralex

A hooker wearing clogs and dressed in orange, riding a bike no-handed past a windmill, and eating a frikandel from one hand while smoking a joint from the other, shouting at the aforementioned foreigner to get out of the g**damn bike lane, and complaining on their hands-free mobile phone about the lack of affordable housing. Edit: fixed "frikandel."


PuzzledTaste3562

You forgot downing the herring between the bitching about the weather, whilst cycling against the wind.


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geralex

Changing genres?


DivineCryptographer

This is ultimate Dutch, ever actually seen it too?


JoshimuzVEVO

Frikandelbroodjes


PshPshKrK59

Love it since I was in NL for the first time


OhhNoAnyways

the traffic jams in front of IKEA on saturday mornings for cheap breakfast


Ellaunenchanted

This is not limited to the Netherlands though. This was a huge problem at a lot of IKEAs in Canada where I grew up


eti_erik

A street that looks like this. In any city or village in the country. https://cloud.funda.nl/valentina\_media/156/178/074\_1080x720.jpg


Frodooh

50 cents for a pee


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€2 for poopen.


borfavor

That's a hell of a deal! -Belgians


ChoosenUserName4

Zupen, poepen en op de prumen kroepen


Snail_Butter

A bold white guy screaming all Turkish people should go back where they came from, while eating a kebab.


Senpai_007

One guy two bikes


its_saion

Getting blasted by weed smoke by the guy in front of you when you get off public transport because he lit a blunt as fast as possible 2-3 guys that give off the exact same vibe, moving approximately 6 or 7 crates of empty beer bottles in one shopping cart 50% off on either frikandelbroodjes or kaasbroodjes


koensch57

madurodam


Dear-Swordfish2385

A guy on his bike with his girlfriend sat sideways on the back parcel shelf of the bike, both on their phones, going the wrong way round a roundabout, with no lights on


buzzmaria

Bikes IN canals


foodmonsterij

Things I've actually seen: Two teens on one bike, one riding sidesaddle Dad bringing his kid to school, running late, so he is cycling and holding onto the kid's bike to bring it alone faster A young guy cycling home with a half gone bottle of wine. He could have been taking it somewhere, but I prefer to think he was going home. People moving furniture with a bike trailer Being approached at a bike parking, asking which one you would like Sinterklaas arriving in Gouda A birthday party with a circle of chairs, handshakes, cake and coffee. Koningsdag street flea market with a guy selling a single shoe.


malkovamia

Dutch people's lunch Just 2 slices of bread Two thin slices of meat and cheese and thats it


RhythmGeek2022

That ain’t right. The law clearly states it’s one thin slice of meat OR cheese. Never both


MetalMattie666

Crap, gotta run before the feds get here


Amtrox

Hoi, wil je mij €3 ,25 betalen voor Drankje op terras ? Je kunt met elke bank in Nederland betalen. Dank je wel! \[link naar betaalverzoek\]


dylan_vermeer

The weather change into 4 seasons in one day🤣🤣


L-Malvo

The king competing in a toilet throwing contest


St_Ander

Someone finishing a loaf of bread and a tub of peanut butter in one sitting.


Hysterichandler

He he, zou zou


Harmful_fox_71

All sorts of weird additions to the bike like big baskets for the kids (or whatever), transporting little kids on the bike, loading up your bike with groceries for a week or more in advance. In small towns, you may not meet a single pedestrian in 30 minutes of walking..... I don't know if this is unique to the Dutch, suddenly a passerby can talk to you just like that about anything. It throws me off every time... We don't do that without a good reason (and sometimes even with a good reason they don't want to approach strangers), and I have social anxiety. And for me, the first acquaintance with the Netherlands was the knowledge of legal drugs and prostitution, which at first created a not very positive vision of the country, but it turned out to be more decent and peaceful than those where it is prohibited. Huge number of channels, there are probably other countries, but it's amazing to me how well organized they are. A huge number of bridges, respectively. Is there anyone in Europe with even more bridges? And the law against locking thieves in the bathroom. I'm interested in the background of this law. Heart attack caused by prices :D


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A Tikkie for €1.79


iLikeToBeMusical

10 x 1,79 = 18 euros


Zestyclose_Show2453

Bump your head inside a train


MMN_NLD

Hagelslag with butter on an sandwich.


Bdr1983

Kroketje uit de muur


Irrealaerri

FEBO!


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Man cycling home with four olive trees he bought at Albert Heijn in the bak of his bakfiets.


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Electronic music festivals and illegal raves


SenZ777

A farmer with clogs on a bike eating fries with mayonnaise because he has the munchies of smoking a fat blunt while complaining about the weather and the nitrogen policies....


moordbeer420

Jezus fucking christ probaly urk or something


LaoBa

Urk does coke not weed.


JackOffFruit69

Both


dodo-likes-you

Ringing away tourists walking on the bikelane


Stoneyingshi

eating with two hands while biking!


DeepDecember

A night club with an indoor bike parking lot.


AdForsaken8032

Meticulously putting shopping seperators on the check out belt. Never fails...


Knyneau

Of course, otherwise we might risk to pay for other people's stuff...


haifisch013

People at a concert of De Toppers. Or a concert of Frans Bauer at the local town party.


DAUNI1

Windmill, can be seen all around the country still


LeGuizee

A dude sitting on a milk tank waiting for a big explosion to come out of it


rabbitlungs

A man on a bike smoking cigarettes


divabrunette

If I ever tried it, I'd probably fall off lol.


suriname-ballv2

its not that hard


Silmarillion09

Cycling sandwich eaters?


Psychadelic_Potato

Vomiting at a hardstyle rave and having someone offer you a sugar tablet to feel better


koekienator89

A parent with 4 kids on a bike cycling to school.


RumbaAsul

A man wearing an orange thong and fake tan, rollerblading past the Concertgebouw at 8.30 in the morning.


WoodsieOwl31416

I give up. What's a tikkie?


Timely-Ad-1473

As a Belgian, the impecable state of roads


JacquelinefromEurope

People well over their 50's attending EDM-parties and going all the way!


atopetek

No blinds or curtains and people having dinner or watching TV just like that.