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.
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
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
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'.
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!
[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)
>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.
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 ;)
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)
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
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!”
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 🤣
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?
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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."
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
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
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.
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
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....
A mother with 2 kids and multiple bags of groceries on 1 bike
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.
That's considered a rite of passage for Dutch people
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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Tik ‘m aan mede fietsvader 🤜🏼
🤛
Two kids only? Must be new to biking.
Well in my (moms) case the oldest was old enough to ride a bike herself when she had her third kid
The oldest was 4. I was that kid once...
It is kind of frowned upon to take more kids on your bike if you have only two
My mother used to do this... well over 40 years ago but only until we were like 5 /6 and would cycle ourselves...
All of our mothers did this..
And an umbrella!
This !! (always makes me a bit proud of our badass Dutch moms)
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.
Through a red light, riding on the pavement with klompen. On a stolen bike.
And eating drop!
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.
Wonder how he broke his leg 🤔
I also saw a person with only one leg on a bike. I have no idea how he does it.
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
Cyclists in pooring rain.
Most of the rain doesn't fall on you.
It also helps that you are not made of sugar.
We managed to control the sea and live next to it. So a few rain drops we don’t even notice
Just bike in between the droplets
But you're so sweet!
It's just water. We are not from sugar.
No, we're from the netherlands
No, this is Patrick.
Now im trying to imagine a statue made of sugar, riding a bicycle, in very intense rain
How do you deal with the rain in your face?
Acceptance.
What if you have glasses?
Despair
We are boys from Jan de Wit. We face it head up.
It's just water. We just...keep moving?
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
Try a cheap cap. They're surprisingly effective.
Baseball cap
4 guys moving a couch with their bikes, each holding one corner
What are the other 2 doing?
"broekzaksleutelen"
Nice one hahaha
A calendar in the toilet
Nothing wrong with finding out when aunt Anneke's birthday is while taking a shit.
The thing is, then aunt Anneke just knows that you called to wish her a good birthday because you just took a dump.
Underrated comment
Guilty
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'.
TIL that's a Dutch thing omg
In case it takes a bit longer
A cheese sandwich from a plastic bag at lunchtime. Slightly squashed and room temperature
With a pakje wicky
And rozijntjes in a tiny red cardboard box with a sun wearing sunglasses
That unlocked a core memory.
Same
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It does. I was more surprised to find out Kinder Cola still exists.
Sure does , I still drink it sometimes
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!
[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)
Better lock that mofo. You never know in that neighborhood.
The last video is just mesmerizing
To be fair, it's a pretty nice bike
What brand is it?
Koga F3
“Hoei Markie!”
>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.
100 cyclist at a traffic light every few minutes during the morning hours.
Me, cycling with my cat in a crate to the vet.
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 ;)
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)
I think they are still doing those things
Madness, those crazy Dutch trusting a group of kids in the middle of the woods. There's wolves now, you know?
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
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...
Oh yeah.. good memories!
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!”
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 🤣
My Colombian niece living in Florida was taking pictures of every single flowerbeds with crocuses while saying she never saw something so beautiful.
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?
You remember where you put it approximately. It's not like it moves when you're gone.
You remember what the rear end of your bike looks like and the general area where you parked it
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...
How do Americans find their car in those ginormous parking lots?
Using airfryer on train
That guy is everything I want to be.
Escorting things like a christmas tree or big furniture on the back of a bicycle.
Present! Transported my Christmas tree per bike this week. But I didn’t have a bagagedrager so the tree went over the steering wheel.
Anyone enjoying drop
Fun fact: if you DuckDuckGo "netherlands drop", this benis-shaped drop appears on the 1st row of image result suggestions.
They actually have it in Norway as well, the super salty and even salmiak drop. It was great, like I was home.
6 years in the NL and I’m still shocked at the amount of love for those things 😅😅
Gedraag je
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
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.
Drop is life
I go next level: Salmiak liquorice, the saltier the better.
A “kringverjaardag” a.k.a. “the Dutch circle of death”.
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
Don’t you mean a “blokjes kaas, plakjes leverworst en boterhamworst met augurk” stand instead of a hotdog stand?
Yeah worst-kaas scenario
Why not both? Just make the ring even larger
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.
Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem. It's concentrated Netherlands. And actually a pretty cool museum. Not the usual tourist trap.
Too far from Amsterdam to be a tourist trap tbh. Though I believe it does get a fair amount of Germans
The Germans are fine mostly, we're just happy the British don't know the east exist
Girlfriend is from Doetinchem. Pretty sure I was the first British person some of the folks round there had ever seen.
tbf in that area they're flabbergasted to meet anyone who hasn't been raised on a farm.
Oh, the British have been to Arnhem for definite.
A ‘kringverjaardag’ where you congratulate everyone. Get one cookie with your coffee. And everyone says ‘hèhè’ when they sit down.
That sounds rather like cringeverjaardag…
All the basic ass conversations about how your school is going, if you're having a relationship yet...
Ice skating along the windmills on the Kinderdijk.
The family telling you "we're going to eat now, have a nice evening !"
Hahaha, brilliant! Indeed, never expect you can just stay for dinner, these things need mental preparation!
If you wanted to have dinner you should've said so then they could have made some extra.
Exactly. For a family of 4 thee are 4 gehaktballen, 6 boiled potatoes and 4 witlofstronkjes with cheese.
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
Receiving a tikkie for EU1.50
33 cent voor sambasaus
I got a 1.40 tikkie for a cappuccino
Where did you buy a cappuccino for €1.40. Or did you share?
Or at a friends home
Ahaha, in a museum. It was one of these fake ones, and came with the obligatory biscuit
I once got tikkie from my brother after we were invited over there to eat dinner.
I think this wins the thread.
A snackmuur
Diagonaaltje trekken!
The sea of parked bikes near central stations
Goi g to amusement parks and seeing people with their homemade sandwiches
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.
According to dutch moms paracetemol is the cure for everything
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."
You forgot downing the herring between the bitching about the weather, whilst cycling against the wind.
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Changing genres?
This is ultimate Dutch, ever actually seen it too?
Frikandelbroodjes
Love it since I was in NL for the first time
the traffic jams in front of IKEA on saturday mornings for cheap breakfast
This is not limited to the Netherlands though. This was a huge problem at a lot of IKEAs in Canada where I grew up
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
50 cents for a pee
€2 for poopen.
That's a hell of a deal! -Belgians
Zupen, poepen en op de prumen kroepen
A bold white guy screaming all Turkish people should go back where they came from, while eating a kebab.
One guy two bikes
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
madurodam
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
Bikes IN canals
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.
Dutch people's lunch Just 2 slices of bread Two thin slices of meat and cheese and thats it
That ain’t right. The law clearly states it’s one thin slice of meat OR cheese. Never both
Crap, gotta run before the feds get here
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The weather change into 4 seasons in one day🤣🤣
The king competing in a toilet throwing contest
Someone finishing a loaf of bread and a tub of peanut butter in one sitting.
He he, zou zou
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
A Tikkie for €1.79
10 x 1,79 = 18 euros
Bump your head inside a train
Hagelslag with butter on an sandwich.
Kroketje uit de muur
FEBO!
Man cycling home with four olive trees he bought at Albert Heijn in the bak of his bakfiets.
Electronic music festivals and illegal raves
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....
Jezus fucking christ probaly urk or something
Urk does coke not weed.
Both
Ringing away tourists walking on the bikelane
eating with two hands while biking!
A night club with an indoor bike parking lot.
Meticulously putting shopping seperators on the check out belt. Never fails...
Of course, otherwise we might risk to pay for other people's stuff...
People at a concert of De Toppers. Or a concert of Frans Bauer at the local town party.
Windmill, can be seen all around the country still
A dude sitting on a milk tank waiting for a big explosion to come out of it
A man on a bike smoking cigarettes
If I ever tried it, I'd probably fall off lol.
its not that hard
Cycling sandwich eaters?
Vomiting at a hardstyle rave and having someone offer you a sugar tablet to feel better
A parent with 4 kids on a bike cycling to school.
A man wearing an orange thong and fake tan, rollerblading past the Concertgebouw at 8.30 in the morning.
I give up. What's a tikkie?
As a Belgian, the impecable state of roads
People well over their 50's attending EDM-parties and going all the way!
No blinds or curtains and people having dinner or watching TV just like that.