Travel to The Netherlands and Belgium – Amateur Traveler Episode 98 Transcript

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Travel to The Netherlands and Belgium – Episode 98 Transcript

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Chris: Yeah. I’ve seen their deals and they do have some pretty good deals. I’ll include that link in the show notes obviously.

Daniel: Other than that we actually like I said just put it together ourselves. Use Google and Ricksteves.com as a starting point and then from there we just start searching around everything that we can gathering all the information that we can. Like I said, we’re nerds so we just have all these books and research it.

Chris: As we wrap this up, any other recommendations for someone who is going to follow in your footsteps to the Benelux region. To Netherlands and Belgium?

Daniel: If I really have to give a tip for that, if you are going to be in the area try to make it to Belgium. I think Belgium doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. In the greater European landscape. It is a very interesting country and we actually only stayed in the north in the Dutch side. We actually never went to the south with Wallonia, which would have been the French side. That is a completely different area over there. Go to Brussels; go to Brugge, even to Antwerp or Ghent. These are all very nice cities to visit. You can actually do them as a day trip if anything and so you can just wet your feet without having to commit and if you are going to the Netherlands, get out of Amsterdam. I mean Amsterdam, it is a fantastic city to visit but the countryside is beautiful. It’s very accessible. The trains take you anywhere that you want to go. There’s buses and trams and things like that. Go out and see what the Dutch countryside is because most of the Netherlands it’s really not Amsterdam and by that I mean that Amsterdam is its own little microcosm with people who are like Amsterdammers and they’re Dutch but they are more like city folk. Most of the Netherlands has more of a rustic town feel to it and to not get that experience as well even by going to places like Delft which is sort of like a town but it‘s nestled in the middle of the countryside so it has that sensibility. If you don’t get that other side of the experience, you will be missing on something.

Chris: Well, thanks very much. It’s nice to hear a trip that includes Belgium, that isn’t one of those classics “If this is Tuesday, this must be Belgium.”

Daniel: You know I have never seen that movie. I cannot find it.

Chris: I’m sure it’s on NetFlix someplace.

Daniel: No actually it’s not on DVD. It’s really funny.

Chris: And then the other thing that I was glad to hear you talk about was that you actually got out on bikes because again these are the low lands and so for those of us who don’t like hills, this is a great place to bike.

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