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We don't call ourselves Dutch, we call ourselves "Netherlandish" (Nederlands). Its you guys who got us confused with the Germans, or "Deutsch" way back and the name just kinda stuck.

i love when you do travel videos. i may never get to travel to these places so i love to see them! Thank you so much! Hi to amanda and Miles too! 😊

I love your travel videos, a couple of times you whipped the camera around a little too fast , made it hard to watch but, I still loved it.

Traveled around French countryside last year and found most villages have a carousel in the center of town. cute. I loved your description of the two different types of architecture there.

If you have time, go to Colmar, a bit South of Strasbourg. So beautiful. I liked it better than Strasbourg.

Suggestion: when you are filming thing like the church slow the camera work down so people can see the detail of the building. I love the trip you are on.

The Efteling is also a nature reserve. Hence why there's so much greenery.

Thank you

I loved this video. Thank you for taking us along with you ❤. I couldn’t do all those stairs lol.

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Thank you!

I just love your spirit and love for people!!❤

The Dutch totally eat a pancake with their hands if it is convenient :). We roll it up and eat it with our hands.

Thank you for making a grown man cry telling about that last show 😅

I am Dutch living in France, first you go to my home park Efteling, and now you go to Strasbourg which is 25 minutes away from where I live. Stop following me LOL Great videos of your trip, I love it!

Enjoying sharing your adventures so much, thank you for taking us along! 🤗

the flower power 60's for sure!!

Reminds me of the way Magic Mountain and Knott's used to be in the 1970's when I was a kid. Lots of little family rides mixed in with the big ticket rides. It's a charming mix I rather miss in the modern age.

Yes I like this type video of yours.

Love your videos BUT this one has zero to none of actual Amsterdam in it🤣 well there's the fleeting look of an "Amsterdam" sign on the train station..

Walt Disney came here for inspiration. De Efteling was the example for disney in Orlando.

So nice that you had the opportunity to visit Strassbourg with Amanda and Miles. Actually, the Disney animators used that region for inspiration for movies like Beauty & the Beast (the towns of Eguisheim and Colmar south from Strassbourg are direct inspirations). To give you a heads up about Parc Astérix: This theme park is based on the highly popular comic-strips of Astérix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. The comic is about a tiny village in Gaul (the name of France in ancient times) that successfully resists against the Roman occupation under Julius Caesar. The heroes of the series are warrior Astérix and his friend Obélix (who sells huge stones called menhirs). The village can resist thanks to the magic potion by its druid Panoramix that gives them invincible powers. Many of the books deal with the Romans' new plans to conquer the village. Or how Astérix and Obélix help other tribes (in various countries) against the Romans. Usually, the comic has lots of references to current-day affairs, but is also in many ways accurate in depicting the Roman times. Part of the comic is the many puns, for instance in the names of the Gauls (all ending with -ix) or the Romans (ending with -us). Parc Astérix opened its doors in 1989, three years before Disneyland Paris. The Parc these days revolves about two themes: laughter (for the humor of the comic-strips) and heroism (show strength and courage like the Gauls). That’s why you’ll find many thrill rides in the park and lots of humorous details. The park now has clear zones that refer to specific adventures of Astérix, like the Roman area, the Gaulish village, Egypt, Greece and the Vikings. An absolute must is to book the Gaulish Banquet (Banquet Gaulois). Every Astérix adventure in the comic-books ends up with a festive meal in the village. At Parc Astérix they close down the village in the evening for a special meal in the open air, with freshly prepared dishes and all typically French. It’s a lot of fun and a full experience with characters. Miles will love it. Have wonderful time in Parc Astérix!

Please slow down, there is a great deal of fascinating info, but you are talking way too fast. Secondly, your poor wife looks like she has had it and needs a rest stop. Get her a cold drink and some lunch. Also, incorporate her in your videos and don't make her walk behind you.

Anton Piek is the artitst style efteling

Don't forget to shut the door in the tower.

💙💚HAHA I AM JUST LOVING SOME OF THESE PAST VIDS OF YOURS THAT I HAVE NOT SEEN. THIS WAS SOO CREATIVE AND FUN. We did a similar thing with my family during the shutdown as well. You are the best! DDR Out💙💚

Didn't you went on the arthur and the minimoisride? It was awesome!! You fly around scenes like a little bug, most unique ride i've ever been on.

I haven't been to the Efteling in ages and i actually live very close by relatively speaking. I am a Dutchman and i am now 40. 41 on the 25th of June. Anyway i visited this park as a kid. It was just as magical then as it is now. And back then it did not have anything close to what i am seeing in this video. But ofcourse i also see alot of stuff that is familliar and it still gives me the one of a kind feeling that place has. I have been to the park several times in my youth but not recently as i grew older. But seeing it now i really should sometime just to see how large it has become since i have been there last. It just seem to keep expanding. Anyone..and i mean anyone should have been to The Efteling at least once in their lives. It tells stories you have never heard of. And it also tells fairytales you have heard of. But they don't end the way you might think when you for example take the disney versions of some of them. It is unique. There is no other park in the world like it. Now or way back when i first went there as a child. It has it's own unique vibe.

CHRIS, the buildings are just amazing. I love the architecture. Thanks for sharing. Good luck and climbing all those stairs by the end of this trip you’re gonna be physically fit 😄. As usual CHRIS thanks for the encouraging words. You don’t know what that means to me and others.❤️

I've actually been to this park! It was a long time ago though, before the fire that took out Pirates in Batavia. I thought it was a little scuffed back then, both the Pirates ride and the haunted house were kind of worn down. But it like they've put a whole lot of work into making it super nice in the intervening years, and it looks so lovely now. I honestly prefer the more hands off experience, but Americans can't be trusted with un-fenced rail lines. I'd give it a week before someone filed a lawsuit.

Hi from Germany! Here is an original German joke: A gorilla enters a shop and says: "I'd like to buy a banana!" Shopkeeper: "Do you need a bag?" Gorilla: "No thanks, got my bicycle outside!" HAAAA HAAAAAA HAAA HA HAAAAA ! You laughed! Admit it!

Thank you for this video! I have family in Strasbourg and I have yet to visit. I would love to go see the Christmas Marketplace. Also, don’t ever confuse someone from Strasbourg as being from Germany. There is a lot of negativity history there.

I'm enjoying watching your adventures. When you do non-Disney trips, is there a travel company you use or do you do your own planning?

Your travel videos are great! Just as good as your Disney videos, and makes me want to travel! Thank you Chris, Amanda and Miles for sharing your journeys with us.

I went to Strasbourg in 2019 right before the pandemic. I loved it so much!!! It is so beautiful!!! It was fun to watch your video and have all those memories!!! Thank you!!

💙💚I ENJOYED THE COSTUMES CHRIS AND AMANDA! Looks like a fun time was had a few years back. Just enjoying a few old postings. I Especially laughed …watching your hair from the beginning to the end. We’re your arms tired after holding those candles for hours? 💙💚

I visit EP at least once or twice a year and I never knew there was a laser maze :D

18:10 I was thinking: Huh, Spookslot is closed… But Villa Volta is also a haunted house of sorts. A madhouse, to be specific. Definitely an attraction that has stuck with me since I was little. The music, story atmosphere and concept makes it one of my favourites at the park.

Thank you so much for posting this. Travel is not always smiles and easy! I especially appreciate Miles’s comment about his mom. I’m glad to know Amanda is human 💕😂 I love following along with your travels! Thank you!

Anton Pieck is the artist who designed the first ten fairytales in Efteling + a lot more indeed like the talking bins (holle bolle gijs). If you look up Anton Piecks drawings you can see that the houses he draws are always crooked, which makes his style look very organic. And there is this really fun story about the building of the mushroom houses in the fairytaleforest that he designed... Anton Pieck was very keen on his ideas, and wanted them to be recreated in 3d exactly how he had imagined it. But as construction workers are used to making everything perpendicular, Anton Pieck wasn't very pleased with the end-result. So Pieck would have given one of the construction workers a hammer, and told him to give the chimney on the mushroom house a big hit. The man was confused, but had done it anyway, and afterwards saw that the chimney was supposed to be crooked, just like in Piecks drawings. I think it's really funny how persistent Anton Pieck was with his work! It's so cool that construction workers who work at the Efteling now, still use these odd ways of creating buildings with imperfections on purpose, so it eventually becomes more perfect because of it.

7:39 this is very common for cathedrals of this time and age. Because most people were alliterate, they had to be taught with images. So the cathedrals had central elements of the believe engraved on them. For example the central element is about the main events in the life of Christ. And all around are other smaller "images" adding other stories and knowledge that people should get to know and remember, when they see them. On the cathedral in Freiburg im Breisgau the main element is about judgment day and the virtues of living a "good" life or damnation of living against the moral code of that medieval time.

Fantastic video! Pure joy to watch you guys enjoy Efteling!

Who else like this video because he said he not a big fan of frozen 😂😂🤣

I so loved walking around Strasbourg with you. This is a city I would probably never visit, but to see it has opened my eyes to another opportunity to visit when I eventually make it to France. Thank you, Chris! Strasbourg is beautiful!!!

Fristi originally dates back from the fifties and (re)gained new popularity in the early nineties if I'm not mistaken. So funny you took a liking to it 😂 it's a typical kid's yoghurtdrink in my opinion. Proves how you keep staying young at heart, I guess ❤ loved this video!!

Love ALL of the travel vlogs! ❤

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I am very much enjoying your videos from Europe and I love that you are sharing the non theme park parts of your trip. It is lovely to see you exploring different places. Please do more videos like this when you travel?

I love your summer touring. People here, should be honored and believe we too place a big part of these adventures. The patron people and subscribers make this content possible. So everyone gets a chance to see the world through your lenses. It’s simply wonderful. Thank you so much. I’ve traveled through Europe myself. But haven’t seen places you’re sharing with us. I’m so happy. 👍❤️ I wonder if you’re going to Tivoli Gardens. I’ve been. It’s in Copenhagen. I’m serious, it’s the amusement park Walt Disney got the spark ( the dream) to invent Disneyland. Again thank you. I can’t wait to see if “grown up” miles continues to hold travel enthusiast as his parents set the mark in these early years.❤️

I love your super positive energy. And the kind words at the end. Again, I needed that. Rough patches right here right now. But, question. Will you be my long lost Uncle?! I would love you to be my Uncle 😎