We recently moved to the southern part of the Netherlands, Limburg province for work. Our 2 year old struggled initially, but is starting to appreciate all the family time, biking and playgrounds.
Horses hes what did a horse you say may I think got Jam song and welcome to the my name Sam this is Ashley here’s Andreas welcome to the castle church so this is going to be our introduction video to our new YouTube channel here where we’re moving to the
Netherlands and hopefully going to be doing some travel around Europe with our 2-year-old Andreas in July 2023 we decided to move to the Netherlands from Seattle well really we didn’t decide so much as my job decided that for us but nonetheless we were very excited for all the travel opportunities that l ahead of us we love travel for many reasons most
Of which resonate with other Travelers probably like yourself on the surface there’s the chance to see new and exciting places historical sites and architecture and eat new and exciting Foods there’s the opportunity to gain historical context for a location and give the traveler the motivation to
Learn more about a new place and its history and with time and energy there’s even a chance to build build a longlasting friendship and find a unique perspective of the culture it seems like that last part forming some kind of relationship takes either living in a location or a
Prolonged stay for at least a month or so in our experience so we were really excited about living in a new place we had never been before we have now been in the Netherlands for just over 4 months and it is just barely beginning to feel like
Home as we start to know the neighborhood and some of the neighbors the other thing that has been immediately wonderful about living in the Netherlands is the biking culture and the biking infrastructure even compared to neighboring countries the Netherlands just has this really figured out in the
Sense that it works for cars and bikes together roughly one qu of the nation’s roads have dedicated bike paths and beyond that there are dedicated bike paths and gravel routes all over the place you can basically go anywhere on a bike pretty easily there are reportedly 22 2.8
Million bikes in the country for a population of 17 million this comes out to 1.3 bikes per person which makes more bikes in the country than people as many other YouTube videos have pointed out following World War I the Netherlands was largely car focused into the 1970s when the government made a
Concerted effort to increase bike infrastructure and decrease traffic one of the primary reasons for this was to increase safety for kid kids along with a few other benefits what we have found so far is biking in the Netherlands is stressfree and fun in our time here so
Far we have used bikes almost every day for commuting errands mountain biking after work and a few longer trips on the weekend nearby us in the province of limberg there are an overwhelming number of bike paths and tours within the hilliest parts of the Netherlands we’ve used this app KOMO
Which helps create bike routes that are off the main roads but even when you’re on the main roads there are usually separated bike paths so it feels and it is much safer than biking in other places dig what’s that dig Li a dig AIG yeah so that’s where I’m going to leave this
First video as we are about to head out the door on our first family trip to Spain daddy we got to go let’s go to Spain