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00:05So when it comes to free public transit, you might say, oh yeah, well, we can't just make
00:09it free. But the roads are all free, right? If libraries didn't exist today, how would people
00:14respond to you proposing that you create one? And it's exactly the same way.
00:19Welcome back to DayPass. Today, we're in Luxembourg, the only country in the world
00:24where all public transit is completely free. Whether it's the futuristic-looking trams,
00:30the buses, the funicular, or even the trains, it's all free in Luxembourg. Today, I'm going to
00:38explore the city while also trying to ride at least one of every kind of public transit that's
00:43available here. And I want to see how far I can travel without having to pay a single public
00:49transit fare. We're starting the day today with a simple question. What's the fastest way to go
00:54from the city center to the airport? My transit app says it's the bus, but with the newly completed
01:00tramline extension to the airport, I'm not so sure. So I want to find out for myself.
01:06The sun's coming up. I don't need a day pass. Let's go ride some transit.
01:11We are taking bus 29 today, so we got a whole four minutes to wait.
01:17That's our bus.
01:27I'm reminded of why I normally take the tram.
01:33This was not, in fact, our bus.
01:36Nothing useful.
01:37It was the right bus number. We just got on it going the wrong way. That's a lesson in paying
01:42attention to the signs instead of riding on vibes.
01:45I never take the wrong bus because I'm a professional, but these signs help the common
01:50funk.
01:51So let's get off the bus and take the tram back to the station to try that again.
01:56I'm a professional.
02:05Suddenly a lot lighter outside. Continuity error.
02:13We're getting bus 29. What does that car thing mean? It must mean that the bus is stuck in
02:19traffic, right? Like that's because it was saying one minute and now it's showing cars.
02:24You can tell it's the airport bus because it has a picture of an airplane on it.
02:33Oh, that went.
02:43This is kind of interesting that they have these big single-family homes on a bus stop right
02:47out front.
02:54But recently, the tram was extended to the airport. So that's how we're going to get
02:59back to the city. There it is over there.
03:02So as you exit the airport, they remind you that all public transit is free of charge.
03:09No need for a ticket.
03:10It's pretty nice weather here this morning, but it's very, very commonly foggy here in
03:15Luxembourg. It's one of the foggiest airports in Europe. Not the foggiest. That's apparently
03:19Eindhoven in the Netherlands and Krakow in Poland. What this airport is the best at is delays.
03:25I was reading that flying out of here, the average delay is 50 minutes. That's partially because of
03:31the fog, but also because there's so many short-haul flights here that are constantly going back and
03:35forth all day to various capitals and financial centers in Europe. And if there's any delay,
03:39it just cascades. So my advice to you is if you want to visit Luxembourg, you might want to do
03:45what
03:45I did and take the train. So this tram line was extended to the airport in March of this year.
03:54One of the potential problems with free public transit is if the transit's free, but it just stays
03:59the same forever, then that's not much of an incentive. But Luxembourg is actually extending
04:05their tram system. And yeah, this was the most recent extension. And I will say that I don't care
04:12how much faster the bus is. This is so much more comfortable. And I actually think the tram is
04:19probably faster. We'll see. We'll see. Luxembourg making public transit free right before the pandemic
04:26has certainly made data comparisons tricky. But five years on and things are finally starting to
04:31become more clear. The number of people taking the train increased from 25 million in 2019 to 31.3
04:38million in 2024, which is pretty impressive growth, especially considering some countries are only just
04:44barely back to pre-pandemic levels. But the growth in tram usage was insane. They went from having 6.2
04:51million people take the tram in 2019 to 31.7 million in 2024, over five times the ridership.
05:00And while the tram route was extended during that time, those numbers don't include the latest airport
05:05extension that we're riding today, not to mention the new tram line that's currently under construction.
05:11It seems that when it comes to tram trips, Luxembourg has nowhere to go but up.
05:17You know, I was planning on going to the city center, but there's something here that I want to check
05:22out.
05:22Yeah.
05:25It is so nice to be able to just hop on and off public transit without even thinking
05:29about how to pay for it. Of course, it does make you wonder, should public transit be free?
05:36I mean, morally, yes. Practically. It's a little more complicated than that. Let's go check this out.
05:44Here we are at the Luxembourg sign. Just in case you forgot where you were. I love it when cities
05:50do this. Toronto has a big sign too. I think it's become a thing to have to have a big
05:56sign with the
05:56name of your city on it. But I love it. So when it comes to free public transit, you might
06:01say,
06:02oh yeah, well, we can't just make it free. But the roads are all free, right? All the cars can
06:07drive here
06:07for free. And yeah, public transit has operating costs. It has drivers and things like that. But
06:13the roads do too. Every time there's a crash, a whole bunch of ambulances and fire trucks and police
06:18cars are going to come out. And it's not the drivers that are paying for that. And then in order
06:23to make
06:23sure that we don't have more of those crashes, we have a bunch of traffic cops. And the drivers aren't
06:29paying for that either. If the road department got a bill every month from the police and the fire
06:34department, then it might be a little bit different. There was a study done out of
06:39Vancouver years ago that showed that for every dollar that somebody puts into taking the bus,
06:45society pays about a buck fifty, I think it was. But for every dollar that somebody puts
06:50into driving a car, society pays nine dollars and twenty cents. So you would want to move as many
06:57people from cars to buses as possible or walking or cycling. The question is whether making public
07:03transit free is the best way to do that. But philosophical discussions aside, I love trams.
07:09We've been out to one end, to the airport. So now let's ride it all the way to the other
07:13end,
07:13to the stadium.
07:14perhaps little do we go.
07:40Everyone who means everything is different.
07:41Every stop has its own music.
07:46I love that.
07:47They really are nice looking trams.
07:50It's funny how they have these colored films on the windows of the doors so that the light
07:56comes through in like blues and purples.
08:21This extension out to the stadium was built just last year in 2024.
08:25It's nice to see that they're constantly extending the tram system and there are new lines planned as well.
08:31So obviously the goal of any city is to get as many people on public transit as possible and out
08:36of cars.
08:36If you spent a hundred million on making transit free, what else could that hundred million have been spent on?
08:44If it's spent on making transit come more often or extending public transit, then that might be the better option.
08:51Fortunately for us, Luxembourg both is extending its transit network and its very high frequency.
08:56So we're going to take this tram back into the city centre to the Old Town.
09:15You can see here they're doing some new transit upgrades.
09:20I believe this is where they're going to transfer to the buses and to a new tram line.
09:26Luxembourg is still investing in public transit.
09:38We're here in Hamilias where they're setting up for the Christmas market.
09:43And I do want to check out the Old Town.
09:45But first there's some tourist sites I want to see.
09:48So we better get going because I've got a bus to catch.
09:51One of the benefits of free public transit is how fast it is to board the bus.
09:58There's no faffing around with tapping on, tapping off.
10:02You're only allowed in one door and out the other.
10:04Here, everybody can board every door and it's really, really quick to get on and off.
10:08Let's get going.
10:09Are we in an electric bus?
10:11Yes?
10:12Feels like it.
10:14Electric buses, they're the best.
10:16The mayor of New York is talking about making buses free.
10:20And one of the major things that he's mentioned is that speed of getting on and off.
10:24Without having to wait for people to tap on or worse, make change with the driver.
10:29Do they still do that?
10:31Buses could be sped up and be so much faster.
10:34Of course, the most important thing for making buses faster is getting the cars out of the way.
10:38But the second most important thing is making it quick to get on and off.
10:42These electric buses are so nice and quiet.
10:45I love it.
10:49All right, this is our stop.
10:59It's a great view from up here.
11:02This is the book.
11:03It's the original fortifications that made Luxembourg a thing in the first place.
11:09It's built right into the mountain, which is really cool and we'll see it from below.
11:13You can see here what's left of the old fortifications.
11:17The one thing with Luxembourg is if you take a wrong turn, you can suddenly end up 30 meters above
11:23where you're supposed to be.
11:24But I am supposed to be here.
11:27Oh, yeah.
11:31So filming this has made me wonder how much of jet lag is just sitting around on trains that they
11:37just cut out.
11:45This part of Luxembourg is absolutely beautiful.
11:48It's like if you asked an artist to paint a picture of Europe and all they knew about Europe was
11:54from fairy tales, they would paint Luxembourg.
11:57It doesn't feel real at all.
12:02But what we want to see is down there.
12:06So we've got some more stairs.
12:07You can see here how the fortifications of the book are built right into the mountain.
12:13Here it's all stone and here it's brick.
12:17That would have been a formidable climb.
12:29The one thing that really hurts the peace and quiet of the beautiful Luxembourg is how many airplanes are going
12:37overhead almost all the time.
12:46And here we are at the statue of Melusina the mermaid.
12:52I knew there would be a mermaid statue here.
12:54I didn't actually expect it to be purple.
12:56This is a recent addition.
12:58Apparently, she's 3D printed.
13:00The story of this mermaid is that she said to her boyfriend that she wanted one day alone.
13:06That's all she wanted.
13:07One day a week she would have to herself.
13:10But that wasn't good enough for him.
13:12So he followed her and found out that she's a mermaid.
13:15And she left him forever.
13:17All she wanted.
13:18One day of the week.
13:20Is that too much to ask?
13:23Look at how beautiful this bridge is.
13:26We're going to cross that, I think, to get to the monastery.
13:31Look at that.
13:33That's great.
13:35But we need to climb that.
13:43Up we go.
13:47Behind me is New Munster Abbey, which was an abbey for Benedictine monks, but it's now a cultural center.
13:55Still absolutely beautiful views around here.
13:56You can see the old fortifications all around us here on, like, every side.
14:06But now, I've got something else that's unique to Luxembourg.
14:09So let's go check it out.
14:10I think it's this way.
14:17You see here they've got the sign for a 20 kilometer per hour play street.
14:23Not technically a play street, but this is a street where kids playing is prioritized.
14:28You'll see these quite often in Europe, usually with a 15 or 20 kilometer per hour speed limit.
14:34And it's a pedestrian street from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m.
14:37Even better.
14:38So with all these hills and elevation changes, there's one thing that Luxembourg has done that's really cool.
14:46Part of their public transit system involves public elevators.
14:49Let's go check one out.
14:52Now, before we check the elevator, I'm going to show you something that is basically unheard of in Europe.
14:58A restroom that doesn't cost any money.
15:05There are two elevators that are part of the Luxembourg public transit system.
15:09This one is the least impressive one.
15:15But at least it means we don't have to climb the stairs anymore.
15:23This is us.
15:28Now, I'll take you to the more impressive one, which I think then we'd take a bus.
15:32Is that right?
15:33It's good to see some bikes out.
15:35Almost all of them are e-bikes, as you can imagine, in a place like this.
15:41Our bus is right there, but I'm not going to run for it.
15:44This isn't jet lag.
15:46We'll get the next one.
15:47This is the Hebrew temple.
15:49I think I should probably get that right if I say it on camera.
15:52Oh no, that one's Catholic.
15:54Cathedral Notre Dame.
15:56The Luxembourg.
15:57They all need their own Notre Dame.
16:10The better Notre Dame.
16:12The one that didn't catch fire.
16:16Two minutes.
16:18I can wait that long.
16:20Nine, ten, fourteen.
16:21Okay.
16:22Cool.
16:24There are just so many buses going by all the time.
16:28It really is the frequency of the transit that makes people want to ride it more than the cost.
16:34The cost is obviously an important factor, but there are other ways that you can reduce the cost of public
16:40transit, especially for low-income individuals, without having to make it free.
16:44I would rather take public transit that's not free, but comes often, rather than free public transit that doesn't.
16:52I literally just reached for my pocket for my OB chip card just then.
17:02One of the things I love about the buses in Europe is that the LCD signs have all the information
17:07you can need.
17:08It shows you every stop that's coming up, as well as which lines you can transfer to.
17:12When I'm riding the bus in Toronto, I'm lucky if it'll tell me what the next stop is.
17:16Never mind what the next five stops are.
17:20There's such incredibly good views you get from up here.
17:26And there's our elevator.
17:34Now the question is, which way do I go?
17:37This is Luxembourg. I don't want to end up 30 meters above where I want to be.
17:43Watch out, Belgian plates.
17:47I learned my lesson living in Brussels.
17:49I'd actually do a recurring joke on the show about watch out, Belgian plates, because I always say that to
17:56my kids.
17:59They're such bad drivers in Brussels.
18:02Also, it's a very Dutch thing to make fun of the Belgians.
18:05For what it's worth, I was making fun of Belgians before I was Dutch.
18:09Now, where the is this elevator? I think it's over there.
18:13Yeah, here we are.
18:16No problem.
18:17So, now that you've seen the boring elevator, now it's time for the nice one.
18:23This elevator was built in 2016, so it's still relatively new.
18:27And it's a way for pedestrians and cyclists to go up and down in this valley.
18:33Up here we've got a big glass window and a glass floor, too.
18:40Yeah, don't look down.
18:42That's a long way down.
18:43I'm glad we don't have to take the stairs.
18:45Our next destination is right over there, and it's the other way to get up a mountain.
18:50A funicular.
19:12I think you'll agree. That's the nicer elevator.
19:20The other way you can get around in Luxburg is by bike-share.
19:23They have a bike-share like a lot of cities do. You use an app to unlock a bike, take
19:28it out.
19:28The one difference you'll find here is that every single one of these bikes is electric, for obvious reasons.
19:35But, today, it's not just bikes. We're on our way to the funicular.
19:39I said the thing! Oh my god!
19:42Don't know how I feel about the giant modern red bridge.
19:45I imagine that was controversial.
19:47It should be just down here.
19:48A lot of the stations have these bike box things, which are the protected bicycle parking.
19:56You get a pass, and then you can open it up and park your bike in there.
19:59And they're at, like, almost every station I've seen in Luxembourg.
20:12One more elevator.
20:16This is great.
20:18Look at this huge funicular station.
20:21And it's right above a train station as well.
20:28This is a stupidly short funicular.
20:31It's actually ridiculous how short it is.
20:33In 2022, Luxembourg was awarded the Access Europe Award.
20:38It doesn't mean they're the most accessible city in Europe,
20:41but it is for all of the things that they're doing for accessibility,
20:44including this funicular.
20:46The elevators, level boardings on trams,
20:50voice announcements at stations and things like that.
20:56It's just some of the things they're doing to make a hilly city more accessible.
21:08And after, what was that, like, 20, 30 seconds?
21:12That's, like, the shortest funicular ride of my life.
21:19It's legitimately funny how fast that funicular ride is. Like, that could have been an escalator.
21:26Of course, Luxembourg has my absolutely favorite thing, grassy tram tracks.
21:31But beyond the grass, what you might notice here is that after this, there's no catenary.
21:38So, how does the tram get power if there are no overhead lines?
21:42You can see the tram comes in with this pantograph up on the overhead lines as it comes into this
21:47station.
21:48But now watch, the pantograph goes down.
21:54And the tram runs without it into the city.
22:04So, we're going to go one stop down to see how this tram magic works.
22:29Through here and into the city center, the trams run without a pantograph.
22:34Instead, they don't use a battery. They use a super-compacitor mounted on their roof.
22:38That can only take them short distances. So, between stops, the trams need to charge.
22:43And that's done with these things.
22:46These metal plates in the ground activate only when a tram is on it.
22:50And they charge the tram from the bottom.
22:52And that gives the super-capacitor enough electricity just to make it to the next stop.
22:58Those super-capacitors are used so that there aren't any overhead lines through the old city.
23:03And it's done entirely for aesthetic reasons.
23:05Because giant wide roads full of asphalt with traffic lights and huge street lights.
23:12No problem, but I draw the line at two wires over the tram tracks.
23:34Now we're back at Hamilius, the old town.
23:37Now we have time for some lunch.
23:43Unfortunately, we're just a little bit too early for the Christmas market.
23:47But I have been to it before. It's very lovely.
23:50The one thing with eating in Luxembourg is that they have everything.
23:53It's such an international city that...
23:56And there's people from all over the place who actually know what the food's supposed to taste like.
24:01So there are so many good restaurants.
24:04It's actually difficult to find a place that's just, like, Luxembourgish food.
24:08Because you're gonna get tacos and Nepalese food and Indian food and everything else before you'll find a Luxembourgish restaurant.
24:19Ooh, a pizza hut!
24:25I said there was a lot of different restaurants. I didn't say they were all good.
24:29This is the place I wanted to try. It's Portuguese.
24:34Now it's time for lunch.
24:39Cheers!
24:40All right. Very good. Lunch was great.
24:43But we have a train to catch.
24:46I want to get this light.
24:48Is that right?
24:53It is that one.
24:54Okay.
25:17All right. Luxembourg Station.
25:20One of the things I really like about free public transit is that when you're in RE, you don't have
25:24to worry about fare gates, tickets.
25:27You just walk into the station.
25:31That's our train, the RE10.
25:33We're taking it to Edelbrook.
25:36No. What? What?
25:37I didn't actually look at what platform now is.
25:40Platform 10.
25:47So far, we've traveled all around Luxembourg City.
25:50But public transit isn't just free in the city.
25:53It's free in the entire country.
25:55So we're about to hop on a train to another city, and we don't have to pay anything.
26:11We were rushing for the train.
26:13And we were early.
26:16Still got a minute.
26:17It really is fast when you don't have to stop for tickets or fare gates or anything else.
26:21And we're off.
26:34Luxembourgish.
26:35All right. Man, look at that view.
26:37That is just unbelievable.
26:42So public transit is free in the entire country.
26:45All trains, trams, buses, everything is completely free.
26:49But these trains, notice we're sitting in second class.
26:53They do actually have a first class on this train.
26:56But in order to do that, you have to buy a ticket.
26:59It's only three euros to upgrade from second class to first class.
27:03Or you can opt for a day pass for six euros.
27:09Let's do it.
27:09How do I get a ticket for you two?
27:14I got my day pass. Let's go ride first class.
27:31I got my day pass. Let's go ride first class.
27:32First class. Is it worth it?
27:35Probably not. It looks about the same.
27:38But there are fewer people up here, so it's a little less awkward to film.
27:43For only six euros, though, can't beat that kind of deal.
27:47The thing that stops people from taking public transit is usually because it either doesn't go where they want to
27:52go,
27:53or it doesn't leave frequently enough.
27:56So if you haven't solved those two things, then making transit free is not going to solve your problems.
28:01Luxembourg made their public transit free in February of 2020.
28:06And then the entire continent locked down a few months later.
28:10So everybody's public transit data was kind of all over the place.
28:14But now that it's been a few years, and the dust has settled, it looks like it didn't change car
28:21ownership very much in the general country,
28:25but it did make a difference within the city.
28:27I think Luxembourg is a bit of a funny place because a lot of the people who work in Luxembourg
28:32work in the finance industry,
28:34but they live in Germany or France or Belgium, and they commute in.
28:39And so maybe then making public transit free doesn't make as much of a difference for them
28:43because they were always going to drive in from Germany anyway.
28:48But it's an interesting experiment because whenever someone proposes making public transit free,
28:54as the mayor of New York has done recently, everyone starts saying,
28:59that's ridiculous, that could never work.
29:01But one of the things I think whenever I hear that is I think if libraries didn't exist today,
29:05how would people respond to you proposing that you create one?
29:10And it's exactly the same way.
29:13Maybe this should be free.
29:15It certainly is convenient.
29:23The Luxembourg countryside is really nice.
29:26Like the rolling hills and the trees, and it's just so picturesque.
29:33Also notice that there wasn't exactly a lot of urban sprawl.
29:37We were in the city, we were out of the city,
29:40and now we're in farmer's fields in no time.
29:44I love riding trains.
29:47You just sit and relax.
29:49Don't need to like focus on driving or anything.
29:52Read a book, do some work, or just look out the window.
29:56But yeah, I've done enough driving that I kind of feel like I'm done driving for the rest of my
30:00life.
30:00If I never have to drive again, then it'll be too soon, to be honest.
30:03I'm all right taking the train in Luxembourg in first class.
30:12All right, well, so much for the good weather.
30:14It looks like we're in a hailstorm.
30:18Well, we're getting to our stop.
30:20And I've got a bit of a surprise that I think Nebula fans will like.
30:25But first, we have to catch a bus.
30:28The weather's going to be totally s***, and we're not going to see anything, right?
30:33Oh my god.
30:43I wonder what they're building here.
30:45This looks all temporary, but like, maybe they're adding new tracks or a new bus station or something?
30:52That's interesting.
30:53Looks like we just missed the rain though.
30:55We just caught it while we were on the train.
30:57Fine by me.
30:58Now we're looking for bus 180 or 181.
31:01All right, four minutes.
31:03That's not bad.
31:04It still blows my mind that like, all of this is free.
31:07Like, we came from Luxembourg.
31:09We come up on the train.
31:10There's buses all over the place.
31:12They're all free.
31:14It's amazing.
31:15What is the population of this town?
31:18And I have to look that up.
31:19Yeah, total population, 9,965 people.
31:23And yet, I think there's more buses leaving in the next 20 minutes than in all of London, Ontario.
31:31Now see.
31:33Ooh.
31:35But what anyone is a longer walk, for what it's worth.
31:37Oh.
31:38Yeah.
31:39That's fine.
31:40All right, we're on this for 27 minutes.
31:43Get comfortable.
31:56It is actually impressive, the coverage of the buses through these rural areas.
32:01Even very small towns and farms have bus service.
32:18Look at that.
32:21That is one of the quintessential castles in Europe.
32:27I've actually always wanted to see it.
32:28And since the cable car isn't running at this time of year, we're going to take the stairs.
32:34The size looks like it's a little trail.
32:37Just right up this way.
32:41Okay.
32:42I don't know.
32:43What do you got?
32:44Let's see.
32:44Yeah, let's see if there's something here.
32:45If not, maybe we can wait for the bus.
32:47Yeah.
32:52So where are these stairs?
32:53Yeah, allegedly.
32:54Right here.
32:58Is it this?
33:02There is a bus that drops you off right by the entrance to the castle, bus 180.
33:06But since we got on the 181, it dropped us off in town.
33:10So if you plan to visit, you don't have to take this forest trail, but it does make the trip
33:15more interesting.
33:17Well, it gives us a chance to work off that lunch.
33:21It's just a random thing to find just on the side of the forest path.
33:26There's the cable car we can't take right now.
33:28What's your Apple watch telling you now?
33:34Oh, Joe, this looks slippery.
33:41Yeah, we could have taken a bus up here.
33:54We made it.
33:56Look at that.
33:58That really is a castle like what you imagine a European castle to be.
34:02Rapunzel, let down your hair.
34:04Let's go explore the castle.
34:06Luxembourg has a lot of castles, but this one I think is the one that looks the most like what
34:12you think a castle should look like.
34:35You know, what I always find funny with these European castles is that the walls are all bare.
34:41But from my understanding, and I am no historian, they used to have tapestries and carpets all over the place,
34:49which would have made it warm and colorful instead of these drab gray walls.
34:54We have to get back to Luxembourg City for dinner.
34:57But I am glad that we're not in so much of a hurry that we can't check out a nice
35:00castle when we see one.
35:03It's a pretty nice view.
35:05Let's go down through here, and then I think we're probably done.
35:11Hmm.
35:16Where are we?
35:18What?
35:20Ah, this is wacky.
35:21I like this.
35:24I was just thinking we should get back to Luxembourg City, and now I'm lost in a castle.
35:2910, circuit 12.
35:31Let's try 12.
35:33Okay, seriously.
35:33Which way?
35:3413?
35:35I mean, we can go back, but like, I think this maybe would take us back.
35:41Okay.
35:41Well, how the f*** do we get back?
35:51Now we're in the kitchen.
35:55Not the exit.
36:01Dining hall?
36:02Also not the exit.
36:06Hey.
36:06There you go.
36:11Alright, so we spent a little bit more time in the castle than we intended, but that's okay.
36:15We missed the bus we were supposed to get, so let's figure out when the next one is.
36:20Legitimately though, I think we've got some time to wait.
36:23Yeah.
36:25Ah, s***.
36:26I mean, that next time that 180 is 1609, so that's like half an hour from now.
36:31There's no white knight coming to rescue us, so we're going to have to take the bus.
36:35That is a great castle though.
36:37I love that.
36:38Too bad I didn't have enough money to buy it in 1867 when it came up for sale.
36:46Amazing.
36:47I'm sending that pic to my kids.
36:49Maybe for the thumbnail?
36:53It's a good piece of real estate.
36:55We could pick up a bus here, but it's just faster to pick it up down in the town.
37:01It's a lot easier going down than it was going up.
37:05Well, this is nice.
37:07I mean, apart from the garbage out front, they could really use some garbage containers, underground ones like they have
37:12in the Netherlands.
37:13We can look past Garbage Day and recognize this street for what it is.
37:19I know this is just somebody's house, but like, look at how picturesque that is. That is ridiculous.
37:25Oh, look, it's the flag of the Netherlands.
37:28It triggers people so much when I purposely screw up the flags.
37:33In this video I did about winter cycling years and years ago, I mentioned the Dutch and the Germans.
37:40And for when I said the Dutch, I showed the French flag. And when I showed the Germans, I showed
37:45the Belgian flag.
37:46And the funniest part to me was that people got really upset and they would say things like,
37:50Are you stupid? That's obviously not the German flag.
37:54But almost nobody noticed that both were wrong.
37:56So I just responded with, what, you didn't notice the other flag?
38:01And we pick up the bus right here in town.
38:04Uh, that's not the bus stop. It's closed.
38:08We're going to be on that side of the road. It's coming that way.
38:11Let me read the French.
38:14Yeah.
38:17It's just like a rock slide, you think?
38:21They even gave us a cute little temporary hut. Look at that.
38:26Luxury.
38:30It's starting to rain, but we are in our nice prefab Home Depot shed.
38:37This is kind of amazing that a tiny town would have a temporary bus stop that is this nice.
38:43This is nicer than many of the permanent bus shelters I've been in.
38:47But it looks like they can just disassemble it and move it wherever it's needed.
38:51Right now, I'm just glad that it's sheltering us from the rain.
38:55It's snowy.
38:56Oh, the snow.
39:06All right.
39:08Oh, thank you temporary shed.
39:11So we're warm and dry on the bus.
39:13We just have to take this back to Etelbrook and then pick up the train back to Luxembourg City.
39:18And we'll be on our way.
39:23We got a traffic jam in Dekirk.
39:25Hope we don't miss our train because of a traffic jam in a town of 7,000 people.
39:38Well, that trip was a reminder in the importance of dedicated bus lanes.
39:42There were a few of them, but not enough of them.
39:44But we still made it to the train station on time.
39:52Well, if we had missed that one, the next one was only in 20 minutes.
39:56Perfect timing.
40:07Oh, that's fun.
40:09Yeah, this is fancy.
40:10This is a nice train.
40:11We got a good one.
40:12We got electrical headlights.
40:14We got comfy chairs.
40:16This is pure luxury for six euros.
40:19And we lean right on time.
40:22Nice.
40:23Ooh, this train has free Wi-Fi.
40:25This is the fancy train.
40:32Luxembourg right on time.
40:36And we're back at Luxembourg Central.
40:38A little bit later than I intended.
40:40Not because of transit, because apparently I can't figure my way through a castle.
40:44We traveled over 100 kilometers today.
40:46We took the tram from one end to the other.
40:49Took seven or eight buses.
40:52Three elevators.
40:53A funicular.
40:54Two trains.
40:55And all it cost us was nothing.
40:57Except that six euros because I had to be fancy and ride first class.
41:01But now, I need to grab a quick bite to eat.
41:04Because I've got a train to catch to Copenhagen.
41:08So, this is the new LRT line in Copenhagen.
41:11Welcome to Freetown, Christiania.
41:15This may not be the fastest way to get to where we're going, but it is much more scenic.
41:22We're just going around in circles.
41:23Until then, we got anything friends and expectations.
41:23watch everything into front of a few people, but it'll be more typical.
41:24You'll be double- Darren suit, because you can be inches as well.
41:24Seeing 자연 days.
41:24We actually got you on the right.
41:24Since I know it's một ship, I know, you can get to endoculate people down...
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