00:00Hello everyone and thanks for watching this new vlog and today I am in Antwerpen and for the
00:10people who don't know that Antwerpen is a city in Belgium. Belgium is the neighbors of the
00:15Netherlands and since the Netherlands is such a small country it just takes two hours by train
00:22to come from the Netherlands to Belgium which is really nice and fun fact in Belgium they speak
00:30part of them speak French and part of them speak Dutch and I think Antwerpen is like a mixture of
00:37Dutch and French so yeah we can even speak our own language in another country which is funny
00:45and I think that's the reason why Belgium and the Netherlands are always so connected because
00:50we can understand each other. Anyhow for my Dutch channel I went yesterday by bike to Antwerp. I
00:57didn't bike from my hometown to Antwerp that was the first plan but actually while I was doing it
01:03I was thinking I'm crazy so I biked in total 80 kilometers which is of course still a lot. I'm
01:11okay after this whole biking trip but today we will spend well I want to say a whole day in
01:17Antwerp which
01:17is not totally true because we were leaving around fall but we're going to spend the rest of the day
01:23in Antwerp and then go back with the train to the Netherlands and of course I bring you with us
01:30and the first thing we're going to do is having breakfast in our hotel
01:44okay the breakfast is is done is it it's finished I need to stay
01:53okay take two
01:57the breakfast is finished we finished the breakfast jesus christ my I'm still tired
02:03uh and we're going to do a tour and you download is it an app or it's an app oh
02:09you download an app
02:10you can buy a tour oh you can buy a tour oh nice so we're going to do a city
02:14tour during an app
02:15and I was thinking I just make some shots with a voiceover so I will be your tour guide for
02:24now so
02:24enjoy the tour we started our tour at Sint Jacobs church one of the biggest churches in Antwerpen
02:32the Sint Jacobs church gave shelter to little crafts and religious communities you can find the tomb of
02:39rubens unfortunately they are now renovating the church so you can see that again in 2025 you can
02:47find a lot of street light in Antwerpen with a maria statue above this was from the time that the
02:53neighborhood has to pay a lot of taxes for street light but if they could prove that the light was
02:59there for the statue and not for the road then they didn't have to pay taxes the next stop was
03:05the
03:05Sint Carolus Borromeus church the church was built between 1615 and 6021 Rubens was one of the designers
03:14of the church we did a real church tour because our next stop was the Onze Lieve Vrouwen Cathedral that
03:21was built between 1352 and 1521 the people from Antwerpen see the tower as the most beautiful tower of the
03:30world the tower is 122 meter high and there is a city rule that no other building in the city
03:37can be
03:38higher than this tower next to the river the Schelde is Hedstein or when you translate it in english it
03:46would
03:46be stone a medieval fortress built in 1200 to 1225 you have a great view of the river from this
03:55building
03:56so back then they could see who had entered the haven in 1303 to 1827 it was used as a
04:05prison
04:05the town hall is the heart of the center it is decorated with all the flags from the 27 european
04:12union countries the town hall is located at the big market around 1310 there was every year a market
04:19nowadays you find almost every day a market okay guys the tour is finished yes i changed my clothes
04:27during the tour because i was feeling cold but now the next stop will be the gelato i see gelato
04:34the ice
04:35cream store which they sell where they sell vegan ice cream and vegan waffles so i like that because when
04:45you are in belgium you should try the waffles and since i'm vegan i want to try vegan waffles but
04:51you
04:52find normal waffles everywhere on every street corner yes yes so when you are in belgium just try that
05:01and we are now looking around at the markets and then go to the store to the restaurant i have
05:07to say
05:08nice i'm excited
05:25what is the correct english word for the puder sugar powdered sugar yes okay because i thought always
05:33that it was wrong english but it's powdered sugar sugar and some chocolate sauce should i spring with
05:40it on oh i'm so satisfying already this is my lunch and i love it so guys which side do
05:56we have to go
05:57okay we just came back from ice lab and it was just all plant-based ice cream and it was
06:04really amazing
06:05though because the woman worked for one and a half year to get the perfect ice cream right because she
06:13said a lot of vegans or a lot of people who want to eat plant-based more often they always
06:18say yes
06:19but it's not a real good taste she wanted to do the really good taste and she nailed it honestly
06:26it was
06:26great yes it was really great and the waffle was great and the whipped cream was great it was really
06:32a nice experience so i would go back to ice lab more often if i lived in Antwerpen but i
06:38don't live in
06:38Antwerpen but yeah it is worth the two-hour trip absolutely so after our lovely waffle we are now going
06:47to the
06:47chocolate museum and they're gonna tell us how they make the nice belgium chocolate because
06:55belgium is famous of two things waffles and chocolates i'm curious how they will make the belgium chocolates
07:05so let's go
07:08the chocolate museum was really amazing i felt like a little child in a candy store
07:21you could see the wall process from bean to chocolate but also learn about the history of chocolate
07:32and especially the belgium chocolate they are really proud of their chocolate and i can understand that
07:46thanks to this experience i've got more respect for the wall process and the quality of good chocolate
07:52it feels more like i have gold in my hands and i love to taste the different types of chocolate
08:20i hope that one day i have my own cacao tree and i can make chocolate myself that would be
08:27amazing
08:40so
08:48oh my goodness guys i'm now at home and yeah it was such an amazing weekend i had so much
08:55fun and i am so
08:57thankful that i can do those weekends like this and yeah it made me realize that i want to do
09:04more trips
09:05like this but also when i'm in uganda because i did in the past some trips when i was in
09:112014 in uganda
09:13but i have the feeling there is more it is such a big country it can't be that it's just
09:18only those
09:19touristic highlights there must be more so if you are from uganda please what would you recommend me to visit
09:27like for a city or for a beautiful place with nature i'm gonna tell you already what i visited before
09:34it was jinja and tabba kampala those were the cities for the portal
09:40merjan falls sippy falls the rhinos and that was it yes i said jinja as well and the island sese
09:51islands
09:51and some other island but i made a video about that on my dutch channel but those were the places
09:58i
09:58visited but i have the feeling there must be more in uganda so please let me know and as you
10:03could see
10:04i have already my dinner now i'm going to eat now and then sleep because i'm so tired of the
10:09weekend
10:09but it was such nice so we're willing you for watching the video please put a thumbs up and
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10:21to see
10:21you all soon in uganda but first it's going to be the netherlands probably until december but
10:28let's wait and see bye bye
