Glow Eindhoven: Visit the artistic lights festival in The Netherlands
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- Опубліковано 13 лис 2021
- Glow Eindhoven is a lights and art festival in one of the cities in the Netherlands. We brought along Tabasco to check it out for ourselves.
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The lights looked so cool! The sunflowers looked amazing 🤩 we’re decorating tomorrow!
The sunflowers were incredible! Can't wait to see your Christmas decor!
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Winter Efteling is also HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! The Dutch theme park with a Dickens look and feel. And probably one of the best winter theme parks in the world. During weekdays you can get cheap tickets at some sites. (29 euro). Several museums also get a Christmas look and feel. The railroad museum in Utrecht is one of them and always great to visit.
So fun! We'll have to check that out!
The Efteling is one of the parks that Walt Disney visited to get inspiration for Disneyland. It's nearly 60 years old but there are many modern rides which are all themed around fairytales and myths.
A bit late, but I just had to let you know.
My group of friends and me have this tradition of meeting during the Glow festival, we live all across the country nowadays, but for this occasion we all come back to our roots, we have dinner at the same pub we used to go to 40 years ago (and it’s still looks exactly the same, nothing has actually been changed there in all this time). And then we walk the Glow route, I do think the last few years it was less impressive than before, but maybe I got a bit spoiled over the years. But if you’re interested check out the video’s on UA-cam from earlier years, the projections on St. Catharina Cathedral, the Augustijnen church and on Wilhelmina square were phenomenal! Not static projections but whole movies. What impressed me most was the projection on the Augustijnen church, the church tower was spinning around! So awesome! I live near the centre of the city so most of the places you visited, I can see from my window …
Love your video’s ❤
The sunflower display was my favorite too! 🌻
Also, I’m going to start a petition for Tabasco to be featured in more videos!! I miss my sweet nephew!!! ❤️😍
Our holiday tradition: bake and decorate a gingerbread house from scratch!
Tabasco will absolutely be in more future content. Love the gingerbread house tradition, I can't wait to see what this years will look like! We appreciate your support!
It’s interesting to see all the familiar things from a foreigner’s perspective. Love the huge sunflower installations too! N we’re glad you like glühwein 😄😋
Thank you so much for watching Shuen Li! We appreciate you!
I was born in Eindhoven and still work there. It was nice to see you had a good time with Glow. It is a beautiful light art festival.
About christmas in the Netherlands, you can make it as big as you want. There will be kerstmarkten (christmasmarkets) but the best christmasmarkets are in Germany. If you love christmasshopping it is worth the trip.
There will also be big nativity scenes to see, a lot of times in or near churches. Sometimes with living animals. But most of this you can only see after Sinterklaas is gone (6th december) A lot of people wait with a christmastree until after Sinterklaas, but don't let that stop you from putting up the christmastree earlier if you want to.
Me and my family don't give presents to each other because we do that with Sinterklaas, but others do give presents. Some people, including my family, do something called gourmetten. It is a fun way of cooking and eating together. I hope you have a great first christmas here.
Oh gourmetten sounds super cool! Thank you so much for sharing, we appreciate you!
Eindhoven was the place of origin to the Philips company - and Philips started as a manufacturer of lightbulbs. Hence the ‘Eindhoven, City of Light’.
Yes, we knew that actually! We passed by the Phillips museum while we were there. Thank you so much for watching!
No, that's not the reason -- Eindhoven was the city of lights before Philips. They used to make matches here.
Our carnaval name, Lampegat, is Philips all the way though.
@@bentels5340 Never knew about the matches!
Nice to see you visit Eindhoven! It’s fun watching your videos…..and about Tabasco, he’s great.
Yes! My province, Noord-Brabant. Amazing! And Eindhoven is a great city.
The sunflowers were wonderful!
The sunflowers were lovely. Eindhoven (What we saw) was gorgeous. We are looking forward to spending more time there.
Glow is a very cool festival of lights. Eindhoven is the Dutch city of lights, mainly because of the origin of the Philips company. Nowadays the region is famous for being "Brainport of Europe", as in (sort of) being the European Silicon Valley.
Dutch Christmas time is "Americanizing", but it sets off after Sinterklaas. Traditionally the 25th is the big family day, with a lot of eating involved. The 26th is called "tweede kerstdag" at which is more a day of going out.
Hope you are having a great time in my country and will feel welcome and at home over here.
Loved your blog. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for watching and for your support! We appreciate you.
Wonderful video & I looooooooove Tabasco, he is just soooo cute🥰
Aww, thank you so much for your kind words. We'll pass along to Tabasco :) We appreciate you watching!
After Christmas we have the 'kerstboomverbranding' here, I don't know if that's a thing in the Netherlands as well. If it is you probably should go check out a local one. Basically all the Christmas trees get collected, thrown on a big pile, light them up and there are always lots of food and drink stalls around it.
Super interesting!
You have to go to "winter efteling" if you want to get into the christmis mood. Its amazing and easy to go to with public transport.
Also you have chrismiss markets in Valkenburg Limburg in the caves also verry Nice.
Awesome! Thank you for the suggestions-the caves seem super cool! We appreciate you watching!
Eindhoven is called the City of Light ("lichtstad" in Dutch) because two brothers called Philips started a lightbulb factory there in the 19th century. Their company grew out to become a multinational corporation and the once sleepy village of Eindhoven became a city as the company grew. Philips is known for having invented the compact cassette and compact disc (CD).
We knew that actually! We passed by the Phillips Museum while we were there (It's in the first shot with Tabasco.) Thank you so much for watching!
Dear T & T, please include more of Tobasco in your vlogs. He is a star!
Aww, we will pass that along to him! :) On the journeys where we take him, we will try to feature him more. Thank you so much for watching.
Kerstbomen (Christmas trees) are on sale from 27th November where I live. 8 more sleeps.
Good to know we still have time before we need to buy one! We appreciate your continued support. :)
Eindhoven, being the home town of electronics multi national company Philips, is "nick named" the "City of lights". Originally Philips grew to the size company they became with the production/invention of light bulbs, tv's, video & music cassettes, cd's, dvd's etc etc etc
Yes! We passed by the Phillips museum while we were there actually. Thank you so much for sharing and for watching our vlog!
Great video again! Now it's time to visit a home game of the football club P.S.V. 😄 and drink a beer before the game in supporters café De Aftrap across the stadium
Sounds like a great time! Thank you so much for watching.
This vid has been my favorite so far , you appear to be more relaxed and really enjoying yourselves . Love you guys !
Thank you Joyce, that's so nice of you! We appreciate you watching our journey more than you know!
That looked really nice all those lights. Also loved to see Tabasco! So cute 😍!
Thank you so much for your kind words! We appreciate your continued support!
Tabasco is so stinkin adorbz!!
Aww, thank you so much, we think so too! Appreciate you watching so much.
omg....the sunflowers are geweldig...
Aren't they? So breathtaking. Thank you so much for watching!
Nice update guys! 🤗👍
Thank you so much for your continued support! We appreciate you!
Happy to seem my hometown :)
Eindhoven was beautiful. We cannot wait to go back to spend more time there. Thank you so much for watching!
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Another Dutch tradition is the Christmas Circus, big tents where artist perform doing acrobatics. Most garden centers have huge Christmas displays usually with moving displays and sometimes projection mapping.
Last but not least the living nativity scene or Kerststal in dutch. One of the most famous is in the Cathedral in Den Bosch. (City with the binnendieze, river you can take boat tour below city) It is popular so go in the morning. However close to Leiden in Noordwijk they have a nativity scene with actors in a tower.
Hope this will get your Christmas feelings flowing, and making you feel more at home here.
The Kerststal is not necessarily a living one.
Ok! that jacket with the hood is lookin very cool 😎
Ooooh you guys were in my hometown Nuenen!!! That's really cool!
We loved Nuenen! Such a beautiful area! Thank you so much for watching!
Hey I live in Belgium and the closest thing we got as a Christmas tradition, is going for a long walk in the Ardennes with my mom and dad. In the holidays it's probably the only place in Belgium where you could find some snow. Now I kind of hate snow (I don't like things that are cold or wet, snow is both so yeah) but I do find it pretty to watch. Especially in nature, so that probably the only time I could enjoy snow, and it has some nostalgia to me. As a kid I can remember having snow with Sinterklaas, not anymore. And also having snow with Christmas, also not anymore. So that's why I love those walks with my mom and dad, it brings back some of those family memories.
The rest of the holidays are just eating, drinking and gifts. Big family so lots of things to do with them.
The falling snow is very pretty to watch, we're interested to see how much snow we'll get to see this year. Love your tradition of walking in the Ardennes with your family. Thank you so much for watching!
Thanks for sharing. Never been to this light show before.. you guys should def chek out Intratuin in Voorschoten. Or any other intratuin for that mather.. They showcase realy amazing christmas decoration and each location is different. Have a great day/evening. And hope to see another video soon. Groetjes 🙋♀️
That sounds incredible about the Intratuin! We may have to check that out. We'll have another one of our adventures for you next Sunday. Thank you so much for watching!
i can imagine its going to be hard during holiday season...as its normally the time to spend with your family. Funny thing though...i lived here in Holland my whole life, I am even located 2 cities away from Eindhoven, but i have never heared of the glow festival lol...looks great though, i might go there next year for sure... Hope you guys have a great holiday season, and look forward to your future videos 👍
Yes! GLOW was awesome, definitely try to go next year! Thank you so much for watching our journey, we appreciate you!
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I also hope you can attend a Sinterklaas party somewhere, usually many companies have a party for expat’s. I have had several when working at a big Dutch bank.
Or maybe ask the neighbors or colleagues if you can join them or at least help. Usually the neighbors knock on the door when the presents are being delivered at the door. Christmas markets also get me in the mood for the holidays. As mentioned before, Germany has some great markets. But most Dutch cities have them as well. I like Haarlem a lot.
Great to see you could use on of my suggestions (probably also done by other people) especially considering I couldn’t go to Glow this year. Hope you saw most of the installations, more than what you showed in the video. To get into the Christmas spirit you can go to one of many Dickens Festivals.
Where people dress up in 19th century clothing and play characters from the books of Charles Dickens. Usually also Christmas choirs, a market, lights and big fires.
I see that Medemblik (nice town with castle), Veere, Drunen, Arcen (scrooge festival), Deventer, Steenwijk, Bronckhorst and Krommenie are still planing to hold the festival.
Yes! We heard about GLOW from you and from a few other people. We appreciated the suggestion! We both grew up close to places that participated in the DIckens Christmas traditions. Thank you for your continued support!
Really nice! I live in Holland but never been to this. I have seen a light show in Amsterdam but this was so much nicer. Thank you for sharing 🥰
Would you recommend the light show in Amsterdam? We were considering going! We appreciate you watching! Thank you for the support.
@@TAndTGoDutch The amsterdam one is more visiting arts and is less interaction, but its also nice
I'll put the dates (eindhoven) in my calendar for next year
@@TAndTGoDutch Sure I would go see the show in Amsterdam! Every year it is different and Amsterdam is so beautiful at night!!
@@TAndTGoDutch Dont know if they still offer it with the pandemic and everything but the Amsterdam Light Festival is really fun to do by boat. Most installations can been seen from the water and it can get quite chilly that time of year so having a drink on a warm boat is the perfect way to enjoy in my opinion.
Yes! We just found out about the boat tour version, I think that would be such a great way to see the lights.
In the last 10 years it has become very popular to decorate the houses like in the states 😀 You have something to look forward to😀
When I first came here no one had lights outside. I always was so so homesick. Now a days it is very similar in all ways! And ….. lots and lots of food😀 If you want to go out for dinner on Christmas, you better make a reservation now! Also here we have a first and second Christmas Day😊😊😊
Good to know! We are hoping to head to London (Covid restrictions pending) for Christmas this year. Thank you so much for watching!
Thanks guys, that was a great video. I'd like to go there now. Tabaso is very cute. If you're still interested in coffee and a little tour of Leiden, let me know.
Hi Lucia! Can you DM on instagram (@tandtgodutch) or email us at (tandtgodutch@gmail.com) and we can set something up! Thank you so much for watching!
You are a lovely couple... i like ginger 😍 .
Thank you for your kind words and for watching!
Thanks T and T (and T) for sharing! Stroopwafels are the best! I don't know about covering them in chocolate m&ms though... How do they compare?
The chocolate was good (and very messy!) but I think the traditional warm stroopwafel is the way to go. Thank you so much for watching!
I like to see how you enjoy. It's also nice to hear you compare what you know from the US. And that is of course very normal. Gluwein is a winter drink. When the days get shorter and the nights longer and it gets colder outside, you see the Gluhwein everywhere.
For fun Christmas Ideas you can find inspiration at a garden center such as Intratuin. My wife works at Intratuin Cruquius and the Christmas department is now ready.
Thank you so much for your continued support! We appreciate you!
You may also like the Amsterdam Lights festival that starts at the end of this month and lasts till early January. You can get cheaper canal trip tickets online if you know where to look. I concur about the Winter Efteling (and Efteling in general). It's especially neat when it gets dark, which is around 4:30 pm in the winter.
Very cool! Thank you for the tip. We appreciate you watching!
'Proost' is only used for drinking! And usually only for alcoholic drinks!
For eating, you can say 'Eet smakelijk'
With Christmas we usually put up a Christmas tree and decorations. As I am from Noord-Brabant, beneath the rivers therefore, I also put up a little Christmas "shed" (Kerststal in Dutch) with little statues of Jesus, Mary, St Joseph etc. This tradition is disappearing unfortunately. The churches in the South continue this tradition by putting up beautiful Christmas "sheds" + statues. So the St. Jan's cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch has a very beautiful one every year, many people go to visit it.
Ha, thanks for the tip. It was meant to be more of a joke I suppose. Thank you so much for watching!
@@TAndTGoDutch You're welcome! And the one in the St. Jan's cathedral is definitly worth a visit.
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Visiting Paris or London is obviously a great Christmas treat! Paris 3,5 hours by train. One other suggestion is taking the Christmas Steam train in Hoorn. They call it the Kerst Express, with a Santa waiting on the other station. Hopefully it has snowed so it really feels like a Harry Potter goes to Hogwards experience.
How cool! We are headed to London for Christmas this year!
your dog is so cute
Thank you so much! He's pretty adorable. We appreciate you watching!
Next stop, Delft :-)
Yes! Tracey has been wanting to go! Thank you so much for watching.
With Christmas, try to visit Landsmeer and Den Ilp, in the evening great Christmas atmosfere. First Xmasday people visit family and go for diner and 2nd Xmasday every idiot goes to Ikea or Meubelboulevard. LOL, better just take a walk at the shore or take a museumtram from RTM or VSM or HTM or somewhere else.
Very cool! Thank you so much for your suggestions. We appreciate you watching!
Thanks for the nice viddy on Eindhoven. You guys know right that Eindhoven was the city where Gerard Philips, the founding father of Philips, choose to set up his first light bulb factory? And that the technical university of Eindhoven fits in a long tradition of technology and innovation stimulated by the Philips clan in the first place?
And the glow in the dark cycle path themed 'starry night' by Vincent van Goch.
Yes, we actually did know that. I believe the Phillips museum was in our opening shot with Tabasco. Thank you for the other information! We appreciate you watching!
@@TAndTGoDutchSay hi to Tabasco, such adorable doggo!
Pity you didn’t visit the Augustijnenkerk (Paterskerk) nor Campina; these were definitely my favorites, but you can see them on YT …
With limited time, we had to be a bit selective about what we saw. Appreciate your feedback. Thanks for watching!
Christmas decorations in shops and also in the streets (houses) takes place after December 5. Although years ago, the big chain stores tried to change that by creating the Christmas mood early on. Larger expenditures are made during Christmas shopping. But the Dutch citizens were not supposed to know about this. My generation, baby boomers, experienced Christmas Day more than Americans did with Thanksgiving. You went to your parents wherever the rest of the family was. How that will go with the new generation remains to be seen.
I see mine English is not so good. i ment were the rest of the family also was present
Thank you so much for sharing, and for watching. We appreciate you!
Isn't there a small electric firm situated in Eindhoven. Phillips i believe.
Yes, Phillips is located there. Thank you so much for watching!
The Glow festival evolved from the old-fashioned illuminations that used to be put up along the main streets every year to celebrate the liberation of Eindhoven on September 18 1944.
Wow, that's super interesting! Thank you for sharing and for watching!
The old fashioned illumination along the street is a different thing. It is called ‘lichtjesroute’ (route of lights), and starts every year on September 18 for three weeks to celebrate the liberation of Eindhoven at the end of WWII. The GLOW festival is always in the first week of November and started in 2006 (or a year later?). Both are in Eindhoven and are about light, other then that they are not related.
@@threestones8807 you sure? AFAIK the lichtjesroute stopped a long time ago
Yes very sure. I even cycled the lichtjesroute this year.
@@threestones8807 i stand corrected! in my memory, it ended in the 1980's after money issues.
take a look at the movies of the past few years, normally it is much more spectacular. This looks like a 2021 Corona edition.
Thanks! We anticipated that, due to the pandemic. We still thought it was worthy enough to share.
In our family Christmas was about religion, food, decorations and gezelligheid. For us as kids December was all about Sinterklaas, though. Placing your shoe with a drawing or carrot in it for Sinterklaas' horse and hoping you would find a little present in the morning. We would then get some bigger presents on December 5th when the holy man left the country again on his birthday.
Santaclaus never caught on in my opinion. Probably because of his striking similarities with Sinterklaas. (try to prononounce 'Sinterklaas' with an english tongue and you will know what I mean). Is it true Santa was a commercial invention from the coca cola company? Or is that one of those urban myths? If he was 'invented' I bet the inventor at least had a link with our region.
I think Coca Cola definitely popularized the imagery of Santa Claus in America today, but I think you're right about the Dutch origins. There's conflicting origin stories for sure. Love hearing about your Sinterklaas traditions. Thank you so much for sharing and for watching!
Please wait setting up a christmass tree and do it after the 6th of december . you might get funny looks as its now the time of saint nicolaas . Sinterklaas. He arived last saturday and the next weeks up to the 5th of december it all about him.
After no problem you will see the decorations change in the streets .
A little heads up we celebrate 2 days of christmass . the 24th is christmass eve , then the 25th and 26th are official christmass days and national hollidays.
If you have children they will have 2 weeks free from school .
Thank you so much Marcus! It's good to know we don't have to run out and get a tree right away. We appreciate you watching and your support!
@@TAndTGoDutch Your welcome. PS this is also the time of some rare seasonal treats and old fashioned candies .
Like almond spice puff pastery letters ( Banket letters.) You can buy them at any bakery or store around this time of the year , just pop them in the oven for a minute . slice them in small bite size part perfect .
Throwing this out there: I am American raised who is currently teaching in South Korea. I want to eventually move to the Netherlands to teach. I also have Dutch citizenship (with my American citizenship) but my Dutch language skills are minimal. Are there jobs for English-speaking teachers with Dutch/USA citizenship? TIA
Hi there! We both work in spaces outside of the education sector, so we're probably not the best resource for you. We highly recommend joining an expat group on facebook. For example, we joined the Leiden expat group and Americans in the Netherlands prior to our arrival. They are a wealth of knowledge, so I would absolutely ask there. We appreciate you watching!
@@TAndTGoDutch fantastic advice! Thanks, I will do that!
What would you like to teach? High school jobs here are only open to fully trained teachers (so you can't teach here with TOEFL or similar) and there is no shortage of English teachers, although there is a shortage of most other teachers. So if you are qualified to teach physics, German etc. you shouldn't have a hard time. If you are qualified to teach primary school that should also be doable.
But maybe you're already here and don't need my advice anymore :)
@@Snowshowslow great advice! I am a qualified elementary (primary) school teacher with a Master's in Education. I would not be looking for jobs in TEFOL. Instead, I am looking for a primary school position but in English, because my Dutch is rusty. Is there a shortage of Elementary Teachers, and if so, do you know where one would find a job? I am still in Korea, but heading to Honduras and plan to make it to the Netherlands as soon as possible (I am an international school teacher).
tip, go to nijmegen .
Thank you! Any recommendations on what to do there? Appreciate you watching!
Glühwein is German wine.
Thanks!
Do you also know we celebrate 2 days off christmas in the Netherlands? 25 and 26 dec...
Isn,t that great? Great video by the way!
That is pretty fantastic! We appreciate you watching!
@@TAndTGoDutch But 26th is on a Sunday this year, so not very special. First of January is a holiday also and regular shops will be closed, only supermarkets will be (partialy) open.
Regular waffles?? Bro.... The stroopwaffles are regular here in the Netherlands. The others waffles..., well we don't eat them a lot in the Netherlands so our regular waffle is the stroopwaffle. Enjoy
Ha, I suppose we are getting used to what is considered "regular" here. Thank you very much for watching!
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and your dog has something to say aswell
Ha, he's very chatty, always has something to add to the conversation!
Yeah, good to see you guys in Eindhoven! North-Brabant is for the good life;). I'm living like 25kmn from Eindhoven (15/16 miles) and i see video's about the Netherlands where they only visit North- and South Holland. Holidays... Well, we just don't overdo things, that's pretty Dutch. Also except for some old people the mostr of us don't believe in that fairytalebook the bible and his actors so chistmas is just because the dog has to have a nametag;). And Sinterklaas is for the children.
Though it's nice to gather and share some love and wishes.
Please learn the Dutch word "gezellig", it is the best way to describe North-Brabant.
Eindhoven is the city of Philips (light). City of the brainport region of the Netherlands. The place to be for smart people.
We loved our time there, and definitely want to go back! It's nice that there aren't super high expectations to overdo Christmas. We appreciate you watching, and thank you so much for all the information!
Be careful with hot foods and drinks in the Netherlands! You can really burn yourself if you do not watch out.
Bitterballen and Chinese tomatosoup are famous for being extremely hot.
There is a Dutch saying: The soup is served much hotter than it's eaten.
Meaning there can be a lot of fuzz about something, but afterwards it's all about nothing.
But the core truth is: be careful with soup when it is served and maybe take some time before eating it.
Great advice! It was deceiving how hot that apple punch was. Thank you so much for watching and for your continued support!
you cant do christmas before sinterklaas has even happened!
Good to know we still have time for Christmas! Thank you so much for watching!
Now that you're living here, I'd appreciate it if you'd learn to pronounce things more correctly. "Stroopwafel" for example is not proncounced the way you do. In Dutch, double o is not pronounced the way you do but like the "o" of "dope," in other words it's pronounced "stropewafel." Appreciate you like my hometown, Eindhoven (and my city of birth The Hague).
Hi Hans! Thanks so much for watching. We only just moved here a few months ago, and are still trying to learn the language (a process that takes years to perfect, i'm sure.) Thanks for the pronunciation tips, we appreciate you being patient with us as we navigate this new world.