One of the best travel videos I ever have seen. And not only because I am origin from Trier and have lived in the Schwarzwald for about 16 years...... no! It is the calm and relaxed way you captured everything, we can listen to your smooth voice and the awesome choice of music while enjoying that you have been to so many interesting and different places in Germany. And some of our neighbours of course. The little heartwarming stories about your family and ancestors of your wife, combined with all the facts you tell about the places you filmed is a wonderful mix. I really appreciated this vid of yours very much.
Well done, I like the mix of history and stories. Great camera work too. Reminds me of old youtube without the constant "please subscribe now" begging. Thanks for sharing.
Careful: Don't call the old church in Trier an "evangelical" church. The German denomination "evangelisch" is best translated as protestant, the German "Evangelische Kirche" is by no means "evangelical" (we would translate that as "evangelikal" in German).
Ah thank you! I had no idea, but that makes a lot of sense now based on what I found on their website and looking at other "Evangelische Kirchen" in Germany. We traveled with our pastor and wife. We are part of a non-denominational church that would be categorized evangelical.
Such a wonderful gem of a vlog about off-beaten touristy tracks at random European and German sites and places! Thank you so much for coming, and thank you for having you.. Please feel welcome to visit anytime soon!
Herzlichen Dank für dieses wirklich wunderschönes Video über euren Besuch in Deutschland .Ich hoffe ihr kommt noch einmal wieder und besucht meine Heimatstadt Hamburg. Greetings Wolfgang
Turns out we studied in the same city (probably the same university), & from reading the comments also around the same time (I started my first semester in Paderborn in Oct of 2011). Greetings and hope you had fun on your trip! (Except the last part...visiting concentration camp sites truly is an experience that can hardly be put into words, and not in a good way. I'd know, I've been twice, it's part of school curriculum. It really affects you. But that is also why I think having those sites around in the form of museum/memorials still is very important. Not much can instill the meaning of "never again" quite as effectively as visiting a concentration camp.)
I studied abroad from January 2011 to August 2011, so we just barely missed each other. I did return the following year for a 3 month summer internship, at a company, in Technologie Park. I completely agree with you on the concentration camps.
Puhhh... you've really made a big tour. As an American, did this tour somehow change your mind about Germany/Europe? I'm German and spend a lot of time in the States. So I know that Americans sometimes have a strange image of Germany 😁 Had to smile a bit at your stop in Dillenburg.... it's my birthplace and I really know these nice woods there🙂 By the way.... really nice clip 👍
Thank you! 🙂 I agree that Americans sometimes have strange impressions about Germany. I don’t quite remember all of the ones I had since I first studied abroad in 2011, but I’m sure I had plenty. One that is quite common is that the Autobahn is just one stretch of road somewhere and that it has no speed limit anywhere on it 😀 . Some of the other misconceptions is that Germany is like a stereotypical Bavaria: pretzels, lederhosen, dirndls, funny looking hats, and lots of beer (the pretzels and beer might be true 😀). I really loved my time there and that is where I found my wife! Dillenburg was a really nice area! Probably the thing I miss the most about Germany is the food and the bakeries.
@@wickeym Yeah... there are some reaction UA-camrs I follow. Americans discovering Germany via UA-cam 🙂 Of course they are doing their show, but some of them got really obsessed of Germany and what they've learned about the country. James Bray started with some reaction clips some years ago, now he comes to Germany every few months 😁 Where is your wife from? Donsbach? Greets from Hamburg (in a week Miami 🙂)
@@francoforte4788 Yeah I like the reactions people have to new cultures and places. It is fun and quite entertaining 😀. I really enjoy experiencing new cultures and peoples too. One of my very friendly and energetic friends spent some time in Germany and learned that geil means awesome. But he went around telling people, when asked how he was, that he was awesome "ich bin geil". I'm sure I made plenty of embarrassing (and funny) mistakes but none come to mind right now. My wife is from Ransbach-Baumbach, and later moved to Hamm. Greetings from Michigan 🙂
Great views. Nice shots. Well cut scenes. Music fits perfectly. Thanks for all the great explanations. If only you had been there earlier in summer, Germany is a lot more tolerable in sunshine ;-)
Very nice video m8. You should come back when you are 18 and then take the party tour and not the cultural tour because Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Amsterdam, Paris and London can be quite entertaining too ;-) Not everything in Germany is about our past.
Thank you! I studied abroad there in 2011 and took quite a few party tours at that time 😀. I spent (party) time in all of those cities during that time. I really enjoyed my time and found my wife during that study abroad 🙂
Nice trip to Germany..... living in Nürnberg, my parents in the black forest and my uncle close to St. Goar, I know 90% of the places, you visited. Nexed time, you come better in Spring or Summertime to Germany, an take some time to visit the alps (Bavaria, Switzerland, Austria and north of Italy).
Ah I understand. I was shown this by a German. If you order without the vegetables then they often add a little more meat. I like Döners with all the fixings too, but I like them with just the meat too :-)
Ihr habt viele interessante Sachen gesehen die nicht so häufig von Touristen besucht werden. Große Ziele die sich lohnen - Schloß Neuschwanstein, München / 3 Tage ( Café und bierhauskultur, BMW Museum) , Berlin 5 Tage ( anziehe Geschichte , DDR Geschichte , Party statt, viele Museen) , Köln 1 Tag ( Dom) , Hamburg ( 3 Tage Hafen , st. Pauli uvm, ) Dresden 3 Tage ( sehr schöne restaurierte alte Stadt )
Great video! I congrats you for this immensely challenging trip. Very good selection of places and not the usual suspects like Neuschwanstein, Berlin or Rothenburg (even i live in that area 😉). At least you visited Nürnberg and hopefully had some good Bratwurst there (Foodwise Frankonia is my paradise 😜)
We did actually visit that, I just didn't get it in the video. 🙂 I did a study abroad to Paderborn while in college and loved my time there! I try to visit everytime I'm in Germany.
The defence bunker you mentioned at 10:42 min. was not part of the "Siegfriedline" but part of the "Atlantic Wall", wich streched from northern Norway till Spain. The Atlantic Wall was a nazi defence line in order to prevent the Allies from invading the European mainland. Nice video!
Michael, well-made, well commented, nice music, and a nice mix of destinations in one of the most interesting countries in the world in terms of preserved history, beginning with the Roman time...
Quite a tour you did there and a lot of that far away from usual tourist tracks. The city of Baden-Baden got its name through several turns in history. The current name is only used since the late 18th century. Currently, it is named that way as it is the town of Baden in the region (and former Grandduchy of) Baden as there are several towns in Germany, Switzerland and Austria also named Baden.
I´m a old german man. I´m in love with Baden-Baden, and every year i visit to Baden-Baden two or three times, cause very season i go along the "Lichtenberger Allee" is so colourful beauty. Baden-Baden is one of the hot-spot in germany and it´s a must seen for every visitor of germany, and there´s a lot of other interesting historical places and cities nearby: Black Forest, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Straßbourg(France) and many many more.
Nice Vlog. Ransbach-Baumbach in the Kannebäckerland brings back memories. Forty-five years ago I started studying Ceramic Engeneering, just around the corner in Höhr-Granzhausen.
MAke sure to visit Aachen next time. Its where middle and eastern european civilized world began with charlemagne. Plus we got the three country point. You can be in three countries at the same time
Very nice! I'm from Cologne & have lived in Nuremberg for a year; really liked the city. I used the weekends to do some trips to the surrounding cities, like Rothenburg, Regensburg, Passau, Bamberg or Amberg. I've never been to places like Ulm, Trier or Paderborn; seem worth a visit! Thanks for showing
Ignore all the useless comments from people who are obviously not fine with there lives, know better or are just rude. Great video 👍🏻 ... but that Döner, holy smoke 😱🤣
Nice video but with a small mistake. The bunker you visited in Egmond was part of the Atlantic Wall. The photo you showed is the west wall. But that can happen.😁
Sorry to correct: Dachau-KZ was the second oldest. The oldest was Oranienburg KZ (not Sachsenhausen), wich was a day older than Dachau, but they based on the same order. About the video: Very good job.
Hi Michael, nice journey through Germany. An informative and interesting travel report, very well prepared, compiled and presented. Thanks for sharing. Wish you, and your family, furthermore good times in Germany (if you come again), and other European countries.
Beautiful video. Really enjoyed it. My sister is a Dr. In Nuremberg and my last holiday to europe was in zealand (holland). Grew up in the rhineland and enjoyed the scenic views of the rhine valley. Overall Great picks. Makes me want to head over as its time to go n visit as its been a few years. Hope to visit michigan and the great lakes one day ❤
Thank you for this video. I am German and live near Ulm. I have never visited many of the places myself. When friends from China come to visit me, I can use this tour as a guide.
Wow. Great pictures and the destinations were really well-chosen. So many impressions in such a short time. You've really seen a lot. Hope you and your family enjoyed it.
Wonderful trip! Thanks for taking us along! "Off the beaten path" is the way to go, because you get a better feel of any country if you avoid the most touristy places as much as possible.
Wow, you guys really saw a lot different regions and places of this beautiful country. A great dive into culture and history which has impact for the rest of you lives, I guess. How many hours you spent on the road durig your trip? How many days/weeks of prepare and organize all this? Im defently impressed! However, thanks for this amazing documentary. Enjoyed it a lot and saw corners of my fathers and gran-gandsfathers land I will never see with my own eyes in reallity. Greetings from Bremen.
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it! 🙂 It took quite a bit of planning. We spent probably around 2-3 hours on the road per day. My wife is from Germany, so we visited her family, her childhood town, and the city where we met. Our friends came along too and wanted to see the area where his (the husband) ancestors were from to get a feel for the area to use in a historical fiction book he is writing about his family.
@@wickeymAwesome! So, it was even a very emotional experience for you. This is wonderful! All the best to you and merry christmas (or what ever you celebrate)!🎄🎁🎋
Kudos to your editing. The music is right on! 9:09 The blue-ish machine to the left is a claw which was once used in a coal mine to support the tunnel. Those were placed in a row one right next to the other. The space underneath it, inside the "U" it forms, ran the scraping equipment. That was a scaper which cut a layer of coal from the wall in front. The losened coal then fell onto a conveyor belt that transported the coal to the end of the row of claws. There it was dumped into a shaft from which it fell into the mine cars. Once a certain amount of coal was scraped from the wall the claw was lowered a little and moved forward by 1-2 feet. When the whole row (several hundred feet long) had moved forward the scraping began again. The conveyor was pushed by the claws into the new position. When the claw went forward it left the tunnel's ceiling at its back unsupported. Eventually that collapsed. So you can imagine the claws and scraper cut horizontally through the coal seam like a hot knife through butter. Coal in Germany was mostly situated in thin seams which made this technology the way to go. I think that's like in Pennsylvania where you see these pancake high cars because the coals seams are also only a few feet in thickness. This is a video, albeit in German, which shows the technique: ua-cam.com/video/vUq1-DWsJ_A/v-deo.htmlsi=mD-3a2gn3Via8ZCp&t=516
Thank you for the kind words and the information! 🙂 Thank you for the video (ich kann auch Deutsch)! We actually visited the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum in Bochum last time we were in Germany. It was very interesting.
Normally tourists from the US would go and watch Berlin and Munich. So eighter you are very intressted in planning your travel well or you booked a very good tourcompany. But for me as a swiss this was quiet intressting, since i didn't knew many of those places.
Thank you for the kind words! 🙂 It took quite a bit of planning. My wife is from Germany and we wanted to see family, so that was a few of the destinations (Hamm, Egmond Aan Zee). We also had some friends with us and they wanted to see where his (the husband's) ancestors are from. He wanted to get a feel for the place in order to write a historical fictional novel about his family set in the 17th century. So, that tooks us to a few places off the beaten path. We really enjoyed our time there and places we visited.
This video was suggested to me and I was surprised that you were in Paderborn. Many vacationers only visit the big cities like Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich. I live in Paderborn.
Nice to see young people interested in foreign countries, history and doing meaningful content on youtube!
Bro hes what? like 20 but looks and sounds like 50? thats sad and not nice. he should go to the clubs but not acting like he his own grandpa
clubs rather than travel?@@gregoryhype8228
One of the best travel videos I ever have seen. And not only because I am origin from Trier and have lived in the Schwarzwald for about 16 years...... no! It is the calm and relaxed way you captured everything, we can listen to your smooth voice and the awesome choice of music while enjoying that you have been to so many interesting and different places in Germany. And some of our neighbours of course. The little heartwarming stories about your family and ancestors of your wife, combined with all the facts you tell about the places you filmed is a wonderful mix. I really appreciated this vid of yours very much.
Thank you for the kind words! 🙂
This is an outstanding Travel Vlog, it deserves much more views. Keep doing what you are doing ! Greetings from Germany
Well done, I like the mix of history and stories. Great camera work too. Reminds me of old youtube without the constant "please subscribe now" begging.
Thanks for sharing.
Schön das Ihr da gewesen seit.
Thanks Alex from Nürnberg 🎉😅
Careful: Don't call the old church in Trier an "evangelical" church. The German denomination "evangelisch" is best translated as protestant, the German "Evangelische Kirche" is by no means "evangelical" (we would translate that as "evangelikal" in German).
Ah thank you! I had no idea, but that makes a lot of sense now based on what I found on their website and looking at other "Evangelische Kirchen" in Germany. We traveled with our pastor and wife. We are part of a non-denominational church that would be categorized evangelical.
Such a wonderful gem of a vlog about off-beaten touristy tracks at random European and German sites and places! Thank you so much for coming, and thank you for having you.. Please feel welcome to visit anytime soon!
Herzlichen Dank für dieses wirklich wunderschönes Video über euren Besuch in Deutschland .Ich hoffe ihr kommt noch einmal wieder und besucht meine Heimatstadt Hamburg. Greetings Wolfgang
Turns out we studied in the same city (probably the same university), & from reading the comments also around the same time (I started my first semester in Paderborn in Oct of 2011).
Greetings and hope you had fun on your trip!
(Except the last part...visiting concentration camp sites truly is an experience that can hardly be put into words, and not in a good way. I'd know, I've been twice, it's part of school curriculum. It really affects you. But that is also why I think having those sites around in the form of museum/memorials still is very important. Not much can instill the meaning of "never again" quite as effectively as visiting a concentration camp.)
I studied abroad from January 2011 to August 2011, so we just barely missed each other. I did return the following year for a 3 month summer internship, at a company, in Technologie Park.
I completely agree with you on the concentration camps.
Puhhh... you've really made a big tour.
As an American, did this tour somehow change your mind about Germany/Europe?
I'm German and spend a lot of time in the States.
So I know that Americans sometimes have a strange image of Germany 😁
Had to smile a bit at your stop in Dillenburg.... it's my birthplace and I really know these nice woods there🙂
By the way.... really nice clip 👍
Thank you! 🙂 I agree that Americans sometimes have strange impressions about Germany. I don’t quite remember all of the ones I had since I first studied abroad in 2011, but I’m sure I had plenty. One that is quite common is that the Autobahn is just one stretch of road somewhere and that it has no speed limit anywhere on it 😀 . Some of the other misconceptions is that Germany is like a stereotypical Bavaria: pretzels, lederhosen, dirndls, funny looking hats, and lots of beer (the pretzels and beer might be true 😀). I really loved my time there and that is where I found my wife! Dillenburg was a really nice area! Probably the thing I miss the most about Germany is the food and the bakeries.
@@wickeym Yeah... there are some reaction UA-camrs I follow. Americans discovering Germany via UA-cam 🙂
Of course they are doing their show, but some of them got really obsessed of Germany and what they've learned about the country.
James Bray started with some reaction clips some years ago, now he comes to Germany every few months 😁
Where is your wife from?
Donsbach?
Greets from Hamburg
(in a week Miami 🙂)
Germany is trash. People are rude, vulgar and arrogant.
@@francoforte4788 Yeah I like the reactions people have to new cultures and places. It is fun and quite entertaining 😀. I really enjoy experiencing new cultures and peoples too. One of my very friendly and energetic friends spent some time in Germany and learned that geil means awesome. But he went around telling people, when asked how he was, that he was awesome "ich bin geil". I'm sure I made plenty of embarrassing (and funny) mistakes but none come to mind right now.
My wife is from Ransbach-Baumbach, and later moved to Hamm.
Greetings from Michigan 🙂
You know what's funny as soon as a travel report mentions Germany? A German comes and corrects you or praises you because you are so correct.
Great views. Nice shots. Well cut scenes. Music fits perfectly. Thanks for all the great explanations. If only you had been there earlier in summer, Germany is a lot more tolerable in sunshine ;-)
Very nice video m8. You should come back when you are 18 and then take the party tour and not the cultural tour because Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Amsterdam, Paris and London can be quite entertaining too ;-) Not everything in Germany is about our past.
Thank you! I studied abroad there in 2011 and took quite a few party tours at that time 😀. I spent (party) time in all of those cities during that time. I really enjoyed my time and found my wife during that study abroad 🙂
Nice Video, greetings from Köln
LOL i work in Haiger and live in Heborn right next to dillenburg what a coincidence. small world :)
Nice trip to Germany..... living in Nürnberg, my parents in the black forest and my uncle close to St. Goar, I know 90% of the places, you visited. Nexed time, you come better in Spring or Summertime to Germany, an take some time to visit the alps (Bavaria, Switzerland, Austria and north of Italy).
What a video, those 30min went by faster than I thought. Great work and nice commentary!
23:07 This Döner is considered a Hate-Crime in Germany. Wtf is this
What is wrong with this Döner?
@@wickeym Just take a look. Everything is missing on the döner. No cabbage, no lettuce. it looks very sad
Ah I understand. I was shown this by a German. If you order without the vegetables then they often add a little more meat. I like Döners with all the fixings too, but I like them with just the meat too :-)
Ihr habt viele interessante Sachen gesehen die nicht so häufig von Touristen besucht werden. Große Ziele die sich lohnen - Schloß Neuschwanstein, München / 3 Tage ( Café und bierhauskultur, BMW Museum) , Berlin 5 Tage ( anziehe Geschichte , DDR Geschichte , Party statt, viele Museen) , Köln 1 Tag ( Dom) , Hamburg ( 3 Tage Hafen , st. Pauli uvm, ) Dresden 3 Tage ( sehr schöne restaurierte alte Stadt )
Great video! I congrats you for this immensely challenging trip. Very good selection of places and not the usual suspects like Neuschwanstein, Berlin or Rothenburg (even i live in that area 😉). At least you visited Nürnberg and hopefully had some good Bratwurst there (Foodwise Frankonia is my paradise 😜)
one of the best travellvideos i have ever seen.
Great video with great editing and music choice, your relaxing voice just adds to it. Left you a subscribe.
You saw very nice regions and also had a look at the smaller town, sites.
Depending on what someone likes to see, there is still a lot more.
You didn't visit the crown jewel of Paderborn - Bartholomäus Church. Built in 1017, it is unique in architecture and has got interesting acoustics.
We did actually visit that, I just didn't get it in the video. 🙂 I did a study abroad to Paderborn while in college and loved my time there! I try to visit everytime I'm in Germany.
The defence bunker you mentioned at 10:42 min. was not part of the "Siegfriedline" but part of the "Atlantic Wall", wich streched from northern Norway till Spain. The Atlantic Wall was a nazi defence line in order to prevent the Allies from invading the European mainland.
Nice video!
Thank you, for pointing that out. I should have spent a bit more time checking into those bunkers and particularly, where they are located. 🙂
Well done, was a pleasure watching it but you really made me hungry by looking at that food. Your fault when I must buy a ticket now!)
Thank you for the kind words! 😂 sorry about that. Food is the thing I miss most about Germany
Welcome 🙏 to Germany 🇩🇪
Michael, well-made, well commented, nice music, and a nice mix of destinations in one of the most interesting countries in the world in terms of preserved history, beginning with the Roman time...
Nice video. Greetings from Spain.
Nice video! Greetings from Koblenz 👋😀
Thank you so much your video,May be peaceful all the Germany people,animals&birds.
Quite a tour you did there and a lot of that far away from usual tourist tracks. The city of Baden-Baden got its name through several turns in history. The current name is only used since the late 18th century.
Currently, it is named that way as it is the town of Baden in the region (and former Grandduchy of) Baden as there are several towns in Germany, Switzerland and Austria also named Baden.
I´m a old german man. I´m in love with Baden-Baden, and every year i visit to Baden-Baden two or three times, cause very season i go along the "Lichtenberger Allee" is so colourful beauty. Baden-Baden is one of the hot-spot in germany and it´s a must seen for every visitor of germany, and there´s a lot of other interesting historical places and cities nearby: Black Forest, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Straßbourg(France) and many many more.
Not everything you said was always true, but the vast majority of it was. All in all, great video!
Well done! Thank you from Bernau. 👍🍻
The city ist called "Nuremberg" (Nürnberg), not Nuremburg.
Thank you, for pointing that out 🙂
Nice Vlog. Ransbach-Baumbach in the Kannebäckerland brings back memories. Forty-five years ago I started studying Ceramic Engeneering, just around the corner in Höhr-Granzhausen.
There is a lot I can learn from your video. And I am German. Very educational! Thank you!
MAke sure to visit Aachen next time. Its where middle and eastern european civilized world began with charlemagne. Plus we got the three country point. You can be in three countries at the same time
good quality video and a nice mix of visited places! I would love to hear what you thought about the several places. But well done!
Thank you for the kind words! :-) Ask me any questions.
Fascinating. Iam German- but never went to any of this Places 😂
I life on the other side of Germany…
Nice Vlog. Hui Wäller @ Jenny 😅 Allemol
Dunno how I ended up here, but have a like and a comment! Nice video😁🥰
I come from Germany! Nice Video!! I come from Bamberg, 50 km away from Nuremburg!
Hope u not missed the Triberg Waterfalls - Greeding from black forest
this was clearly not your first time in germany :) very cool video and very good places to visit!
nice video but music way too loud
Thank you! Sorry about the music level. I actually uploaded another version in which I fixed that.
It's named and called Nürnberg. It's a name, so it were not translated. Thanks
A beautiful video, Mr. Wickey.
Very nice! I'm from Cologne & have lived in Nuremberg for a year; really liked the city. I used the weekends to do some trips to the surrounding cities, like Rothenburg, Regensburg, Passau, Bamberg or Amberg. I've never been to places like Ulm, Trier or Paderborn; seem worth a visit! Thanks for showing
Welcome...❤
Why, while your like 20, looks like your 50 and sounds like your 60
Ignore all the useless comments from people who are obviously not fine with there lives, know better or are just rude.
Great video 👍🏻
... but that Döner, holy smoke 😱🤣
Thank you, for the kind words! 🙂
Nice Video, many greetings from Paderborn.
Nice video but with a small mistake. The bunker you visited in Egmond was part of the Atlantic Wall. The photo you showed is the west wall. But that can happen.😁
Thank you for pointing that out! I should have done a bit more research on my script :-O
Very interesting to see, as a german, Germany with the eyes of foreigners.
Very nice video! Greetings from Baden-Baden
Thanks for taking us all along. Well done!
Many greetings from Paderborn!
Sorry to correct: Dachau-KZ was the second oldest. The oldest was Oranienburg KZ (not Sachsenhausen), wich was a day older than Dachau, but they based on the same order.
About the video: Very good job.
Good Video but u didnt come to Würzburg 😢
You missed out Münster.
Must visit it next trip
Hi Michael, nice journey through Germany. An informative and interesting travel report, very well prepared, compiled and presented. Thanks for sharing. Wish you, and your family, furthermore good times in Germany (if you come again), and other European countries.
Thank you, that is kind of you to say! :-)
Beautiful video. Really enjoyed it. My sister is a Dr. In Nuremberg and my last holiday to europe was in zealand (holland). Grew up in the rhineland and enjoyed the scenic views of the rhine valley. Overall Great picks. Makes me want to head over as its time to go n visit as its been a few years.
Hope to visit michigan and the great lakes one day ❤
I can recommend you Eastern Germany especially saxonian switzerland, the ore mountains, Erfurt, Weimar, Dresden, and Görlitz.
nice video! greets from germany
Nice Travel and Thank you for the nice Vlog. Greetings from Germany (Lower Saxony) :)
there are no French Fries in Europe!
Nice video! Seems you have seen more of Germany in those two weeks than I in 40 years of living here. :D
Thank you for this video. I am German and live near Ulm. I have never visited many of the places myself. When friends from China come to visit me, I can use this tour as a guide.
U Guys missed the Nürburgring :D
🙂 I would have been interested in seeing it, but I don't think anyone of the others were.
The bunker in Egmond aan zee was part of the “Atlantikwal“
Hello from St Goar. This is one beautiful vlog, very interesting. 🇩🇪👋
Nothing in this world could cut the bond between USA and Germany.....and Europe...
Very nice Video! Looks like a great journey through Germany and Netherlands. 🙂
Wow. Great pictures and the destinations were really well-chosen. So many impressions in such a short time. You've really seen a lot. Hope you and your family enjoyed it.
Very well done!
Wonderful trip! Thanks for taking us along!
"Off the beaten path" is the way to go, because you get a better feel of any country if you avoid the most touristy places as much as possible.
Many thanks for your european trip insights. Great to see, that you did not stay at one region but visited such a large variety.
Generally I would prefer to visit middle/northern Europe during summertime but this vlog was beautiful and fun to watch!
Nice trip, off the beaten path. It’s always great to have some insider knowledge.
Nice trip to Germany, my home. I hope you enjoyed it here and come back soon. There is so much to discover!
aha
Hamm my Hometown wtf
Wow, you guys really saw a lot different regions and places of this beautiful country. A great dive into culture and history which has impact for the rest of you lives, I guess. How many hours you spent on the road durig your trip? How many days/weeks of prepare and organize all this? Im defently impressed! However, thanks for this amazing documentary. Enjoyed it a lot and saw corners of my fathers and gran-gandsfathers land I will never see with my own eyes in reallity. Greetings from Bremen.
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it! 🙂 It took quite a bit of planning. We spent probably around 2-3 hours on the road per day. My wife is from Germany, so we visited her family, her childhood town, and the city where we met. Our friends came along too and wanted to see the area where his (the husband) ancestors were from to get a feel for the area to use in a historical fiction book he is writing about his family.
@@wickeymAwesome! So, it was even a very emotional experience for you. This is wonderful! All the best to you and merry christmas (or what ever you celebrate)!🎄🎁🎋
@@SafezoneExpert Thank you, and merry Christmas to you! 🙂
excellent video!
Ok I did not expect to see Hamm.
Greetings from Hamm. :)
Kudos to your editing. The music is right on!
9:09 The blue-ish machine to the left is a claw which was once used in a coal mine to support the tunnel. Those were placed in a row one right next to the other. The space underneath it, inside the "U" it forms, ran the scraping equipment. That was a scaper which cut a layer of coal from the wall in front. The losened coal then fell onto a conveyor belt that transported the coal to the end of the row of claws. There it was dumped into a shaft from which it fell into the mine cars.
Once a certain amount of coal was scraped from the wall the claw was lowered a little and moved forward by 1-2 feet. When the whole row (several hundred feet long) had moved forward the scraping began again. The conveyor was pushed by the claws into the new position.
When the claw went forward it left the tunnel's ceiling at its back unsupported. Eventually that collapsed. So you can imagine the claws and scraper cut horizontally through the coal seam like a hot knife through butter.
Coal in Germany was mostly situated in thin seams which made this technology the way to go. I think that's like in Pennsylvania where you see these pancake high cars because the coals seams are also only a few feet in thickness.
This is a video, albeit in German, which shows the technique: ua-cam.com/video/vUq1-DWsJ_A/v-deo.htmlsi=mD-3a2gn3Via8ZCp&t=516
Thank you for the kind words and the information! 🙂 Thank you for the video (ich kann auch Deutsch)! We actually visited the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum in Bochum last time we were in Germany. It was very interesting.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing!!
Welcome welcome! Enjoy your stay!
Normally tourists from the US would go and watch Berlin and Munich. So eighter you are very intressted in planning your travel well or you booked a very good tourcompany. But for me as a swiss this was quiet intressting, since i didn't knew many of those places.
Thank you for the kind words! 🙂 It took quite a bit of planning. My wife is from Germany and we wanted to see family, so that was a few of the destinations (Hamm, Egmond Aan Zee). We also had some friends with us and they wanted to see where his (the husband's) ancestors are from. He wanted to get a feel for the place in order to write a historical fictional novel about his family set in the 17th century. So, that tooks us to a few places off the beaten path. We really enjoyed our time there and places we visited.
A really well-made video. Greetings from Berlin.
This video was suggested to me and I was surprised that you were in Paderborn. Many vacationers only visit the big cities like Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich. I live in Paderborn.
I love Paderborn! That was where I met my wife during my study abroad there in 2011. We met at the Auld Triangle on karaoke night
Nice Travel Video greetings from Germany .👍
m from the black forrest. beautiful pictures u did. thank u
I completed watch your video 2 time nice hoilyday.
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Thank you! I’ll pass along that information 🙂
That's a very nice video. I hope you enjoyed your stay ✌🏼
Everyone who plans to visit Churches in Germany around Christmas, be careful. Our dear Muslims threaten us with blowing up Churches.
Nice job! Thanks for sharing
i really hope you enjoyed my hometown of nuremberg!