SHOPPING THE WATERLOOPLEIN MARKET | Exploring Amsterdam | Antique Shopping | We Found A KEEPER!
today is a very exciting day because we are headed out the door and we are off on another adventure and we are going to be taking you with us we are headed to Marrakech Morocco to join up in our very first Group Travel trip ever on our way we are going to be stopping in Amsterdam for two days we are gonna go antique shopping we are going to go to a very famous flea market in Amsterdam and of course we're gonna have some great food and explore the city let the adventure begin we have arrived here in Amsterdam and we are going to have a day and a half of Adventures first we're gonna go walk the streets and along the canal we're gonna go on an evening boat tour of the city we're gonna have some traditional Dutch food also some Indonesian food because we've been told that they have very good authentic Indonesian food here we are excited for you to join us on this adventure here in Amsterdam before we head off to Marrakech Morocco in two days we stayed at the Florian hotel which is very close to the airport just a few minutes away and we loved this hotel the staff was incredibly nice the design is just beautiful and I highly recommend getting the breakfast in the morning it was perfect for us to be able to eat that breakfast and then just get started on our day foreign we are starting off our morning at one of the oldest and most famous flea markets in Amsterdam the waterlop line I hope that I am saying that correct now I actually came to this flea market here in Amsterdam all the way back in 2009 but I was traveling with a backpack staying at youth hostels and I had no room to bring Treasures home with me so this time around we've got a little bit of space in our luggage and we are hoping to find a few vintage souvenirs to take home with us this Market is open every day of the week except for Sundays the market starts at 9 30 a.m and goes until six o'clock P.M I found this beautiful sundress for only 10 euro and it says on the tag that it is a Ted Baker dress which I know they sell for several hundred dollars online I'm not positive this is authentic but the quality feels really good and it has such a fun pattern on it for 10 euros I'm not going to pass this up this Market has a huge selection of second-hand clothing and the pricing is really good the majority of the clothes are between 5 and 10 euro they even have piles with items for only a Euro each I was in leather coat Heaven just looking at all of the options if you love treasure hunting like we do these types of markets are the best places to get souvenirs to bring home for your friends and family you might be able to find an actual historical treasure at a market like this versus buying something cheap and plastic that was probably not even made in Amsterdam in a lot of the different shops and the large squares and these kinds of markets are just fun to go to to browse even if you're not looking to bring home a lot of treasures foreign it's the oldest thing he has on the table and he's had it out for three days and nobody bought it apparently now collect locks on our trips it's got two keys he said they both work too 15 Euro he wouldn't come down on the price but you know what for 15 euros guys we're gonna get it 19.06. 1906. wow it's gorgeous these are fantastic they're very heavy though the real deal cast probably bronze 30 each no way we're bringing this on this on the luggage huh and there's even a pair look at that this is a tagine we've been watching videos about Morocco learning what we're going to experience there and this is the tagine that they cook the food in so the steam I believe comes out this hole sometimes I think there might be a hole here in the top all the food in there and cook a yummy stew we're very excited to have some tagine in Morocco foreign I got this entire set of vintage ceremonial wedding spoons I love pewter and I thought they were really cute how they had the guy and the girl at the top of them I looked them up online and it looks like they are possibly Dutch or maybe even German and I got the entire set for only 10 euros and it looks like they do sell online for over a hundred dollars a spoon which is kind of crazy I think I got a really good deal on these Jesse and I always have so much fun when we're out treasure hunting often we are just looking at items and learning things about them one way to learn more about vintage and antiques is to always look for stamps and things that you can research and learn more about the item the other thing that I really advise doing is talking to the vendors not every single vendor knows everything about all of the items that they are selling I find that even if the vendors don't know the actual history of the item they usually have a really good story to tell about finding some of the items foreign I love everything about the process of buying and selling vintage items and it's just super fun to get to talk to people in other countries and learn more about their experiences and what it's like to be a vintage seller here in Amsterdam look at these chairs they're kind of fun a little wild they're a little Halloween but man I could I could totally have fun styling those up they're the only thing the only accent like that it works if you do your whole house it's not gonna work that's a great little tree hook it's amazing very little store picture how precious is this cheese pepper wild garlic chili onion they have pesto cheese I've never had pesto cheese before you like to cry also this is the farmers yeah only this one is pasteurized and that one is made to grow milk thank you so much thank you foreign I want to thank base for sponsoring today's video base was created by actress Shea Mitchell to create sleek and affordable bags luggage and accessories that are designed to help you travel effortlessly while still looking fashionable one of the best features of the luggage is that it has three 60 degree gliding wheels and when I am packing mindful of vintage it 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Amsterdam look at this blue cat decanter it says empoli Italy oh my gosh she's so cute I told Jesse to pick me up Sunny's and he picked out this pair in the front I think those are a little too wild I like the ones that are made for like writing on a motorbike over there look at all this jewelry a lot of these only have like 10 euro on them two seconds ago I said I needed to find a Potosi for a decent price and that the toasty for a decent price foreign foreign pie this tall one back here is only 27 Euro yeah really good price a lot of these it's not all of them oh yeah 45 Euros and over here there's the set of faces that I think are just so fantastic for all four of them it's 95 but you can buy them individually as well I think 95 for all of that it's a really good deal 12.50 for the small ones 32.50 for the large I actually like
yeah are you thinking the one that has a little knob yeah that one's only 15 euros that's really neat so that's fine can't say that one huh mobach thank you foreign foreign decision but we went ahead and decided to get this one that we saw first it looks a little bit older and I just like this one and Jesse likes this one so we're gonna go for it we were hoping to find a good souvenir that we could keep in our home that we would always think of our trip to Amsterdam every time we saw it and the beautiful betosi picture was the perfect addition to our collection back at home after a wonderful day at the market and antique shopping throughout the town we were ready to just walk around and sightsee I love to make sure that my day is not completely packed full with plans Sometimes the best moments are the unplanned moments and we both love to people watch and let me tell you Amsterdam is a great place to just get a seat have a drink and watch all of the people foreign our goal today was to find an Indonesian restaurant so that we could try some traditional Indonesian food we have a lot of amazing food back home but we don't have a lot of Indonesian restaurants so when we found out that Amsterdam was known for having great Indonesian food we got very excited I did not know we ordered a feast this is amazing I'm so glad we didn't eat lunch this is the surrender and this is but um okay like a crushed peanut yeah okay wonderful thank you so much we will this is what we get for blindly ordering we got ourselves a feast it was 31 per person for all of this food but the good news is that we did not eat lunch today we skipped lunch and we are super hungry okay it's hungry I'm not this hungry you were right but we are hungry our plates are full and we've like hardly made it done so I would highly recommend sharing this with three or four people so this is a set menu and it was just for two people serving size we're kind of uh a little bit overwhelmed here yeah how good this looks it looks amazing I haven't even tried a bite yet foreign there is no better way to see a city than from the water I highly recommend booking a boat tour they can be a little bit touristy but in my opinion it is all about how you view things and the way that you open yourself up to experiences we had so much fun on our Amsterdam Canal tour and we ended up sitting next to a family from California and we had such a great time chatting with them and getting to hear stories of their travels one of the most important pieces of advice that I could give to anyone wanting to get out there and explore and see the world and see new cities is to be open to other people the more that you talk with locals and the more you talk with other Travelers the better your experience is gonna be I promise you life is simply just better when you share it with other people so if you look around you guys knowing the difference between the others this is the most expensive hotel in Amsterdam the Waldorf and it goes all the way down to the very end all the way to here and it took them 25 years to purchase all of these buildings and it cost them 70 million dollars to do it it's the cheapest room in there is 700 a night insane that is the tiniest car I've ever seen look how cute it is wait what that's the house right there that's funny it's a closet it's cute I would live in it foreign I am half Dutch but I have not grown up eating a lot of Dutch food and we couldn't leave Amsterdam without trying some traditional Dutch food so I told Jesse we had to go to the pantry I was here a few years ago with some other family members and I remember the food being so good I recommend getting menu number two my favorite thing are the Dutch goat cheese Croquettes they are so warm and delicious and creamy they are absolutely amazing in the mashed potatoes with curry sauce for dessert the little mini pancakes are served with butter and powdered sugar I am not a huge sweets person and these are just the perfect balance of the warm pancake with a salty butter and the powdered sugar on top thank you dude we've always thought that Portland had a ton of bikes check this out this is like a park and ride all of that over there are bikes those are all bikes thousands and thousands of bikes everywhere I love it foreign for Amsterdam we'll see you guys in the next episode things do not always go as you have planned and traveling in these times right now means you are at a lot higher risk of missing a flight unfortunately due to delays in Amsterdam we ended up missing our connecting flight in Paris to get to Morocco I'm not gonna lie I totally cried in the airport I have never done that I don't really cry in public and we ended up running as fast as we could all through the Paris airport to get to our gate and as we ran up I kid you not they were detaching the jet way and the plane just taxied off without us it was the most devastating thing I have ever experienced it was like all the emotion of traveling and being jet-lagged just hit me all at once and I just lost it in the airport I had to walk away and I went and just cried for like 20 minutes just knowing that we were gonna miss the greeting dinner where everybody gets together and meets each other for the first time I was so scared that we were gonna walk into this trip in Morocco and we were going to be like this like third wheel like who are those people they're not part of the original group but sometimes things are out of your control and there's nothing you can do so we got checked into our hotel right by the airport we immediately got in a taxi and we got ourselves on a boat tour and watched Sunset over Paris and it was beautiful and magical and you know what we've sure made the best of it it was a great night thank you thank you that is dedication for the shot so that wraps up our adventures in Amsterdam and an unexpected adventure in Paris and now we are on our way to Morocco and I will see all of you in that 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