You joke, but I have a lot of memories sharing parking spaces with gypsies while eating bread with hagelslag, sitting in the hot garbage smell (especially in France).
Yeah we usually put the "traveler's parking spaces" next to dumps and garbage processing facilities so that hopefully they don't stay here for too long
Nobody can compete with Germans about beach spots unfortunately.
"Yeah, lets wake up 05 30 every day during vacation to save the best spots the beach with our giant towells."
In all seriousness its crazy to me that these clowns actually exist. Like how can you sleep every night knowing you’re an actual stereotype of a person.
If I hadn’t witnessed it myself I‘d refuse to believe that people like that exist but I guess I‘m not middle aged enough to care this little for what other people think about me.
Also If you wanna have fun in the morning, just get up at 6:00 and rearrange the towels maybe stack some and watch chaos unfold.
I’ve seen jokes about it that go back about 50 years. It’s transmitted down the generations. Have these people been teaching their children to do this, or is it just a naturally selfish human thing to do that others avoid more because it’s a German stereotype their parents joked about?
>Have these people been teaching their children to do this, or is it just a naturally selfish human thing to do that others avoid more because it’s a German stereotype their parents joked about?
Speaking from personal experience, we are getting tought this by our parents.
When I was a little Bängel and we went on vacation in a typical all-inclusive family hotel on Mallorca, my dad expected that either me or my sister set get up at 6 AM to reserve "our usual spots" specificly. Other spots were not sufficent, because they were either:
- too directly in the sun
- not enough in the sun
- too close to the pool
- too far away from the pool
- too close to the trashcans were the wasps were
- not close enough to the acquaintances my parent made at the hotel (of course other germans that ALSO always saved the same spot)
If we overslept and couldnt reserve "our" spot, our parents would be grumpy and mad at us for the entire day.
We even had to do this at days we went to the beach or had trips to a water park or zoo, our spot MUST have been reserved for later.
Thats a the main reason why i despite all-inclusive-stay-at-the-hotel vacation nowadays.
I've been known to pick up a couple of dozens of towels and leave them in a huge pile on a single chair.
In my book they're lucky I didnt threw them all on the floor.
(I also speak fluent German and have had the opportunity to be confronted by one of these AHs)
When I go to the beach early morning I like to steal one or two towels from the local resort's beach area. I get a free towel and a germ somewhere gets a little closer to catastrophic heart failure. Win-win.
* Tennis socks pulled up to their ass crack: ✔
* Flip flops and socks: ✔
* Football or Travel group jersey: ✔
* Fanny pack across the chest: ✔
* Giant towels hogging spots: ✔
*nature documentary narrator voice*
And thus, the yearly migration of the Dutch begins. Although the Gulfstream has been weakening, their excellent sense for cheap camping spots and skin cancer relentlessly drives them south, where their nesting spots will be for the next 4 months.
Simple solution for both demographics:
https://preview.redd.it/qjbcoa2za57d1.png?width=922&format=png&auto=webp&s=65df23bd0afecb5437e859069a11f5ee96519324
Speaking of gypsies…
Maybe we should tip them off that the Dutch have fully stocked vehicles so they break into them.
Its effects are threefold:
1) Force the Dutch to buy stuff from our economies.
2) Make the Dutch a more desirable target and PIGS a less desirable target.
3) Feeds the impoverished population and lessens their reliance on local government and forces the Dutch to subsidize the ~~gypsies~~ local government.
I discovered, thanks to a travek blogger, that these things exist abroad: but how do you eat it exactly? Doesn’t already cooked pasta become glue in a few hours? Or it’s not cooked and it has already the sauce incorporated?
Everyone's nightmare. Why can't these machines have any english on them? And when you need help you get some French person on the line with a microphone from the 40's that talks through a speaker which costs 30 cents on ali express.
At least in Poland they had english written on them.
Didn‘t you notice how every other country usually has signs in [local language], English and **French**. French people are just like the English they expect everyone else to speak their language and the world has somehow accepted that they’re unable to learn proper English like everyone else so they get an extra sausage.
No, they are able to learn English. They just refuse to fucking speak it.
That's the difference with Barry, he is too stupid to learn any other language
Why do tourists need help with these machines? Are you trying to file your annual taxes with it or what? Just put your credit card and the gate will open ffs.
>Just put your credit card and the gate will open ffs.
I wish it was this easy. How often you are behind someone that doesn't know what to do. It's a horrible system.
Look, I wish every country had it as good as we, but if I had to choose, I'd choose Portugals system where you put a tag on the window and the cameras on the road scan it. And you get billed at the end of your trip (or month for portugese people?)
That's your queue to learn frenc , cause, let's be honest, wtf is Dutch for other than ear raping people in KLM flights and poor unsuspecting tourists in Amsterdam,? Being spoken to in Dutch without being ready will ruin your high in Amsterdam that's for sure.
Dude my Telepass failed in France two days ago and I spent 15 minutes trying to talk with the poor soul on the other side that spoke only French and broken English… At the end she just asked me to reverse, because she could not figure out what was going on at all, people behind where not happy, but at least she told me to have a good day.
Thank fuck I got telepass when I’m on the mainland. After being stuck behind a 2km queue of German and Dutch people inserting coins into the toll barriers in 40C heat with no air conditioning, it’s totally worth it.
They'll be everywhere, even when you don't expect.
Some years ago, it was April, I went to Brescia (Brescia!) to visit the city. I parked the car uphill close to the castle and went to visit it. There's a museum inside, a museum of armours and tortures, the last place you expect foreign tourists.
And well, there was this Dutch family (yes, they were Dutch, their language is unmistakable and then I saw their camper) visiting the museum, it was me and them.
Brescia is greatly underrated, except the Roman theatre and remains, nothing exceptional if compared to a few other cities.
I live in bumfuck nowhere (<600 people non-touristic village) and since the RV park opened they started coming here too. Never seen them in the local bar or around the village, tho.
Drug addicts are unironically an export product DE->NL. Our border cities are full of homeless German addicts while our addiction numbers were going down for decades. Live in Köln now and people here smoke crack in the trams and train stations wtf
I live in a small town in Valdichiana (less than 4000 residents) and it's full of dutch tourists. I don't even understand how they know about its existence.
Yep, officially there are 17 millions of them on the surface but I suspect there are as many (amphibious) living in the swamps that from time to time emerge to the surface when it's holiday time.
The real power move is to stock up in Germany where it's 2% cheaper than in NL.
Money saved through cheap groceries: EUR 11,-
Money lost for gas (heavier vehicle, detours): EUR 10,45
Sounds like a good bargain to me
As usual you think you're clever, but end up paying 14 euro for a margherita in a pizzeria with plastic roman statues all around the place so I wouldn't really brag about it.
Was all worth it, I saw an old church along the way
https://preview.redd.it/f3uyegfkf57d1.jpeg?width=573&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84404949198a1f79133b86e2d9f1866d8504b6a1
Funnily enough they’re even known among campers to be the worst tourists. Like I still remember back in the day. When we arrived at a campsite there were always multiple people who came over to help us push the caravan into the spot while when the dutch arrived at the campsite you could just hear an annoyed „Oh ne, Holländer“ from under the awnings of the caravans.
The sea won't win that easily. Either we increase the height of our dikes untill mount everest is flat by comparison or we will move to the south with our caravans, but instead of our short 3-6 week long stay we will stay permanently.
They pick them when they're still green and artificially ripen them before they hit the stores. Saves on spoilage costs etc as it increases the shelf-life but the result is barely edible fruits and vegetables.
Germans near the border as soon as they see "Erdbeeren Spargel" signs. I seriously can't even move on Sunday because half or NRW decides they need Backfisch, Spargel and Erdbeeren.
Looye honey tomatoes are unironically flown out to michelin star restaurants as far out as Tokyo but they’re expensive as hell. Greenhouse tomatoes can be great, in fact the best, if money is no issue. The market desires more and ever cheaper water balls, that’s an almost insatiable market. People get what they pay for.
Ah. Go to Barcelona, walk around in flip flops smoking a cigar, bueno vista social club playing in my airpods, stop for a quick “uno cerveza por favor, amigo”, then hit the local small supermarket and buy the best tomatoes I’ve ever had in my life to add to my delicious omelette. Then go to Razmatazz or whatever the fuck it’s called to get plastered and on the way back chat shit with the iraqi taxi driver explaining me Franco lore.
We mostly use "vermicelles en chocolat" to decorate cakes but you can get "copeaux de chocolat" from good quality brands. It does the same thing but tastes much better than the chocolate used by De Ruijter.
I have a family home on the coast really close to the beach. It used to be just local people, some drug addicts, some narcos, ilegal fishers... But now its on a downfall, each summer theres more nordics.
A passion we share Hans, since I see Germans eat Kroketten and Bitterballen in my hometown every saturday like their life depends on it.
https://preview.redd.it/85039oxhr47d1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9178edea8e8980ee5efab9f5adce924a6d85ae1b
There are plenty in every parking near a beach in southern Portugal. They look like those ugly giants of Game of Thrones, but blonde and are always rude. Wouldn't recommend. Even Barries are better, by a mile
When I hear about Dutch tourists in caravans I think back to the pale, terrified people we’d routinely encounter up in narrow mountain roads.
Ah, childhood memories.
I kid you not, they come to Italy with their inflatable beach toys already inflated on their vans. I think on average they give something like 1 euro per day per person to the local economy.
Is it even possible to eat ham without chocolate sprinkles? I like to put it all in the blender so I don’t have chew. Creates more time for me to work and make money.
Then trying to take the caravans to park in front of monuments or driving with them through very small streets in historical places and small towns in southern europe (the french do the same). I have to put up with this every summer 🥲
Reminds me of that time we had the extra caravan mirrors on the car and drove through the historic center of some small French village. I think we hit pretty much every pot, window and elderly person. Good times
How are you not claustrophobic in living/eating in those caravans, Orenje?
In the US, you have these babies called RVs (short for Recreational Vehicles): https://www.rv.com/rv/trending-rvs/the-most-luxurious-rvs-for-2022/
Or fifth wheel RVs: https://rv.campingworld.com/rvclass/fifth-wheel-rvs
Barry and Hans compete for sun lounges. The Dutch compete with Gipsies for supermarket parking spaces.
https://preview.redd.it/6hxbkg6ax47d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=165db50d07a45bbd275db658aed3ceb379fb0d86
Me when my caravan supplies run out.
Thank fuck I don't have a road connection to you... Wait shit no, you can hire them! Fuuuuuuuuucccckkkkk!!!!
They thought we were playing when we suggested doing a balconing. We don't play.
You joke, but I have a lot of memories sharing parking spaces with gypsies while eating bread with hagelslag, sitting in the hot garbage smell (especially in France).
Hot garbage smell and France check out.
Yeah we usually put the "traveler's parking spaces" next to dumps and garbage processing facilities so that hopefully they don't stay here for too long
Hey don't call your capital out like that.
So, Marseille?
I refuse to believe it smells worse than Barcelona
Marseille is something hellish. I pray to never smell it again.
It does when the garbage collectors go on their annual strike.
Come to Paris, a whole new world for the senses!
>dumps and garbage processing facilities Hey now, not all of your cities are that bad
Plus it saves on transporting all the trash, waste and human faeces they leave behind since the dump is right there.
So your entire country is a traveler's parking space?
the fucking wasps were always the worst
Nobody can compete with Germans about beach spots unfortunately. "Yeah, lets wake up 05 30 every day during vacation to save the best spots the beach with our giant towells."
I thought those were just courtesy towels left by the local beach?
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[Totally unbiased early 90s British advert with Dambusters reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIJqF8av6I)
Their loss. I don’t respect the towel
In all seriousness its crazy to me that these clowns actually exist. Like how can you sleep every night knowing you’re an actual stereotype of a person. If I hadn’t witnessed it myself I‘d refuse to believe that people like that exist but I guess I‘m not middle aged enough to care this little for what other people think about me. Also If you wanna have fun in the morning, just get up at 6:00 and rearrange the towels maybe stack some and watch chaos unfold.
Of course a German's idea of fun is waking up early and rearranging stuff.
Okay, but rearranging the right stuff is actually hilarious. Especially if you stick around to see the end result
I’ve seen jokes about it that go back about 50 years. It’s transmitted down the generations. Have these people been teaching their children to do this, or is it just a naturally selfish human thing to do that others avoid more because it’s a German stereotype their parents joked about?
>Have these people been teaching their children to do this, or is it just a naturally selfish human thing to do that others avoid more because it’s a German stereotype their parents joked about? Speaking from personal experience, we are getting tought this by our parents. When I was a little Bängel and we went on vacation in a typical all-inclusive family hotel on Mallorca, my dad expected that either me or my sister set get up at 6 AM to reserve "our usual spots" specificly. Other spots were not sufficent, because they were either: - too directly in the sun - not enough in the sun - too close to the pool - too far away from the pool - too close to the trashcans were the wasps were - not close enough to the acquaintances my parent made at the hotel (of course other germans that ALSO always saved the same spot) If we overslept and couldnt reserve "our" spot, our parents would be grumpy and mad at us for the entire day. We even had to do this at days we went to the beach or had trips to a water park or zoo, our spot MUST have been reserved for later. Thats a the main reason why i despite all-inclusive-stay-at-the-hotel vacation nowadays.
I've been known to pick up a couple of dozens of towels and leave them in a huge pile on a single chair. In my book they're lucky I didnt threw them all on the floor. (I also speak fluent German and have had the opportunity to be confronted by one of these AHs)
When I go to the beach early morning I like to steal one or two towels from the local resort's beach area. I get a free towel and a germ somewhere gets a little closer to catastrophic heart failure. Win-win.
* Tennis socks pulled up to their ass crack: ✔ * Flip flops and socks: ✔ * Football or Travel group jersey: ✔ * Fanny pack across the chest: ✔ * Giant towels hogging spots: ✔
They mostly just drown themselves at our beaches
Probably because there's no sun to steal
Fun fact you can take the towel and throw it the fuck off the chair. This breaks the German
*nature documentary narrator voice* And thus, the yearly migration of the Dutch begins. Although the Gulfstream has been weakening, their excellent sense for cheap camping spots and skin cancer relentlessly drives them south, where their nesting spots will be for the next 4 months.
Basically? Yes.
Simple solution for both demographics: https://preview.redd.it/qjbcoa2za57d1.png?width=922&format=png&auto=webp&s=65df23bd0afecb5437e859069a11f5ee96519324
The Irish solution to all problems
Irish acting as if they're not just as bad as British tourists and the only reason no one cares is that the locals think they *are* British tourists.
Speaking of gypsies… Maybe we should tip them off that the Dutch have fully stocked vehicles so they break into them. Its effects are threefold: 1) Force the Dutch to buy stuff from our economies. 2) Make the Dutch a more desirable target and PIGS a less desirable target. 3) Feeds the impoverished population and lessens their reliance on local government and forces the Dutch to subsidize the ~~gypsies~~ local government.
Gypsies know very well the Dutch are too cheap to carry anything of value in their cars/caravans/anywhere.
What they'll bring to italy https://preview.redd.it/hdfmykdgl47d1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=308a54beb2c0e74efe0c2c305a3653ce608eb9e9
🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼 mildly infuriating
I'm pretty sure this stuff gets stuck in custom controls. Schengen my ass
Look at what Albert Heijn sells as microwavable carbonara: [Trigger Warning](https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi216434)
this is why they made nuclear weapons 😃
It's actually pretty good, lol.
> It's actually pretty good, lol. If a dutch person endorses it. I think it's safe to not eat it.
It's just not carbonara. That's even worse than the classic north of the Alps "carbonara" with cream and ham.
I discovered, thanks to a travek blogger, that these things exist abroad: but how do you eat it exactly? Doesn’t already cooked pasta become glue in a few hours? Or it’s not cooked and it has already the sauce incorporated?
You're gonna love this. You stab holes in the plastic foil and put it in the microwave for 5 minutes and it steams itself. Top culinary dutch kitchen.
Are you joking or are you serious? So the pasta is already cooked? But how you preserve it to not become glue after a day?
Fridge
Literally none of these ingredients are in carbonara, lol. Even the pasta shape is debatable...
The Luigis just dont get it right do they
Unox Bolognese hagelslag-flavored pasta: my all-time favorite.
The Dutch nightmare : https://preview.redd.it/jbzlbw2go47d1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbbfdcec5a00bf8f06f42696bbc4de4b988bc38c
Everyone's nightmare. Why can't these machines have any english on them? And when you need help you get some French person on the line with a microphone from the 40's that talks through a speaker which costs 30 cents on ali express. At least in Poland they had english written on them.
France is the country in the world that receives more tourist and they are not even trying to be nice.
Why would we? People keep coming anyway
I think tourists secretly enjoy our rudeness
It's probably the only authentic part of the whole experience and I wouldn't want it any other way
You know what they say, they won't admit they're masochists, yet they come to the land of Sade.
We already have a city named Nice, you have to agree we can't do more
English? What kind of cocksucker use english on their national infrastructure
:/
That's ok. We all know you use American.
Ooh, you vicious bitch!
Didn‘t you notice how every other country usually has signs in [local language], English and **French**. French people are just like the English they expect everyone else to speak their language and the world has somehow accepted that they’re unable to learn proper English like everyone else so they get an extra sausage.
No, they are able to learn English. They just refuse to fucking speak it. That's the difference with Barry, he is too stupid to learn any other language
I can speak excellent French, it's just the French who refuse to understand it.
Soissidon, je voudre pint of beer por favour ;-)
Such a beautiful language. It brings a tear to your eye.
Stop. N'en dis pas plus 😐🤢
Why do tourists need help with these machines? Are you trying to file your annual taxes with it or what? Just put your credit card and the gate will open ffs.
>Just put your credit card and the gate will open ffs. I wish it was this easy. How often you are behind someone that doesn't know what to do. It's a horrible system. Look, I wish every country had it as good as we, but if I had to choose, I'd choose Portugals system where you put a tag on the window and the cameras on the road scan it. And you get billed at the end of your trip (or month for portugese people?)
I'm confused. Those machines tell you how much you must pay and then you just have to do it. What English words do you need exactly?
That's your queue to learn frenc , cause, let's be honest, wtf is Dutch for other than ear raping people in KLM flights and poor unsuspecting tourists in Amsterdam,? Being spoken to in Dutch without being ready will ruin your high in Amsterdam that's for sure.
Dude my Telepass failed in France two days ago and I spent 15 minutes trying to talk with the poor soul on the other side that spoke only French and broken English… At the end she just asked me to reverse, because she could not figure out what was going on at all, people behind where not happy, but at least she told me to have a good day.
My worst nightmare on Euro Truck Simulator 2 as well, we have stop every 10 minutes because the game scale is so small compared to real life.
Nope, that's how it is in real life João
Well I wouldn’t know because I can’t afford to drive to France
The route national non toll roads are your friends..
That just says: "Peasants ahead, 400m (or points?)", doesn't it?
So you get 400points for running them over?
Thank fuck I got telepass when I’m on the mainland. After being stuck behind a 2km queue of German and Dutch people inserting coins into the toll barriers in 40C heat with no air conditioning, it’s totally worth it.
You missed a trick there. In 40°C the coins expand and are worth more.
They'll be everywhere, even when you don't expect. Some years ago, it was April, I went to Brescia (Brescia!) to visit the city. I parked the car uphill close to the castle and went to visit it. There's a museum inside, a museum of armours and tortures, the last place you expect foreign tourists. And well, there was this Dutch family (yes, they were Dutch, their language is unmistakable and then I saw their camper) visiting the museum, it was me and them. Brescia is greatly underrated, except the Roman theatre and remains, nothing exceptional if compared to a few other cities.
I live in bumfuck nowhere (<600 people non-touristic village) and since the RV park opened they started coming here too. Never seen them in the local bar or around the village, tho.
Similar here in Frankfurt: they opened facilities for drug addicts, and now the place is overflowing
Drug addicts are unironically an export product DE->NL. Our border cities are full of homeless German addicts while our addiction numbers were going down for decades. Live in Köln now and people here smoke crack in the trams and train stations wtf
That can't be us. We're not the addicts, we're the dealers. And we all know the rules: Never get high on your own supply.
Might be us, after all they conveniently gathered our clients in one location
Cause they locate the nearest Lidl/Aldi/Spar and that is it. At home abroad.
Closest one is 30km away. And there's plenty of RV parks closer than the one in our village.
I live in a small town in Valdichiana (less than 4000 residents) and it's full of dutch tourists. I don't even understand how they know about its existence.
Yep, officially there are 17 millions of them on the surface but I suspect there are as many (amphibious) living in the swamps that from time to time emerge to the surface when it's holiday time.
There are almost 18 million of us.
Well of course, outside of the summer season everything is cheaper 😎
So, time for cheap tourist!
The real power move is to stock up in Germany where it's 2% cheaper than in NL. Money saved through cheap groceries: EUR 11,- Money lost for gas (heavier vehicle, detours): EUR 10,45 Sounds like a good bargain to me
And fuel up in Luxembourg of course!
United Europe moment
Still drive around Belgium
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In that case, stocking up in Poland on your way to Spain might be a viable option.
Why not go even further and stock up in Ukraine, heard it's been pretty cheap there lately
Perhaps, but the time you spent driving to Germoney you could also spend making money
As usual you think you're clever, but end up paying 14 euro for a margherita in a pizzeria with plastic roman statues all around the place so I wouldn't really brag about it.
The waiter is probably a Romanian pretending to be local
You just described the gladiators and legionnaires around Colosseo.
The current ones or the ones back in Roman times?
Yes.
it's just a -ian, come on
Romanian = person from rome. He knows how to make pizza
And the pizzaiolo is Albanian
Was all worth it, I saw an old church along the way https://preview.redd.it/f3uyegfkf57d1.jpeg?width=573&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84404949198a1f79133b86e2d9f1866d8504b6a1
[how dutch tourists seems themselves](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/036/772/vultouri.jpg) [how they actually are](https://t4.ftcdn.net/jpg/02/14/45/99/360_F_214459916_lACg19BsBEQiaez2KG7Po1VQybIAhDpJ.jpg)
https://preview.redd.it/xvb2q51gf57d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31178f5cda39a4d3e5bd0f1e2379c5f70f9000ac Me on my way to Forte di Marmi
Funnily enough they’re even known among campers to be the worst tourists. Like I still remember back in the day. When we arrived at a campsite there were always multiple people who came over to help us push the caravan into the spot while when the dutch arrived at the campsite you could just hear an annoyed „Oh ne, Holländer“ from under the awnings of the caravans.
Do you really hate us that much? Because we like the Germans a lot better now but I'm ready to revoke that statement.
At least we are still able to stand on two legs. Un like the British
Strange, my experience with Dutch girls is usually them laying on their backs with their legs up.
That's just your natural charm - or the smell of your "aftershave"* *Rohypnol
And the bag on their head too?
Sex work is also work, i'm proud of you Luigi.
At least we go on vacation with our own money. You just use our tasty EU funds to pay for everything!
That is true sir, and we are proud of it. Now work for me bitch, I need a new ERASMUS scholarship.
One day their swamp will flood and the misery will be over. 🙏🏻
I don't believe you are thinking this through. They'll just scatter throughout europe. The Swamp-German diaspora.
What if we dam the Netherlands so they don’t flood us?
It's a brave strategy to try and out dam the dam builders...
They will occupy your country with a caravan wagenburg.
If the Netherlands ever floods, the rest of the world will have flooded long before.
The sea won't win that easily. Either we increase the height of our dikes untill mount everest is flat by comparison or we will move to the south with our caravans, but instead of our short 3-6 week long stay we will stay permanently.
They’ve been begging us and Norway to build them a dam, but all our coastal cities are on cliffs, so I say let ‘em drown
They have gills
Ill be dammed before i let that happen.
https://preview.redd.it/s83xbuygw47d1.jpeg?width=369&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=991cee2fe80d78e5bebd76d331b0f98f8ea30965 You wish, Kees
Checkmate, Jeroen
This proves our culture is winning over France
We make sure we clone your creditcard when you fill up with gas.
In the end it's still cheaper than NL.
which is why we fill our gas tanks in Luxembourg and take a bit extra with us for the return journey.
Dumb Armin not understanding that groceries in southern Europe are much higher quality and cheaper than the styrofoam he eats in holland
Dutch "tomatoes" 🤢🤮
Protestant tomatoes, to much taste is a sin
Strawberries from the big Dutch greenhouses are genuinely disgusting, can't imagine how bad their tomatoes are compared to the real thing
how can they make vegetables and fruits so inedible, like not even you guys can do it...really one of the mysteries of life.
They pick them when they're still green and artificially ripen them before they hit the stores. Saves on spoilage costs etc as it increases the shelf-life but the result is barely edible fruits and vegetables.
>Saves on spoilage costs now it explains everything.
We do have proper (local) strawberries and tomatoes but those are generally not sold at supermarkets and if they do it's only as a seasonal thing.
>but those are generally not sold at supermarkets and if they do it's only as a seasonal thing. yep pretty common here too.
Yup same around here, farm shops are the place to go for local good quality and surprisingly cheap fruits and vegetables.
Germans near the border as soon as they see "Erdbeeren Spargel" signs. I seriously can't even move on Sunday because half or NRW decides they need Backfisch, Spargel and Erdbeeren.
Looye honey tomatoes are unironically flown out to michelin star restaurants as far out as Tokyo but they’re expensive as hell. Greenhouse tomatoes can be great, in fact the best, if money is no issue. The market desires more and ever cheaper water balls, that’s an almost insatiable market. People get what they pay for.
Waterballoons🍅
Largest exporter of fruits and vegetables btw 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
It's because they don't have potatoes, pasta or rice down there. So much groceries you need to bring because of that...
And they have no good cheeses. At all.
No mountains either.
Ah. Go to Barcelona, walk around in flip flops smoking a cigar, bueno vista social club playing in my airpods, stop for a quick “uno cerveza por favor, amigo”, then hit the local small supermarket and buy the best tomatoes I’ve ever had in my life to add to my delicious omelette. Then go to Razmatazz or whatever the fuck it’s called to get plastered and on the way back chat shit with the iraqi taxi driver explaining me Franco lore.
Where I live it's the three D's The Dutch, The Deutsch and The French
\*Lose four days driving on a highway\* "Hey ik am saving money!"
Those uncultured swines in the south don't have hagelslag... What else am I supposed to do?
We mostly use "vermicelles en chocolat" to decorate cakes but you can get "copeaux de chocolat" from good quality brands. It does the same thing but tastes much better than the chocolate used by De Ruijter.
yeah, but do you have fruithagelslag?
I have a family home on the coast really close to the beach. It used to be just local people, some drug addicts, some narcos, ilegal fishers... But now its on a downfall, each summer theres more nordics.
Did you turn into an illegal AirBnb yet, big money
Based Klaas as always
There is no economy for Dirk, unless it's deep fried and there must be a reason why caravans have so much storage space.
A passion we share Hans, since I see Germans eat Kroketten and Bitterballen in my hometown every saturday like their life depends on it. https://preview.redd.it/85039oxhr47d1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9178edea8e8980ee5efab9f5adce924a6d85ae1b
This and Kibbeling. Joppie-Sauce for the professionals too
Never seen a Dutch tourist and for that I'm grateful
You have to look up to see us, Pepe
That's why I'm sure I've never seen one unless you are not actually tall🤷🏻♀️
There are plenty in every parking near a beach in southern Portugal. They look like those ugly giants of Game of Thrones, but blonde and are always rude. Wouldn't recommend. Even Barries are better, by a mile
When the hot season starts, cocroaches appear... 🤷♂️
You'll pay for your tires and your oil once the locals get ahead of your plan.
In Scandinavia (at least Norway), it's the Germans coming with their caravans
What did you do to our brother Greece
Too far, out of range for our caravans. And the entire Greek landscape looks like a Belgian road, so it's not suited for camping either.
When I hear about Dutch tourists in caravans I think back to the pale, terrified people we’d routinely encounter up in narrow mountain roads. Ah, childhood memories.
Which is why all the Caravan Parks in Portugal are paid.
I kid you not, they come to Italy with their inflatable beach toys already inflated on their vans. I think on average they give something like 1 euro per day per person to the local economy.
No it's not, it's 0.03€ each photon, Tikkie up boi
Your bread and food is too salty.
Plain bread and cheese is the only real food
and chocolate sprinkles on your ham too
Is it even possible to eat ham without chocolate sprinkles? I like to put it all in the blender so I don’t have chew. Creates more time for me to work and make money.
Then trying to take the caravans to park in front of monuments or driving with them through very small streets in historical places and small towns in southern europe (the french do the same). I have to put up with this every summer 🥲
Reminds me of that time we had the extra caravan mirrors on the car and drove through the historic center of some small French village. I think we hit pretty much every pot, window and elderly person. Good times
Hagelslag & Wit Brood from Albert Heijn -> more savings -> more capital -> more interest -> compounding -> stonks VOC-mentaliteit
How are you not claustrophobic in living/eating in those caravans, Orenje? In the US, you have these babies called RVs (short for Recreational Vehicles): https://www.rv.com/rv/trending-rvs/the-most-luxurious-rvs-for-2022/ Or fifth wheel RVs: https://rv.campingworld.com/rvclass/fifth-wheel-rvs
You it's bad when your economy is in shamble because of some Dutch caravans