GOUDA CHEESE FARM + KINDERDIJK WINDMILLS

The plan for today is to go on a little road trip. We're going to be starting here in Zist, which is where we're staying. First stop is going to be the town of Gouda, because that's where they make Gouda cheese. And why wouldn't you stop there? Next we're going to go to Rotterdam and then finally end the day in Kinderdijk. I think that's how you say it. Which is where the windmills are that we didn't get to see the other day. Are you ready?

We're going to Gouda.

We just made it to Gouda and got parked. Parked in one of the world's scariest parallel parking spots. Instead of like curbing it over here, if you screw up, you just fall straight into the green canal. It just started raining, but the sky's blue. But it's raining, but the sky is blue. The sun's shining here, it's pouring rain here, and the sky is perfectly blue over there. We are getting soaked. Thankfully, this house is leaning, protecting us from the rain. You know where we're going?

Head northwest.

All right. You want to stay here and hide from the rain for a second?

All right.

We are in the town of Gouda and it's just as cute as every other town we've been to in the Netherlands. Except for this one has hanging cheese in the streets.

That's cheese. This is the city hall of Gouda. And we're gonna go check it.

I think that's Dutch for John.

Is this the church?

St. John's Kirk Church.

So you go to the left and start there, because in here you see that story about the life of St. John the Baptist.

Okay.

We are in the longest church in the Netherlands. We weren't really planning on doing a self guided tour, but the lady at the front desk was so passionate and just really talked us into it.

Apparently they used to bury people inside the church. There are skulls inside of the church.

That church was so cool. The stained glass windows were incredible. And most of them are the original 16th century windows.

Definitely one of the coolest churches that we've ever been to. And we had the whole place completely to ourselves.

And the nice lady told us officially how to say Chava.

It's not Gouda. That's like way off.

But she says Gouda when she's anywhere but the Netherlands.

She said so now when you see Gouda cheese in the grocery store, you can know more than everybody else and you can call it how the.

And it's sunny and raining again. Now we are heading outside of town to what we think is a working cheese factory that we're going to be able to tour because we're in Howdah and you have to eat cheese, right?

Yeah.

Try not to fall into the canal while getting in the car.

That is like so dangerous. It's at least 10ft.

It is so beautiful out here.

Beautiful.

Your destination is on the right? Yes.

Is it?

I mean it looks like something.

Doesn't exactly look like a tourist attraction. Yeah.

I feel like we're at somebody's house.

We made it to Junginhove.

We've been driving down these tiny one lane roads with these beautiful green fields with tons of cows and sheep. This is so cool. I don't think anybody's here.

Oh, it's so stinky in here.

Smells like stinky chickens. Cheese.

It smells so bad. This is all happening really quickly. We walked in, a lady named Annika who lives here walked out, told us to watch this 15 minute movie and then she'll take us on a tour.

Now we're watching a movie about cheese.

The movie's over and it was both informative and pretty funny.

And now we are going to find the lady who's going to give us the tour. The lady that lives here slash the lady who makes the cheese.

This is going to be great.

This is.

Where everything happens. Now. This is when the cheeses are pressed. About one hour we turn it and then that's better for the shape.

I cannot believe how cool this is. Our tour guide heard the bell in her shop, so she's going to take care of that for a minute and then she's going to come back. But so far we've seen everything we saw in the movie. In real life they make 13,000 liters. Is that right? Of cheese, a day of milk and three that turns into cheese.

This cheese is a year and a half old. These cheeses are going to Whole foods in the U.S.

And this one is a young cheese. This is about two months.

Possibly, if you like. This one is a little bit more taste.

That is delicious.

The six month one has so much more flavor.

Here's about ten months.

10 months.

The winner get better with age.

This one's olive, tomato and garlic. It smells like pasta.

I love cheese.

This is so crazy.

This was just made right here.

How sweet.

Let's see. Okay.

Thank you. Have a great day. Thank you.

I'm so sad it's over.

We couldn't help ourselves. We bought a little cheese.

Can't smell it through the app.

Actually, you can it's medium aged Gouda.

Halda made by that lady on this farm. This has got to be, for me, at least, the best experience that we've had since we've been in the Netherlands.

Agreed.

I'd much rather do this than walk around Amsterdam. This feels much more authentic. This is like one of the reasons, like, why we travel is for like, little unexpected experiences like this.

And now every time we eat Gouda for the rest of our our lives, I'll say howdah. And I'll think of this day when we got on this tour with this sweet little lady.

This is why we love travel. Because seriously, like, for the rest of our lives, we have this experience to hold onto. And every time we're in the grocery store, every time we see Gouda cheese on the tv, we'll always have this experience to remember and look back on. And I think that's what makes travel so special and why I'm really glad we're doing it while we're young at this point in our life, because now we have these memories for a really long time.

This was like a really deep moment. Who knew Gouda in Holland would bring this emotion out to you, Nate?

My arm's gonna break holding this camera.

Well, I could go home. How about you?

Yeah, I could. So we have two more stops on today's agenda. It's three o' clock in the afternoon. The sun sets at like five. Ever since the time changed, the two places are Kinderdijk and Rotterdam. Kinderdijk has really cool windmills and we really want to go there almost more than we want to go to Rotterdam, which is probably an awesome city, but all the cities here are awesome and we feel like we've seen a lot of city. So we're going to go to the windmills first. Thank you. And if we have time, we'll go to Rotterdam on the way home.

We found them.

Windmills. Well, since we've been here, we've learned that Kinderdike is a whole bunch of windmills, walking paths and water. So now we're just gonna walk around and probably be a big montage. There's probably leaves in my hand.

Go into the jungle. Cue the mont.

Sam.

Oh, okay.

I didn't realize it was a moat. He's wearing wooden shoes. Do you always wear the wooden shoes? Yeah. Really? All the time? Every day. Are they comfortable? Yeah. You have to learn to walk with those. But I started when I was young. Very nice. Yeah.

So cool.

Wow. This currently sunny and raining again. Why does it keep doing this.

This is crazy.

Sunshine, rainbow.

Windmill. This has just been, like, the coolest day overall. It really has rainbows. Cheese. We do something before the cheese.

We went to gouda.

The Netherlands have these outdoor urinals.

And Nate really has to go to the bathroom, so he's gonna try it out. Water just went my eyeball.

Love chews.