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This is not a recent clip of Groningen. I found the promotion of shops and restaurants irritating, there are way more interesting places to eat and shop. But it is definitely a great city to visit and explore! I love living here! It's like a small version of Amsterdam.

Groningen, my Alma Mater. Happy memories. 😊 Groningen is also called “the Amsterdam of the North”. In my time, a third of the people living in the city center was a student, so you always met friends just by stepping outside. The university, which is 407 years old this year, has always played an important role in the city. And the city has no limits on opening hours of bars, so you can literally party around the clock. Not to mention grabbing a fried fish at 6.00 AM at the market for breakfast before going to bed. 😋😁

I missed the 'Vera' in this. Best place for your underground bands and music 🤘

Groningen, my city! They didn't even mention that Groningen is the only city in the Netherlands where the bars and clubs have no official closing time, so you can party through the entire night and into the morning.

I missed that Groningen has abt 6000 international students from 120 different countries, and the inner circle of the city is completely bike friendly (no cars) 🌷🌷

As someone who's lived in Groningen for over half a decade now, I felt like this video was mostly just promotalk. What's most special about the city is the fact that a quarter of its residents are students. In that sense, it might very well be the most energetic city of the country. There are a lot of student organisations, too. Think of a sport or hobby and there will be a group of students organizing events around that, usually followed by some beers in the pub. The nightlife is absolutely fantastic, since there's one area with some good no-nonsense venues. Lots of alcohol, very little problems with drunk people, too, somehow. I could go on for hours describing the city, but I think this line from the Groningen anthem summarizes it best: High up north lies a city, that has always had the atmosphere of a village

One of the most fun cities of the Netherlands. The student life is really vibrant over there.

Love the clean look man! Such a treat to see you reacting to a video about my city! Although this video doesn't do it justice really. Would've loved to see more of the student culture, the beautiful parks all around the city, the sick dance and rave events (we were voted #1 event city in NL in 2019) and our infamous traffic lights where they go green for the cyclists from all directions

My home town!!! Born and raised! They didn't even mention the multi cultural festival they have in August each year called Noorderzon, or Northern Sun. It's a 12 day multi cultural festival with food, music theatre, everything! Highly if you ever visit Groningen come to town when this festival is on, its amazing! 😊

Funny, as a student I worked in De Pauw. I ran into the owner every now and then at that cheese shop, and used give him unsollicited advice on the cheese boards he was ordering there. The cheese shop owner and I tend to agree on cheese, as just a former dishwasher that feels a bit like revenge. I don't believe it's a particular good video btw, low budget commercial city promotion with the shops and restaurants paying for their part. It doesn't show what makes Groningen special, except for that cheese shop. It's true that it's very laid back, but that goes for the fashion to, no pressure. It's the most informal and least fashionable big city in the Netherlands probably. What makes it special is that's only proper city in the middle of a great nowhere, including a slab of Germany. So it's a magnet for everybody seeking liveliness, a buzz, it's not just students, but traditionally also other young people. The centre is extremely compact because of the ring canal around it, so that makes it very lively, and it's the most cycling city of the Netherlands (and therefore the world). It's the only city with no closing hours, but that's only one reason why the night life is legendary. There's lots of music venues and it houses an annual music festvial for European bands that still have to break through (Eurosonic/Noorderslag), with 40-50.000 visitors from outside. I've seen music journalists describe it as an otherwise sleepy town being stormed with music lovers, but it's only slightly more busy, the regular night life just absorbs it. There are stages everywhere, in small pubs and cellars and student associations or whatever. But normally, yes you can go out every day of the week and there will be concerts in more than one venue to choose from. The mentioned Oosterpoort is nice but there's also undergroud music venues. Especially Vera has a reputation for discovering bands early. U2, Nirvana, Weezer, Bauhaus, Soungarden, Joy Division, Slayer, Beck, Nick Cave, Simple Minds, the Cure, they've all played there. I'm not up to date with the latest additions. Oosterpoort I've also been a lot but more for people like George Clinton, David Byrne, G-Love and Special Sauce.

I missed all about the nature of the province of Groningen. This is just about the city.

That's the Vismarkt or Fishmarket and thus it is sprayed and sweeped because of the fish smell. Although you can find anything there vegetables, meat, poultry, herbs, cheese and so on.

Er gaat niets boven Groningen 💚💚💚 City of Talent 😎

Groningen only city in Netherlands that doesnt have a closing times for pub and clubs, there's always something open to drink a beer.

Beautiful city indeed, my grandparents used to live there so 5 times a year we went there for holliday and we married in the townhall in Groningen.

The coolest thing i feel like is worth a quick look in the northern Netherlands are the 'hunnebedden' in Drenthe. These are 5000 year old burial sites. Often overlooked. You can have a walk and visit a bunch of them on a day.

Groningen is such an amazing city!

There is a magnificent new building in Groningen called the Forum, which is not included in this film. AND, it's not exposition but exhibition.

Love the video!! I'm born and bred in Groningen and it was so cool to see a Groningen video in your Netherlands journey ahahaha. You are always welcome to visit:) Keep up the good work!! - Stef

You should look up Bourtange, sadly not in the video becouse it's a bit more to the south. It's a really old star fort with loads of defensive works that was converted into a town.

Love your videos. Currently I’m quite absorbed by reaction videos about Netherlands but you are one of my favorites, the reason being your open minded and quite iften start with ‘let’s learn something”. I really appreciate that mindset since a lot of Americans aren’t wired that way sadly.

@19:22 it’s the atmosphere we ourselves call ‘gezellig’. There’s no literal translation in English, but part of it it’s this convivial, cozy and human scale feel you’re describing.

Groningen is unique in the World. 25% of the city's population is younger than 25 years of age, due to many many students. After Amsterdam, the city of Groningen has the highest budget, per person, for cultural events. Public bars and nightclubs do not have a obliged closing time set. So 24 hrs a day, there's always something open for drinks and food. Just at the southwest of Groningen, the area of North-Drenthe starts. That area has been designated by a survey of Rabobank and the University of Utrecht, as the area with the highest quality of life, in comparison to all other parts of the Netherlands. So as the Netherlands ranks high in the international lists of best places to live and work; on a global scale, Groningen is for sure among the best areas to live in. Groningen has a dense city structure and almost every major event, cultural places, bars, shops and nighclubs are packed within half of a square mile. Groningen is a charming gem!

Most energetic has a double meaning: it is a lively city and province, but it also lays on the biggest natural gas field in Europe. The little cleaning cars have steel brushes under it and a vacuum cleaner, when the street is dry it sprays water to prevent dust clouds that would highly irritate people shopping.

YESSSSS!!! I moved from Brabant to the Groningen 9 years ago. It started just to study, but now I work here and I do not wanna leave!!!

You commented on why Dutch eating places etc. are so cosy, well because they are not huge francises, but owned by small busness people whom can create their own atmosphere and style and quality and prices of food. I love it too.

I'm just back from fishing in the city canals of Groningen. I live 25min away from Groningen. Love your videos bro!

Groningen is more beautiful than they show in this commercial video. They haven't shown enough of the good atmosphere and the architecture. Besides, Groningen is a young city: More than 50 thousand students from all over the world live in Groningen.

We have a word for it. It doesn’t really translate, but it’s what you mean with cosy. It’s gezellig 😊

Groningen. I've lived there for years. The sprayer you saw, was spraying the location of the "fishmarket". No joke. so yeah, that NEEDS spraying after a day of selling fresh fish there! Ps: NO you won't get fat from the cheese, because you'll be biking everywhere! hahahaha :-)))) And the cozy word you were looking for is "gezellig". ;-)

We have a saying: "er gaat niets boven Groningen, which means "nothing tops Groningen". I have worked for years in de Akerk as a technician, I regard it as "my church", I'm retired now, bus give sometimes guided tours in it, and help out when needed.

Er gaat niks boven Groningen🤟🏼 🇳🇱 love, Groningen 😎.

Finally you react to my city! Its nice you ask to see videos other than amsterdam. So many cities are just a beautiful, just as old. just as entertaining. And I see you get more and more enthusiastic to come here. I don't understand though why they show such high-class restaurants. I personally never heard or noticed "De pauw" restaurant" or the Bistro. There are so many restaurants in Groningen and all unique in ambiance and interior. ( I think they showed only half of whats good about the city haha. But I am biased :D And yes in the Oosterpoort almost every night there is some kind of concert, big or small artists. For example 3th of october 2021 Danny vera and 4th of october Ilse de Lange. and that the whole year. Fun Fact, Groningen does not have official closing hours for bars and cafe's ;)

Wowwwww man. My hometown. Born here, raised here, living here. I'll never leave it. ♥♥♥

My hometown ....for life. You should really come to visit. "Farmer till i die " 😁👍

Nothing goes above Groningen :) There are two Groningens, and quite different, I say: Groningen-stad en Ommeland. Both are there to admire and good for a visit.

I was in the groningwr museum after David Bowie died... they had Bowie Is ... very unique

Yep you’ll see a lot of street sweepers ( bezem wagen in Dutch) in the Netherlands……every town or city has them……the keep our streets clean we also have gardeners who keep al the plants and trees in good condition 🪴🌳

'The most energetic' is most likely a pun on that Groningen is the capital of the Groningen province which sits on a very large gas bubble that has provided the Netherlands with a lot of energy. The gas field is no longer exploited because of it causing small earthquakes and damaged houses. I don't feel that would have stopped the government or the gas company in the states, but it did here.

5:43 the tower is also deeply and highly respected... No biulding is to reach above Old Grey's hight.. She's been the tallest point for centuries in, and around Groningen.

Time to move to the Netherlands and become an Expat !!!

people used to navigate village to village and city to city on the church towers. another advantage of being flat.

Yeahhh my hometown Groningen!!!!♥

Love this city 😍. Living here for more than 18 years. Never going leave this city

nice video and reaction, only problem for me that its way too short, lol ..... for me there are very special reasons Groningen will always be my city of the blues, groetjes from a nijmeegse cheesehead, now living in Bad Zwischenahn Germany

so we have now seen friesland and groningen, what comes next? Drenthe? want to see them all

2:32 (Martinitoren) my heart is sinking to my stomach seeing footage of it... What are the odds of me witnessing not 1, but 2 (!) suicides by jumping of the tower..(once when I was a little girl shopping with my aunt who lived there..& once when I was a student sitting in a bus that stopped at the bus stop, right next to the tower..)😖😫😭 I ❤ Groningen..the city, but also the province..I'm born & raised here! I tried once to climb all the stairs too..what didn't help is my fear of heights..but even worse were the flashbacks that made me hyperventilate... I have to disappointedly admit that, me being a real 'Grunneger', never have been on the 'Martitoren'🥺

I like the city of Groningen, been there twice. I heard there that it is also a student place just like Leiden and Maastricht. I know a place where you would definitely have to go.. Den Helder.. that is where the marines are! Specially The Tuna (undergroundship). That cheese shop is really cool.. also different colors and tastes! Even purple, dont know what the taste was.

I feel like this was made with a lot of attention on the businesses. Too bad. The city is so much more!! And this was obviously before Corona. Now we have a great building called The Forum. But also there's a lot of great architecture, cultural events ( Noorderzon), theater, music, etc. A little on-sided, this video. But like I said, it felt like one big commercial for businesses.... Did you know Groningen is THE bike-city in the world?? LJ

Thanks for sharing 👍

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The Martinitoren is also knows as "D' Olle Grieze" or The Old Grey Tower in English

In Groningen you can go out till the Early hours, we have a lot of festivals and concerts, mooiste stad van nederland

Groningen is the best city in the Netherlands

Yheaah my hometown! Goeiedag eem!!

I think you have to stay in the Netherlands for a long time to see everything

The Stripmuseum no longer exists. It closed 2 years ago. It has been replaced by Story World, which is the most boring exposition ever.

Hey hey. It's not only jenever. But we also got berenburger. It's our proud. There is no Groningen without berenburger. Ooh and iff you come to Groningen.... Please try it. And iff you are there. Don't be afraid that the earth is shaking😉 and the casino whas burnt down a view years ago.

Fun fact: Airport Eelde is not in Groningen, but in Drenthe. Another provence south of Groningen.

Must be lucky to be living in the lush green surroundings of Groningen :D

hey. yes groningers are quite energetic citizens!.I am also from the Netherlands Groningen. (Muntendam) and here the motto is don't whine but keep going even if it takes a while!... or saying in the netherland Gronings (Naait zoezen moar deur goan! or naait kop loaten hangen veuroet kieken!) i hope to see you here in the future for a holiday :D greetings Me :D i Like your Video's!!!!

at 13:13 the guy playing guitar is an aquitance of mine, Winston, i always met him at a rock-cafe 10-20 year ago, great guy. he s more into the reagae side of music and loved to jamm at another cafe "the Zolder (the attic) who had people bring their own instruments and perform live music for the other people. (its been a while since i been there though) sadlt the Casino got burned down a few years ago some internal fire, now they are at a far more remote location and something new should be build to replace it.

Greetings from Groningen, my city !!!

Meet en Greet ... that would be SUPER COOL 👍👍🍀🍀

19:15 I think the (dutch) word you were looking for was "gezellig". This word doesn't properly translate to English but it seemed you needed this word ;)

I love living here 🙏🏼

the casino is burned to the ground, they plan or rebuilding it but it will most likely take years.

U need te wear the suit on our cart tracks

I did thake these steps up to the tower of the old grey and there was a lot of them, great vieuw it was. One guy went up all the way and was scared to walk on the platform so he was holding the entrance he just freezed

Groningen is great but there are many more city's how are great 2.. The hole of the Netherlands is superb and are really the time worth to visite and to see. Haha. Groningen is really knownd of there liquor Hooghout ut gruningen. 😄🙈👍

Awww i have to go look for one about brabant and the citys

Groningen booiii, lekker bezig!

I disagree that Groningen is the most energetic cities of The Netherlands, and I have lived here all my life. Its a beautiful city but most energetic I wouldn't say that. Ps: HxC we don't have crocs or alligators in our country ( in the wild )😉, we do have wolves again after I dunno how many years, but our lakes are safe from crocs and alligators, and that casino burned down years ago, they did relocate somewhere else in the city but dunno if it still looks as good as it did tho.

??? Not once is it mentioned that Groningen is the bycicle capital of the world!!! This is one big commercial. Some shop and restaurant keepers have paid good money to be included in this video.

I live in the City of Groningen 😍😎😁

React to travel guide Maastricht. Another place in the netherlands

33:06 yes.. and there is a more underground one aswell.. Vera.. I stumbled in there early 1990's and there was a noisy band playing, singer with a voice like a sawmill in his throat.. turned out that singer and his band ha a worldwide album classic with a baby swimming on it... yes Nirvana, just before they became famous, they where doing club tours to learn the knacks of touring... 5 guilders, approx 2 dollar to have seen Nirvana live :D... but earlier, Simple Minds, U2, Ramones, Blondie, The Clash, Siouxy and the Banshees

They have the best chocolate bar in decoration and products i ever experienced

Hering is my absolute number one in food...

in Groningen there is 27/7 publife.. there is another tower.. St'Johns Tower.. in Groningens known as the "drunkards tower" it has 6 sides.. so.. wherever you walk you always see two sides of the tower... each side has a clock..... not one runs alike the other hahahahahha !!

GRINS!

You should visit Noord-Brabant and it's capital city 's-Hertogenbosch! Or one of the other towns, or the beautiful nature we have

Nice video, As a Dutch i am never been in Groningen :--) ( you have to make a adjustment for the greenscreen.. its troubled up)

Energetic, slightly a misnomer but below their feet there is a fairly large pocket of gas. Maybe that might be the why that adjective is used. Sadly that bubble is slowly pumped dry, causing buildings to sink, getting demolished in the process.

Mate, you should look up Eindhoven. It's a Dutch city which is like the technical capital of the world.

Nice video about Groningen. But al we get to see is quite expensive. Like the restaurants with nouveau cuisine, paying more as 30 euro's for nothing to get satisfied on your plate, yes nice to taste and nice to see. Like the shops, all glamour. You'll get the same in Amsterdam, Arnhem, Nijmegen etc.e ven in my little hometown. We have a Dutch frase for this:"Kouwe kak".

Sadly it's just a commercial film. The town has a rich history and many lovely sight seeing spots which are not in this video. If you ever will visit Groningen, many of the restaurants, shops and museums shown do no longer exist.

I live in the province of groningen and born in the city.

You must check city Nijmegen oldest city of the Netherlands

Hi. It’s a bit of a pity they don’t tell anything about the university in Groningen, which is an important reason for young people to move to the city and thus contribute to the culture. 35.000 students, 6.000 staff, at a population of no more than 203.000 people. But that’s only the ‘Rijksuniversiteit Groningen’. There are other institutions for higher education that add thousands more of students and staff. Okay, they do talk about ‘many students’, briefly.

Marks english is pretty good for a dutch men

Rightly or not, Groningen has the name of being a haven of history, activity and culture in the middle of nowhere in the Netherlands. I don't think it is the most energetic city in the Netherlands. That honour has to go to Amsterdam and Rotterdam. But maybe Groningen is third together with Maastricht. Oddly enough the most northern city and the most southern city.

My home town❤

Most energetic is propaganda of course. ETA: A lot of this is propaganda. But! So my sister in law is from a town between San Antonio and Austin and I lived there for most of 3 months (3 months is usually the amount of time you can stay anywhere) in my siter in law's house. Austin calls itself the live music capital of the world and close to where I lived was Grüne where they have live concerts all the time too. There was even a bicycle path from New Braunfels there. So my SIL and her friends argue that there's no live music culture here.

My born city.

My hometown

The best city in The Netherlands, and i’m not even from Groningen

2:53 Landmark indeed.. The City of Groningen does NOT allow any building within the city cntre to be taller then this 550 year old tower.. "The Old Grey" ... Gronimgen is different.. let Amsterdam do skyscrapers.. fine... We in groningen you can hear bird chirp... you can actually talk withoutr raising your voice over motorised traffic.. it is the quietest city in the World being a 200.000 city

(Real and good) Cheese won't make you fat. We eat cheese every day. Check out the video. How many fat people do you see?