Our Day in Mechelen Was NOT What We Expected 🇧🇪

In this episode, Michelle and Alex do a DIY tour of Mechelen (Belgium), with a local twist on Vol-au-Vent, a climb of the famous St. Rumbold's Tower, and of course, local beer and chocolates. Get exclusive bonus vlogs on our Patreon! ❤️ https://patreon.com/buncharted/ Watch our video trying (almost) everything from a Belgian bakery: https://youtu.be/XPUJu3oSB6g 📸 Follow us on Instagram! https://instagram.com/buncharted/ 🛫 Want to move to the Netherlands? Check out our guide! https://move.buncharted.com ⚙️ Our filming gear (these are affiliate links and support our channel): • Our main vlog camera body https://buncharted.bcns.ai/fujifilm-xh2 • Our main vlog camera lens https://buncharted.bcns.ai/fujifilm-16-55mm-lens • Our discreet vlog camera https://buncharted.bcns.ai/osmo-pocket-3 • Alex's backpack https://buncharted.bcns.ai/peak-design-backpack • Michelle's backpack https://buncharted.bcns.ai/fjallraven-backpack 0:00 Introduction 0:28 First, chocolate pralines for later... 0:45 And of course, koffiekoeken 1:49 Opsinjoorke 2:57 Our DIY tour of Mechelen! 4:09 Yeah, we like black cats 5:44 Vol au vent, Mechelen style 7:04 Trying cow cookie chicken, hehe 8:06 Flemish vs. Alex 8:30 The DIY walking tour continues... 9:20 Street art and pralines 9:57 A bread vending machine! 10:36 More street art, more pralines 11:56 What are we missing today? 12:25 Brusselpoort and pralines 14:34 St. Rumbold's Tower 16:50 We made it to the top! 18:00 Our impressions of Mechelen 18:33 Back to The Cacao Project 29:45 Het Anker (historic brewery) 20:58 A Maneblusser and a lemonade 21:55 House-made bitterballen 23:53 Wrap up #belgium #expatlife #mechelen --- WHO IS BUNCHARTED? We're Michelle and Alex, two American expats living abroad in the Netherlands. 🇳🇱 In 2020, we quit our jobs to travel the world, and... well, that didn't happen. So in 2022, we decided to make an even BIGGER change: to pack up our lives (and our cats 🐈) and move to the Netherlands from Austin, Texas (in the United States). Subscribe for new videos like this every week!