Differences we observed visiting Sweden after living in Denmark

[@Danmark35]

I do love my Swedish and Norwegian brothers and sisters, and both countries are just breathtakingly beautiful.... ❤

[@erikeriksson1660]

Love back brother. From Sweden.

[@knuthenriksommer4982]

Love from Norway too brother!

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Öresunds-visan = You are warned in 2022+ kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJjXqZuGZahsfLc ♥

[@monikanordgren5844]

Thank you

[@monikanordgren5844]

Love from Sweden!!

[@gunnarmedin4104]

Limited assortment of beers at Systembolaget? Well, you currently have 4 577 different sorts (and 13 592 sorts of wine and 4 176 of spirits and…) to choose from. Of course, you can’t find most of them in your local store, that assortment varies, but you can get almost all of them delivered to your local Systembolaget store, even in small towns, or “utlämningsställe” free of charge.

[@larsjuul12]

Drinking in a portapotty, basically Roskilde festival. Love that you guys are so danish you've become critical towards the sweedes

[@Finnec123]

😄 The Swedes are different. And the Swedes think we're different. I'll just enjoy what we have in common. In Denmark I think you can drink alcohol anywhere. {?} What counts is your behavior. DUI e.g.

[@Purplefishish]

There are no portapotties at Roskilde Festival. For the last 5 years it has been flush toilets everywhere. Thank goodness lol

[@aHungryTiger]

As a Swede I have lived and worked in both countries and I love them equally; in their own unique ways. :)

[@akyhne]

I know a pretty great travel destination in Sweden. Take the Øresund bridge to Sweden, then drive north around 70 km, to a town called Helsingborg. From there, you can take a ferry to a large island. It has castles and everything.

[@TravelinYoung]

Well played.

[@hellefur6631]

Ven? With Tycho Brahes observatorium, and Uranienborg?

[@akyhne]

@@hellefur6631 No, I believe the island is called Zealand or Sjælland in Danish. Great travel destination in Sweden 😜

[@janhjorth965]

@@akyhne a lot of Swedes certainly travel to Helsingør on a regular basis.

[@hellefur6631]

@@akyhne you do know, that they live there? In Sjælland?

[@filiphammerstrom7788]

The reason it was so much traffic in Stockholm that day was because of a big marathon in the city center. Usually it dosen't take so long to get around in Stockholm.

[@-cj-3729]

The nature obviously. Sweden has vast forests and wilderness, so many lakes and streams, which is totally different from the lanscape of Denmark.

[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

Sweden has landscapes like Denmark too. Like Scania, same thing as Denmark pretty much. It's the 5th biggest country in Europe, so it has pretty much every landscape you can think of. Flip Sweden length wise and you reach Sardinia. Surprisingly few mountains though.

[@thedanishcatgirl3205]

Oh definitely I’m going for the nature in this summer with my parents. Nutebodaskogen and söderåsen nationalpark are our destinations so far. I can’t wait to experience the Swedish forests and wildlife

[@Fistfury42]

Loved this! I love Denmark as well! Our brothers.. 💪🇸🇪

[@JonasAlexanderson]

The nature in Sweden is very, very different from Denmark. You don’t have to go very far, just into Småland. Thousand and thousand of lakes, woods everywhere and big archipelago’s both on the east and the west coast of Sweden. Hiking, camping, boating, mtb, canoeing and kayaking are big in Sweden.

[@ylanstockholm]

I grew up on the west side of Skåne, so I visited København more often than Stockholm, and I watched a lot of Danish telly. I moved to Stockholm 22 years ago and was a bit surprised that people in Stockholm understood Danish so poorly. Regarding water, I really love it when i come home to Stockholm by train and see the water from the bridge. Water is what I love the most about Stockholm.

[@frida507]

Yes, it's a little bit embaressing when we have meetings with Danes and colleagues go "could you speak in English please!" I'm not from Skåne but think I can understand Danish enough, in a context, unless the accent is too wild.

[@doltBmB]

I find that the further north you go the harder swedish gets to understand. If you go to malmö it's fine, mostly comprehensible, but if you go to stockholm it gets hard, and if you go way up north to the ski places and forests it might as well be russian.

[@christianflor1394]

In place off catered lunches, Swedish employers gives everyone 'food-ticket' that can be used as payment for lunch at pretty much any kafé or restaurant. The also have one hour lunches and often coordinate with friends from outside of work to meet up. This system supports a lot of small restaurants and also makes them very competitive. I'm very envious, In Norway most people pack a few slices of bread in paper and eats that. :..(

[@christianflor1394]

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[@olsa76]

As soon as you started talking about the traffic, I guessed what week you were there and what you said about the NATO ships confirmed it. This was not a normal week and Stockholmers were warned not to take the car to town that week. There was a big security meeting (with the UN I think?) and a big climate meeting, in addition there were climate demonstrations, there was a marathon going on and I have probably forgotten something more as well? So it's not a representative image of a regular week.

[@carlkolthoff5402]

From a Nordic perspective, Denmark is the odd one regarding alcohol. Sweden have Systembolaget, Norway have Vinmonopolet and Finland have Alko. All state run monopolies. Not sure about Iceland, but I once heard a rumour that hard liquor was prohibited there until recently. Never fact checked it though. Personally I love Systembolaget. Fair prices, good service, huge selection in the larger stores (anything they don't have at home, you can order to your local store free of charge. Base selection is 2800 products and about 14000 other products is just a click away in their app). I get that it can be a bit annoying if you're not used to the concept of buying in advance and keep a couple of weeks supply of drinks in your home. But having lived here most of my life, I've never really grown a habit of buying alcohol on short notice outside of bars and restaurants.

[@Opi0id-z]

Weird for the Nordics but not the rest of the world 😂 Danes love to drink and will it's kinda part of the culture, i mean some of the most popular beers are from here (Tuborg/Carlsberg) I remember drinking at age 14 at parties with parents observing

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

They actually sells a very fine selection of wine in the shops in Sweden, to avoid people drinking alcohol! But entering most ordinary shops in Norway you will - as a first, find a selection of tastes to add to pure alcohol, and that may be why the Norwegians officially don't drink that much? But they make alcohol at home, it seems.

[@VidarSaeberg]

Iceland has ATVR same as Systembolaget in Sweden

[@carlkolthoff5402]

@@VidarSaeberg thank you for that piece of information! I absolutely loved Iceland when my family went there on holiday in the 90's. But I was just a kid back then, so I didn't care about alcohol yet. Is ATVR super expensive like Vinmonopolet in Norway, or more reasonable like Systembolaget?

[@casperbachjunckerkennild2592]

The Norwegian system, where you can buy beer in the supermarket and local produced alcohol over the limit, is the best compromise, I guess?

[@77LCJ]

the language: Swedish and Norwegian and Danish has a lot of words in common. The difference is often that the word used are different in hierarchy. So the word one would use in Danish exists in Swedish but is old fashioned or unusual and vice versa. The Swedes and Norwegians have the sing-song way of speaking whereas Danes speak much more germanic. I am from the southern part of Denmark, and find Norwegian and Swedish in particular difficult to understand when spoken (I do speak German relatively well) But have found that after a few beers I and they (meaning Norwegians and swedes) understand each other rather well. But language differences aside, we have more in common with each other than other countries. I have been in other countries as a military person, and in Africa or the US if there is a social event or some other thing like that, the Scandinavians tend to bunch up together(with the Finns as well, although their language is extremely different they are still "like us")

[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

For the most of Finland's history Finland was just "Eastern Sweden" so makes sense.

[@Bjowolf2]

@@user-lv6rn9cf8m Many Finns also speak / understand Swedish - having worked or studied there or they come from the Swedish speaking minority in the South or West of Finland. And the strange thing is that they are often easier to understand for us Danes, since they speak in a more "old-fashioned", slower and stacato way, where e-ve-ry sing-le syl-lab-le iss pro-noun-ced ver-ryy clear-lyy. 😉

[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

@@Bjowolf2 Yup. Obviously. I should know having lived in Finland and with a Finnish mother that came to Sweden as a "war child". Also for the biggest part of Finland's history it was just Eastern Sweden and before then, the Swedes had more in common with the people in western Finland than they did with like the Scanians, Geats, Gutes etc. A much longer shared history there. Yeah, Finnish-Swedish is more old fashioned. It hasn't evolved as Swedish-Swedish has. And if you want to know how Swedes sounded 1000 years ago, there's Icelandic. Danish was more similar to Swedish back then too. But even today, the languages are so similar that you question what a language even is. Like there are dialects more varied in other languages than our languages are from each other Also like, someone from Scania understands someone from Denmark better than someone from Stockholm. Search for the video "Nyårsklockorna på älvdalska" for a truly alien version of Swedish. Much more different from regular Swedish than Danish or Norwegian is. I like Denmark but many of you guys have an horrible attitude towards Swedes, especially us from Stockholm. And it's weird, I'm good at languages but I don't understand spoken Danish at all. Sounds like me trying to speak Swedish but I have my mouth full of food :)

[@Bjowolf2]

@@user-lv6rn9cf8m Haha, well, so I have heard 😂 Well, you could probably learn to understand it well within a few months, since it's derived from the same base language - try with Danish TV + Danish subtitles, if you have access to that, where you live (?). Yes, we just can be bothered with all that "singing" ( melodic intonation), but prefer to cut our words short, often merge them and maybe even skip a few syllables or small words here and there, preferably while mumbling at the same time, to be able to speak faster ( by around 30 % on average according to some studies ). No, we don't - we just like to make a bit of fun with you, and then you are supposed to fire back at us, but unfortunately many Swedes often don't get our irony, sarcasm and subtle humour, and think we always mean things litterally, so they don't always know how to respond to this. These days it's 99 % fun and friendly teasing about language, weird words, Systembolaget, cultural diiferences and crazy political correctness and woke stuff run amok in Sweden. Well, the weird thing is that we in DK think Stocholm Swedish is easier to understand, since it's closer to the standars and usually has a clearer and more "correct" pronounciation, whereas Scanian is far more difficult to understand for most Danes with all its many diphthongs ( or triphthongs even 😂). Scanian is really based on Old East Danish with Swedish words on top of it, so it's a bit like going 3 - 400 years back in time for us, and we really have to focus, once they get really carried away. 🙄😂

[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

@@Bjowolf2 I always think of this Norwegian sketch s-mOy8VUEBk (youtube id) or search Danish language on youtube - first hit :)

[@latjolajban81]

Wow. You're like the first ones I've heard who doesn't like the water in Stockholm. Stockholm is one of the most beautiful cities because of all the water.

[@tammy5938]

Ya gotta be crazy not to like water

[@mallry1]

As a truck driver I like driveing in sweden i really like some of the views around jönköping and up around the lake vänern and also the last 40 min or so on the Ferry from Frederikshavn as it Sails into Göteborg harbor on a Nice summer evening

[@lasseblomqvist9378]

Give Gothenburg a try if you have not visited it yet. Sweden's 2nd largest city and a very different experience from Stockholm.

[@MyKanalen]

And with a whole Systembolaget dedicated to beer 😉

[@jeanlundi2141]

I'm portuguese and had a sudden desire to visit Sweden and Gothenberg looks like a place I'd really enjoy.I wonder how radically the cities change with the summer/winter time though. I'm not interested in going in summer necessarilly, but if the cultural offering is radicaly different (like museusm open, places to go etc) I might reconsider.

[@TheNetsrac]

Very accurate descriptions and observations of the differences between Denmark and Sweden. When I, as a Dane try to describe the difference of the Danish and Swedish language to a foreigner, I say that the Swedish language is like the Elvish version of Danish 😄 ...Fantasy elves like Tolkien Elves, not the Christmas ones 😆 The melodic, sort of sing-songy style of Swedish and Norwegian always made me think of elves. Thank you for the video, and best wishes from Hillerød 🤗

[@Marie-qp5sm]

You should visit Österlen, the eastern part of Skåne. Great food, nature is so beautiful and a bunch of other things to do/see

[@_loss_]

If you were in Stockholm last week, you might've been there at the same time as the UN climate summit which would explain the traffic and people.

[@birkebk9527]

Shout-out to Sweden ✌️🇸🇪 beautiful country. If you guys like kayak or canoe I defenitely recommend going to Sweden. Immeln lake is in Skåne and not that far from Denmark, but there are tons of options in this country. Cheers from Copenhagen ✌️🇩🇰

[@MrFtoudalk]

The harbor in Copenhagen used to be busy like that, back in the day before the shipping traffic was diverted to Nordhavn and other places. We had ferries that went to Malmoe, ships unloading pulp at Papir oeen. Sydhavn was a major industrial area, so ships would go through the harbor from Oeresund, the bridges would open to let them through, and so on. Transportation over land is more economic, and less environmental impact also makes it a better solution. When I last visited home in 2018, I found the harbor was a fantastic place compared to when I grew up in the 60's and 70's... I have always loved to visit Sweden because it's so different from Denmark (landscape and wildlife), but I've always wondered why they thought that Systembolaget would curb alcoholism...

[@dijikstra8]

It should be noted that there isn't that much freight traffic (except for trucks that go inside the ferries) inside the Stockholm harbor, they mostly go to Värtahamnen which is a bit outside the inner city, or even further south to Nynäshamn and north Kapellskär. But there is of course the occasional freight traffic to cities on lake Mälaren that has to go through Stockholm.

[@AbsSolut]

Dane here love Sweden, in my young day, i cruiced trough Sweden in my 1970 Mustang, great times. And i speak it too :p , my work would not learn danish :)

[@290766rene]

Jeg holder meget af Sverige, og jeg kan også godt li deres sprog. Jeg syntes det er " mere rundt " og lyder pænere end f.eks dansk eller andet nordiske sprog. 😊 Jeg forstår fint svensk, men når jeg taler dansk til en svensker, er min oplevelse at de tit slår over på engelsk. Jeg var i stockholm for 2 - 3 år siden i december " En forlænget weekend ". Det var første gang at jeg var der, og jeg må sige at jeg havde hørt at byen var flot, og jeg blev bestemt ikke skuffet. Vi boede på Hotel i gamla stan, og kunne gå rundt derfra og se byen og de museumer der var omkring. Vi tog " hurtig " toget fra Københavns hovedbanegård derop. Det tog ca 5 timer ( 8 stop ). Det var behageligt. Der var fine sæder med strøm til, og en buffet vogn bagved, hvor man evt kunne købe lidt at spise. ellers var der fri kaffe og frugt. Det var i December måned, lige før jul. Så jeg kunne godt tænke mig at komme derop igen om sommeren, for at opleve det også. Ellers har jeg været i Sverige forskellige steder på ferie om sommeren som barn. Det har altid bragt gode minder med hjem. 😊

[@hurmur9528]

Det är sant att svenskar kan ha problem med danska. Jag förstår danska lite bättre än svenskar generellt men det gör alla svenskar som har bott i Skåne (i varje fall när jag bodde där vilket var länge sedan då det inte var ovanligt att titta på dansk television). Stockholmare förstår ingenting av danska nästan. Det är knappt det förstår skånska 🙂 Stockholm är väldigt fint och har man inte varit vid vattnet i staden så missar man totalt Stockholms skönhet. Vilket mycket riktigt är som de säger i videon är något man kan missa om man bara är vid centralstationen, drottninggatan osv. Stockholm skall ses och upplevas från vattnet. Det är inte alls krångligt att ta sig till olika ställen så det håller jag inte med dom om. Båtar behövs inte om det inte är skärgården man vill ut i. Att åka båt med vaxholmsfärjan är förresten otroligt mysigt och bor man i Vaxholm, Nacka eller Lidingö så är det inte fel att använda. Många tider är det samma pris som att ta en buss.

[@zoom5024]

Jag och mina kompisar var i Köpenhamn och vi hade bilat hela vägen från Stockholm, vi kom fram 2 timmar innan check-in. Så jag frågade dem 2 tjejerna som var i 20 års åldern som stod i receptionen om "det går bra att vi checkar in 2 timmar innan, eller om vi kan lämna väskorna här sålänge." Dem tittade på mig som att jag pratade Klingon.

[@beorlingo]

@@zoom5024 dina de/dem är definitivt klingon!

[@erikp6614]

Skriven danska brukar inte vara svår att förstå. Talad danska är lite svårare men jag tycker det också brukar gå bra, men era tal (halvtreds, tres, osv) glömmer jag alltid mellan gångerna jag lär mig dem. Jag har hört att danskar har svårare att förstå skånska än rikssvenska, trots att skånska fortfarande påstås ha vissa inslag av gammal östdanska.

[@Ca11mero]

Skulle säga att i Skåne så förstår betydligt fler danska, i synnerhet den danska som talas i Köpenhamn :).

[@richardnelson3227]

Several years ago we took the ferry to Tallin. What surprised me was that it took 4 to 4 1/2 hours to get out to the open sea. There are over 40,000 islands in the Stockholm archipelago. Round trip was only 70 US dollars with a cabin. Both Copenhagen and Stockholm are great. I have lost interest in most American cities because of all the social issues here.

[@okoustrup]

I've been in Stockholm (business) around 200-300 times, I've walked around Stockholm for at least 1 day of those weeks there There's so many interesting places, so if you want some hints ... feel free to write (the 200-300 times was at least 1 week each time)

[@mettehansen9754]

I love Sweden ! Lived in Stockholm 15 years ago.. very pretty city. Here´s an idea for a visit sometime. Go up north in the wintertime and find somewhere to go out on a dogsled ride. I think lots of people take tourists out so it shouldnt be to exspensive. I went once and was lucky to see the northern lights on that trip.. pretty magical. And try a Sauna up there too... so much different when sauna is in a wood shed then the modern type.

[@skyscraperphilosopher8476]

Would be cool to see you guys visiting Norway and hear your experience from there!

[@TravelinYoung]

We do plan to go back. We went to Oslo, Bergen, and Stavanger (separate trips) before the pandemic and channel. There is definitely a lot more to explore!

[@Bjowolf2]

@@TravelinYoung And the Norwegians have 95 % the same words as in Danish ( in the main variant of N ( Bokmål = Book Language ) ), but with an even more singy-songy way of speaking than in Swedish - it is a bit similar to the Swedish intonation and pronounciation, but with far more variation in the pitch - and typically going up towards the end of a sentence. The Norwegians are also bit poor at spelling, but not nearly as bad as the Swedes. 😅 Because of the very similar vocabularies between Danish and Norwegian, it's typically very easy for a Dane to forget that he / she is reading a paper in Norwegian - and vice versa - apart from the odd peculiar word or expression here and there, which doesn't exist (anymore) - even though you might expect it to -, have a completely different meaning or is unknown to us, but can still often be guessed from the context or its typically familiar constituents. So it's rather like an American reading a British paper - or the other way around.

[@srenh.jrgensen1798]

I heard it said that Norwegians can’t put on a production of Hamlet! 😆 Because they always go up in pitch at the end of their sentences that are supposed to be serious, such as “Å være eller ikke være det er spørsmålet!” (To be or not to be - that is the question!)

[@Bjowolf2]

@@srenh.jrgensen1798 Now you have ruined that part of the play for me forever 😂 "At vær-re eller ik-ke å vær-re - det ærr altså spørsmål-et mit" 🙄 ( husk at ende på det høje C 😂.)

[@mumimor]

@@Bjowolf2 🤣

[@dkexpat2755]

Looking sharp Josh! Like the "new" haircut, i've not seen you like this at least hehe.

[@rickard3897]

As a swede I can go to Norway and speak swedish and they norwegian and we will understand eachother. When I go to Denmark I switch to english because its sometimes impossible to understand danish.

[@kohZeei]

i'd recommend visiting norrköping, its a very unique city and is only just over an hour from stockholm by train.

[@JunkerOnDrums]

A funny thing about the difference between the Swedish and the Danish language is the completely different meaning of the same word. There is a Danish joke about a Swede who arrives at Copenhagen Central Station, finds a taxi, and asks to be driven to a quiet (roligt) place. The meaning is the same in English and Danish, but in Swedish "roligt" means: Funny, witty, cozy. The taxi driver drove the Swede to a cemetery. :D

[@herrbonk3635]

The base word "ro" (calm) means exactly the same in Swedish as in Danish. It's just that an old slang expression became the most common word for fun (with near synonyms like kul, skoj, tokig, festlig, dråplig, etc.)

[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

A Swede arriving in Copenhagen Central Station and asks to be driven to a certain place is sure to driven into the opposite kind of place. Swedes rarely have a good experience in Denmark unfortunately. Same thing as Stockholmers going to Gothenburg but much worse. Little brother complex kinda situation.

[@carlkolthoff5402]

@@user-lv6rn9cf8m Swedes don't have a good experience in Denmark? Really? I've lost count of how many times I've been to Denmark and not a single bad experience that I can think of. Are you from Stockholm or the north of Sweden? I think maybe us in the west and south have a bit closer relation to Denmark as it's so easy for us to take the Öresund bridge, the ferries Helsingborg - Helsingör or Gothenburg - Fredrikshavn.

[@davidtrolle]

How interesring ! I just stumpled over your channel. Very exiting. Seems like you have been around for somre time already. With recordings boht from in Denmark and other countries. Welcome to Denmark. Hope you enjoy it here. As a dane, always Nice to

[@clavillesen]

I have a really funny story about buying wine in Stockholm, when the liquor stores are closed. A german friend of mine was sure she could buy wine in the grocery store and came back in triumph with a big box. After I read a few seconds from the box I had to dissaponit her by telling that it wasn't wine, but she would have 30 litres after 6 weeks. I was a "Make your own wine" box set she had bought. We went back to the store and she got her money back and we had to buy light beer instead.

[@Bjowolf2]

😂😂😂

[@sungod86]

Though bigger supermarkets has a pretty good wine selection in Sweden - they´re just alcohol free or below 3,5% alcohol.

[@dijikstra8]

@@sungod86 Then it's pretty much just grape juice though ;)

[@mvoetmann1]

I love Sweden. One thing I noticed in Stockholm is that even the supermarkets have good bread. I still have a project to go visit Ytterby-grottan, where a lot of the elements from the periodic table were first identified. Ytrium, Hafnium, Uterium...

[@zoolook666]

Supermarkets in Sweden is great and weighting fruit at the cashier is genious.

[@HansMilling]

Search for “Amsterdam boat traffic time-lapse” to see some crazy boat traffic. Anyway the differences you found was spot on. Swedish is like a thesaurus, once you know som of the differences, it’s ok to understand.

[@LitzysDelight]

Nice things - Having lived there I recommend Gothenburg/Göteborg. It's an overlooked city (most tourists think Stockholm) but actually really nice to walk around in. Especially Vasastan has incredible architecture. I can also recommend going further up north to Dalarna. Amazing countrysides and waterfalls. Bergs Slussar is also something I recommend if you want to experience the Canal Locks. And the area itself is incredibly beautiful. In general what I miss the most about Sweden is the nature. Friendly people too...if you don't sound too Danish :P

[@JensPilemandOttesen]

Had a great vacation in Göteborg a few years ago. Wonderfull city.

[@carlkolthoff5402]

Gothenburg is a wonderful city indeed! However, I would suggest postponing the visit a year or two because large parts of the city center is a huge infrastructure building site at the moment. Quite tricky to get around and less pretty than normal.

[@Jozz421]

I remember when Carlsberg in Denmark limited the workers to TWO FULL STRENGHT BEERS for lunch instead of unlimited. There were a crisis with people quitting their job beacuse of it. In Sweden, at least in my mind, you would not even consider drinking anything stronger than maybe a light beer for lunch.

[@chrisbagge3129]

The reason for Systembolaget was a serious drinking problem in Sweden 100 to 150 years ago. There is a similar situation with state shops in Norway and Finland.

[@denninosyos]

If you're visiting Sweden again I recommend you visiting Dalarna during midsummer celebration, and while at it, proceed to northern Sweden to see the midnight sun.

[@stphinkle]

Having toured both Copenhagen and Stockholm on a vacation, there are differences for sure but both are extremely beautiful cities. I loved them both.

[@Elgsdyr]

If you go into the country it's not water but pine forests everywhere. :)

[@anderswegge6828]

What is the experience driving over Øresundsbron, compared to the terror bridge over Storebælt?

[@TravelinYoung]

Funny, in both directions I told Miranda it seems much easier now compared to before. I guess I’ve been over the nightmare bridge so much this past 2 years this is now a walk in the park :).

[@omega1231]

As a Danish musician, I can say that not only are you allowed to drink on stage in Denmark, you are monetarily encouraged to point the crowd towards the bar (because you get paid a cut of the bar profit as payment for playing and it does well in getting invited back to play) and instead of being paid in exposure, we sometimes get paid in alcohol, free beers for the night etc.

[@ericajohansson784]

Hi you should go north during the summer its amazing . Great video 💕

[@dijikstra8]

Regarding boats in Stockholm, most people don't use ferries to get around unless you're very close to a ferry terminal on both ends which isn't very likely, we mostly use the subway. Maybe if you're going to Djurgården or something (but very few people actually live there), but even then you can just transfer to a tram that goes there from T-centralen. Even from Nacka Strand, I would take the bus to get to the city.

[@zoom5024]

As a Swede i'd reccomend visiting the Stockholm Archipelago during the summer. It's thousands of islands just outside Stockholm and if you know someone with a boat you can go island hopping, it's awsome it is it's own world out there with other things going on. And if you dont know anyone with a boat you can take the boat taxi's to the bigger islands like Vaxholm. The same can be said for Gothenburg which also has tons of islands just outside of the city.

[@zoom5024]

Oh and btw the traffic is normally not that bad, but alot of roads were closed because of a marathon and alot of high up politicians were there for 2 different meetings. One was baltops 22 a military exercise and the second was a big environment meeting in Stockholm with alot of politicians from around the world. So there were 3 things going on at the same time which shut down alot of roads 😂

[@Pirelli65]

Road-tripping Sweden’s sublime Bohuslän Coast from Gothenburg to Strömstad. While you’re at it, give me a shout and come visit me in Lysekil. Side note: for a Swede Norwegian sounds like the Swedish chef and Danish like a Swede with the mouth full of hot potatoes.😂

[@patriciaruth2894]

You were here during the weekend several big events were going on in Stockholm. Stockholmers were warned not to go into the city because streets would be shut off because of security. Stockholm is a beautiful city and we love that there is so much water and nature surrounding us!

[@lassemadsen607]

You can drink pretty much everywhere in Denmark. I have a an american friend visit years ago who panicked one night we were out, because we were having a 'walking beer', and he saw a police-car - deadass yeeted his beer into a bush^^ He thought he was going to get arrested or a fine, hehe

[@Zandain]

I love Stockholm..very happy that you visited 🥰 Kalmar is also a city you shouldn't miss out on. It has a definate historic connection to DK w. Margrethe 1 and has a stupendous castle where you can 'two birds, one stone' it. Kalmar is not big, but a good one day/evening visit. They have some great restaurants and cafees to enjoy - plus make the fantastic visit to Öland (crossing the big bridge!)where Miranda can delve into lots of archeological lore 😉 and Visingsö, a beautiful historic island in Lake Vättern, definately worth a summer outing 💛💙 hello from Hundested 🌸🌱

[@thomassk7161]

Go see the Wasa ship in STO. Also go the one of the small island in the fjord for STO and enjoy an evenning dinner near the water. That is so good. And next time go to Landskrona just a cross the Øresund. That is a very nice little town beautiful view to DK and there is also a small fortress there build by the Danes, nice little Sunday trip.

[@allannyholmnielsen5559]

5:58 Loved that part.. "Well, what I was gonna say is..." The universal man resting face.

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

I do hope that you did take your time to visit The Vasa, which was an early warship, building-disaster only to leave its shipyard and then capsized, to be found in the harbour in the fifties. Today its mostly restored to its former glory in a new museum. I think it only got to use four sails, as its hull and ballast was all too small for its size.

[@teebodk3917]

Growing up in Jutland (so no Swedish tv to learn from) , it's only in the last few years, that I've been confident about understanding spoken swedish language. Norwegian has always been a little easier... except Ståle Solbakken (Steely the Sunhill), who is completely impossible for anybody to understand ;) - but I have to say, for both swedish and norwegian, that I really have to concentrate to understand - no multitasking! PS: Loved Brisket's antics in this episode - he was clearly trying to get some attention, getting invited to join you on the couch was not good enough... looked like he wanted you to get down on the floor and play.

[@dijikstra8]

It's funny how Norwegian is the language both countries understand best. We should all just switch to Norwegian, then we can understand each other across Scandinavia ;)

[@teebodk3917]

@@dijikstra8 Oh, and speaking of Norwegian. If you listen to Turkish speech, it sounds very much like Norwegian, they have the same "singing tonality"... except of course, that the actual words are 100% incomprehensible to a Scandinavian 😁

[@hellefur6631]

The swedes in Skåne, Halland & Blekinge sounds more like danes. Distinguisely different, but oddley familliare. Just like danish and german sounds a like, but still different.

[@hellefur6631]

Oh, and try Sofiero slot, north of Helsingborg, it's georgeous, when the Rhododendron park blooms.

[@BigAndTall666]

Skåne Halland and Blekinge is old parts of Denmark, from since before the stone age....

[@sshadows]

Just curious, listened to Norwegian? I find it a lot easier than Swedish, as a dane.

[@akyhne]

It is also spelled more or less, like Danish. Super easy to read.

[@gmoddude12]

same here the whole jumping rollercoaster speech sweedish people as i like to call it makes it quite hard to follow along some times plus norwegian as said is spelled very much like danish

[@Gert-DK]

Not Nynorsk, it is total gibberish.

[@LitzysDelight]

Really? Personally I find it the other way around. I have no issues understanding Swedish but most Norwegians....geeeez, I've had to ask them to switch to English. I guess it depends on the ear

[@gmoddude12]

@@LitzysDelight yeah for me its really just the accent and the Way they Sound that makes it hard not so much the words when it comes to swedish

[@Simpopcorn]

I love the Blue car in the Background 😂

[@TravelinYoung]

Haha, that was a recent lego project.

[@danyelPitmon]

What are the other great cities in Sweden from what I hear is Gothenburg I follow one person on KZbin that’s from there and lives there personally I would love to go to Sweden and live

[@twenty4hell]

Depends on what you are looking for, south Sweden better climate, but so much of middle parts of Sweden is overlooked, its either Stockolm and south, or far far up in the north

[@apefu]

The language observation is kind of interesting to me. I'm Swedish. I can read danish pretty well. I've lived in Kopenhagen for 4 months, I don't stand a chance with spoken Danish D:

[@pollutingpenguin2146]

Do you think the reason why Stockholm felt busier is because they don't bike as much? With all the bikes in Copenhagen, that has removed a lot of the people from cars and the metro?

[@erikwahlberg3632]

My God! You're probably the only ones in the world COMPLAINING about the water in Stockholm! I'm not from Stockholm, but to me the towns beats most places on the planet in beauty. The only comparable city I can think of is Istanbul, but they've got even more water, so you guys 'd better stay away from there too!

[@tammy5938]

Love water

[@markuserikssen]

Having lived in Stockholm for 4 years, I would say that the traffic in general is not that bad. I always took the bus to the office and never really experienced big traffic problems. I had to cross a big part of the city daily. I know the ring road has traffic jams regularly, but other than that the traffic flow is quite good. There are also many alternatives as you mentioned. I usually took a tram or metro, also in case there were traffic issues. And the water is the number 1 thing that I absolutely love about Stockholm. Where I lived, not far from the downtown Stockholm, it was still very quiet most of the time.

[@christian5941-e4o]

Take the ferry from Helsingborg to Helsingör is called at "tura", Im from Landskrona and we used to do that when I was in my teens.

[@chrisbagge3129]

Why all this shipping? Look on a map. The Mälar lake divides the city and there are two two places to get through North/South. Either throug the center of the city or across Essingeleden. There is no land-connection East of Stockhom. If you want to pass the Mälar lake West of Stockholm you will have to drive around 50 km to the West to get to the road between Enköping and Strängnäs. The next pass-over is further 50 km to the West . There are however a number of railway / subway tunnels between the Noth and the South. This makes it obvious to use small boats "Skärgårdsbåtarna". The very hilly rocky landscape makes it as well very expensive to build roads. The absense of further bridges tunnels is because the Mälar lake / Saltsjön is very deep water, typically around 30 m. This has on the other side the advantage that large ships can sail all the way into the inner harbour. Most of the large ferries in the harbour are connecting to Finland and Estonia. The alternate are some very long road trips. Look on a map again. A proposal for somewhere to go? Try to go to Öland and Kalmar. It is not that far way from Lyngby. There is a very well known castle in Kalmar and there is a much less know but much older caste on Öland, Ekeborg. It is situated on Alvaret a very special nature due to the limestone underground a part of the Unesco Heritage.

[@paulinesoares3594]

I’m in New Orleans. You can buy any alcohol in grocery, gas station, pharmacy. Anywhere. You don’t have to go to separate places. Also, we have drive through bar rooms here. You can also walk down the street with your drink. Totally different when we went on vacation to Alabama and Florida. You couldn’t walk out of a restaurant or bar with your drink in a to go cup. It was a shock.

[@buckstraw925]

Lots to visit in Sweden but I think the think to check out is the Island of Gotland. Check that out.

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

And of course the old "Glimmingehus", a castle/fortress from the Danish times and a masterpiece of defense gadgets! Cannons below the roof on top, a minor entrance with a staircase up to it on the wall and shooting and scalding fluid positions at all passed, from behind! Even many years after its built it was considered a strong fortress! I think it was built by a Bishop? And close by is "Ales Stenar". A huge shipshape from stones.

[@buckstraw925]

The "singing" accent is quite present in the Gothenburg area yes but not so much up in Stockholm. As for understanding the language, I've spent a few decades in Stockholm and it is very very hard for me to understand Danish but I can get by if I have to. I think you would understand Swedish with some more time. Regarding Systembolaget, it is actually a great store although it is limiting to only have one brand store. They have a great selection of beer and especially wine. No issues really with the selection. The bigger problem is the fact that you have to get to one of those stores and they aren't open late on Saturday and not late on Sunday at all.

[@goread5544]

Been living in Stockholm for 8 months now and still have not seen traffic …

[@gandalf1124]

You got to go see Vasa if you get to stockholm again. It's the only preserved 17th-century war ship in the world.

[@TravelinYoung]

Oh yes, we did! Expect footage in a future video :). It is amazing.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

6:44 ..as in NOT MINE - the stuff to the right - from my angle? Stockholm is called Venice of the North! Yeah-yeah i know. But the Netherlands+ ain't that north! Undskyld Norge :-P

[@JEmmertz]

Can't decide if I, as a Swede, should be annoyed by your pronunciation of Systembolaaaget (should be a fairly long "a" sound), or if I should just nod wildly in agreement as the skåning I am (Skåne once belonged to Denmark) on how you found Stockholm and the people and dialect there. ;) Helsingborg - which, by the way, have their own little brewery with a few dozen sorts of beers - are not further away from Kronborg castle and Helsingør than 3-4 kilometers, and with the ferries going from behind The Tivoli almost every 20 minutes you can easily "tura" and get a refreshing dose (either in a bottle or in a can...) of Denmark on just about any day of the week.

[@roberttracey9834]

I lived in Jarlaberg for twenty years, it's next to Nacka Strand. I took the bus to inner Stockholm everyday. I only took the ferry during the summer at weekends. A lot was going on that weekend when you were there by the way that probably explains some of the heavy traffic. Big International climate meeting, Stockholm Marathon and all the Nato Military boats that gathered huge crowds of people. Half of the inner ciity streets were closed because of that. Anways i hope you enjoyed you're trip. Hordy Bordy !! :)

[@ericajohansson784]

Hi you should go north däringa the summer its great

[@cassio2999]

ha ha ha Gamla Stan Im Living in Copenhagen but I think Stockholm is more beautiful than Copenhagen Funny that there were more people in Stockholm as there are more people living in Copenhagen (Copenhagen area) than in Stockholm You have to see some off the tunnelbanan stations like Kungsträdgården, Rådhuset, T-centralen, Odenplan. Visit the island Djurgården with the Vasa ship Museum, the ABBA museum, the Spritmuseum (alcohol museum try their Cider), Skansen museum ( like frilandsmuseet in Lyngby) and Tivoli (Grönna Lund)

[@melnerud]

It's not only Sweden in the Nordic countries that has an alcohol monopoly. Finland, Norway, Iceland and the Faraoe Islands also have restricted laws on where to sell alcoholic beverages above 4.5-5.5%

[@andersgranstrom7128]

I love that you lift Stockholm and Sweden, thank you!! I do agree with you, that Sweden is beautiful - and big brother. You are cute!

[@tammy5938]

Need to know about Sweden, thanks for this vid.

[@nevillemignot1681]

Did spend some time in Malmo in Sweden, an what the guys are talking the difference in price to what the price of beer and wine is in Denmark to Sweden is very true, it is insane!!

[@annicaesplund6613]

You got so many things wrong. The boats are short cuts, not something you use on a daily basis (unless you want to). The language belong to the germanic language group, just like Norwegian, Danish,:English and so on. Swedish is a language, not an accent. We have many different dialects, depending on where you live. Skåne belonged to Denmark once upon a time and the rest of us think it sounds half-danish. To us the "Swedish chef" sounds Norwegian. Water and boats. Yes, we have them. We can also eat the fish we catch and swim in the water. Boats are handy if you want to go to the archipelago (24000 islands) or to Finland, Åland, the Baltic countries or my favourite Gotland. Systembolaget. The staff is great, you can ask them anything about wine or any other beverage. Less alcohol damages and it's not like it's one in Stockholm. Duh. If you feel like drinking on a Sunday you should have thought about that before. I always have all kind of drinks at home, just in case. Just being ill prepared if you don't think like that. Enjoy Denmark. Norway next?

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

And the central Sergels Torg, in Stockholm, became designed as a shape by Danish Poet and Mathematician, Piet Hein who combined an ellipse and a rectangle in what he named and patented as the "Superellipse"! It is also sold as tables in his name, in Denmark. As he a also made a small globe, where Denmark fills most of it!

[@sungod86]

Don´t know who told you that spoken Swedish or spoken Danish is similiar; a statement that couldn´t be further from the truth. Among the Scandinavian language Danish is the hardest to understand and most unique. But written Danish and written Swedish is easily understood if you know one of the two languages. Swedish and Norwegian are more similiar, both spoken and written.

[@abcabcboy]

Norwegian is more similar to Danish written, while more similar to Swedish spoken.

[@Underjordiskentitet]

There are dialects within swedish, danish and norwegian that are farther from their "proper national languages" than the "proper national languages" are from each other... So while they are different languages, i would argue that Dansk, Norsk og Svensk are in the twillight zone between dialects and different languages

[@TheKIMANO]

I really love to hear how people form around the world reflects on living i Denmark, so I enjoy your channel very much :-) When I was young we had a joke ( with a little bit of truth to it ) and that was that to keep Copenhagen clean you should lead a Swede to the ferry. The reason for the joke was that there was a lot of drunk young people from Sweden in Copenhagen. In 82´I mowed to Malmö and my new friends invited me to a night out in town ,- What I didn't anticipated was that this night out in town was planed as a trip to Copenhagen so I had mixed feelings about the idea and declined the invitation. ;-)

[@f99mlu]

Some people, like me, who live in the southern parts of Sweden go to Germany (Puttgarden area) to buy alcohol. There are "shopping buses" which cost around 700 SEK for the complete round-trip and you can bring as much as 100 kg with you back. I do this twice a year and it reduces my visits to Systembolaget (the Swedish alcohol shop) to zero. 700 SEK you say.. But is the trip worth it then? Doesn´t it make it all more expensive than buying it all in Sweden?? Oh no no no... Spreading the costs on each item (normally 11*24 cans + 12 liter bottles) makes it around 2,50 SEK per item. In the end everything is more than 50-70% off.. Good stuff :).

[@Zuzzanna]

I have lived in Sweden for 7 years in different places and recommend you to visit Gotland, beautiful place.

[@Viva-Cristo-Rey-]

Har I nogensinde været på Bornholm? Min familie er derfra. Dejligt sted.

[@TravelinYoung]

Ja, vi besøgte Bornholm i 2019. Men det var før, vi havde YT-kanalen.

[@Viva-Cristo-Rey-]

@@TravelinYoung Det er dejligt at høre! Hvis I mangler nogen at tale dansk med eller hjælp til noget, må I bare sige til😊 Jeg bor i Midtjylland.

[@LitzysDelight]

I love that you're goto is "you can probably drink in a portapotty" XD

[@Tommysimonsen]

Only People there grew up with Swedish TV, think Swedish is the same as Danish. Here in Jutland we had German TV, not Swedish TV. I need subtitles for Swedish. From back when there was only 1 Danish TV station (80`s), I assume this will chance, there is no point in watching Swedish TV in Copenhagen now a days. Or German in Jutland.

[@calfstream123]

Sounds like you had a ton of fun...

[@MachivelianBear]

My father once told me he would disown me if I ever married a Swede. I asked “ is it because you hate the Swedish?” He said “No, you just can’t trust them”😂

[@monikanordgren5844]

Det var det fräckaste. Det kan ni visst. Undrar vilka sk svenskar ni har träffat då.

[@Finnec123]

Where to go in Sweden? As far North as you can (that would be Norway). That's what I do. Actually I drive all the way to Nordkapp (5°C in July) way North of the polar/arctic circle. Why always go South? Sweden and Norway are wonderful countries. Just their mountains alone make me wish I had been born in one of those countries. Ugghhhh!! 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@enfyrfrayt]

Yeah something that is crazy is Sweden is their hotdogs... They have mash potatoes and shrimp on them.... I've never tried it but sounds crazy 😅 If you go back there som day I would love to hear if it's good.

[@jorgengabrielsson6660]

🤤🤤it rock’s🤘🏼🤣

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

Funny that you should say that Swedish sounds sing-song. For Danes it is Norwegian ("syngende norsk") that sounds like singing.

[@davidtrolle]

sorry, hit the publication Button to early. Anyways, nice to hear foreigner speaking nice about DK. Having family in US, I realy admire the US in many ways, and I realy hope you Will enjoy it here in Denmark 😀🇩🇰🇺🇸

[@kinuuni]

Last time I needed a boat in Copenhagen I had been walking all the way from KU to the old shooting shooting grounds at Christiania and then up around and I needed to get in to town and wanted to to just look at the times for the boat by the opera house because I was tired and needed to get to Kongens Nytorv. I slipped on ice on the bridge and fell and busted my knee. Dragged myself to the stop post only to see that it would be almost an hour before the boat would arrive. I am not saying there might be a need for boats in Copenhagen to be a bit more frequent like the ones in Sweden or less varying in there time table, but damn I could have used not having to walk down to and over the bike bridge at that point XD ... I suppose I could have found a bus stop and gone around through Christianshavn but somehow that seemed just as far away and inconvenient. In other words, public transit on Amager sucks and one should never pass up an opportunity to point this out no matter how far fetched. /end. Thank you for coming to my Ted-talk.

[@Ujuani68]

Why didn't you call for an ambulance??

[@kinuuni]

@@Ujuani68 Well, after having sat there for a bit I could walk again. My knee was not happy but it was just cuts and bruises and a sprain in the end. The hit just numbed the whole thing for a while so I didn't really trust myself to stand up XD But honestly, good question, I don't even think it crossed my mind.

[@kasperhansen4472]

Stockholm is a very nicelooking, beautiful city well preserved in the old city. And most of all the Skærgaard (all the small islands) it is just fantastic to sail around in that Wonderfull creation but you need a boat for that obviously. In Denmark we do have a lot of islands but not the skærgaard where the islands are so many and close to each other. Just for people who haven't been there. Stockholm skærgaard alone has about 25.000 small skerries and small islands, it is very cool to sail if you know how to navigate your wessel around. There are lots of differences between Denmark and Sweden: most of all there are generally speaking more rules in Sweden and the southern Swedes like to come to Denmark to be a little more loose and free. If you visit southern Sweden and you go to Skåne, you will see that they have a flag that is half danish and half swedish (red with yellow cross). But Danes and Swedes for the most part like each other and we like those differences. Personally, I come from Helsingør, and I love to be outdoors in Sweden. I climb, cycle and first of all love to go sailing in the skærgaard. I also love sailing in Denmark, which I would recommend You guys to try, but if you are new to sailing and might be worried about getting seasick sailing in the skærgaard is great because you are protected from the elements/waves all the time. You guys make a great many interesting videos, good job👍

[@abcabcboy]

You should visit Norway, the most beautiful country of Scandinavia.

[@37tara]

Definitely ❤

[@colemine7008]

Is David Ramirez from Chicago? I went to school with a David Ramirez... I am wondering if it is the same guy.

[@TravelinYoung]

He is from Texas, close to Houston.

[@marcusbengtson8570]

I'm swedish and I thought this was really funny. Awesome.