She’s on Gotland in the begining. Swedens biggest island. If you ever want to visit - let me know. I live on Gotland and can give you tips or be a guide :) It’s BEAUTIFUL!
I love the nature surrounding the coasts in northern Gotland. Those cliffs by and in the waters there are nothing but unique within european borders. :) Honestly looks like it could've been a place of worship in ancient times. :P
She is a dutch girl that has traveled all over the worl. Alone. On her bike. She is amazing. Her last Adventure took her from south america through central america to north america. Really fun to watch her. She also traveled in Africa. Gotland is really great. Soon its time for my 44th summer on Gotland. In my summer house. In 1986 I did my conscript here.
Another popular dish, which is usually served on Tuesdays, is "Raggmunk och Fläsk". Raggmunk is potato pancakes, and Fläsk is pork (thicker slices of bacon). Served with Lingonberry jam.
Your visit will be great, i promise. Just come here during summer when everyone is extra happy and since you have so many Swedish followers i am certain that a lot of us would love to show you around where they live. I'm from Gothenburg and you have a friend/guide right here.
25:45 there’s an exhibition of the royal family’s artifacts in the basement of the castle, right there. It’s a beautiful place and they have interactive displays, audio guides and hide and seek games for the children. You should go there. 👍🏻
26:21 The art on the wall behind her is a print from the art of Lasse Åberg, a well known Swedish artist known for his acting and Mickey Mouse themed art. He's even opened a Musseum (or Mickey Museum) in Bålsta, almost an hour outside Stockholm.
The change of the guard is a tourist attraction, when it's the big change, at 1pm. The change you see here is one of the small changes that happens every 2h.
It's Hella stressful to do, we don't get very much training before we have our first tour at the castle, and it wasn't uncommon to come off of night guard, tuck in for a nap, only to get rustled up for a change. Super fun tho.
20:35 Is at Riddarholmen, and you have the regional court straight ahead. The last person living there moved away or died 20 years ago. Since then not a single person lives on that island or in that church's congregation.
First of, I have personally generally had good interactions with Swedish police (even when I have been in some murky legal waters). Second, you seem like a really nice person and that goes a long way in Sweden so if you ever visit I am sure you will find some cool people and have a good time. Thirdly, yes pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays is a real thing, at least if you go to a Swedish lunch restaurant. Hope you will get the opportunity to go for a visit!
@@michellenilsson9103 Hi Michelle! Pea soup and 'plättar' with strawberry jam is an old tradition. I guess that it's not as common these days as it used to be, especially among the younger generation. I'm aware that some people put a dab of cream in the soup, as well. I understand that in Sweden the yellow peas are more commonly used than here in Finland. Some add a little more onion bits and some a little more pork or rind bits into the soup. Simple and easy everyday food, especially if you buy a roll of ready-made soup and just 'improve' it by adding whatever you like. A wheatbread open sandwich with a slice of Emmentaler cheese goes perfectly with this soup! Simple, inexpensive and yummy! As we're in Scandinavia plus Finland, we drink milk with our soup. Does this Thursday pea soup tradition exist in Denmark, Norway and Iceland too? 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇩🇰🇧🇻🇮🇸 🥣🥛🥞🍓🍞🧀
22:00... That must have been one of the quieter guarded gates. There was a crowd of on lookers and a band at the gate where I saw the guard changed in 1990.
I'm so with you when you finally can come to Sweden, I will watch everything. You are very enjoyable to watch reactions from. Hugs from Ingarö ( just outside of Stockholm)
Norally aka Itchy Boots have travelled 100 countries, Sadly last trip in Africa she had an accident, broke her collarbone and had to return to Holland to get surgery. Doubly sad is when they made surgery and mended her broken bone, they accidentally punctured her lunge. But she is recovering and hopefully ready in autumn for more explorations.
The thing with the Swedish Royal Family, we have some programs on the television what they are doing but not so much, but we keep or traditions and that's nice!
I am from Norway and I would never trade away our royal family for having a president. I believe that I have the majority of the Norwegian population with me.
As a Swede, agreed. I don't know too much about the Norwegian royal family, but if you feel about them as I do about ours then you should definitely keep them. Which country was it that the Nowegian royal family always sends a christmas tree to each year? Edit: Wasn't it the UK? As thanks for keeping their family safe during he occupation?
Driving the main road from Nynäshamn into Stockholm, road 73, means passing the suburb I grew up in, called Skogås. An old joke there is translating it to Shoe-goose as in Sko-gås, but it's Skog-ås, meaning Forest-Ridge.
As a Swedish person, I have some information Sweden is mostly an introvert country but not always of course because if I don’t know you, of course I will not want to talk to you So if you’re going to Sweden, don’t go and start random small talks with people out on the streets you don’t know but if you learn to know this person, they may want to talk to you like you did see in the video 7:53 but the most people will just think you’re weird and just looked at you with a side eye 😅😅😅 and pee soup is almost like beans on toast for us
Former Queen, you mean. Mary (Donaldson) is the current queen. It was something of a surprise when Queen Margrethe 'retired' and left the crown to Frederik, as she had several times said that she would stay reigning queen until her demise. It was a wise decision anyway.
You totally do not need to try Kaviar. Kaviar is something you need to learn to like pretty much (except for rare cases I guess). But there is something you do need to try and that is "mjukost". It is cheese on a tube, usually flavoured with pieces of shrimp, bacon, ham, reindeer meat, crab and so on. The shrimp one is weirdly the most popular and the one mostly liked by foreigners as well. It may sound scary, but it is great. You should try it on knäckebröd (the hard rye bread we eat here).
Since you enjoy the view you get of the country / city from her motorbike perspective. You should check out her other videos of Sweden, she's going from Malmö in the south all the way up to the most northern part of Sweden. @MarkWiens has some really nice videos of Sweden as well. His channel is all about travle for food so you get to see lots of different types of food places in and around Stockholm. Great video as always.
I was a royal guard during my service. I served in the marine core (dress blues and green beret), those guys are kings guard, you can tell by the helmet. This post change happens every four hours around the clock, the real attraction happens in the upper courtyard where the barracks are, thats a whole parade routine.
This lady seems super approachable and lovely! And I love that she learns as well, rather than just going "oh, pretty building!" And then moving on. Nothing wrong with that, I think we all do it. But her approach is refreshing to see 😅
I can relate to the Swede on the boat.😅 I drive freight trains all over Sweden and have to stay at hotels all the time. Sometimes I am lucky to catch the breakfast buffet which is one of the few perks. This one time I came down to an empty breakfast hall and started loading my plates with all the goodies and sat down to dig in as I read the morning paper. Then, a Japanese man showed up, grabbed his breakfast and looked around the empty room, spotted me and came and sat down right across from me. At the same table!! I was dumbfounded over this behavior. If he would have been another Swede he would have sat down on the other side of the room, like any normal person (Swede). But I realised that this is not the time to be rude, so with a deep sigh inside, I put up a brave and polite face and we actually had a nice conversation.😂😂❤
Most Swedes who eat pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays have it for lunch in a restaurant. At least in the bigger cities. You wouldn’t make it at home for supper. We also have a Friday eve tradition (like your Fish & Chips): Taco Friday! 🌮🌮
As a Swede, you're very welcome to visit! I liked how you called what's mundane for me, beautiful etc. Nice video, made me think about what I take for granted.
I think it is pleasant because we do not sound serious. A swede with a thick accent speaking English can't really sound angry. Norwegians are even worse lol. That is to a huge degree because Norwegians tend to sound happy when they speak. They have similar language, but every isolated sentence, phrase, and word tend to end with the pitch peaking. It makes them sound jolly lol. The thing is that Swedish is like the most camp language on the planet. We overaccentuate everything with melody. We communicate with melody, which makes it sound silly when we use the same way of talking when talking other languages.
As a Dane, shhh don't tell the rest of them, I'm super fucking jealous of the songs of my brother nations. Apparently Danish lost that in a deliberate push to be more linguistically closer to Western Europe? But nationalism came along quicker than the transition finished so we didn't pick up any of the modes of French or German? Though you can keep your specific S pronunciation, that's the one thing I can't accept from Swedish lol
👩🏻🌾🇫🇮🇧🇻🛋️🪑🪞📦 Hello there! Norwegian definitely always sounds cheerful because of the rising pitch at the end of a sentence or word. It's impossible to sound miserable in Norwegian. To say that you are depressed, for instance, sounds like you're presenting a piece of surprising good news! But "Jeg er så deprimert!" means "I'm so depressed!" 😂 No way! -- with that happy- sounding word end!
@@MegaBanne That's surprising lol - to me Danish is as flat as our country, though some dialects are slightly more flourishing. We kinda just go over tiny bumps at the greatest, while Swedish and Norwegian can be outright beautiful. And I'm talking about S in words like stjärna and skit (apologies for the word choice). The poor dear doesn't even get a chance to be noticed lol
Years ago I had some friends from French coming here to Sweden, they tried Kalles Kaviar and every time they returned here they bought a bunch of tubes to bring back with them, they loved it
I absolutely adored your reaction! Very fun and enjoying to watch. I hope you get a nice trip to Sweden and yeah as many has already recommended coming here during the summer. We are a bit more happy and approachable during the summer 😅Have you started on your "must see/eat" list yet?
If you go to small towns or vilages it will be great but if you go to big citys it will probebly suck and my friend owns a air bnb and its near a butiful lake and its in a town so its very chill not a lot of cars but butiful huses every thing is in walking distance and the bus is afordeble would recomend
You are so right when saying that what makes you feel British or Swedish or I think every country, the feeling is so much stronger when you are out of your birth country.
The changing of the guards are a tourist attraction, they are especially pompous at 13:00 April 23- August 31. The guards change every 2 hours but no other time does the fanfare with marching bands and the whole ordeal. I think something like a third of all countries a somewhat pompous changing of the guards tradition, a minority of us are monarchies though.
Hello! As a Swede I think you would fit in perfectly! You have a “Swedish vibe”. You should definitely go to Sweden! And yes, our police officers are this nice. I hope you’ll have a great visit once you visit Sweden!
Why I support maintaining the monarchy as it is today is because it's one of the few pieces of "living" history that connects us to our past. That said, one major difference for me with the Swedish Royal family is that they have changed with the people, and they don't try to be above others or maintain class the way the British Royal family does (also due to historical differences of both countries, of course). One example of this is that both the King and Crown Princess Victoria have been open with having dyslexia since before it was okay to talk about mental health issues, they were some of the first public figures to start normalizing mental/neuropsychological disabilities and mental health issues in Sweden. Having been an advocate for people with mental health issues since I was 15, I remember how proud I was when I heard that ❤️❤️
I live in Skokloster, out in the woods and also happens to be by one of the best kept castles of the renaissance, I know that us natives are ment to scuff at them, but every summer I keep track all the languages I can spot from tourists! Makes me feel kinda proud you know!? All these people choose to come here?!
my recent experience with the local police (swedish) was last year when it was really slippery on the pavement, it was late and i was walking home from a friend and the police noticed me almost tripping a few times and they drove past me and asked me how i was doing thinking i was drunk or something and offered me a ride home.😆
@18:15 there is alot of police in that area , that's in one of stockholms more ghetto like suburbs and thats why there are more likely to be patrols there. Iwuld say that btween week 24-34 is the best time to visit sthlm
Stockholm population is about 1 million inhabitants inside the old toll stations (1622 - 1810) that use to define the boarders of old stockholm (the expression is still in use today). But the greater stockholm area population is about 2.5 million inhabitants.
They are rental scooters and have become really popular over the last few years. You can see in the apps map where they are and you unlock them with a qr code. Then you park them and take a picture to prove that it is parked right.
The electric scooters are rental scooters that you can rent using an app. You use them from point a to point b and park them almost wherever when your done using it. Really convenient way of navigating bigger cities. There are so called ¨slow zones¨ in some areas that are normally crowded, when in those areas the scooter will lock its max speed to somewhere around 5 km/h for safety.
Thursday is peasoup and pancakes-day traditionally, especially at all the small lunch-restaurants and tavern-like establishments. They usually have a set menue of 3-5 dishes for lunch every day and this is the main one on Thursdays for me. I do NOT like peas but I do love Swedish peasoup, A LOT. With some Nisse's Senap(a mustard local to area where I grew up) I find it to die for almost. Other standard meals at places like that are Fläsk, bruna bönor(or an onionsauce) with potatoes. Which means slices of fried pork with a brown bean sauce. Served with lingonberries of course. I do have to state that my go to is the onionsauce nowadays. It just hits different.
Al not eat peasoup on thursdays but it is traditional and al schools, olderlyhome and preschools use to tha soup to lunch at that day. Same as al tuesdays it is somekind of fish.
She is in Visby, Gotland. Visby is a very special city. It is an old city still surrounded by a medieval city wall, the most complete still standing in all of Scandinavia, 3,5 km long with 27 full grounded towers and 9 "hanging/attached" towers (I don't know the technical terms for this, but I think you understand what I mean). The city also have many buildings and houses remaining from the middle ages, a cathedral dating back to the 13th c and no less than 13 church ruins within the city walls. In 1361 there was a great battle fought right outside the city walls, between the danish king Valdemar Atterdags troops and mercenaries and the Gotlandic peasant array. It was a slaughter that resulted in danish control over the island until 1645, but also the best preserved medieval battle ground in all of Europe. Because of the warm weather at the time and the shere mass of bodies left dead (it was more of a massacre than a battle) they threw them all in huge mass graves, with all the armour and weapons. This has resulted in the best preserved medieval battle ground, ever discovered. The one thing that make this so special from other battle grounds is the scale of numbers of well preserved bodies/skeletons with the armour still attached to the them. Because of the battle being fought between a professional/mercenary army and a peasant array it present a "smorgasbord" of medieval armour spanning from 12th c to cutting edge 14th c. This has resulted in huge leaps in the understanding of the development of the medieval/early renaissance armoury. If you want to learn more about this you can search for "1361:The Medieval Massacre of Sweden/Medieval Dead/Chronicle" It is a great ENGLISH documentary abuot the battle and what led up to to it and what it ended in.
Most people in Sweden want to keep the king. Even in the parties that want to abolish him, most people in those parties want to keep him, which is why it is mostly included in those parties' party programs, but no one ever raises the issue
if you go to the royal family castel or what you call it and watch the parade when it happends it will be so crowded, i think at these days you can also go AROUD IN ALMOST THE WHOLE building nad do a fun map thing or what you would say. my mom once told me that there once was a guy that drove a car in there and almost got killed by the gaurds with guns, or idk if he died well it seems like a very epic story
How fun you're coming to Sweden! If you have time, and you're interested in history, you should come up to Uppsala. We have the largest cathedral in Scandinavia, dating back to before the Protestant reformation. We also have Kungshögarna (the Royal Mounds) which are three burial mounds from the early or pre-viking age. And in like 10 days the museum Gustavianum is opening up again after years-long renovations, and it has the second oldest extant anatomical theatre in the world I believe. I remember going there with school when I was younger and wondering what stains might be blood lol
To add to the cathedral bit, arguably the most famous King, Gustaf Vasa, is buried in Uppsala Cathedral. He began the Protestant reformation in Sweden to take power and land away from the Catholic church--similarly to England's Henry VIII--and the room his tomb is in what was once the room for the Virgin Mary. You can still see remnants of it in the dark blue ceiling with stars. At least that's what my teacher in 5th grade told me.
So the reason it's on Thursdays specifically is our country used to be very worker centric. Lots of people worked in factories and stuff like that. So someone invented a menu for all they weekdays so everyone would know what sort of food to expect, both the people preparing it and the people eating it. Some of the specific choices have more historical or practical roots as well. Having a leftover dish on Monday when a restaurant gets new deliveries makes sense, to use up things that would have gotten old. This is what I remember and I could be completely wrong about it. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am. Here is the menu: Pyttipanna on Mondays. Raggmunk with pork on Tuesdays. Fish (such as fried or breaded fish) on Wednesdays. Pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays. Meat (a schnitzel, steak or patty is common) on Fridays. There are of course some variants such as beans instead of raggmunk, but it's fairly consistent.
Our king is unbelievable. My friend is working as airplane cleaner and one day she realized she forgot i trashbag in the kabin of the plane they just finnished so she ran upp the stairs and into the plane. On her way out she ran straight into the kings arms. She was like : ”Omg what have i done?” Embarassed like hell then when she realized she was like ”wait what? The king?” He politely asked her ”Are you okay?” She was like shaking her head and rushed out totally in shock. What a experience.
Pea soup is eaten quite often among us swedes, but I don't know anyone who eats it every Thursday. Growing up however, Thursdays was always soup day in school and it's not uncommon for restaurants to also serve soup on Thursdays.
Yes, it is true that we eat soup and pancakes on Thursdays. This is an old tradition since the 19th century. There are still many Swedes who keep this tradition at home. In real Swedish restaurants, every Thursday there is soup and pancakes and bread dipped in soup😊
I’d say the nice police officer in the video is representative of the Swedish police force nowadays. There were some rough police districts (like Norrmalm) like 30-40 years ago, but now most police officers are very, very nice and helpful . The Peasoup and Pancakes is a classic - they serve it as a Thursday treat at many schools The restaurant she is in is the restaurant of the City Hall, which is considered as a very good restaurant. For a quite affordable price you can walk up the tower of the City Hall and get an astonishing view of the town in all directions- don’t miss that, the view is fantastic and the building itself is impressive
when I was a kid I could not stand pea soup, and we had to eat it all to get the pancakes so I used to just take a little bitt of soup and smear it in the bowl so that it looked like I ate it all x)) still can't eat it.
You are wrong there! If you are in the military, you eat it every Thursday. In addition, it is served in the schools for lunch. At least in our communal school canteens. Under what rock have you crawled out from?
I'm actually a Danish woman. I've been living in sweden all my life. Live in malmo. It used to be a beautiful and nice city. You should visit the mountains in Sweden. It is a beautiful place to be.
Ive never heard the pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays thing in sweden (coming from a swede) but i know for a fact it’s a tradition in Finland since my grandma is Finnish
I would love for you to visit Skara Sommarland! Its an amusment park with a waterpark as the main attractions. We have a type of rollercoster thats the only one of its kind called Tranan! (translates to "The Crane", bird not machine) I might be biased because I have worked there 3 years now. But STILL! I grew up with that park and it holds a special place in my heart.
One thing you need to try is Falukorv, is a type of Sausage that you only can get in Sweden (i think?) and if you find another Swede who is nice enough ask them to make Korv Stroganoff
If you go to Gotland, make sure to ho in Week 32, for the medieval festival. Though you might need to book accomodation a year and a half in advance, or more.
I actually was not aware that sweden has the same tradition of eating pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays just like here in Finland. Huh, learned something new today.
14:59 That is very good! Ärtsoppa och pannkakor. The "Ärtsoppa" which means peasoup was perfect 👌, the "och" which means and was pronounced the way it's spelled, we pronounce it as "ock", a hard K sound, the "pannkakor" which means pancakes was said in some sort of finish accent, she should try to learn how to say it with a swedish accent. But I could actually understand what she said as a swede myself.
She’s on Gotland in the begining. Swedens biggest island.
If you ever want to visit - let me know. I live on Gotland and can give you tips or be a guide :)
It’s BEAUTIFUL!
We have a medieval city (visby) i think you might have watched some content from here before 😊
Yea, Visby is fantastic.
I love Gotland. My aunt has a summer home in Visby and I love going over to visit.
I find it both interesting and slightly scary how Gotland is almost exactly ten times larger than the country of Malta.
I love the nature surrounding the coasts in northern Gotland. Those cliffs by and in the waters there are nothing but unique within european borders. :) Honestly looks like it could've been a place of worship in ancient times. :P
She is a dutch girl that has traveled all over the worl. Alone. On her bike. She is amazing. Her last Adventure took her from south america through central america to north america. Really fun to watch her. She also traveled in Africa.
Gotland is really great. Soon its time for my 44th summer on Gotland. In my summer house. In 1986 I did my conscript here.
Yes! Love Noralie and her travels. It’s like being there with her. Great channel.
From south america to the top of Alaska,
Another popular dish, which is usually served on Tuesdays, is "Raggmunk och Fläsk". Raggmunk is potato pancakes, and Fläsk is pork (thicker slices of bacon). Served with Lingonberry jam.
Delicious 😋
Welcome to Sweden! Remember that there are 10 million people here so whatever impression you get will not be representative for all of Sweden. 🎉❤
Your visit will be great, i promise. Just come here during summer when everyone is extra happy and since you have so many Swedish followers i am certain that a lot of us would love to show you around where they live. I'm from Gothenburg and you have a friend/guide right here.
Yes definitely summer.
Pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays is a Finnish tradition also. 😋
aka hernerokka ja pannaria (pannukakku)
thats true its been a tradition since we were 1 :D
I wonder where you got it from ;)
I did not know it was a tradition in Finland as well :o
Do you also traditionally only eat them on months that have a 'R' in the name? October - April in Sweden.
The people and the language is beautiful,I love Sweden.
25:45 there’s an exhibition of the royal family’s artifacts in the basement of the castle, right there. It’s a beautiful place and they have interactive displays, audio guides and hide and seek games for the children. You should go there. 👍🏻
She recently injured her collarbone but she will be starting season 8 as soon as it is healed up and she is ready.
26:21 The art on the wall behind her is a print from the art of Lasse Åberg, a well known Swedish artist known for his acting and Mickey Mouse themed art. He's even opened a Musseum (or Mickey Museum) in Bålsta, almost an hour outside Stockholm.
Wow I didn’t know that
The change of the guard is a tourist attraction, when it's the big change, at 1pm. The change you see here is one of the small changes that happens every 2h.
It's Hella stressful to do, we don't get very much training before we have our first tour at the castle, and it wasn't uncommon to come off of night guard, tuck in for a nap, only to get rustled up for a change. Super fun tho.
@@sinisterplank3113 Indeed it was, I have done 2 tours as guard.
20:35 Is at Riddarholmen, and you have the regional court straight ahead. The last person living there moved away or died 20 years ago. Since then not a single person lives on that island or in that church's congregation.
I'm Norwegian and i'm so proud of the Norwegian royal familly ❤ They are so down to earth and humble people ❤
Jag älskar Norge. Min dröm är att resa till fjällen. ❤
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First of, I have personally generally had good interactions with Swedish police (even when I have been in some murky legal waters). Second, you seem like a really nice person and that goes a long way in Sweden so if you ever visit I am sure you will find some cool people and have a good time. Thirdly, yes pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays is a real thing, at least if you go to a Swedish lunch restaurant.
Hope you will get the opportunity to go for a visit!
Stockholm has about a million inhabitants down town, but about 2,5 million including the suburbs.
It's a big difference between summer and winter here. You need to pick the time wisely not to be disappointed.
The best days of the week is when Noraly or Itchy boots are posting a new travelvlog or video, she is really amazing.
I agree. I have seen every video that she has posted.
Haven't heard of her before, but I'm on my way over to her channel after I wrote this comment 😂
Pea soup is a very old tradition as it started during the 16th century. So it’s been served in the military for hundreds of years.
Btw, if you want to learn to know about swedes in our best, come and celebrate midsummer here❤Swedish tradition at it's Peak!
We eat peasoup and pancakes with strawberry jam on thursdays
👩🏼🌾🇫🇮🥞🥣 We have green pea soup and plättar with strawberry jam on 🍓 Thursdays in Finland, too!
I have never eat peasoup. And i am from sweden. I don’t know someone WHO eat that om thursdays
We eat it at school a coupple of times a term and always on a thursday.
If you eat lunch out, sometimes they serve it. Btw it’s with whipped cream too.
@@michellenilsson9103 Hi Michelle!
Pea soup and 'plättar' with strawberry jam is an old tradition. I guess that it's not as common these days as it used to be, especially among the younger generation.
I'm aware that some people put a dab of cream in the soup, as well. I understand that in Sweden the yellow peas are more commonly used than here in Finland. Some add a little more onion bits and some a little more pork or rind bits into the soup.
Simple and easy everyday food, especially if you buy a roll of ready-made soup and just 'improve' it by adding whatever you like. A wheatbread open sandwich with a slice of Emmentaler cheese goes perfectly with this soup!
Simple, inexpensive and yummy! As we're in Scandinavia plus Finland, we drink milk with our soup.
Does this Thursday pea soup tradition exist in Denmark, Norway and Iceland too?
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22:00... That must have been one of the quieter guarded gates. There was a crowd of on lookers and a band at the gate where I saw the guard changed in 1990.
It’s like a side entrence
I'm so with you when you finally can come to Sweden, I will watch everything. You are very enjoyable to watch reactions from. Hugs from Ingarö ( just outside of Stockholm)
Norally aka Itchy Boots have travelled 100 countries, Sadly last trip in Africa she had an accident, broke her collarbone and had to return to Holland to get surgery. Doubly sad is when they made surgery and mended her broken bone, they accidentally punctured her lunge. But she is recovering and hopefully ready in autumn for more explorations.
The thing with the Swedish Royal Family, we have some programs on the television what they are doing but not so much, but we keep or traditions and that's nice!
I am from Norway and I would never trade away our royal family for having a president. I believe that I have the majority of the Norwegian population with me.
Im from Sweden and i agree.. I love our king and royal family
As another Swede, I'm glad the bump of pro-republic voices we had a while ago has largely gone quiet. Leve Kungen!
Yep! Swedish here as well. Never replace your royal family for a president.
Hell, even Swedes love the Norweigian royals 🙂
As a Swede, agreed. I don't know too much about the Norwegian royal family, but if you feel about them as I do about ours then you should definitely keep them.
Which country was it that the Nowegian royal family always sends a christmas tree to each year? Edit: Wasn't it the UK? As thanks for keeping their family safe during he occupation?
Swede here. Love the monarchy!
Driving the main road from Nynäshamn into Stockholm, road 73, means passing the suburb I grew up in, called Skogås. An old joke there is translating it to Shoe-goose as in Sko-gås, but it's Skog-ås, meaning Forest-Ridge.
When planning remember that Sweden is bigger in size than UK but has a much smaller population.
Quite a lot bigger. It takes about 22 hours to drive from Smygehuk to Kiruna. That's a drive you don't do in one go unless you're on ADHD medicine 😂
And there is much of Sweden left north of kiruna. @@loris-bismar
@@loris-bismar And that is why almost everyone driving the cars with reflective triangles on the rear are on those. ;)
Oh I'm here for the Journey!
I live in Stockholm myself, such a lovely place! We welcome you with open arms!
As a Swedish person, I have some information
Sweden is mostly an introvert country but not always of course because if I don’t know you, of course I will not want to talk to you
So if you’re going to Sweden, don’t go and start random small talks with people out on the streets you don’t know but if you learn to know this person, they may want to talk to you like you did see in the video 7:53 but the most people will just think you’re weird and just looked at you with a side eye 😅😅😅 and pee soup is almost like beans on toast for us
Our Kings grandmothers grandmother was your queen Victoria.
And our king is cousin with the Danish queen .
Former Queen, you mean. Mary (Donaldson) is the current queen.
It was something of a surprise when Queen Margrethe 'retired' and left the crown to Frederik, as she had several times said that she would stay reigning queen until her demise. It was a wise decision anyway.
You totally do not need to try Kaviar.
Kaviar is something you need to learn to like pretty much (except for rare cases I guess).
But there is something you do need to try and that is "mjukost".
It is cheese on a tube, usually flavoured with pieces of shrimp, bacon, ham, reindeer meat, crab and so on.
The shrimp one is weirdly the most popular and the one mostly liked by foreigners as well.
It may sound scary, but it is great.
You should try it on knäckebröd (the hard rye bread we eat here).
👩🏻🌾🇫🇮🦐 Yes! The soft cheese in a tube with the shrimp is my favorite, too!
Since you enjoy the view you get of the country / city from her motorbike perspective.
You should check out her other videos of Sweden, she's going from Malmö in the south all the way up to the most northern part of Sweden.
@MarkWiens has some really nice videos of Sweden as well.
His channel is all about travle for food so you get to see lots of different
types of food places in and around Stockholm.
Great video as always.
I was a royal guard during my service. I served in the marine core (dress blues and green beret), those guys are kings guard, you can tell by the helmet. This post change happens every four hours around the clock, the real attraction happens in the upper courtyard where the barracks are, thats a whole parade routine.
I'm so happy to see how much your channel have grown!
22:30, at 1998, i was a guard at exactly that station. Welcome to Sweden. Please visit the castle!
This lady seems super approachable and lovely! And I love that she learns as well, rather than just going "oh, pretty building!" And then moving on.
Nothing wrong with that, I think we all do it. But her approach is refreshing to see 😅
I can relate to the Swede on the boat.😅
I drive freight trains all over Sweden and have to stay at hotels all the time.
Sometimes I am lucky to catch the breakfast buffet which is one of the few perks.
This one time I came down to an empty breakfast hall and started loading my plates with all the goodies and sat down to dig in as I read the morning paper.
Then, a Japanese man showed up, grabbed his breakfast and looked around the empty room, spotted me and came and sat down right across from me. At the same table!! I was dumbfounded over this behavior. If he would have been another Swede he would have sat down on the other side of the room, like any normal person (Swede).
But I realised that this is not the time to be rude, so with a deep sigh inside, I put up a brave and polite face and we actually had a nice conversation.😂😂❤
Most Swedes who eat pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays have it for lunch in a restaurant. At least in the bigger cities. You wouldn’t make it at home for supper. We also have a Friday eve tradition (like your Fish & Chips): Taco Friday! 🌮🌮
I don't think Taco Friday has been around long enough to be called a tradition... But hang on to it and it can be!
She is in Gotland an island belongs to Sweden, she will take the ferry to the mainland, takes aprox 4 hours I guess.
As a Swede, you're very welcome to visit! I liked how you called what's mundane for me, beautiful etc. Nice video, made me think about what I take for granted.
I think it is pleasant because we do not sound serious.
A swede with a thick accent speaking English can't really sound angry.
Norwegians are even worse lol.
That is to a huge degree because Norwegians tend to sound happy when they speak.
They have similar language, but every isolated sentence, phrase, and word tend to end with the pitch peaking.
It makes them sound jolly lol.
The thing is that Swedish is like the most camp language on the planet.
We overaccentuate everything with melody.
We communicate with melody, which makes it sound silly when we use the same way of talking when talking other languages.
As a Dane, shhh don't tell the rest of them, I'm super fucking jealous of the songs of my brother nations. Apparently Danish lost that in a deliberate push to be more linguistically closer to Western Europe? But nationalism came along quicker than the transition finished so we didn't pick up any of the modes of French or German? Though you can keep your specific S pronunciation, that's the one thing I can't accept from Swedish lol
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Hello there!
Norwegian definitely always sounds cheerful because of the rising pitch at the end of a sentence or word. It's impossible to sound miserable in Norwegian. To say that you are depressed, for instance, sounds like you're presenting a piece of surprising good news! But "Jeg er så deprimert!" means "I'm so depressed!" 😂
No way! -- with that happy- sounding word end!
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Don't you sing a lot as well?
That is how we hear it.
What specific s haha?!
@@MegaBanne That's surprising lol - to me Danish is as flat as our country, though some dialects are slightly more flourishing. We kinda just go over tiny bumps at the greatest, while Swedish and Norwegian can be outright beautiful.
And I'm talking about S in words like stjärna and skit (apologies for the word choice). The poor dear doesn't even get a chance to be noticed lol
@@thethirdtime9168 Sju sjösjuka sjömän sköttes av sju sköna sjuksköterskor på skeppet Shanghai? This S? 😂
She rides acros sthe world really. Usually one continent at at time. She uses different bikes from time to tima. And she names all of them.
yeah thailand traffic is crazy fr, damn i watched u before and wow ur content is amazing, nice video (btw i live in sweden :D)
Watch more of Itchy boots videos in Sweden, she goes north.
But, Ronin is sad, you called her a scooter :)
@zpitzer... Yes really sad! Scooter is a Moped 50cc and Ronin is the Honda CB500 motorcycle. It´s a big different.
Years ago I had some friends from French coming here to Sweden, they tried Kalles Kaviar and every time they returned here they bought a bunch of tubes to bring back with them, they loved it
If you are in stockholm there is a building that is red and have heads on it, it symbolises the people who died in stockholms bloodbath
Through your clips I discover more and more similarities between your and my country. We are definitley related!
At 20:30 Riddarholmen in the Gamla stan...Central Stockholm..
I absolutely adored your reaction! Very fun and enjoying to watch. I hope you get a nice trip to Sweden and yeah as many has already recommended coming here during the summer. We are a bit more happy and approachable during the summer 😅Have you started on your "must see/eat" list yet?
If you go to small towns or vilages it will be great but if you go to big citys it will probebly suck and my friend owns a air bnb and its near a butiful lake and its in a town so its very chill not a lot of cars but butiful huses every thing is in walking distance and the bus is afordeble would recomend
You are so right when saying that what makes you feel British or Swedish or I think every country, the feeling is so much stronger when you are out of your birth country.
The changing of the guards are a tourist attraction, they are especially pompous at 13:00 April 23- August 31. The guards change every 2 hours but no other time does the fanfare with marching bands and the whole ordeal. I think something like a third of all countries a somewhat pompous changing of the guards tradition, a minority of us are monarchies though.
Hello! As a Swede I think you would fit in perfectly! You have a “Swedish vibe”. You should definitely go to Sweden! And yes, our police officers are this nice. I hope you’ll have a great visit once you visit Sweden!
Why I support maintaining the monarchy as it is today is because it's one of the few pieces of "living" history that connects us to our past. That said, one major difference for me with the Swedish Royal family is that they have changed with the people, and they don't try to be above others or maintain class the way the British Royal family does (also due to historical differences of both countries, of course). One example of this is that both the King and Crown Princess Victoria have been open with having dyslexia since before it was okay to talk about mental health issues, they were some of the first public figures to start normalizing mental/neuropsychological disabilities and mental health issues in Sweden. Having been an advocate for people with mental health issues since I was 15, I remember how proud I was when I heard that ❤️❤️
We also got pea soup on Thursdays at school, then you have to put mustard in the soup, it's really good 😁
I live in Skokloster, out in the woods and also happens to be by one of the best kept castles of the renaissance, I know that us natives are ment to scuff at them, but every summer I keep track all the languages I can spot from tourists! Makes me feel kinda proud you know!? All these people choose to come here?!
my recent experience with the local police (swedish) was last year when it was really slippery on the pavement, it was late and i was walking home from a friend and the police noticed me almost tripping a few times and they drove past me and asked me how i was doing thinking i was drunk or something and offered me a ride home.😆
@18:15 there is alot of police in that area , that's in one of stockholms more ghetto like suburbs and thats why there are more likely to be patrols there.
Iwuld say that btween week 24-34 is the best time to visit sthlm
Stockholm population is about 1 million inhabitants inside the old toll stations (1622 - 1810) that use to define the boarders of old stockholm (the expression is still in use today). But the greater stockholm area population is about 2.5 million inhabitants.
They are rental scooters and have become really popular over the last few years. You can see in the apps map where they are and you unlock them with a qr code. Then you park them and take a picture to prove that it is parked right.
on a lunch restaurant you can find pea soup on the winter, but not in the summer. On Tuesdays we serv Rag donut and pork. so we have out days. :)
I live in Sweden, so feel free to ask me if you want to know something or have any questions.
The electric scooters are rental scooters that you can rent using an app. You use them from point a to point b and park them almost wherever when your done using it. Really convenient way of navigating bigger cities. There are so called ¨slow zones¨ in some areas that are normally crowded, when in those areas the scooter will lock its max speed to somewhere around 5 km/h for safety.
Thursday is peasoup and pancakes-day traditionally, especially at all the small lunch-restaurants and tavern-like establishments. They usually have a set menue of 3-5 dishes for lunch every day and this is the main one on Thursdays for me. I do NOT like peas but I do love Swedish peasoup, A LOT. With some Nisse's Senap(a mustard local to area where I grew up) I find it to die for almost.
Other standard meals at places like that are Fläsk, bruna bönor(or an onionsauce) with potatoes. Which means slices of fried pork with a brown bean sauce. Served with lingonberries of course. I do have to state that my go to is the onionsauce nowadays. It just hits different.
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Theres different places the guard well.... guards, the royal palace does bring in plenty of tourists contrary to the place in the video.
Al not eat peasoup on thursdays but it is traditional and al schools, olderlyhome and preschools use to tha soup to lunch at that day. Same as al tuesdays it is somekind of fish.
She is in Visby, Gotland. Visby is a very special city. It is an old city still surrounded by a medieval city wall, the most complete still standing in all of Scandinavia, 3,5 km long with 27 full grounded towers and 9 "hanging/attached" towers (I don't know the technical terms for this, but I think you understand what I mean). The city also have many buildings and houses remaining from the middle ages, a cathedral dating back to the 13th c and no less than 13 church ruins within the city walls. In 1361 there was a great battle fought right outside the city walls, between the danish king Valdemar Atterdags troops and mercenaries and the Gotlandic peasant array. It was a slaughter that resulted in danish control over the island until 1645, but also the best preserved medieval battle ground in all of Europe. Because of the warm weather at the time and the shere mass of bodies left dead (it was more of a massacre than a battle) they threw them all in huge mass graves, with all the armour and weapons. This has resulted in the best preserved medieval battle ground, ever discovered. The one thing that make this so special from other battle grounds is the scale of numbers of well preserved bodies/skeletons with the armour still attached to the them. Because of the battle being fought between a professional/mercenary army and a peasant array it present a "smorgasbord" of medieval armour spanning from 12th c to cutting edge 14th c. This has resulted in huge leaps in the understanding of the development of the medieval/early renaissance armoury. If you want to learn more about this you can search for "1361:The Medieval Massacre of Sweden/Medieval Dead/Chronicle" It is a great ENGLISH documentary abuot the battle and what led up to to it and what it ended in.
Most people in Sweden want to keep the king. Even in the parties that want to abolish him, most people in those parties want to keep him, which is why it is mostly included in those parties' party programs, but no one ever raises the issue
Amazing polis. That´s some real analyzed stuff. Must be a biker himself.
Pea soup on Thursdays only for months with “R” so no summer months 😂
she is all over sweden she is good..she finds gems
Yellow pea soup with pork and pancakes on the side is an old tradition that very few people follow nowadays, but many know of the tradition.
It is time to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. Come to Sweden!
Best regards from Per Holmqvist, Solna, Stockholm.
Very insightful information on tradition
if you go to the royal family castel or what you call it and watch the parade when it happends it will be so crowded, i think at these days you can also go AROUD IN ALMOST THE WHOLE building nad do a fun map thing or what you would say. my mom once told me that there once was a guy that drove a car in there and almost got killed by the gaurds with guns, or idk if he died well it seems like a very epic story
How fun you're coming to Sweden! If you have time, and you're interested in history, you should come up to Uppsala. We have the largest cathedral in Scandinavia, dating back to before the Protestant reformation. We also have Kungshögarna (the Royal Mounds) which are three burial mounds from the early or pre-viking age. And in like 10 days the museum Gustavianum is opening up again after years-long renovations, and it has the second oldest extant anatomical theatre in the world I believe. I remember going there with school when I was younger and wondering what stains might be blood lol
To add to the cathedral bit, arguably the most famous King, Gustaf Vasa, is buried in Uppsala Cathedral. He began the Protestant reformation in Sweden to take power and land away from the Catholic church--similarly to England's Henry VIII--and the room his tomb is in what was once the room for the Virgin Mary. You can still see remnants of it in the dark blue ceiling with stars. At least that's what my teacher in 5th grade told me.
Tuesdays the restaurants have "Raggmunk med fläsk" ~Potatoes pancake with fried pork.
Leeds is much smaller than Stockholm. Stockholm proper is about a million but with suburbs it’s about 2.5 million.
So the reason it's on Thursdays specifically is our country used to be very worker centric. Lots of people worked in factories and stuff like that. So someone invented a menu for all they weekdays so everyone would know what sort of food to expect, both the people preparing it and the people eating it. Some of the specific choices have more historical or practical roots as well. Having a leftover dish on Monday when a restaurant gets new deliveries makes sense, to use up things that would have gotten old. This is what I remember and I could be completely wrong about it. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am.
Here is the menu: Pyttipanna on Mondays. Raggmunk with pork on Tuesdays. Fish (such as fried or breaded fish) on Wednesdays. Pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays. Meat (a schnitzel, steak or patty is common) on Fridays. There are of course some variants such as beans instead of raggmunk, but it's fairly consistent.
Our king is unbelievable. My friend is working as airplane cleaner and one day she realized she forgot i trashbag in the kabin of the plane they just finnished so she ran upp the stairs and into the plane. On her way out she ran straight into the kings arms. She was like : ”Omg what have i done?” Embarassed like hell then when she realized she was like ”wait what? The king?” He politely asked her ”Are you okay?” She was like shaking her head and rushed out totally in shock. What a experience.
Pea soup is eaten quite often among us swedes, but I don't know anyone who eats it every Thursday. Growing up however, Thursdays was always soup day in school and it's not uncommon for restaurants to also serve soup on Thursdays.
Kalles Kaviar on some Prästost and Hönökaka with a nice smoking hot coffee is life.
Yes, it is true that we eat soup and pancakes on Thursdays. This is an old tradition since the 19th century.
There are still many Swedes who keep this tradition at home. In real Swedish restaurants, every Thursday there is soup and pancakes and bread dipped in soup😊
I’d say the nice police officer in the video is representative of the Swedish police force nowadays. There were some rough police districts (like Norrmalm) like 30-40 years ago, but now most police officers are very, very nice and helpful .
The Peasoup and Pancakes is a classic - they serve it as a Thursday treat at many schools
The restaurant she is in is the restaurant of the City Hall, which is considered as a very good restaurant. For a quite affordable price you can walk up the tower of the City Hall and get an astonishing view of the town in all directions- don’t miss that, the view is fantastic and the building itself is impressive
when I was a kid I could not stand pea soup, and we had to eat it all to get the pancakes so I used to just take a little bitt of soup and smear it in the bowl so that it looked like I ate it all x)) still can't eat it.
And I love it. Especially with lots of dijon mustard.
The pea soup thing isnt really a thing anymore. I literally dont know anyone under the age of 75 who eats that
You are wrong there! If you are in the military, you eat it every Thursday. In addition, it is served in the schools for lunch. At least in our communal school canteens. Under what rock have you crawled out from?
I'm actually a Danish woman. I've been living in sweden all my life. Live in malmo. It used to be a beautiful and nice city. You should visit the mountains in Sweden. It is a beautiful place to be.
Peasoup and pancakes is a military tradition , on thursdays , comes from so long back in time Sweden and Finland was one
Ive never heard the pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays thing in sweden (coming from a swede) but i know for a fact it’s a tradition in Finland since my grandma is Finnish
Tbh I don’t think he’s ever coming to Sweden😂
She's on Gotland. She is from the Netherlands so they pronounce G like ch for some reason.
I would love for you to visit Skara Sommarland!
Its an amusment park with a waterpark as the main attractions.
We have a type of rollercoster thats the only one of its kind called Tranan! (translates to "The Crane", bird not machine)
I might be biased because I have worked there 3 years now. But STILL! I grew up with that park and it holds a special place in my heart.
One thing you need to try is Falukorv, is a type of Sausage that you only can get in Sweden (i think?) and if you find another Swede who is nice enough ask them to make Korv Stroganoff
If you go to Gotland, make sure to ho in Week 32, for the medieval festival. Though you might need to book accomodation a year and a half in advance, or more.
I actually was not aware that sweden has the same tradition of eating pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays just like here in Finland. Huh, learned something new today.
as a swedish person i dint even know that mustard and pea soup was a combination, well pancakes they are a classic banger
You can go to your nearest IKEA and buy a lot of Swedish foods. Swedish cheese, herring, meatballs, cookies, candy, you name it...
The brightly coloured electrical scooters/bikes you see are rental ones. You can just pick one up if you see one unoccupied and pay with your phone.
14:59 That is very good! Ärtsoppa och pannkakor. The "Ärtsoppa" which means peasoup was perfect 👌, the "och" which means and was pronounced the way it's spelled, we pronounce it as "ock", a hard K sound, the "pannkakor" which means pancakes was said in some sort of finish accent, she should try to learn how to say it with a swedish accent. But I could actually understand what she said as a swede myself.
A lot of people eat pee soup because school forces you.