Scandinavia Part 9 - Copenhagen

Travel with us as we continue our 6-week bucket list trip to Scandinavia. In Part 9, we fly from Oslo to Copenhagen. We stay at a great hotel, enjoy delicious food, and discover what Copenhagen and Denmark have to offer. We take the train to Helsingør to explore Kronborg Castle, Shakespeare's setting for Hamlet. No tours, just us doing what we want.

[@silviatunnell8514]

Wow, wow this looks like such an amazing 👏 trip! Its so beautiful there, I love the mix of old and modern with all the plazas and that cute ferris 🎡 wheel. 🦋 Your narration is so helpful I feel like I learned as you went along and such beautiful cinematography, thank you for sharing! 💫

[@SacramentoLisa]

Awww... thank you! 💕

[@abigailroy1815]

Was this filmed during 2021? I will be studying abroad here in the fall and couldn't be more excited! I'm not sure what the current covid/mask situation is in Denmark.

[@SacramentoLisa]

Hello! This was filmed in September 2019 (it just took me a while to post). Unfortunately, I don’t know what the Covid situation is like. You will love Copenhagen! Good luck with your studies!

[@floro7687]

Ingen flæskesteg med sprøde svær og rødkål?

[@SacramentoLisa]

Nei, men neste gang!

[@Luredreier]

1:38
If you care a lot about the environment perhaps consider taking a train between Oslo and Copenhagen?
Oslo, Gøteborg, Malmø and København (Copenhagen) are all in a big highly populated area, a mini version of the yellow banana in continental Europe.
7:12
Looks like the Queens guard.
Although with her abdication recently they're the king's guard now.
By the way, that means that Denmark now has a Australian queen consort "gemalinne" or "kongegemalinne" in Norwegian I think?
Honestly, it's such a rare word, we just use "queen" these days without going into details about the exact title in day to day speech.
Honestly
10:38
Yeah, when it comes to being sexually open-minded and relaxed about the body it's probably the Benelux people first, especially the Dutch and Friseans.
Then the Danes.
Norwegians are more self conscious then Danes, but way less so then Swedes.
I think that the Finns are a bit more open-minded then us again.
The Germans are about the same level as the Swedes.
More open-minded in the north, especially further east, less in the south.
But all of us are probably more open-minded then a lot of Americans...
Topless sunbathing is dying out, but used to be common in Sweden too.
11:34
Its not a toilet.
"Pissoar" is the Norwegian word for a "urinal".
As you can see the Danish word is pretty similar.
16:38
The thing is, southern Sweden used to be Danish.
And Copenhagen was pretty much in the middle of the kingdom back in the day, before Norway and Sweden was included in the Kalmar union.
Denmark was the wealthiest of us all and most powerful because they controlled the trade out of the Baltic sea.
Meaning that they could charge high tolls for passage.
Both Sweden and Germany made canals to try to avoid the Danish control.
Even the Russians did.
The Russian channel goes northwards into the Arctic ocean.
18:42
The "Ó" is a Icelandic and Faeroese letter.
And I believe I've visited a Gló in Reykjavík, so my guess is that the resturant is from one of those two nations.
From what I remember they're specializing in vegetarian food?
I could be wrong.