Those "pointless canes sticking out of the ground" are vital in the winter. Without them the plough truck would have no idea where the road is after a heavy snow.
I love that we norwegians feel very special when anything related to Norway get mentioned outside of Norway. When we comment we have to make sure that everyone knows that we are indeed norwegians, like I just did. Cheers mate, love the videos. I wish you a blessed evening!
As a Brit who lives in Norway and speaks Norwegian, I really love hearing you pronounce all the place names and sounds that I struggled with hahaha. Also really proud of myself for guessing the Stavanger one right away based off the street and the wall alone. The building to the right is the official residence of the King of Norway (for when he visits Stavanger) :))
@@iowkey_9339 You have kvadraturen in both Krisansand and Oslo, tho. Kristiansand also has both Rundingen and Trekanten, so I guess it's more about what you recognize.
Trekanten = The Triangle barn leker = children (are) playing Sporsluse = Particular street blocker, made so that firetrucks and garbage trucks can pass while passenger cars cannot. Samfunnshus = Literary "society house", Community centre (Your interpetation "Sam's fun house" was hilarious though)
One the last one, in the tunnel, there was a sign that said "6" with an arrow one way, and 2 the other. That means there are 6 km of tunnel ahead, and 2 behind you. Info that might come in handy later.
It's really funny how things that seem like common knowledge to us about how each part of the country looks like or where cities are, becomes nothing to non-Norwegians.
I know, right? He has impressed me so much with the knowledge of where stuff is in Norway, especially the locations of different roads! Then when it comes to Stavanger, literally the 4th largest city, he just goes "where's Stavanger???"
Hey Tom! Stumbled across your channel last week, then proceeded to binge about 20 geoguessr episodes and two of your epic travel adventure series. I apologize for my country being so annoying on geoguessr 🇨🇦
He scrolled past where I lived when he was looking down the E39 so I've got that going for me. perhaps if he fail enough times he can visit all of our homes.
I found why there are commonwealth graves in Stavanger. In November 1942 an attempt was made to destroy the hydroelectric power station at Vermork, Telemark. Two gliders and an aircraft engaged in the raid crashed in southern Norway. All those aboard, engineers of the 1st airborne division and members of the commonwealth air forces were either killed in the crash or died at the hands of their German captors.
There are commonwealth war graves not only in Stavanger (which is like 300km from Vemork. No immediate relation there), but all over the country. According to the offical government pages, there are 1150 graves for fallen commonwealth soldiers in Norway. They are located in 74 different graveyards across the country. There's also soviet gravesites, german, jugoslavian, polish and dutch gravesites from WWII all over Norway.
Haha I thought the same! If it was western Norway, it could have been winter, but more likely there would have been lots of snow if it was winter! Especially considering the sticks used to mark the road.
That looks nothing like spring or summer. Low sun in the south and no leaves on the trees means it's late autumn or early winter before the snow. Besides, winter near the coast often looks exactly like that, since they don't always get snow.
Your pronounciation is actually quite good for a foreigner who doesn't know the language. Love these videos, your finding these roads more easily than I would and I'm Norwegian!
What a great ending. Just ending up in the middle of an 8 km long tunnel. It's the 13th longest tunnel in Norway, but as you can see, Norway's got a lot of long tunnels including the world's longest. So I was laughing my arse off when I saw the 2|6 sign knowing you had to get within 20 meters! And then laughing even more when I saw it was the E39, one of the longest roads in Norway, going though the entire Western Norway(meaning it's full of long tunnels)! But really good effort on getting so close, impressive.
Watching the video now, at round 4 at the moment. Really difficult one! Impressed with you finally getting it! Super enjoyable to watch, would love more and more Norway challenges
Sorry that you had to revisit Norway, but glad you did ! Stavanger is where I grew up, you went past my old high school before you saw the Kunsthall sign ! So fun to recognise where you were almost instantly. Cheers !
Well, it happened! The fourth place is very close to where I grew up :D Been on bike rides down to the fjord there many times. You went past the house of my friend from Skatval also.
That last guess should definitely make a ow-noes-so-close! compilation! It seems that that road is one of the longest if not the longest of Norway. One you could just follow for days on a bike/motorcycle/cabrio/campervan/... lovely, putting Norway on my bucket list for sure!
I believe the E6 is longer actually - it goes through the *entire* length of Norway from north to south! But E39 (the road in the last round) goes through all of western Norway and crosses all the fjords, including a total of 9 ferry crossings :)
Those small square signs you saw on the little bridge that you thought said "No fishing" are actually super useful. They are placed at every 500 meters along most roads, and the signs state what road you're at, what part of the road you're at (the roads are 'cut up' at any major junction), and how far you are from said junction. The sign will typically say F420 07 41(5) (the 5 in the paranthesis is smaller than the numbers 41) (County Road 420, the 7 part since its start, 41,5 km from the last junction)
Well done! The first one was trivial, the rock quarry plus road junction to Skumsjøen was more than enough to solve it. Nr 2 was quite recognizable from the vegetation so I knew which general area you had ended up in. For nr 3 the street names are reused many places, but the combination indicated SV Norway, and finding those 3-4 street names made it certain. The real challenge would be to not move, just guess from turning around in the initial spot. :-)
I was driving through that last tunnel just a week ago. You can recognize those underwater tunnels by them having two lanes on the way up and one lane on the way down.
9:03 I'm from Germany and I've never been overtaken by a truck here. When I'm in Norway for vacation, it happens to me all the time. When the speed limit is 80kmh, I drive 83kmh because the fines are expensive. But all the trucks are always going way over 90 and it scares me every time on this narrow roads 😄
haha that was insane! Found this channel because of the first norway attempt you did, found it very relaxing and chill to watch, like a bob ross feel, but this was hilarious at the end! thats insane, 1 point lol! and you have to make a 3rd attempt now, great xD
Yeah, Auran the place isn't on the map, but two people added themselves (or were added by someone else) as local businesses or features on Google maps - and they happen to have last name after the place. Maybe they have one-man companies of some sort, I don't know.
"Guess I'll watch another one of these, perhaps it's actually a place I recognize this time". First one is literally 10 minutes away from where I grew up, and I drove on that road earlier today. Amazing.
Love this content - The second one was an hour away from my house, wich is wierd. - Gate is street in norwegian - if there is a lot of white smaller wooden houses is a give away that its on the west coast( below bergen) and south coast - lots of farmland with coast = Trøndelag (Trondheim area).
The little signs with crosses next to the placename signs in round 4 represent St. Olavsleden, a trail from the east coast of Sweden to Trondheim. A beautiful way to cross two countries if you are so inclined :)
After finding this channel last week I signed up for membership on geoguessr and tried to get a perfect score on the same Norway map (I'm Norwegian). I got perfect score on the first 4 and then got 4997 on the last one because I was a bit too far down the road. This is a lot of fun. Must try again!
Here is a few tips to help with the "northness" in 🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇴 If the trees are small and squiggly, you are far north, in Lapland. If the trees are like big logs, you are in the middle. If there are very few pine trees (only trees with leaves), you are in the south.
This was really weird... Never seen your videoes before until it popped up in recomended, glanzed over at the thumbnail and immediately recognized where you were and I was totally right. I live in Stjørdal, the town just south of Skatval.. Good job, finding all these places though man. Thumbs up :)
Just a tip, if you see on the houses around norway you could see difference between places, forexampel, you could see difference between a hous from southern norway and a house from middel norway, and northen norway👍🏼. But this is impressing
When I saw ur last location I smiled... I knew where it was right away driven true that tunnel more times than i can remember.... I did know that E39 was going to be problem tho since it strech more or less the hole side of the west part of the country on and off.... :P The tunnel is one of many under sea tunnels in Norway... ;)
It's funny how intuition works. I immediately had a feeling for all of these places, even though I didn't know exactly where they were. Even Stavanger, which is admittedly my hometown, just the first view by that stone wall gave me a feeling of "reminds me a lot of Eiganes, Stavanger." (Eiganes is that specific part of the city). The tunnel was a total curveball, but considering it was a long-a** tunnel and went really uphill at the end, I thought it had to be an undersea tunnel. And you can expect to find those in western Norway, where there are so many fjords to cross! The road E39 actually continues all the way through Stavanger and south to Kristiansand. Also, how could you not know where Stavanger is?? :'( It's literally the fourth largest city in Norway!
I found this round of Norway quite funny as you were following a bus I relatively commonly use to get to my boyfriend's house in Stavanger. 😂 I was thinking quite quickly that 'this has to either be Oslo (where I live atm) or Stavanger (where I was born and raised) as I am sure I have been in these streets before🤔', hahaha. Enjoyed this! I felt I could join the guessing game at times and sort of figure out the area of the country along with you! 😊 Norway has quite a lot of land that one simply cannot live on or grow food in, and so I think you are doing a much better job than I would have as well as quicker, and that's coming from a certified born and raised Norwegian that has driven across quite a bit of the country, as well as had to study it's geography in school... 👍😬 This got quite long... sorry. I guess as most Norwegians I get excited whenever someone pays us even an ounce of attention, hihi. Anyways, this was fun, thanks 🎉☀️💜🇳🇴
Yesss! I'm from Stavanger too, and even though I don't know the area he was placed in very well, that stone wall and graveyard just gave me a feeling of Eiganes, even though it could have been any town in Norway for all I knew. Then the more he moved through the streets the more certain I felt! I also had a pretty accurate intuition about the other rounds as well, even if I don't know those specific places. And I agree with everything else you said! (sorry, I get excited too :P)
Tips for norway: gate/vei/veg - street/road. Kommune - county. Fylke - region (contains several counties) Sjø/vann - lake Tunnels all have a name with sign posted a few hundred metres from either end Sams fun house - community center. 😛
"Pointless cane sticking out of the ground..." - That is for the plow trucks in winter to know where the edge of the road is.
sjokomelk We have those in canada as well
artist45 Pretty sure they are everywhere where it snows
ah..
@@GeoWizard hahahaha
Not so pointless anymore are they? 😂
I don't mind for an ep3 of Norway 🤣
Ooo thanks for getting liked!
wish people didn’t upvote this so i didn’t get it spoiled
@@lzw3 I wish people didn't read the comments before watching the video, then proceeding to complaining about "spoilers"
@@The_Forgotten_RUclipsr of course you read comments while watching you nob
Every Norwegian watching this video waiting fot a place they know to show up....
Basically
Yes
And I got one :D the last one. Knew it while still in the tunnel. The bend near the top was the dead giveaway ^^
lmao yes
my grandparents hous is in skatval so that was exiting
23:21 sign: samfunnshus....
Geo wizard: Sam’s fun house!
🤣 I want to live in a world where every town in Norway has a Sam’s fun house
It means Community Centre
@@XSeDanX So I assume 'samfunn' means something like 'community' or 'society'?
@@-wealuka7367 Yes, that's right.
@@-wealuka7367 Yes, and then in school we have society class "samfunnfag"
Those "pointless canes sticking out of the ground" are vital in the winter. Without them the plough truck would have no idea where the road is after a heavy snow.
"Gate" is the Norwegian word for Street
Also, "gate" is used in cities or small villages. Longer stretches of road in the countryside, or roads like the E's are called "vei"
fin båt ser ut som en gate
It's also the word for street in Scots as well.
There are streets in Scotland that still has "gate" in their names. Supposedly originating from the days of the vikings.
Yep thanks to the vikings.
The first location is literally right by my hometown. Lovely to see 5000 points :)
Samme her:)
@@mr.escobargaming8581 Gjøvik? :)
Haha sjæl
@@Markuz9673 hehe ja
Vakkert å se nordmenn se på legenden av en RUclipsr!
I love that we norwegians feel very special when anything related to Norway get mentioned outside of Norway. When we comment we have to make sure that everyone knows that we are indeed norwegians, like I just did.
Cheers mate, love the videos. I wish you a blessed evening!
Same with the Dutch. Which again, this time i'm an example of.
We here in Iceland are the same
Danish people are no different either
Philippines does that too but to an extreme that their need of global validation is taken advantage of :L
Same for Finns, torille perkele!
Geowizard: "20 meters?! Quite sloppy of me there."
Me: "Only 3,5 kilometers off? I'm getting good!"
same but for me it's miles lmao
@@maya_paraiah8370 for me it’s Norwegian miles
@@idkactually8565 qué
@@maya_paraiah8370 1 Norwegian mile = 10 km
@@idkactually8565 the Scandinavian mile give much more sense than the imperial one.
As a Brit who lives in Norway and speaks Norwegian, I really love hearing you pronounce all the place names and sounds that I struggled with hahaha. Also really proud of myself for guessing the Stavanger one right away based off the street and the wall alone. The building to the right is the official residence of the King of Norway (for when he visits Stavanger) :))
I guessed around Stavanger when I saw Alexander Kielland street name and lots of Stangeland company logos.
I saw a van with a phone number starting with 51, and I was pretty sure it had to be either Stavanger or Haugesund.
Trekanten? Gotta be Stavanger, they like their geometry - Kvadraten
That's really good. I've lived here all my life and I had no idea where he was.
@@iowkey_9339 You have kvadraturen in both Krisansand and Oslo, tho. Kristiansand also has both Rundingen and Trekanten, so I guess it's more about what you recognize.
Trekanten = The Triangle
barn leker = children (are) playing
Sporsluse = Particular street blocker, made so that firetrucks and garbage trucks can pass while passenger cars cannot.
Samfunnshus = Literary "society house", Community centre (Your interpetation "Sam's fun house" was hilarious though)
I laughed out loud at those last 4999 points! That was harsh. Thanks for playing in my country!
You evil Bastard ;) You're welcome. I'll conquer it next time!
Norway 2 - Geowizard 0
Tip for pronounciations:
'å' is close to the 'a' in 'tall'
'ø' is close to the 'i' in 'bird'
Ze Rubenator
"å" is more like the sound of the word "awe"
@@DjabbyTP Yep, plus they may be "long" or "short", short if they're followed by a double-consonant.
‘æ’ is the ‘a’ in balloon
@@emilal No it's not lol. It's more like the 'A' in the American pronounciation of 'Ass' and 'Actually'
@@Frank_C_ Who you calling an ass?
"There need to be a junction soon"
Norway: *Laughs in brunost* Hold my beer
"I should probably write those down"
Ignores Raufoss, the biggest hint on the first one...
Truck driver: *I AM S P E E D*
One the last one, in the tunnel, there was a sign that said "6" with an arrow one way, and 2 the other. That means there are 6 km of tunnel ahead, and 2 behind you. Info that might come in handy later.
Ye he says the same at 31:18
I think it's metric miles. At least in the north
@@jubmelahtes Kilometer
@@jubmelahtes Yes, we do use metric units beyond the wall.
@@jubmelahtes wtf are "metric miles"?
That tunnel round was MENTAL I was laughing and on the edge of my seat at the same time
Great job! Even as a native Norwegian, I can honestly say I couldn't have pinpointed these locations nearly as quickly
Definitely. Though, in my case. I could probably only pinpoint my own house.
har du null retningssans?
I like how after you ask "Where's Stavanger", one of Norway's biggest cities, you imediatly go to Troms, far upp in the North
It's really funny how things that seem like common knowledge to us about how each part of the country looks like or where cities are, becomes nothing to non-Norwegians.
@@naomifloralpunk6857 I'm a non Norwegian and even i heard of Stavanger
I know, right? He has impressed me so much with the knowledge of where stuff is in Norway, especially the locations of different roads! Then when it comes to Stavanger, literally the 4th largest city, he just goes "where's Stavanger???"
@@LinniC93 3rd* soon to be 2nd :)
@@ungesalsa2554 4th :
Oslo 634,463
Bergen 278,121
Trondheim 190,464
Stavanger 130,754
Respect for staying so calm at the end! I would have been sooo salty!
Impressive stuff as per usual, Tom!
I lived in Valevåg when i was a child, got really gast when i saw the sign
do you mean gassed?
Bur på Stord eg :)
Valley-vag.
Hey Tom! Stumbled across your channel last week, then proceeded to binge about 20 geoguessr episodes and two of your epic travel adventure series. I apologize for my country being so annoying on geoguessr 🇨🇦
Stavanger, my hometown, love to see it! Although you didnt get to see the pretty parts
When you went all the way to Trondheim looking for a tunnel and zooming in i had a laugh. I recognized the tunnel from the bends alone.
That bend is a dead giveaway. Driven through many times, and it’s my thank fuck it’s over spot :p
That last round.. heartbreaking
Watching this, thinking "haha, maybe he will go somewhere I know".
The third one is literally the neighborhood where I grew up. What are the odds?
theres another guy in the comments whose school is in the third round lol, hagen albrecht
I felt just the same about the last one, completely freaked out when he thought E39 ended waayyy further north than it did
He scrolled past where I lived when he was looking down the E39 so I've got that going for me. perhaps if he fail enough times he can visit all of our homes.
Hahaha same!
Suddenly a couple of my friends surnames popped up on the signs. Knew the area based on their dialects
I found why there are commonwealth graves in Stavanger. In November 1942 an attempt was made to destroy the hydroelectric power station at Vermork, Telemark.
Two gliders and an aircraft engaged in the raid crashed in southern Norway. All those aboard, engineers of the 1st airborne division and members of the commonwealth air forces were either killed in the crash or died at the hands of their German captors.
There are commonwealth war graves not only in Stavanger (which is like 300km from Vemork. No immediate relation there), but all over the country. According to the offical government pages, there are 1150 graves for fallen commonwealth soldiers in Norway. They are located in 74 different graveyards across the country. There's also soviet gravesites, german, jugoslavian, polish and dutch gravesites from WWII all over Norway.
“It’s winter now”
Oh boy you don’t know what Norwegian winter looks like.
That looks like spring summer to me!
Like uncle Albert from only fools and horses once said :"when i was in russia flame on my lighter freezed"
It can sometimes look like that lol
Haha I thought the same! If it was western Norway, it could have been winter, but more likely there would have been lots of snow if it was winter! Especially considering the sticks used to mark the road.
That was honestly so funny. I live in northern Sweden where it looks just like that in april/may
That looks nothing like spring or summer. Low sun in the south and no leaves on the trees means it's late autumn or early winter before the snow. Besides, winter near the coast often looks exactly like that, since they don't always get snow.
On the third location you were 5 meters outside my school in Stavanger.
Theres another guy in the comments who grew up in the neighbourhood of the third round
I went to that school too in 2000. Many hours were spent playing pokémon on my gameboy in that schoolyard.
You mean St Olav? I go there too
Stavanger gang
Kannik?
Mateee, you got lucky with the tunel one! We have the worlds longest one (24 509 meters), imagine having to walk through that
Yes the worlds longest road tunnel, Lærdalstunnelen
Samuel Bothmann youre not allowed to walk through tunnels
Hazey || in-game
@@sphere47 You are in a lot, there are sidewalks in a fair deal of them, also I was talking about in game
21:28 My mother's childhood home is the brown house to the right of the red house. That's mad.
The "pointless posts" are there so that the plowtruck knows where the road is when it plows snow in the winter
*Insert double Spiderman Meme*
and here I am now living in Norway.. doing my quarantine for 10 days! Love your work mate.. such a legend!
Your pronounciation is actually quite good for a foreigner who doesn't know the language. Love these videos, your finding these roads more easily than I would and I'm Norwegian!
3rd location was my home city! Greetings from Stavanger:)
What a great ending. Just ending up in the middle of an 8 km long tunnel. It's the 13th longest tunnel in Norway, but as you can see, Norway's got a lot of long tunnels including the world's longest. So I was laughing my arse off when I saw the 2|6 sign knowing you had to get within 20 meters! And then laughing even more when I saw it was the E39, one of the longest roads in Norway, going though the entire Western Norway(meaning it's full of long tunnels)! But really good effort on getting so close, impressive.
The place in Stavanger you showed is where I used to go swimming early in the morning :D So cool!
Oh wow that last one was frustrating
Yep, especially when he said “that’s it” and I know exactly where it was, and he’s noooowhere near south enough yet lol
Watching the video now, at round 4 at the moment. Really difficult one! Impressed with you finally getting it! Super enjoyable to watch, would love more and more Norway challenges
it's fascinating piecing together a little story from the viewpoint of the google car. The bit with the lorry overtaking was great.
Perfect score in Korea when
When you allow and incentive the Google cars to enter your great country, dear leader.
Hope you feeling better Kim
Every score in Korea is perfect
@@Elidan1012 It'd better be...
Sorry that you had to revisit Norway, but glad you did ! Stavanger is where I grew up, you went past my old high school before you saw the Kunsthall sign ! So fun to recognise where you were almost instantly. Cheers !
Love your voice your mission across wales series was awesome it fr makes me nostalgic to less than a year ago
Second attempt at Finland!!!
Suomi perkele!
Torille
Well, it happened! The fourth place is very close to where I grew up :D Been on bike rides down to the fjord there many times. You went past the house of my friend from Skatval also.
Last time I was this early you were straddling a hedgerow in Wales.
Try a perfect score in Russia :)
haha that would be so hard
Japan?
I'd absolutely love to see him take on Russia.
Heyy, can you try Czechia? I would love to see Czechia and my home :) Thanks
I was really hoping you would miss the last one so we would get part 3, and you did!
You know it's about to be a hard 2 last rounds when he's only at 18min out of the 37minutes!
"...now, something gate..:" -- well, that's Norwegian for "street" soooo, you'd find that virtually everywhere.
the "kanes" are for winter clearing, shows the road crews where the road is supposed to be (incased totally buried in snow) so they can clear the way
That last guess should definitely make a ow-noes-so-close! compilation!
It seems that that road is one of the longest if not the longest of Norway. One you could just follow for days on a bike/motorcycle/cabrio/campervan/... lovely, putting Norway on my bucket list for sure!
I believe the E6 is longer actually - it goes through the *entire* length of Norway from north to south!
But E39 (the road in the last round) goes through all of western Norway and crosses all the fjords, including a total of 9 ferry crossings :)
Those small square signs you saw on the little bridge that you thought said "No fishing" are actually super useful. They are placed at every 500 meters along most roads, and the signs state what road you're at, what part of the road you're at (the roads are 'cut up' at any major junction), and how far you are from said junction.
The sign will typically say
F420
07
41(5)
(the 5 in the paranthesis is smaller than the numbers 41)
(County Road 420, the 7 part since its start, 41,5 km from the last junction)
Always a fun surprise to see your hometown, I was shocked to see it show up, but it also made it a bit frustrasting to see you so helpless for so long
Well done!
The first one was trivial, the rock quarry plus road junction to Skumsjøen was more than enough to solve it.
Nr 2 was quite recognizable from the vegetation so I knew which general area you had ended up in.
For nr 3 the street names are reused many places, but the combination indicated SV Norway, and finding those 3-4 street names made it certain.
The real challenge would be to not move, just guess from turning around in the initial spot. :-)
I was driving through that last tunnel just a week ago. You can recognize those underwater tunnels by them having two lanes on the way up and one lane on the way down.
9:03 I'm from Germany and I've never been overtaken by a truck here. When I'm in Norway for vacation, it happens to me all the time. When the speed limit is 80kmh, I drive 83kmh because the fines are expensive. But all the trucks are always going way over 90 and it scares me every time on this narrow roads 😄
haha that was insane! Found this channel because of the first norway attempt you did, found it very relaxing and chill to watch, like a bob ross feel, but this was hilarious at the end! thats insane, 1 point lol! and you have to make a 3rd attempt now, great xD
27:06 It says "Inge AURAN" and "Ruth Jenny AURAN" right there! Must have barely missed it!
Yeah, Auran the place isn't on the map, but two people added themselves (or were added by someone else) as local businesses or features on Google maps - and they happen to have last name after the place. Maybe they have one-man companies of some sort, I don't know.
"Guess I'll watch another one of these, perhaps it's actually a place I recognize this time".
First one is literally 10 minutes away from where I grew up, and I drove on that road earlier today. Amazing.
Mate, this was heartbreaking... 24,999 points? After all that brilliant effort? I so feel for you.
hahahah my grandad lives in tittelsnes by Valevåg, when i saw the 6km 2km sign i realised and pissed myself
Thanks for playing in my home country! Keep up the good vids Tom
Man, Norway is just sooo beautiful
Discovered your videos about two weeks ago. I felt physical pain on the final guess of this one. Oooof.
My uncle is literally buried at the graveyard on 14:04. My hometown is Stavanger
This was fun. You zoomed in exactly where i grew up on map 4, at my old house. Do more of Norway ❤️
I got the Stavanger one already when I saw Trekanten Bofellesskap, it's the elderly home where my granddad lived.
Absolutely not complaining about a third venture into our lovely little country.
at 13:55 when he's like "I'm not gonna write it down" and I'm sitting here like "NOooo it said the address on the sign!" lmao
Can you try a perfect score in Japan? They have English on the road signs and it's not too hard...
I've been on that road to Skumsjøen (Foam Lake) many times, surprised at how quickly you found that!
Man I love your videos i hope for some more real life stuff like the wales mission or how not to travel europe because its hilarious
the "pointless canes" were snow markers for plow trucks
Love this content
- The second one was an hour away from my house, wich is wierd.
- Gate is street in norwegian
- if there is a lot of white smaller wooden houses is a give away that its on the west coast( below bergen) and south coast
- lots of farmland with coast = Trøndelag (Trondheim area).
Depends a bit on the type of coast - Jæren is also lots of farmland with coast :)
"There's gotta be cilivization somewhere around here."
Welcome to everything north of Oslo.
The little signs with crosses next to the placename signs in round 4 represent St. Olavsleden, a trail from the east coast of Sweden to Trondheim. A beautiful way to cross two countries if you are so inclined :)
After finding this channel last week I signed up for membership on geoguessr and tried to get a perfect score on the same Norway map (I'm Norwegian). I got perfect score on the first 4 and then got 4997 on the last one because I was a bit too far down the road. This is a lot of fun. Must try again!
Here is a few tips to help with the "northness" in 🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇴
If the trees are small and squiggly, you are far north, in Lapland.
If the trees are like big logs, you are in the middle.
If there are very few pine trees (only trees with leaves), you are in the south.
In Norway it is not as consistent with its big mountains etc.
@@kaukon Yes, the alpine landscape can look very similar to the arctic landscape for example.
The Stavanger round was so funny to see when you went pass my house
I used to walk past the third location on my way to high school. Watching this really brought back memories from that time
"And its winter" you need to come to Norway when it is Winter my friend! This look like spring xD
This was really weird... Never seen your videoes before until it popped up in recomended, glanzed over at the thumbnail and immediately recognized where you were and I was totally right. I live in Stjørdal, the town just south of Skatval.. Good job, finding all these places though man. Thumbs up :)
Honestly surprised it took this long for you to end up in a tunnel. They're everywhere here!
I didn't expect to recognize any of these places. But I recognized the third one straight away!
Been waiting for this🥰
Just a tip, if you see on the houses around norway you could see difference between places, forexampel, you could see difference between a hous from southern norway and a house from middel norway, and northen norway👍🏼. But this is impressing
When I saw ur last location I smiled... I knew where it was right away driven true that tunnel more times than i can remember.... I did know that E39 was going to be problem tho since it strech more or less the hole side of the west part of the country on and off.... :P The tunnel is one of many under sea tunnels in Norway... ;)
Amazing video! Insane effort on the last round!
The last one was fun. I live about an hour from that tunnel, so I recognised it.
It's funny how intuition works. I immediately had a feeling for all of these places, even though I didn't know exactly where they were. Even Stavanger, which is admittedly my hometown, just the first view by that stone wall gave me a feeling of "reminds me a lot of Eiganes, Stavanger." (Eiganes is that specific part of the city). The tunnel was a total curveball, but considering it was a long-a** tunnel and went really uphill at the end, I thought it had to be an undersea tunnel. And you can expect to find those in western Norway, where there are so many fjords to cross! The road E39 actually continues all the way through Stavanger and south to Kristiansand.
Also, how could you not know where Stavanger is?? :'( It's literally the fourth largest city in Norway!
I couldn't have asked for a better ending, hahaha! I'll be anticipating attempt nr 3
I just drove with my dad on the road, on locaton number 4. Instantly knew where i was :) WE NEED ANDOTHER EPISODE ❤️
I found this round of Norway quite funny as you were following a bus I relatively commonly use to get to my boyfriend's house in Stavanger. 😂 I was thinking quite quickly that 'this has to either be Oslo (where I live atm) or Stavanger (where I was born and raised) as I am sure I have been in these streets before🤔', hahaha. Enjoyed this! I felt I could join the guessing game at times and sort of figure out the area of the country along with you! 😊 Norway has quite a lot of land that one simply cannot live on or grow food in, and so I think you are doing a much better job than I would have as well as quicker, and that's coming from a certified born and raised Norwegian that has driven across quite a bit of the country, as well as had to study it's geography in school... 👍😬 This got quite long... sorry. I guess as most Norwegians I get excited whenever someone pays us even an ounce of attention, hihi. Anyways, this was fun, thanks 🎉☀️💜🇳🇴
Yesss! I'm from Stavanger too, and even though I don't know the area he was placed in very well, that stone wall and graveyard just gave me a feeling of Eiganes, even though it could have been any town in Norway for all I knew. Then the more he moved through the streets the more certain I felt!
I also had a pretty accurate intuition about the other rounds as well, even if I don't know those specific places. And I agree with everything else you said! (sorry, I get excited too :P)
@@LinniC93 Helps that Alexander Kielland is a very big historic name in Stavanger.
Haha unlucky on that last one, as a Norwegian I'm a bit glad though because I get even another episode :D
13:30 noticed the location straight away! Shoutout Eiganes
I lived about 30 seconds walk away from the location in Stavanger, recognised it instantly!
Tips for norway: gate/vei/veg - street/road. Kommune - county. Fylke - region (contains several counties)
Sjø/vann - lake
Tunnels all have a name with sign posted a few hundred metres from either end
Sams fun house - community center. 😛
Granis may be technically "better", but your commentary and personality is unmatched. You really are the Geo Wizard
Yes, there are a few with a lot more knowledge, but Tom is a lot more entertaining to watch.
Granis is fucken insane tho