Top 10 FREE Things in Sweden | Budget Travel Guide
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Sweden is an expensive country to visit, but it doesn't have to be. This is a list of the top 10 completely free things you can do in Sweden!
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The things listed in this video are:
- Free museums in Sweden. There used to be a lot more free museums before 2023, but the state owned museums have unfortunately introduced an entry fee since then. But you can still find a few ones that are completely free
- Visiting the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi is completely free...even if staying at the hotel is extremely expensive
- Looking at runestones is a perfect excuse for a road trip in Sweden. And it's also free to look at them. Good places for runestones include Vallentuna and Sigtuna, but also the island of Gotland, outside of Eskilstuna and in Östergötland
- Entering the royal castles of Sweden costs money, but you can visit the castle grounds and the castle gardens for free. And of course look at the magnificent castles themselves. Castles mentioned include Drottningholm Castle, Örebro Castle, Kalmar Castle, Malmö Castle and the Royal Palace in Stockholm
- Sweden Solar System is the world's largest scale model of the solar system, and it stretches 950 km across Sweden - so it's a perfect excuse for a road trip
- If you want to visit farm animals and get a break from city life, you can visit one of the 30 4H farms that can be found across Sweden
- Gothenburg has the lovely Slottsskogen and the Botanical Gardens that are both completely free to visit
- Another good thing to do in Sweden is to look at the magnificent architecture
- National parks in Sweden are all completely free to visit, so make sure you do so!
- And finally, something you can do for free in Sweden is to go wild camping in nature because of Allemansrätten, the right to roam in nature
If you want to learn more about Allemansrätten, check out this video: • Sweden's Right to Roam...
And if you want more free things to do in Stockholm, have a look at this video: • Top 10 FREE Things in ...
Or this one, for free things in Gothenburg: • Top 10 FREE Things in ...
Just spent 10 days in Stockholm on holidays . Watch loads of your videos before leaving . Thanks so much
Thank you! Really happy to hear that - and happy if I was of help :)
I am sorry for you. History happens elsewhere
I enjoyed walking around Gettlinge Gravfält on Öland for free . . . so many neat Bronze Age burial mounds and stone ship burials. Thanks for these interesting videos, Miro! ☺
Oh yeah! Öland has some really interesting spots - it's quite a varied little island :D Cheers and thanks for checking it out!
I remember as i was kid in late 80s that in Stockholm you could buy tourist card and you could visit almost every museum with it. Yu could also travel with all SL transport in Stockholm area for that whole day.
Later at end of 90s as i were hiking around Stockholm i had SL card and it was so handy for going around the city. Good for me was that my mothers brother lived in Fisksätra at the time and my aunt lived in small village Riala near by Norrtälje. So i had roof over my head where to sleep at nights.
I wisited all the parts of the city where i could go with tunnelbana. Two things that i noticed was that in every single bar i heard people speaking finnish and also all the gypsys spoke finnish too.
I just love to buzz around Stockholm at the summer time. It is beautiful city.
Now that definitely brings back memories! I was a kid in Stockholm in the 80s as well (but then I moved around in Sweden before I came back in the 2010s). I didn't have an SL card back then, but I distinctly remember always using two coupon stamps regardless of how far I was going - so I could travel around a bit too ^_^
And that's true! There were tons of Finnish people and Finnish gypsies back then. Not as much these days - except when all the Finns come on vacation during summers.
Totally agree! Cheers and have a nice one
Thanks for all your excellent, entertaining reports. Helped much on our fall visit to Sweden.
Oh wow, thanks a lot :D Really happy to hear that I was of help - and I hope your fall visit will be amazing!
I love the Runestones. Old magic.
Definitely well worth checking out!
@ThreeStarVagabond I saw the Runestone in Gamla Stan. I was blown away....I love Sweden, man.
@@midmiddleton163 Haha, it's really popular now in summer. There were four groups of tourists flocking around it when I was trying to film
@ThreeStarVagabond haha. I went to sweden in winter, so... I had no trouble viewing the Runestone.
@@midmiddleton163 Oh! Yeah then you saw the ghost town version of Old Town :D
Another interesting and useful video, thank you! I would love to visit the forests.
There's plenty of excellent forests and places to hike actually! :D
I love the idea behind 4H, something else to add to the to-do list! And I have to agree with you, the architecture in Sweden is spectacular and it really does have a distinct style/look to it that doesn't compare to any other Nordic country I've been to.
Yeah I really like the 4H farms even though I'm not there all that often. It's wonderful for families in particular! And yeah agreed - I'm completely biased but I sometimes just stop and admire the Stockholm view with all the houses. Just lovely.
Saw some beautiful castles and church ruins as well as rune stones everywhere in Uppsala, Stockholm and Sigtuna. The changing of the guard at the Palace at Stockholm old town was free and thrilling to watch- the precision displayed by the royal band! The architecture in Stockholm was truly beautiful, walking over the bridge into Gamla Stan particularly. As usual, a very informative and interesting vlog Miro and brought back memories of my recent trip 😊
Happy to bring back happy thoughts of Sweden! And I'll do my best to find new sights as well so you can regret everything you missed ;D
@@ThreeStarVagabond thanks heaps! Will just have to make a note of them and come back lol 🤣
Although, I have managed to find an online shop in Melbourne (Nordic Fusion) and have ordered some lingonberry jam and other foods to help me not miss Sweden so much (but absolutely NO herring - I hate fish)!
@@donnamortensen959 Good! Haha the herring is just cruel and unusual punishment!
Amazing video! Keep up the great work!
Thank you! :D Will try!
The rune stones were my favourite, I love history. What people achieved many years ago still amazes me. If a time machine was invented, I would definitely take a trip back
I would love to do so to! Except that there would be horrible toilets and too much risk of breaking laws and rules, so I'd be sold into slavery or something ;D
@ThreeStarVagabond good point on the toilet and slavery issues, the positive on the toilet would be the view probably no line to wait in too, I guess, and I personally would be a crap slave, and they would soon want a refund
@@sarahtaylor3950 Always a silver lining eh! I'm sure they'd be all nice about it. "Oh, you just suck at being a slave - off you go!"
Free is the best admission of all. When we in Sweden we visited some of the castles and there were Runestones at all of them, wish I could have read them, but there were explanations near them. The Swedish nature is amazing especially the waterways you can go just about anywhere on them. Another great video, stay safe till next time.
It's pretty hard to read them since the words don't make much sense even if you know Swedish and the runes :D Yeah, totally agree about the water! Thank you and hope you have an awesome one man
Thanks!
Still enjoying your videos and considering them when deciding where to go.
Yay, that's great to hear! Than you :D
Hi Miro, well I discovered your videos two weeks ago and I think I have watched almost every one. Utterly fascinating, informative, interesting, intelligent, fun, relaxing, well edited, and so funny. Love your humour 🤣 Please may i ask two questions....1. Your name, if it Finnish? 2. You're English.....have you spent time in England or with anyone from England....your command is faultless...even the small intricacies? You are amazing and a favourite part of my day. Thank you so much ❤ Darren
Haha, damn that's nice to hear! Well you know what they say - flattery will get you everywhere :D And as for my name... I'm actually half Yugoslavian and half Finnish. I use an abbreviation of my first name ^_^ And haha many people complain about my very Swedish sounding accent. I guess I picked up a lot of it when I started to read in English at 13 or so, and then I've watched tons of TV shows as well. But thank you very much - it's really appreciated, and you totally made my day now! :D
Well your accent is wonderful, and I love when you give those 'knowing' looks to camera - so funny 😂 I live in Brighton England and I fell in love with Sweden in 2008, obviously I have visited Stockholm maybe 40 times and made friends there, and went to college to learn swedish which I love. I thought I knew Stockholm like the back of my hand, yet you have shown me new things to explore, thankyou Miro. Enjoyed watching you falling off the paddleboard yesterday and plan going thru your 'beery' videos today 😅
@@darrenterry6277 Wow, you've definitely visited a lot! I've yet to visit Brighton myself - but I hear that it's a lovely place. Even though it's apparently infested with content creators these days (or so I've read). And man, you're really going into the old stuff now. I still don't know how to paddle board actually. Tried it again this year and it's still bloody difficult. Oh well, cheers to that! :D
I saw the planet Neptune a lot when I was a kid.. But I lived in Söderhamn when I was a kid so that may be why..
Haha yeah that would be a pretty good explanation. I've just seen it once myself
@@ThreeStarVagabond Did you visit Oscarsborg when you were there?
Was a great place to spend time with family and friends
@@HeadGodoftheGodCouncil Unfortunately not! I just drove past to take a few quick shots of Neptune on my way north :/ So, next time for sure!
@@ThreeStarVagabond View is stunning. And not sure if you are allowed inside it now since I live in the north now, but definitely go there if you get the chance.
I did enjoy the video. 10/10
@@HeadGodoftheGodCouncil Thanks a lot! And I'll look it up at least to see if I can get a look at that view :D
Hej! I will be in Sweden in late August, mainly in Stockholm. But I would also like to see more of two other areas in particular, Dalarna and Gotland. It looks like I would need a rental car to get out into the countryside, but I am a tad apprehensive about driving there, plus the cost. What do you think? For Visby, especially, would there still be a lot of tourists in late August, making a hotel room as hard to find as in high summer? I really enjoy your videos! Tack!
For Gotland I think that the tourist situation will be pretty okay at the end of August - it's worse in the beginning of August. And as for car... Well yeah, it is preferable to have a car to drive around both places. I'd see if I could find a rental at each place, but travel there by boat (to Gotland) and train (to Dalarna) respectively.
@@ThreeStarVagabond Tack!
Sweden used to be expensive, but maybe not so much these days. The Swedish Krona continues to lose value, at least vs the euro, so as trips to the euro zone now is very expensive to Swedes, the residents there will probably find Sweden rather cheap these days.
Getting something for free is ofc nice any day in the week.
Oh damn you're right. I should have though of that. We're becoming the cheap vacation alternative now instead!
@@ThreeStarVagabond And because it's cooler in Sweden than in Southern Europe this summer! That is a real trend this year: tourists do not want the extreme heat waves of Italy, Spain, and Greece.
@@k.williamjones3978 It's so ironic that Swedes still flock to the Mediterranean despite heatwaves. We want to get away from the cold and rainy weather here...
ah moment
"Ah, what the heck are these suggestions" moment eh? ;D
@@ThreeStarVagabond OH WAIT I DIDNT MEAN TO TYPE THT HERE...
@@ThreeStarVagabond U should do smth with Gotland cause i just were there
Good idea! I have been thinking about Gotland - but there's always so much to see and do... Not sure when I'll get there but hopefully soon
@@ThreeStarVagabond top 10 things to visit in Gotland
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