FIRST TIME IN SWEDEN (Stockholm blew my mind!) 🇸🇪
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ค. 2024
- Our first time in Stockholm, Sweden surprised us!
We were blown away by the beauty of Stockholm, especially the old town in Gamla Stan.
We visited the most incredible museum, the Vasa Museum, and were lucky to catch the changing of the guard ceremony at the Royal Palace. We then had some lunch, and tried some traditional Swedish food like the famous Swedish meatballs (not at Ikea), and stromming (not surströmming).
We also ended the day with some delicious Swedish fika.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Unbelievably well preserved ship from 1628 - MUST SEE IN STOCKHOLM
3:11 - Stockholm's old town is very kept! (Gamla Stan)
4:27 - UNQIUE: Souvenirs in Stockholm-- ghouls? goblins? trolls?
5:21 - Changing of the guard at Sweden's royal palace
6:31 - Stromming is NOT surstromming (crisis averted)
9:36 - Stockholm massacre & Sir Alfred Nobel (the old & the new)
11:11 - Time for FIKA! (stay tuned for Copenhagen!!)
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The Vasa museum is dark with temperature and humidity controlled to slow down the inevitable decomposing of the hull.
Oh! This is a smart idea. The Vasa museums was a highlight for me, and a must see in Stockholm
@@JetLagWarriorsVasa and Skansen are the two top visited museums in Sweden with about 1.4 million visitors, each.
They sprayed the ship with some restoration chemical for decades while it was already on display in the museum, but it's wood and was sunk so long.
@JetLagWarriors I think they didnt mention in that Vasa ship museum about prank that finnish students did? As a Finn its hilarious.
They managed to dive with proper diving gear, just day or couple before they lift up the ship, and bring 50cm height metal(bronze, brass, iron or something like that) statue of legendary finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, who dominatet early 20th century olympics running. He had multiple gold medal.
They say that it was a "revenge" of swedish made campaing against Paavo Nurmi, when they claimed he is professional, and that time it was forbidded in olympics, so Paavo Nurmi was banned from one olympics at least for that.
I think its hilarious, and genious "student prank", that especially tech-uni/tech-college students(abiturientit) like to do. But this was king of other such endeavors.
Swedes scientists and historians even think first days that statue was statue of Hermes, messenger of gods etc 😅😅
Not even english lang wikipedia mention about that, finnish lang page tho mention it in the ond of the page/article.
P.s. one critical point that prank was possible was that, one of the four prankster(one only alive today I think) was chief editor in students magazine, and he had press card. And the lifting operation area was military zone/area that particular time. With his press card it was possible to him go to do crucial intelligence mission...
I have watched and start to follow u when u start your finnish hockey tour. Sweden is bigger country, and I think ypu have great time there. Swedes are great ppl also. Sweden are our dear brothers(outside of hockey seasons :)), and finns love them, thats obvious.
Thanks for great content. Keep it up❤️👍🏻🤟
@@JetLagWarriors Been a while since I was there, but if I recall there was a sign about how one especially rainy summer there werelots of tourists who wanted to do indoor things because of the weather, and with the damp in their clothes, water from umbrellas and even the humid air as people passed in and out of the airlock there was a noticable degredation of the ship. So they had to rework the tech to keep the humidity and temperature controlled and even added a third door to the airlock as you go into the main hall.
I hate to say it as a Finn but Stockholm might be the nicest city in Europe. I hate it.
We are very proud of it.
As a Swede I think Copenhagen is even better than Stockholm
Stockholm isnt even the best in sweden
Its not a contest - as a stockholmer I completely love Helsinki ❤️
Copenhagen is nicer but Stockholm is really, really close. All the nordics are great though, everything is so close it's smart just to visit all of them!
Actually Sweden and Denmark have world record in wars with each other.
Its unbelievable to think about it today when we se danes as our nordic brothers. 🇸🇪🫶🇩🇰
Like that one brother we all aware no one understands but we nod & smile anyway because we stand together
I mean, brothers riff on each others all the time but if someone else does it we close ranks, so yeah - checks out.
I do feel sorry for Denmark though, drunk Swedes aren’t that fun. 😅😂
blame all the wars on Denmark kings ...they were all totally obsessed to invade Sweden ...they didnt manage to do it ...just some parts in South Sweden called Skåne !!
@@robertjohansson1618 South sweden used to be danish but it was conquered then the danes were forced to speak swedish which is why the south has such a weird dialect.
The Vasa museum is always hard to explain - "It's a sunken warship. It sank like 1 000 meters from shore on her maiden voyage. Awesome!" lol But it is truly amazing. Glad you liked it!
3:38 Just right to the lamp post you can see a cannon ball embedded in the corner of the building. A reminder for us to hate the Danish (but we actually like them). 😁
4:07 In the summer you can fill up your water bottle with free water from this faountain. It used to come from a well, but now it's communal water.
4:33 Yeah, that's trolls. They've been in Swedish mythology for centuries. If a troll catch a ray of sunlight they turn into stone. That's why there are so many rocks in Swedish forest. The trolls are mean though, so be aware. Gnomes is another thing - they look like santa without the Coca Cola colours and they are protecting the animals and farms and we feed them porrige at christmas.
9:40 Yeah, Christian II of Denmark did that. In the red building here you can see like 90 bright pieces put in. That is to remember the people who died in the Stockholm bloodbath.
12:45 Great. We can send an innocent Canadian couple to recon if we can invade Denmark by now. I'll buy you a fika for the trouble! haha 😁
Great content! Love your uploads! 👍But can't wait to see what you would do if your mrs could plan a day or two. ☺
Thanks for this great comment!
It always makes me emotional when people from abroad talk warm heartedly about the country and the city I originated from.
You take so much for granted and get ‘home blind’ when you’ve grown up in a certain place. Sweden is a beautiful place and I’m happy and thankful to have been born here.
Thanks for a great episode about our beloved Stockholm ❤
And yea, you should definitely visit again in the summer when the sun barely sets and the city is in full bloom.
Take a ferry to archipelago’s and enjoy being outdoors late in the evening while it’s still warm enough.
Cheers guys
Its funny how you said it felt like the nordic venice, because Stockholm is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the nordics or Scandinvia
But watch out if you buy tickets for Venice. Because there are a very small village up north, in the middle of nowhere named Vännäs. Pronounced almost the same way. So be sure to order tickets for Venice, Italy.
Nothing else
Venice of the North.
Also commonly referred to as "The City Between the Bridges"
You're quite right. Stockholm was built on islands, originally as a lock to protect the lake mälaren.
It's been called "Venice of the North".
The royal family doesn't live in the royal palace anymore. They just work there now. They haven't lived there since 1981. The king and queen lives in the palace in Drottningholm. And their kids somewhere else obviously since they're adults haha
What kind of work do they do in the castle?
Victoria and Daniel lives in a small palace called Haga Slott i northern part of Stockholm. Madeleine used to live in an apartment belonging to the Royal Stables in Stockholm.
@@MrGunnar69Well, quite a lot. The King is a large employer and do a lot of business. Their official status also means meeting other officials, every ambassador, the prime minister and plan for their extensive travels as figureheads of Sweden.
@@MrGunnar69it's partly a museum and it's for representation when foreign dignitaries come to visit. Its also used for royal weddings, birthdays etc.And daily show with changing of the guards where if there is music the different military bands play a small concert with 3 songs. Usually at 12:00 or 13:00 daily.
Sometimes its changing of the guards with horses and the band on horses, cool stuff. Info on what it is daily you can see on the official site of the castle.
@@MrGunnar69 They sharpen swords and axes offcorse.
Just got back from Stockholm and love the city. Love love love the Vasa museum!
5:16 - Yes the waterfountain has drinkable water. It is turned off while it's cold outside to save the pipes and to avoid ice on the ground, but if you are in Stockholm during a really warm summer's day (been a few recent summers with upwards of 30°C) and if you have a waterbottle you can fill it at these fountains. It is the same water that comes out of your tap in the kitchen at home.
Strömming with lingonberries and mashed potatoes is a very classic Swedish dish. "Sur" in "Surströmming" literally translates to "sour", and is just sort of an indication of the taste. Although I wouldn't classify it as sour. :)
Yes literally sur means sour but if a food is "sur" in swedish it means it is fermented.
My ancestor was brought over from Wallonia. To oversee the making of the cannons for the Vasa and Äpplet... The sister ship to the Vasa.
Wallonian heritage here to.👍
Thanks so much. I visited Stockholm in the summer. It is very beautiful. I loved this video. You hit many of the best highlights. My grandparents ( Lundquist) moved to Canada from Sweden.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Welcome back! YES, Stockholm is so much better/nicer in the summer.
The history of the Vasa ship is a lesson in how too not run a project. A lot of important lessons to be learned.
Yea we brought in foreign consultants. It proved to be a disaster. 😉
Did j like statue of Paavo Nurmi? 😅
@@Jonsson474because it would be a bad career move to actually blame the king
@@Lazaruz81true, they probably didn't dare to protest too much about it being too narrow with way too many cannons. Many cannons need a wider ship. 😅
@@karlbro7287 if the king wants another gun deck you build him another gun deck
shud have come to Malmö instead and been able to go between Malmö and Copenhagen and visit 2 great citites almost combining to become one city.
The ugly big-nosed figures in that window was Trolls. In Scandinavia Trolls are ugly, mean, often very rich and eats children as opposed to Finnish Trolls who are white, fluffy, hibernates during winter and makes moonshine. Trolls is old folklore, millennia old in some aspects.
The ugly figures with horned helmets are "vikings" or at least a tourist version of an 19th century Opera depiction with no relation to reality. I recommend the Viking museum or the History museum for a more accurate view of the actual norsemen during the viking age.
The redand blue horses are originally an old tradition from The province of Dalarna. The red ones became a Swedish symbol at the 1930 Chicago International Expo and have been very popular since then. They are hand-carved In Dalarna, and there's almost a different traditional design for every village.
Forget Malmö, eat fish in Gothenburg, but then go to Dalarna and catch a home game with Leksands IF... Big cities can be fun, and you've seen Stockholm... but in the countryside is where the soul of Sweden still resides.
Amazing, interesting and historical video. Stockholm is indeed gorgeous. Great job, Steve lvana, adding another wonderful place to your awesome travels and our enjoyable viewings. Thanks a bunch for sharing. Safe travels always !! 😍
@JetLag Warriors You should travel to Gotland, Visby in sweden if you want to see a medieval town!
Figured you'd be blown away by Vasa! It is truly one of a kind.
Glad you guys liked my town.
Welcome to sweden,do not forget gothenburg ,i live and love gothenburg 😊
Amazing video greetings from Stockholm, we are traveling to Seoul in july our favouritr city, glad you guys liked Stockholm :)
What an interesting city and history!
You will be welcomed in Copenhagen and Denmark.
As a Norwegian I don’t like to admit it, but Stockholm is beautiful and awesome city.
Norway is liek Sweden 20 years ago or 15 in Oslo. Not bad at all if you are getting older yoruself :)
There are way better meatballs in town. Head over to Restaurang Pelikan in the Södermalm district (especially for the meatballs) and Restaurang Tennstopet by Odenplan. Classic Stockholm restaurants with lots of history and great food. If the weather ever warms up while you're here, you should go to Mälarpaviljongen in the Kungsholmen district. It's a pretty unique place by and on the water. You should check out city hall close by too, well worth a visit. You really should come back in the summer, the city is so green and there's daylight until very late. Lots of great boat rides to take as well.
Head outside Stockholm and the prices for meatlballs drop like 100 kr
While they're in Stockholm, they're probably more interested in tips about things in Stockholm...
Great video thanks so much. Question to anyone, I’m visiting Stockholm with my teenage daughter in 2 weeks time for 5 days and I would like to spend one day out of the city, maybe nature inspired or anything really, how far can I go and where do you suggest. Many thanks in advance 😊😊😊
@@joboswell29 Vaxholm, Mariefred, Sandhamn, Sigtuna, Uppsala and Trosa are nice places outside of but close to Stockholm.
@@joboswell29 If you want nature don't come in spring. The color palett right now is basically a greyscale. But notable places outside of Stockholm are Mariefred and Sigtuna (both cute historic towns). Nature can be found inside of Stockholm so that won't be a problem. I recommend Hansta if you want to see some older forests, but there are some near universitetet which are good enough.
Thanks for this great video of my home town! Love it!❤
And in Kalmar there is the Regalskeppet Kronan which exploded. It5not in Kalmar but outside Öland.
Summer really is the one and only time to visit Stockholm!😊
I'm surprised you liked it despite the freezing cold
A fun fact is that the original royal castle of sweden burned down and they built the one which still stands today, hence why the new one isnt as medieval and look quite modern
It's the largest baroque palace in Europe with 600 rooms. They started to build it 1662 and it took 60 years to build.
Great musuem! So much to see and learn. Keep safe, healthy and happy.
Finally yaaaay video about Stockholm. Tnx i wanna more
5 videos this week incoming!! Stay tuned
Great video! Thanks for visiting my home town!
Thank you so much. You guys were great.
Love these videos. And big respect to Ivana for wearing the HIFK beanie in Stockholm!
One of the best engineer gags was made with the boat. When it was lifted there was a statue of Paavo Nurmi on top of it. Finnish engineering students hae scuba dived down to the ship before it was lifted. Classic.
The king really wanted it that tall and wouldnt accept a no from the engineers, is why this happened
Surströmming is a Norrland speciality. In the rest of Sweden, where 90 % of the population live, surströmming is extremely rare. Most people have never tasted it, or even seen it.
Ive tasted it twice. And yeah it lives up to its rumors. And no it isnt that rare. Most supermatkets have it, but its seasonal. P.s I dont livein Norrland
Depends, in parts of Scania (skåne) its also strangely common.
My fav town to visit every now and then.
Yes, same fish....But the type Ivana was eating is fresh!....Surströmming ""Sourherring" is FERMENTED and is eaten prefferable in september-october OUTDOORS!
You wouldn't never surströmming at a restaurant like that. It's not normal food, like something that's on the menu on a restaurant. Other people wouldn't be able to eat if someone was eating surströmming in the restarant, It's something people eat outdoors, in August, in the North of Sweden. There are a few restaurants that do have surströmming, but then it's just like a special event for a day or so, and then you can feel the smell a block away, I kid you not, you think there is some leakage from a sewer or something.
Yeah, Lingonberries are more similar to cranberries, than other kinds of berries, so it's eaten with savory dishes.
Strömming is just herring. In this case fried herring. There is also pickled herring, which is also worth trying, and that's not surströmming either. Most Swedes have never eaten surströmming, and never will. If you go to Gothenburg you'll eat a lot of fish and seafood, it's the seafood city of Sweden. Don't miss having a shrimp sandwish, or a skagen sandwish. Delicious!
Your talks about suatrömming is just BS. All fermented food has got a certain smell. Open the can in an other room, flush some cold water on it and the smell is almost gone. The taste isn´t far from ansjovis.
@@rogerviklund7894 haha, Roger snackar skit 😂. "The smell is almost gone", vilken tomte...
And you only scratched the surface. 💛❤️💙
Sur means sour. Fermented is fermenterad. Herring is either sill or strömming depending on the situation.
Depending on where it is caught.
Old heritage building in Stockholm are kept the way they are, the owner can renovate the apartments anyway they want but the outer buildings must be kept the same. St Paul has one of the best coffee and cinnamon rolls
Hi from Sweden, I live north of Sweden, welcome there 😀🥰
The gnomes in the stores are Norse Trolls. It's a tribute to the old stories of the mountain trolls up north :)
Really nice vlog and it looks like you're a Djurgården fan - love it!
Yep you're correct, "sur" means "sour", so fermented, and lingonberries are kinda our version of cranberries. Btw a Swedish breakfast staple you may want to try is "Filmjölk", it's like an alternative to Yoghurt but made with a different bacteria culture and usually unsweetened (usually eaten with cereal, you might want to sprinkle a bit of sugar on it).
Cornflakes on filmjölk is disgusting, do not recommend.
The best way to eat filmjölk is with lingonberry jam.
I go with blueberries and "oat rings".
@@Potatwielder Yeah berries is a good call, I come from a working class family so it was probably a bit too fancy for us :P My favorite cereal is Start! with freeze-dried berries.
Take the train across the Øresund to Copenhagen!
I can deeply recommend Sjätte Tunnan in gamla stan if you want to eat some medieval food in a medieval setting.
Ate there once. The butter was great 😂
You're right. Strömming = herring. But if you go to the west coast it's called "sill".
If you catch the fish in the brackish Baltic Sea it's "strömming", but in the salty ocean off the west coast they are "sill" and usually a bit bigger and fattier. The "border" between them is around Kalmar on the south east coast, and strömming is a subspecies of sill.
But when prepared it doesn't really matter. You can buy pickled herring in every grocery store and they are all called "inlagd sill" (inlagd = pickled) even if they were caught in the Baltic Sea.
You can find dozens of different pickling variations in bigger stores and It's a great appetizer with a boiled potato or two. It's the classic way to start any holiday meal in Sweden, be it Christmas, Easter or midsummer, usually with a shot of aquavit and some beer. I could honestly start every meal with a couple of pieces of herring and a potato, and never get tired of it.
It makes me happy that you enjoyed Stockholm even in the cold season. It's much prettier in summer though with all the green trees in the sunlight (the few days when it's not raining) compared to how grey it looks with just bare trunks all over. Welcome back in a few months!
Glad to see you here in my town, hope you guys enjoyed it!
Great and really nice video about my hometown. Thank you.😊👍❤️
Stockholm is actually called "Nordens Venedig"/Nordic Venedig.
6:12 No, the Swedish royals don't live at the Royal Palace in Gamla stan. It's just their work place, and where they host if other heads of states are visiting and so on. If there is a Swedish flag on the roof, then it means that the king is there, and if there is not, then he's out travelling in Sweden or some other country.
The King and Queen live at Drottningholm Palace, since 1981, about 12 km west of Stockholm.
It's very nice to take a boat there in the summer, and have a picnic in the park.
They lived there not long ago though. And the current King was brought up there, Victoria too.
@@herrbonk3635Not long ago, the opening post claimed that they had not lived there for 43 years. Do you think that almost half a century is not long ago?
If true, the crown princess only lived there for three years, and the prince for one year.
@@MrGunnar69 No, that's not long ago to me.
@@herrbonk3635 Crown Princess Victoria was born in 1977, so she was very little when they moved to Drottningholm, where she, and her siblings, grew up. Carl XVI Gustaf grew up in the Royal Palace though, after spending his first year at Haga Palace (where Crown Princess Victoria now lives with her family).
@@Asa...S Yes, I know. So what?
In sweden you do put jams on bread just not lingonberry. And the only jam you put alongside food is lingonberry really, unless its pancakes then you put jam and usually whipped cream (not syrup like NA)
I gotta learn about how to use lingon berry. It’s unique and yummy 👍
Welcome to Sweden!
Stockholm is called the Venice of the north
Not Hamburg?
@@samelmudir There is like two dozen cities called Venice of the North.
@@samelmudir Hamburg is not really northern europe
@@swedishveganshow You're clearly from GBG. Jelly little brother.
In some cases Hamburg is considered a part of Northern Europe.
Love to watch videos of foreigners visiting my country and non the less eating our local foods 😂.
That was fun to se my home town 🇸🇪❤️ stekt strömming och kaffe med kardemumnabulle 😋 👍😊
I love that you are still hanging around with those Jokerit, Ilves and IFK beaniea 😂
Im from sweden and i ride through stockholm quite alot and i always see the bad sides of the city, this video helped me by showing all the good sides i forgot even existed. :)
I grew up in Vancouver BC! I'm now living on the West Coast of Sweden close to Gothenburg. I still haven't been to Stockholm (Haha!)
Interesting to see stuff like this from people who don't live in places. Noticing the rose glasses is quite eye opening.
Traveling to places is way better than living in each place.
Benny and Frida of ABBA had a flat together in old Town. They had the top 2 floors and you had to walk up 90 steps, no elevator. They loved it though. Lived there for many years and even filmed some commercials in it so you can see the inside a bit.
Those figurines are trolls. The design is heavily inspired by the art of John Bauer. "Fika" [fee-kah] is both a verb and a noun. We can "take a fika" or "we are going to fika" and it usually means coffee or tea with something sweet. At the square where the bloodbath occurred, there is a big red house with white bricks scattered across the front of the building, and there is a common story that all of the white bricks were the skulls of those beheaded. It's not really, but it's a spooky story that a lot of Stockholm kids have heard.
Fika, Before lunch after lunch and in the afternoon. maybe after dinner to!
Seriously guys, you should really come to Denmark. I am a Danish bicycle traveler and a history geek, who would love to show you the place and tell you lot's of quirky stories about the north of Europe. Just make sure that I am at home when you get there, as I travel the globe too, most of the time. But I would really like to welcome you to Copenhagen, as well as other places in Denmark.
oh we just got back from Copenhagen! Lovely city. A shame we only spent a couple of days there. Wish it was longer.
Glad to see your postive and energetic friendly TH-cam video..;)Glad you liked your stay here. and if you come back during summer..;) I think you might enjoy it even more. have a great time in Sweden , Denmark . thanx..;) best regards from the royal capital of Sweden.;)
Visit Gothenburg on the westcoast
Nordic Venice cuts it so well 😅😊 Fantastic video 🎉🎉🎉❤
4:20 That café was established only 9 years after the USA was founded.
finland on winter , sweden on summer , denmerk is awesome too
1:45 And that is why Stockholm is called "Venice of the North".*
(*along with a bunch of others)
you guys should visit Odenplan, gammla stan is all tourist-y. loved the video.
I guess you are away now but there is a really cool museum in the basement of the castle with clothes from the kings from the 1500s on. Two full clothings that the kings wore when they were killed in battle for example.
Darn, I wish we saw this
Some facts - Stockholm is built on islands as is Venice, however, Venice is sinking into the water because the islands were essentially built on marsh land. Stockholm is built on islands of solid rock and they are actually rising above sea level each year. They are rising because the weight of the glaciers during the Ice Age had pushed the Scandinavian Peninsula down and it is still rebounding from that time period.
You may be feeling very comfortable in Sweden for several reasons. The northern latitudes are not exactly the same, but vegetation and terrain are quite similar in many ways.
I met some business men in Huskvarna during one of the huge car shows that go on in Sweden every summer. Though I was born near Seattle, I spent a lot of time growing up in British Columbia. I was telling him that Sweden felt a lot like my experiences of Canada. He responded with, "Many of us Swedes think of Canada as "Big Sweden" because we have so much in common in how we see the world."
And lastly, Swedes eat a lot of Lingon berries and I think you will find that Saskatoon berries are nearly identical to Lingon berries.
You were in Gothenburg for a few days to see hockey. Are we going to get a video on the city or did you focus on enjoying it yourself?
Edit: posted this at 12:30 and then saw you mention Gothenburg, ao looking foward to that. Also, Swedes put cardamom in almost all their pastries, but the cardamom buns can sometimes be a little overpowering. They smell amazing when baking, though.
Gothenburg video coming on Thursday! Will be around 11 minutes long -- similar to this one.
Welcome, too bad about the april weather tho!
You can have a fika any time a day. :)
Yes, you are right about the Strömming. The one you ate is not fermented (Not Surströmming).
Cool you saw my hockey team Djurgården!
09:08 - It looks SO good!
Yup, come back in summer, its nicer
3:11 This is the church where most of the old kings are buried in the crypt. and you can see their sarcofagus on a guided tour.
Stromming is small related or same fish as herring but abit smaller but on Sweden east coast...not sure though.. the best fishfood is on Sweden west coast or south
Good video guys! As a Swede having lived in Australia since 2010, I can't wait to go back in June 2024!
Bonus, did you guys catch the cannon ball that's visible in the middle-left of the screen at @3:38 in the yellow building (above the maroon sun shade) that's said to have been fired by the Danish king back in 1520 during the Stockholm Blood Bath?
I enjoy looking at this videos and I am reminded of that I live in a cool city. I never appreciate living here .. and never look up at the buildings :D
You can only find preserved ships like Wasa in the Baltic, as the low salt content in the water means that the ship worm does not live there.
Stockholm IS built on a very strategic position as it is the outlet from the lake Mälaren, which previously was part of the sea before the land rose up. Once Mälaren turned into a lake, the older sities of Sigtuna and Västerås didn't have as easy access to the sea as before and Stockholm was founded in, I think, 1250 AD.
If it had been "Surströmming", the place would have been evacuated in 5 seconds flat. I usually say I have had it twice, both at the same time: First and last. Not worth it. "Stömming" is herring cought in the Baltic sea. Herring from the high seas is usually a little bit bigger.
I love cardamom bun 😋😋
And of course cinnamon bun too. 😍
If you need tips for Gothenburg let me know.
Also cardamom buns are delicious, just as good if not better than cinnamon buns.
It is dark inside the Vasa Museum because the old wood of the boat is very sensitive so the conditions are handled to preserve it as good as possible. That's also why it's a bit chilly inside the museum, they control the air temperature and humidity.
I have tried real ‘Surströmming’ three times and I still do not like it and will not try it again.
Everyone in my family loves it and have several gatherings a year, where I am either not around or I am eating regular herring instead, because the wrap with everything in it is still very good.
So traditional ‘Surströmming’ is eaten with a flat bread (either soft or hard, if eating with a soft bread we fold it to a wrap) that you put delicacy potatoes, sour cream, unions and a nice red Nordic caviar, being of northern Swedish decent we use this very delicious red caviar (Löjrom, the best part in my opinion) on our gatherings that someone in our family has caught the fish themselves and sold us at a reduced price 😉.
This is a holy tradition; it is cultural and anyone who complains and does not like it and whines about the smell or taste is not welcome to participate in this holy tradition and is looked upon with low regards.
Furthermore, anyone who has ever eaten Surströmming as a joke or dare etc just to get clicks and likes, you are all extremely disrespectful to this tradition and our people.
This from someone who does not like it personally, but I would never disrespect someone else in that way that several videos online can clearly prove other have done already.
If this is hard for anyone to understand imagine you loving something so much your mouth waters just thinking about it, longing for summer when you can sit out in the sun and eat it in pure enjoyment… then several d-bags online decide to eat it and gag on it as a joke.
Thank you for listening to my TED-talk about Surströmming. X-D
LOL I enjoyed reading this comment, thanks for this
Today one of the most iconic buildings in Copenhagen burned down. Shme you won't to see it. Oh, and team Cardamom here, for sure! Fika happens antytime you want, bu i work places usually between 9-10 AND 14-15. We use military time here.
Immpresive ❤❤❤
6:31 - omg those prices lol. I'm from Stockholm but that's insane.
@Jetlagwarriors I think they didnt mention in that Vasa ship museum about brank that finnish students did? As a Finn its hilarious.
They managed to dive with proper diving gear, just day or couple before they lift up the ship, and bring 50cm height metal(bronze, brass, iron or something like that) statue of legendary finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, who dominatet early 20th century olympics running. He had multiple gold medal.
They say that it was a "revenge" of swedish made campaing against Paavo Nurmi, when they claimed he is professional, and that time it was forbidded in olympics, so Paavo Nurmi was banned from one olympics at least for that.
I think its hilarious, and genious "student prank", that especially tech-uni/tech-college students(abiturientit) like to do. But this was king of other such endeavors.
Swedes scientists and historians even think first days that statue was statue of Hermes, messenger of gods etc 😅😅
Not even english lang wikipedia mention about that, finnish lang page tho mention it in the ond of the page/article.
P.s. one critical point that prank was possible was that, one of the four prankster(one only alive today I think) was chief editor in students magazine, and he had press card. And the lifting operation area was military zone/area that particular time. With his press card it was possible to him go to do crucial intelligence mission...
I have watched and start to follow u when u start your finnish hockey tour. Sweden is bigger country, and I think ypu have great time there. Swedes are great ppl also. Sweden are our dear brothers(outside of hockey seasons :)), and finns love them, thats obvious.
Thanks for great content. Keep it up❤️👍🏻🤟
They didn't mention it in the museum, but I love this story. Thanks for sharing!!
No problemo. Thanks for reading my post. I am like overwhelmed that you read and react. That was my goal, to just to let you know, if u didnt hear it from elsewhere yet. All the best both of you. I hope u possibility and time to come Finland again.
P.s. Gongrats to Canada for winning womens world championship. Just watched final match couple days ago, as they ofc show whole tournament on one of the main tv channels in Finland also. 👌🇫🇮🤝🇨🇦
You should go to Brynas - Djurgården Hockey. It's the finals now and the first two games (Today and friday) are played in Gävle 2 hours north of Stockholm. Djurgården are the team with the most cup wins in Sweden and Brynas has the second most!
Vad hände med slottet?
We have found Wasa's sister ship in 2022 the Appel= Äpplet.
Yes strömming is harring😊
You have a small Romanian grocery store there (Carpații Deli), maybe you can find some ”mici” there. 😋😄
Sweden is by far the most beautiful country in Scandinavia. Rent a car and drive around, visit the nature it's worth it. Too bad it's not summer yet.