Brit Reacts to My first ever solo trip to Stockholm 

I speak swedish with Norwegians and I expect them to speak Norwegian with me. When it comes to danish it depends on where in Denmark they are from. Copenhagen dialect is very hard for me to understand and I am from Stockholm. But reading danish is almost 100% understandable.

You could go to Sweden and the nordics around winter, but you must understand that the whole area is dead or sleeping (at least nature). Like, people will barely be out and if they are they are just out doing some errands. Stockholm is VERY windy and it will chill you to the bone if you are outside for a longer time during winter. Same with Helsinki in Finland too. The special thing about summer in Sweden is that everything has to hurry up and live life to the fullest in a relatively short time (about 3-4 months total). Nature just explodes with life when early summer rolls in and it feels like waking up from a long sleep, which in fact a lot of nature is doing. If you are dead-set on Stockholm during winter, then be sure to visit the Skansen Christmas fair. Skansen is a very large open-air museum and every christmas they hold a fair/market.

We usually start off in Danish-Swedish and Norwegian-Swedish and if we don’t understand each other we turn to English. The languages are similar and with an open mind we understand each other however dialects and speed can mess things up. However she sounds Icelandic and that’s a totally different story 🙈

I speak Swedish with both Danish and Norwegian, as long as we all speak a bit slow it's not a problem to understand each other in Scandinavia.

As a travel agent in Sweden, it's definitely NOT cheaper to book last minute. Most rooms at decent hotels tomorrow is about 4000 sek (300£) or more. Also, I would rather go by train from Copenhagen to Stockholm since there is a direct train that takes 5 hours and you don't have the hassle of checking in as well as going to Kastrup and from Arlanda airport.

If I meet a Norwegian person, I speak to them in Swedish because we’ll very likely understand each other just fine. If I meet a Danish person, however, the likelihood of me understanding them drops significantly. I probably start off in Swedish and switch to English once I realise the conversation isn’t going very well. 😅 I understand why you’d like to visit Sweden around Christmas. I love winter here but, sadly, I wouldn’t expect there to be snow in Stockholm when you’re there. Might be snowy but I feel like that’s not at all guaranteed these days. Either way, I think you’ll like it no matter when you show up here. 😊

If you are going to explore Sweden during wintertime, at least be far enough north to have constant snow that does not melt. Maybe a ski-resort or nature for the northern lights. But if you are going to visit Stockholm, then do it during the summer with the summer vibes and the running water throughout the entire archipelago. Because during winter it can quite often have plus degrees so it will just be a gray mush of half melted snow and water. Stockholm during winter usually has a lot of activity's one can partake in, but then you should plan for them in advance.

don't expect real winter in Stockholm, around Christmas it's often several plus degrees, cloudy/overcast and quite humid/rainy, not that much different from London

I live in southern Sweden, where we mostly speak Swedish with the Danes. I think we in the south understand Danish better than those up north. With the Norwegians, we speak Swedish if it is a Norwegian who speaks without a dialect. A piece of advice about going to Sweden in the winter, the Swedes don't go out in the winter so you'll have a hard time meeting us then =)

The green stuff was pickled cucumber shavings, it's quite popular and iconic alongside meatballs. It's also common on sandwiches along with cheese or liver pate.

Stockholm is the most beautiful around Christmas and in the summer. I think you’d love both. Autumn is beautiful for a while, before all the leaves has fallen, but spring is mostly grey and wet. However, there’s no telling the weather. Around Christmas it could be +12 degrees and raining, or it could be -20 and snowing if you’re lucky ❄️ In the summer it could be from +10 up towards +40, so it’s a gamble. 😅

Go in the summer xD Sure there are cosy days during winter, but nothing beats june. Long summerdays almost without night, singing birds, slittering water, midsummer in the archipelago, seafood on the west coast, swimming in the lakes..... The wole region just comes alive. We Swedes stay inside in the winter and everyone is tired. There is so much more to se during longer times in the summertime. June is perfect, because that´s also before most Swedes go on vacation.

Come here whenever you want to. Winter is a bit pf a 50/50 in Stockholm, sometimes its beautifull with snow and then other times its slushy and grey. You will have a good time either way.

So theres one unique swedish fastfood that has its roots in the stockholm area you have to try and thats Tunnbrödsrulle, thin bread roll. It´s the best comfort food ever invented and some chefs are dead serious about it. When you visit stocholm you need to try it. I guess the best place to get it when in the city would be Nyhetsgrillen on Kungsholmen. Its just a 10 minute walk from the nearest underground station.

The best idea is to come in summertime, get to know some Swedish people, come back and visit them during winter another year. The odds of making friends in Sweden during summertime is sky high compared to wintertime.

i went to a fishing trip in norway and then a random stranger asked me to take photos of her and her friends. she spoke norweigan and i spoke swedish. i could understand like 60% of what she said.

As you arrive in the nordic country, and you have a huge patreon base, you dont have to be alone. You could have a patreon hangout night in every town you visit.

If you want to go to Sweden during winter I recommend going further north instead of Stockholm and Gothenburg. In November and December Gothenburg usually is cold, damp, windy and rainy. It's not the best time of the year to visit IMO. In January or February there are usually one or two weeks with snow but winter is mostly rain here. Northern Sweden gets more snow and has stunning nature.

The restaurant is called Prinsen (the prince) and it’s near to Östermalmstorg. The café is called Fabrique. I absolutely recommend both. I’ve visited Prinsen with my family and with my artist friends, because artists in the art noveau era used to come there and eat together. :)

Mochi ice cream is a small, round confection consisting of a soft, pounded sticky rice dumpling (mochi) formed around an ice cream filling

I speak Swedish with Norwegians, but English with Danes. I tried for a whole weekend in Denmark to insist that we should understand each other, but we didn't really and I should have switched to English to make it much easier.

Such a great episode!!❤

I'm as comfortable dining out on my own as with company and I don't think anyone here finds it strange.

I didn't know I needed these good vibes today/tonight.

It was not because she was alone eating. Just because she is beautiful.

It is absolutely worth it to visit the nordic countries in the winter. But yeah... Summertime is better. xD Snow and cold is fun in like... 2 weeks max :P Also, when I am speaking to a danish person I will TRY to communicate in swedish, is that's not enough then we'll just flip to english, it is well understood and accepted by both parts. :P When speaking to a norwegian though we will communicate in our respective langauges. I've yet to meet a norwegian whom I've spoken english with. :)

The couple and the guy was looking at her because she has style... she's classy

The filling in Semla is an almond paste, it is somewhat similar to Marzipan, but it's a little less sweet, the texture is also a bit more coarse, but I think it tastes 100 times better.

Winter is lovely as long as you dress properly to shield you from the cold.

I speak to norwegians in swedish, and when I meet a danish one, I always start the conversation in swedish and it always ends in english! 😂

No, come in the summer : D When she speaks English so well, probably English, but she might mix in a little Danish here and there. I think that Normans and Swedes speak Norwegian and Swedish to each other and understand at least 90% of what the others say. I think that many Swedes and Danes try to do the same thing, but soon discover that there is too much they don't understand, so it often becomes a mix where English is mixed in. But as several people write, if you are from Skåne in Sweden, you usually understand Danish better, some Swedes can have difficulty understanding a Skåneing, they are considered a bit of being half Danes.

I understand Danish (and skånska) but my experience is that when danish people suddenly realize that I'm from another country (Sweden) they immediately start to speak English (Except for the people I'm familiar with who lives there of course ☺) I've also heard that Danes have problem with skånska but understand better the rikssvenska - the standard swedish if you can call it that. I always speak Swedish with both Danes and Norwegians - at least to start with 🤣

Stockholm can be pretty nice in the winter, but it's deffinetly more calm, almost emty at times! people just don't walk around / hang as much around the city during winter. Christmus decorations are usually topnotch around DrottningGatan (Queens Road) & towards NK (Nordiska Kompaniet - think of like a swedish Harrods). People spend more time at home and the ones you do see are usually on some quick errand. Summer is when Stockholm comes to life, People are everywhere and friendly, lots of places open that are only open during the summer (winter closed) like cafes or resturants located in parks or near the water walkways. But, yeah it's buityful in both seasons, but different. I myself I prefer the summer in stockholm for sure! but it wouldn't be the same if we also didn't have the winter contrast! Also, Mochii is a Japanese treat.

Dwayne! Go in summer! It’s one thing going on a weekend trip but you are planning a longer stay. You’re first stay should be summer. Stockholm is beautiful any time of year but magical in June! Next time you can go in winter

Muchi is a Japanese delicacy a kind of Icecream with Japanese rice and flavoured.

yes its a very bad idea to come to sweden during the winter Dwayne cause its way to cold an dark then, cause the best time to visit stockholm is during the summer and there is is no questions about it

12:17 that exact store is my absolute favorite thrift shop in Stockholm, they have amazing displays and affordable prices too! Swedes can understand Norwegians but not Finnish, Danish or Icelandic people.. so English it is! What makes it a bit complicated is that They understand Swedish …

Fabrique has at least one shop in London and they do Semla in Febuary too

Idea: when here, don't stress following a plan to 100%. Bring a notebook and stay a bit in the places you enjoy. Watching and listening to the city, making notes on what you come to reflect on. I did this as 23 year old during my 3 months alone trip through Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in the early 00s. I did some web journal for the folks back home (images and text, videos weren't that digital back then 😊) via the internet cafés but the journey was so much more rewarding and memorable having long talks with monks, farmers, café clerks and so on. Almost always with signs language and some sparse English and basic thai/lao/vietnamese. It makes you "more" global, mature and appreciate the "others" that these days often are depicted as bad/dangerous or stupid.. Not that Scandinavians are victims of that but still

If you want to taste a semla, you cannot go in Christmas! They only sell them in early spring.

Sad you are not going in the summer, but ok, at least you know that Sweden isn't cold and dark all year around.

Whenever you go to stockholm Dwayne, and you like burgers, Bun Meat Bun in Sundbyberg / Mariehäll is amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing... their Original burger is so amazing i can eat 4 of em... they're double patties... they serve these fries with parmesan cheese, melted and non melted topped with some herbs its so good i cant even put it in to words my friend... but like a comment said earlier, w/e u get here, u are not alone, u have a whole fanbase here who will not go nuts over you, we would love to show you the hidden nooks!

I'm Swedish, I always speak Swedish with Norwegians. If I speak Swedish with Danes and the Danish with me, is depending on the person and their dialect. I usually always try Sedish first, most often it works with them speaking Danish and I Swedish, but there have been times where we have switched to English or just have said a Eng word or sentence and then continue in our native language.

I would strongly recomend Sweden in summer for your first time and as allot of ppl has explained why. If you want to experience the nordic winter do that for your next trip (yes u will come more than once) and for your winter trip I would try to stay away from stockholm and big cities like that in the winter and stay up north and do some amazing winter activites

If your in Gothenburg during Christmas/winter time I would recommend: -Go look at the clarion hotell/posthotellet close to the central station/drottningtorget where I think yesterday they lit up the Christmas lights there it looks like a gift-package. -Christmas time on Liseberg (jul på Liseberg) cosy and absolutely beautiful. -brunnsparken is really pretty when its dark now in wintertime and it’s like a 3-5 minute walk to Nordstan which is a mall -The Christmas markets are like everywhere in town liseberg has one to and in Haga. -Museums -Definitely try find a restaurant where they have the classic Julbord -The cafe’s in “Haga” and just walk around there, it’s amazing especially in wintertime and Götaplatsen where we have the Poseidon statue -You can take “Paddan” which is a boat and and goes through some parts of the city and it stops at liseberg and you get some sightseeing on the way. -Maybe try find a ”Luciatåg” -And Gunnebo, Nääs and Tjolöholm castle’s has Christmas fika and music and markets.( I even think Nääs slott has horse sledding rides)

Really. As a first trip to sweden i would go in the summer. The difference is huge.

If she talked about mochi it is a dough made of kneaded boiled sticky rice. It can be shaped in different forms, sometimeswith a filling. You can cook, grill or eat it raw as a meal or as a dessertwith sweet filling. It is a Japaneese dish bit is also eaten in China, then called máshû (ok, the sign above the u should be the way around). It taste...interestimg, at least the ones I have tasted so far. If I were you I would visit south of Sweden in summer and go north for skiing, icefishing and watch the Aurora Borealis in winter. :aybe sleep at the Icehotel and visit Jokkmooks market and downhill skiing in Tärnaby/Hemavan. But summer is beautiful up north too!

As a Swede I always starts with Swedish when speaking to Norwegian and Danes, English is the backup.

Restaurant "Prinsen" (The Prince) is very nice restaurant.

Huj I'm getting anxiety just seeing that southern winter again. Windcold, icy, sandy shitstorm

insider tipp. You go to Tranan at Odenplan. Very good meatballs. They are not on the menu so you have to ask. But that is the thing.

If you go to gothenburg close to christmas you HAVE TO go to Liseberg!!

Swedish winters are beautiful if you visit the Northern parts (we got some really nice mid-size cities there, too). Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö in the winter usually just means rain, slush and winds. Oh, and super short days of course. I would definitely recommend visiting in June or maybe in early fall (September and October can be nice).

Go to south Sweden at midsummer. Go to the very North in winter. Taste the contrast.

I think you're doing right coming in the winter (based on your arguments), specially if you're continuing north.

that's amazing sharing! )

Mochi is a Japanese treat. They can be very good. I love taro mochi, but peach or passion fruit is delicious too. As for the people looking at her when she was eating alone, she's projecting. We Swedes don't care about that. They were looking because she was *filming* herself eating alone, because that's very weird here.

Oh, no, Dwayne. Spring or summer is best. Don't do the winter.. If you get here in winter, we have to teach you to dress. Layers, it's all about layers... dressing like the Michelin man isn't the key. ... and if you get here during winter - someone will force you to take an ice bath!

Train Copenhagen-Stockholm is like five hours. I guess she had a good reason for flying.

Ooo, we do understand each languages. As a swede I speak swedish to both danes and norwegians.

Personally I would mostly speak Swedish with any Norwegian or Danish person I meet but there are a few Norwegian dialects and quite a lot of Danish ones I struggle with understanding. With the Norwegian I would say I understand more than most people born and raised in Stockholm just because I was born and grew up basically less than an hour by car from the Norwegian border so I've spoken to a lot of Norwegians throughout my life and my "native" dialect is closely connected to the Norwegian language. There are a lot of words that sound similar in my native dialect and Norwegian so it's quite easy for me to speak to basically any Norwegian that has the more Oslo type dialect than anyone from the north or far west of the country. Also, yes. Coming to Sweden in the winter is definitely a good idea. Summers can often be unreliable in terms of weather and just the duration too. The winter always seems to be more reliable in that way. And the overall atmospere in winter is super cozy in the right areas. As for the friendliness of Swedes, I do belive that it mostly just seems like there are more friendly people around. However personally I believe that with most other places that it only seems that way as when you live in a place it feels different to when you visit. Most people wouldn't be out walking/sightseeing all day and meeting random people and be open to those meetings in their day to day life but when you're traveling people normally do have that. They do have time to spend on chatting with a random stranger in a restaurant or cafe or out on the streets. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but it's more rare for a Swede to do that from my personal experience, even though I am very much an introvert and prefer keeping my headphones on blasting music and keeping my head down while out in public but still. xD The cucumber in on the plate of meatballs could possibly be like freshly pickled cucumber where you basically just slice the cucumber thinly and put it in sort of a pickle brine with lots of herbs for a couple hours up to a few days. Not the traditional pickles but it's super good and definitely a recomendation if you haven't tried it :D Sorry, ADHD rant over xD Once I start going I can't stop

I live in Helsingborg and have done so almost all my life (neighbours to Denmark) but I have SUCH a hard time understanding danish so for a full conversation I speak english with them. But for simple phrases there's no problem for me, but most Danes I feel have a hard time with Swedish so even if they try to speak Danish/Swedish they usually switch to English after a phrase or two, I also experienced this when visiting Denmark and ordering at cafés/restaurants. Since I also lived in Östersund for 6 years I also met a lot of Norwegians, for me they are easier to understand but I feel they are more persistant/stubborn and rarely switch to English when talking with a Swede, however if a Swede has trouble understanding them and switch to English the Norwegians gladly switch over aswell.

Richard is a night club. Prinsen is an old old restaurant service traditional swedish food

If you really want to experience winter, you should go further north and possibly go inland. Stockholm is not nice during winter, due to the fact it's completely surrounded by water, so the cold and damp air will make you feel like you freeze to the bone even if the temperature is not extremely low. Stockholm is really nice in the summertime though.

You should go to Aifur and eat Viking food, but it is popular and should book a table before your trip. Probably good content as well.

We work with a Norwegian provider at work. We speak Norwegian/Swedish.

I was eating my first SEMLA today.IT WAS AN AMAZING TASTY.LOVE.IT. ITS MANDELMASSA .

True story... Riche was the first bar in my entire life that I have been thrown of... I don't know why but I was on a date there a couple of months ago and the bouncers claimed I was too drunk even though I hadn't been drinking... So it brings back sour memories for me...

Whit people from Finland sometimes Swedish sometimes English, many finns speak swedish

People from southern Sweden are more comfortable with Danish than Middle & North Sweden... generally of course there are exceptions. When it comes to if you should come during the summer or during winter I would suggest that if you planning a long trip and maybe several places maybe even several countries like Norway and Finland to I would choose summer because trains and local busses have fewer delays and easier to the sights during the light like for instance the fjords in Norway. If you just coming over for a weekend I would say it doesn't matter because both seasons have their beauty's

Think about its really exspensive in The Biggest towns. If you Come to smaller towns its mutch cheaper.And if you Come in christmas time you can eat all our chrismas food for free. Here in my town .Jönköping its 2 ours whith car to GOTHENBURG.AND STOCKHOLM .IN MY TOWN YOU HAVE IT ALL WHATEVER YOU WANT.

It depends on where in Sweden you live, We who live in Malmö near Denmark, we speak Danish and Swedish to each other. We understand the language because many of our words are the same. When you get higher up in Sweden, they speak English instead of in Gothenburg or Stockholm, so they don't understand Danish

If you want to visit both Sweden, Finland and Norway I would suggest you do one of the following, fly to Oslo (Norway) stay a while, take the a bus to Gothenburg (Sweden) stay a while, grab a train to Stockholm and stay a while, take the BOAT to Helsinki and then travel back to the UK from Finland. Another way is to start in Stockholm, boat to Helsinki, fly to Oslo, fly to UK.

If you want semlor, you should visit Vete-katten or Thelins.

If you want real Winter you should go North in Sweden. Kiruna in Lapland is a must. Why not visit the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi while you are in Kiruna.

When speaking to a norwegian I speak Swedish and listen to norwegian typically, sometimes you have to say, HUH? but overal it's understandable. But when speaking to my Danish cousins, yeah it's english, we often "try" to speak danish & swedish, but deffinetly us swedes say "What? Huh?" too often, Danes have an easier time to understand swedish from my understanding. (but also missunderstand sometimes aswell ofc). Danish of the 3 scandinavian languages are the least "clear tone" one, danish is very mushy to Swedish/Norwegian ears. Danish sounds like a different but relative close language, while Norwegian to me sounds more like a heavy dialect with 1/10 wounds beeing something else.

I'm happy for her being more confident but I doubt people thought it was weird that she ate out alone 😅 If you want to visit in winter you should do a couple of days in December, visit Christmas markets, and then go up north to the Ice Hotel to see some northern lights and maybe skiing.

If you go to stockholm, go in summer. If you go in winter go more north.

As a swede. I almost always speek Swedish in Norway. But outside Olso i may have to switch to enlish at times. But feel stupid about it. In Denmark i find it's very hard. They understand me but i can have a hard time if they don't simplify it for talking to me. Finland is interesting. I use English but i also know that many in areas that are by the sea like Helsinki do speek Swedish. So i sometimes test them. But i always ask first not to be rude. Way back in time it was more Swedish. Then we have Iceland. Very funny place as it sounds easy and like 50% swedish but we can not understand a lot at all. And they more often understand Danish. As many get that in school.

Generally always try our own language first, then english if that doesn't work out. At least from my experience

Mochis are a kind of icecream

I speak English with danes, because I can't understand them. Norwegians are a bit more complicated. There are so many different ones. But if they're from southern Norway or around Oslo, I usually speak some kind of Scandiwegian.

Copenhagen to Stockholm is likely 1 hour flight maybe less.

I usually just speak Swedish with Norwegians, and they speak Norwegian to me. But with Danes, I just can't hear what they are saying, while half of them seems to understand me. However, I usually don't have any problems deciphering Danish in writing. I've heard a Norwegian joke that all the Scandinavians are actually having the same language, just that the Swedes can write it, and the Danes can't speak it.

Sweden is beautiful at winters but Stockholm is not the best place If you want to experience a real Swedish winters. My suggestion is to go further to the North. A smalltown or Village.

11:20 I never ever spoke to a norsk (norwegian) person in English. That would be weird as hell :) Usually not to Danes either, although some Danish dialects can indeed be tricky to follow.

She is speaking with sweeds in some kind of danish/swedish.you now like we speak swinglish with all englishmen.

I'm Swedish and I can't for the life of me understand almost any spoken Danish, as I know is the case for the majority of Swedes. They usually understand us better though. It often switches to English because it just too hard having a conversation otherwise. I can understand most Norwegians though, if they don't talk too fast lol

If you want to see the winter, don't go to the capitols to see it. Most big citys will be more slush then snow. You will need to go futher north than Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki. Or you should go here after Christmas as the winter hits us hader in January/February and you will have a better chanse to se some snow. So for the Capitals is better to wisit at summer. The same thing goes for the more southern parts of Scandinavia. As the white winter puctuers I guess you want, wont be easy to if you don't head way futher north than Stockholm in Sweden.

Swedish with Norwegian and English with Danes.

When I meet a Norwegian I never switch to English, like never never. If I meet a Dane, it depends. If they approach me in English, I would go for it. If they approached me in Danish I would probably try in Swedish. Maybe that would work out, maybe we switch to English within a second 🤷🏻‍♀️

With people from Norway, I speak Swedish and they speak Norwegian to me. When I meet people from Denmark, I speak Swedish and they usually speak Danish to me. I need to be more concentrated to understand everything and I might need to ask them to repeat some things. I think that it is easier to understand Norwegian.

Normally every Swede understand Norwegian an vice versa, but Danish can be hard to understand depending were in Sweden you live, so English is better with Danes.

Danish and english. If danish speek slow i can understand them. Norweigan is easier but it depends on from where in norway. Bergen dialect is really harx

This woman eats at very posh places. Fabrique though is a chain of bakeries/cafes.

Should really visit Stockholm in the summer, not winter.

But come in summer. Much more bars and restaurants open

If the Danes make an effort and talk slowly, we understand them. They normally understand almost everything we swedes say in Swedish. Swedish and Norwegian is closer and easier to understand for Swedes.

Personally I would have preferred taking the train from Copenhagen to Stockholm (or Gothenburg)

when i speak with my norwegians friends, i try to speak norwegian and they try to speak swedish with me. the few dannish people i know, mostly speaks dannish and i swedish