THE ANGRY SPUD Reacts to DAR THE TRAVELER FIRST TIME IN SWEDEN

Yessir! Hate I didn’t see this in time! But it definitely was worth it! Great experience! Thanks for the reaction!

10:07 It's early morning, and nothing is open. Just two hours later these streets would be bustling with tourists and workers on the way to work.

08:50 The streets in Gamla Stan is paved with natural stones. They have to be evened out from time to time, but the stones themselves are nigh unbreakable. Some streets are made with square cut stones like this, and some others with just round stones... The round stones have propably been street-stones for 4-500 years.

07:27 That is Gustav Vasa or Gustav I of Sweden. The first "modern" type if king. The house behind him is the house of knights, that is the organisation for the Swedish nobility. The latin inscription means just that. "Palace of the knightly orders". Gustav was the king that established a fixed organisation for nobility.

14:18 No, there was no statue there, it's one of the old water pumps. You have to go there to get your drinking water in the old days. It's long since been replace by workd class tapwater inside every home.

07:12 The speed limits in Stockholm are 30 km/h (18.6 mph), 40km/h (24.9 mph), & 60km/h (37.3 mph). 07:25 The House of Nobility (Seat of the interest group of the Swedish nobility.) 08:08 The Supreme Court of Sweden

09:27 Is "Storkyrkan", the central church for Swedish Lutheranism, the former Swedish State church and the place of refirmation as well as burual site for many a Swedish king and queen.

17:02 Yes, the royal palace. It was built during a short period when Sweden was a super power, so it had to reflect that...

This week is leading up to Swedens Midsummer Selebration weekend, and anyone who has the opportunity goes out in the countryside. And the tourists are still in bed. But the evenings in summer Stockholm are amazing!

11:08 That is the Stockholm main square (Stortorget) with the water pump in the center and the Nobel Museum to the left. This is the old town, and both architecture and street map are medieval to 19th century. It's very quiet in the videos because it's so early. In summer the sun rises early and sets late. Further north the sun don't set for weeks or month, and we call it "the midnight sun".

11:57 That's the clocktower of the German Church. The have bells that can play melodies, and they do that on occasion. I once was outside when they started to play the Imperial March.

12:52 Is one of a chain of restaurants called "Texas Longhorn".

4:30 Nils Ericson was an engineer and built a lot of tge Swedish railway system. His brother John Ericsson is a bit more famous as the engineer that invented the modern ships propeller, and built the ship that fought CSS Virginia at of the Battle of Hampton road during the US civil war.

Looks like it's really early in the morning so nothing is open yet and people are just not out. Usually the old town is filled with people during summer. Never seen it so empty 😂

15:45 Yes, that's the famous Swedish police.

08:08 That building is the Swedish Supreme Court.

This is Friday morning at 6 am. There is like no shops or restaurants open at that time.

Yeah, as he said while walking towards Gamla stan it was 6 am...so he should have been at Gamla stan around 6.30 approximately so therefore nothings open yet due to open hours at 10 am for atleast 90% of the stores :) if not all of them. I commented on Dar's video that IF hes able ro, go back later during the say and he will find people..lots of them cause its a huge tourist attraction :) If your a fan of museums and wants to hear about the father of the dynamite, Alfred Nobel, the museum is right on that squeare in Gamla Stan. Cost about 13 usd to enter, have no idea if that is cheap in an americans pov :)

08:20 Is of Lars Johan Hiertha who was a liberal (not socialist) icon and was thrown in jail for using the freedom of the press to critisize the sitting king Carl XVI Johan. He founded the newspaper "Aftonbladet" that still exists.

Let me tell you a story about cobblestones - you don't have to read it 😉 I live in a town founded before 1100. In the early days the squarre served as a tournament place for the king's knights. Later it served as a market place, and the stalls were marked with numbers carved into the cobblestones. In the 1963 they tore up the stones, covered the squarre in asphalt and turned it into a parking lot - of course 🙄 Now we've changed our minds, and want the cars OUT of town, so a fortune was spend on replacing the asphalt with modern stones. But first a massive archaeologic escavation. They naturally found some of the old stones - and it was advertized in the local paper, that they'd love to have more of the old numbered stones, and dot them around in the new paveing. Old stones popped up from all sorts of places. Turned out that several had served as door stoppers 🤣Now they serve as a kid's "treasure" hunt 😍