What I learned about Scandinavia

Living in Denmark, My view is that Sverige, Norge and Danmark where i'm from, is one family, bound in history, culture, blood, and the future. Pressing on for the right to live free.

The freedom to roam in Norway is exactly like the one you described for Sweden... You can drive from northern Denmark to the German border in less than 4 hours... In Norway, it will take about 3 days... When that's said, I love all 3 countries...

Finally someone not including Finland to Scandinavia. Respect from Finland 😅

(USA Expat from Calif 4th generation) Small story. Moved to Luxembourg on a Corp job in 1980. When the job ended in 1983 I stayed in Europe (forever) Moved to Denmark 1983 with a Danish Girl. Bought a home in the North of Denmark and became a self employed Artist. Went back to the US a couple of times on visits. But never regrated my move to Denmark. Very much enjoyed your video, And the fact you traveled The North in Denmark and didn't only think Copenhagen represents what Denmark has to offer. Not an Outdoor person myself, just a peace loving one, and that's what Northern Rural Denmark offers it's Expats . Keep on Hike'un 😎

I left my heart in Scandinavia (particularly Sweden & Norway) and dont think I can be truly happy until im back there ❤

We have over 200 free shelter locations in Denmark

Lovely videos, so glad you liked it here in Scandinavia. The freedom to roam Allemannsretten(N) and Allemansrätten(S) are almost exactly the same. Tresspassing: it is legal to walk on privately owned land. Both laws say with consideration and caution, in forests, mountains, heaths and meadows. Stay away from gardens or yards. Do not step on cultivated land (crop), but it is ok on frozen ground. Do not disturb livestock. Ok (for most farmers) that you walk on tractor roads between fields. Camping: Norway: camp for a maximum of 2 days (on the same site) and at least 150 meters from residential buildings or cabins. Sweden: not in the "immediate vicinity of a residential building" and you must get permission from the owner for several nights. Mushrooms and berries are free for everyone to pick in both countries. Both countries' laws have the most important rule or premise: show consideration, show respect for property and nature, do not destroy and take rubbish with you. Denmark do not have laws for freedom to roam sadly, but have some laws to secure public access to beaches, forests etc.

Thank you for covering Scandinavia. I live in Bergen, I would highly recommend driving from Bergen to Ålesund. The jugend town of Norway. In this area you will find sceenery that is unique even in Norway. The hiking is breathtaking - this is where the Queen of Norway has spent her summers hiking with other Royals, like the former Queen of Denmark. It is a must if you love hiking. This is also where the rich and famous come to visit to see Norway in a nutshell.

There are free nature shelters all over Denmark. And we have marked bicycle routes spanning the whole country, those focus on the most beautyful wievs and less trafficed roads.

I live in Denmark. Much focus is on the Viking’s, but we had a very rich Stone Age culture as well. There are burial mounds here that are from 4000-5000 BC that you can crawl into. It’s still puzzling how they got a 20 ton stone on top. Kind of like the mystery of the pyramids, but in smaller scale. Denmark used to be sea floor, but after the last ice age, the sea floor rose when the ice melted and lifted the pressure. As soon as vegetation and animals migrated to the new land, people followed. We even have white cliffs like in Dover in the UK. What is unique is the so called “fish clay” at Rødvig, south of Copenhagen where 66 million old layers are visible from the beach. Marking the end of the Cretaceous and the start of the Paleogene. Bottom layers are full of charcoal. Then a thin slightly radioactive layer that is black (called fish clay here) where most life on Earth went extinct with traces of Iridium, found in asteroids and on top a calcium layer from the new animals Corals that started to bloom afterwards. For me it was so exiting to see. And the early history of Denmark is almost as fascinating as the Viking age. Danish flint stone was very popular and traces of Danish flint was traded all over Europe until metals took over. I’ve been to Bergen and that place is breathtaking (coming from flat Denmark where our “Sky mountain” is a mere 146 meter hill. Bergen has no fitness centres, as everyone just hike the surrounding mountains.

Next time you visit Denmark I would really recommend you visiting The Chalk Cliffs of Møn! There’s so beautiful there and you can find fossils in the chalk plus there’s a great museum that teaches you about how the cliffs came to be 60 million years ago. There’s a park nearby the cliffs called Liselund with a great back story too.

I fell in love with this free//chill/without stress atmosphere, or mindset , in Norway.

Worth mentioning about Denmark is that the coastline is always public so you more or less always have freedom to roam the coast (outside of a few military areas) And while Denmark is not that big we do have A LOT of coastline.

In Danmark we have the !+2+3 rule meaning you can camp in most forests for one night in maximum two tents for maximum three persons.

From Denmark: I walk a small country road every day to and from work. Just about once a month (especially if the weather is bad) a stranger will stop and ask me if I need a lift.

As a Dane, it warms my heart to hear how you have embraced Scandinavia. If you do make it to Denmark again, please don't miss out on visiting Jelling, with the Kongernes Jelling Museum, the burial mounds, Harald Bluetooth's site, and the rune stones telling how Denmark was Christianised. The stones are known as the birth certificate of Denmark, and the baptism into Christianity ... and of course the history of Bluetooth :) On another note: your travel vlogs inspired my family to hike Ben Nevis in a month :)

Interesting it sounding like you liked Oslo the least of the capital cities, due to it being expensive. While that is true, it also has the most opportunities for free nature experiences out of any of the capital cities, which sounds like up your alley.

As an Norwegian, I will tell you that you must like rain to love Bergen. That's the town where there's most rainy days in an year, and everyone in Norway knows that.

I absolutely Love being a citizen of Scandinavia and I adore my neighbors of all directions ❤️🇸🇪🇧🇻🇩🇰🇫🇮🇦🇽🇮🇸🇫🇴🇬🇱❤

BTW ... Visby has a city wall (from the medieval times) and it was where they filmed Pippi Longstocking in the 1970'ies! ^^