In Belgium, when you travel in the wrong direction by train, they give you a "lost passenger pass"; so you can travel again to the correct destination without paying.

When learning english here (in Denmark), the teachers often ask us to discribe the words we don’t know yet, with other words in english. I think it’s because they want us to be prepared to be in situations, where we don’t know what words to use to be understod 🙂

I love how you slowly turned into a viking through the video and just keep talking like nothing happened! Please never change 🤣🤣

Travel insurance is a must. Obviously there are health benefits, this covers not just illness but hospitalisation due to traffic accidents or whatever. It covers lost luggage and sometimes accomodation if travel doesn't go as planned. No, I don't have an interest in an insurance company, but I wouldn't dream of going to the US without insurance.

9:40 Dane here :) As someone that has been skateboarding a lot in my teen years I never thought it in this way before. I visited the hospital a lot with minor injuries, and a few bigger ones with broken bones etc. But even tho its "free" it can still piss your parents up, cuz the entire evening usually goes on a hospital visit; memories sparkling! ^^ And I can see now why parents in America is in general extra careful for their kids, when it cost 13k for a broken leg.. yikes!! Its not like parents here dont care about you, but I think the daily life has less worries, and you feel less bounded. But again I never been in America, and states/cities differ a lot. What do I know :D

I miss the light in Sweden. Not so much the length of the summer days, but the drawn out sunsets. Where I live now, the sun more or less just disappear. From sun to dark it goes fast. Not so where I grew up. There it took time for the sun to settle and there was this very special light in the evening.

I love the long days here in the Nordics. I wish it would last all year round. I don't have trouble sleeping when it's light, I guess one just has to learn that by practice. Love that I don't have to turn the lights on in my apartment in the evening, I can read or do what ever in sunlight and slowly watch the sunset.

"Travelling Young" have a similar experience, as the wife need to go to a hospital and then waits, in wain of course, for a bill! This is why we are so "happy"!

Yeah thats strange, Im from sweden and I can not sleep in the summer without blinds or curtains so for me its a must. I would not like staying at a hotel not having that..

I wish it were 10 things so that the video would be twice as long. Please make more videos from your visit to Scandinavia.

Haha - daylight ;) Try it 6 months later ... Greetings from Estonia!

Maybe you should try a bit of Southern Europe to experience how completely different European countries are.

I like your viking helmet! ;-) Strangely enough, your outfit is propably more historically accurate than what Hollywood usually use. ;-) ... and Ice cream... we usually don't eat much ice cream in the winter so when the sun comes out in summer, we have to catch up on a whole year of ice cream. 😊

I hope you felt welcome in Scandinavia

Even for me as a German where sun goes up at 4:45 and down at 21:34 today wasn't prepared of the amount of daylight in Iceland at the same time: you can read a book whole night long without turning the light on. And yes: your sleeping time is shorter in summer but those nordic people get more sleep in the winter.

Watching this from Norway while eating my ice cream...

I think the best thing about the language barrier thing is just how much better you can appreciate it going forward for some poor foreigner that comes to the States, that you might run in to. Great to hear you talk fondly about your trip bud.

Being Swedish myself (and have travelled quite a lot) I appreciate the small differences you point out - I always get "AHA!" moments when visiting a foreign culture/country.

As soon as the sun comes out scandinavians rush to get ice-cream!I’m happy you had a great time in Denmark and Norway.😊

Jeeh, boy! You've gone Scandinuts :-))

Yes, the light is very special. I live 7 hours drive north of Stockholm. It is a 5h drive south of the Arctic Circle, but it never gets dark at all this time of year. A magical time, but even with good blackout curtains, it is difficult for the body to understand that it is night. In December, we only have a little more than 4 hours of daylight when the day is at its shortest, and that daylight is not sun, but a gray sky. Although we who live here appreciate the sun all the more when it comes. If I were you, I'll make the next trip to Alaska. You do not have to cross the Atlantic to see the northern lights or the midnight sun.

Ice cream all day long in the summer!! - better than cakes and cookies! I can imagine that the rising/setting of the sun could make your internal clock go haywire ☀️ but we are used to it (and for that reason not a lot of people have blackout curtains..only in the children's rooms) Hard to argue, that it's time to go to bed bc it's late, when they can see, the sun is still up! 🤣 Come back, bring your girls! 🎉 hello from Denmark 🌸🌱

Perspective, empathy, and building a world view are things that are best learned through travel.

Nordic countries generally speak good English. As does the Netherlands. Germany is pretty good. France, Spain, Portugal, Italy not so much. In a tight spot always remember your translation app on your phone. People speaking English for you is a bonus, don't rely on it.

yes we have alot of daylight but in winter some never see the Sun we get about 6 hours light here in Denmark . we use blackout curtains to cope

First of all, you should ALWAYS have travel insurance when going abroad. If you are in an accident and lets say break your neck, you are not going to want to stay abroad for the duration of your rehabilitation, as it can take years. Your travel insurance will pay for an ambulance flight home. Second. You said that the nordic healthcare system were a lot less worrysome financially, but what did you think about the quality compared to USA? How did it differ?

It's great that you had a good experience with our healthcare system in Denmark - when it had to be. I can't, for the life of me, understand why many americans (I don't know the percentage) is perfectly fine with a healthcare system where you can be charged +$1000, just because you get sick. I will never understand. Maybe every american should try our system - just for comparison.

You don't seem to realize how strange it was what you said about foreign languages. You've been to 3 countries and you don't speak the language of any of the countries. Nevertheless, you were able to talk to over 90 percent of the people because they spoke YOUR language. It's quite a privileged situation. Conversely, a Pole, for example, cannot expect people in the US to speak Polish to him, he has to learn English.

Nice to hear about your hospital experience! I used to work, as a nurse, at a couple of emergency care departments. In *_theory,_* hospitals and health centers are supposed to charge patients from foreign countries, or rather their insurers. It is easy with patients from EU-countries. They are all governmentally insured. But non-EU citizens... We are not at all used to these procedures. So in reality, it is one of the lowest prioritized chores. Healthcare is _our_ job. Billing should be _somrone else's._

Travel certainly broadens the mind!

I've been to Greece 4 times Spain and Spanish islands probably 10 times and Egypt once - I always try and learn a few words of the language of the country I'm visiting even if it's just please , thankyou etc - I recently returned from Greece and got on the wrong train at Manchester airport to return home the staff were brilliant and rearranged my journey without me incurring further costs 👍🇬🇧

It's midsummer here now and I live pretty close to the arctic circle so the sun doesn't really set at all right now. Took some really nice night photos the other day when it was summer solstice. Autumn and winter are probably my favorite seasons.

Amazing that you’ve gotten so hooked on travelling! You also genuinely look excited talking about it! A joy to see!

The viking gear was fun!

I find it crazy how you experienced such a language barrier in Denmark or Scandinavia in general because we are very well tought in English from around 7 years old.

It's been a pleasure watching you grow and learn (EDIT: and teach!) Bryson. Been watching your videos now and then, but somehow I never subscribed. That issue is now solved :) Also, if you ever decide to come to Finland, please don't come during winter like every travel youtuber. We do have a summer too, however short it might be!

Its nice you enjoyned your stay in Scandinavia. Im from Helsingør in Denmark. Its a great city with many old well preserved buildings and the castle Kronborg where shakespears Hamlet took place according to the story. Also the closest in Denmark to the swedis border. Only 20 minuttes by boat. Its really nice with the very long light days here in the summer. But in the winter the days are very short and its cold. The climate in Denmark is not the greatest. I can relate to language being a barrier. By far most people in Denmark speak english though. We learn it early on in school. If you go to southern europe like France Spain and Italy its a different matter. Very few there speak English. But defenetely worth visiting.

About the language barrier... as a Swede I am pretty decent at english and have had no problems while travelling to England and such places. But then I went to Kazakhstan... where they speak Kazakh or Russian.. .and don't even use letter I can understand... so yeah. That was tricky. Thank heavens for Google translate (which worked ok on Russian but pffft.... kazakh was apparently an alien language according to google.) I did study cyrillic letters before the trip though so I could kind of spell out some things (apparently soup is soup in all languages).

That was funny - you getting dressed up step ny step for each segment 😁 In the Danish healthcare system you will always get treated for free as a foreigner if it's acute. When it's not acute anymore, and you still need to be in the hospital, then you need an insurance to cover the costs. But I will recommend insurance whenever you travel abroad. You might need a transport back home. Excited about your upcoming videos...as always 🤗

Good to hear you had a nice time over here! Your thoughts on language barriers are well put. Imagine coming to Scandinavia and no one spoke English. That has to be one of the most challenging things one can do, go to a place where you don’t understand people and they don’t understand you. Travelling makes you grow, no doubt about it.

We love ice cream during winter too.

My father got another knee. He payed 200 euros and my mother was still worried about a year later, bc she thaught the "real" bill still had to come. 🙂

Greate video. Please post more thoughts and reflexions on your trip. It is very interesting.👍

We are eating a lot of ice cream here in Denmark all year, also in the winther.

Haha Bryson, great observation regarding the light. And as a contrast you should also try to visit the equal darkness in December, round Christmas if possible. Most likely in the far north of Scandinavia. You see, there is two sides to the coin.

I would totally recommend to visit western Norway on your next trip, a road trip from Bergen to Florø then "Atlanterhavsveien" and "Trollstigen" during the spring or summer months would be an unforgettable journey. I live in Florø and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else then here on the west coast with the beautiful views we get. There is a lot of rain, but that only makes the sunny days even more sunnier 😊

Most people in Norway on the 17 May will have at least one ice creme, most will have more than one. Its almost mandatory to eat ice creme and hot dogs on on the 17 May 😄

Re: icecream. I recently visiter a local startup ice cream factory here on the west coast of Finland. Got to sample a test batch of tar flavoured ice cream. TAR!!! It's my favoriter, was blown away by how well it suits the ice cream.

Winter is cool, spring is nice, summer is chill, fall is shait. Don't come in the fall.

I'm glad that you got to experience this B, real glad🤘. I bet there were two girls jumping up & down smiling when you got back home 🙂😀😃. What were the reactions like back home when you told'em about what you'd seen, heard and ( as you showed us in your video 😁)..smelled ?

Heh, if the daylight hours messed with your head in May, and in the southern parts of Norden, definitely visit in the summer or winter like you said you wanted. That's a whole different ballgame my man.

There's an old joke from Northern Sweden: a tourist has gone by train to the very northest end of Sweden, he walks around, enjoys the day, then finally gets tired and wants to leave, but doesn't want to take the train. So he asks the locals where the airport is. "No airport." "But I can hear the planes all over!" The Northerner just shrugs. "Mosquitoes." The joke is twofold - one, Northern Sweden has *_huge_* mosquitoes. It's no joke, if you ever go there in summer bring all the insect repellant you can find. It _might_ work. Might. Second, northern Swedes are...laconic. They don't waste words. If they can get away with not speaking at all, they're happy. (This isn't entirely true, of course, but they do tend towards being people of few words). Compare to the south of Sweden where everyone talks and talks and talks...I can say that because I'm from there. 😁

the first time you travel, leave your home country to see the world ... oh boy it's scary ... know no one... do not know the language .. do not know the local customs. but as soon as you're home you will leave again ... you're hooked.

Love from Sweden

You DO have free or heavily subsidised healthcare in the US. It's called Medicare and is only available for people above a certain age. The government could easily change that by simply lowering the eligibility age to zero.

Glad you seem to have liked your stay. I personally like the nightless nights here. Having traveled quite a lot, I'm of the opinion that our october-november is probably the worst of weather there is anywhere on earth, while june-august is the absolute best I've experienced anywhere.

Happy that You enjoyed your visit to Sweden. Always have a travel instans, just in case... About the day light. I live close to Stockholm. The Sun rised at 03.37 this morning and will set at 22.17 tonight.

Come in December, its dark from 3pm to about 9am here south, up north darh 24 hours. :)

Don't forget to visit the Faroe Islands on your next visit. Also, put Svalbard on the list.

If you come back to Copenhagen I will take you to my favorite ice cream place. The best home made icecream 🍦🍦🍦

You had a wonderful trip and really enjoyed it good for you Bryson our hospitals are the same here I spent about 3 weeks in hospital did not cost anything,ice cream at 10-30 my kind of time really enjoyed your video about your experiences it is great to have the experiences explained by you thank you Bryson.

Hey, as a swede it's interesting to hear your perspective on our neighborhood!

Come to Sweden for midsummer sometime :) Definitely come to Stockholm too (preferably summer 🙈)

Glad you had a great time! Keep on traveling, and welcome to Finland, we'll heat up the sauna!

Amen to European healthcare!

Icelanders will eat ice cream in a snowstorm. Truly. Sadly, if you live in the States and don't have access to health insurance. . . . well, don't get sick or injured. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps and walk it off.

Your ticket says: "The customer took wrong train. Going to L Jam".

Such good things to learn. I liked and recognized them all! Ice-cream outside when we highlight that it is summer at last. In the winter it is sausages, kebab, pizza, hotdogs, and the like if we eat outside at all. In southern Europe (Malta being the southernmost place I've been to) it is as southernly as about Kentucky I guess, and there I was surprised by the early darkness in the evening, sun set as if it was tumbling down into the sea, like a comet or something, I was totally unprepared. Sorry, about your having to visit the hospital, but relieved that there was something nice about it, too. Some traveltickets and some ways to pay them include some insurance - it is a jungle. This was a test-trip and you've learned a lot! The language barrier is truly very strong - even if you are not interested in talking, the feeling sure is very different when you understand all the conversations and signs around you, and when you don't. As when I was in Russia, Bulgaria, and Greece, and hardly knew even the alphabet. We are very dependent on the society we have grown up in, and live in, a human being on her/his own is very helpless. BTW I liked those segments of you videos very much, where you "philosophized" about your experiences, as these reflections on self and others, are part of making travelling meaningful. Similarly I have experienced rapid growth from my travels (only within Europe). Heartfelt wishes that your dreams of more travelling will come true.

Regarding the travel insurance - here in Denmark, the travel insuranse is often a part of your home insurance, so we don't have to think about it for every trip. On the concept of vending machines, i would never use one for other than drinks and fabricated snacks. Us scandinavians is more used to "real food" made fresh. :)

Glad you had a great time.

If you would be going to healthcare in sweden as a out of EU citizen you would need to pay the full cost of the visit. Normaly the fee is 0-€12 depending on region. But if you are out of EU, you have to pay thentotal cost for the care facilitety... that would be abour €60. The intresting part is that is really quite a bit cheaper anyway. But the service quaility is very diffrent from on care taker to a other.

Awesome, hope to see you in Finland someday! 🇫🇮

Im realy impressed, you did it, and you did it by your self/alone! I have never ever traveld alone outside my comfort zone, (Sweden) allways with parents or siblings. For me its about "get out of ones comfort zone", leave the small dayly troubles/thinking about them at home, fore a short time. And as a swede I have visited several other European countrys, its fun.. its always differences and similaritys.. its an experience!

Depending on the credit card being used when paying for your travel tickets, foreign travel medical expenses might be included.

I get travelers insurance through my Visa debit and/or credit card. I thought that was a service they give around the world? I have a travel insurance through my home insurance as well so I've never really thought about it as something I don't have. It's super important!

I really hope you enjoyed Gothemburg!

I am glad you enjoyed your travels. Its interesting to hear about your observations. :)

Tak for videon Bryson, og tak for besøget i Danmark. Du ønskes fortsat god eventyr :)

Fun fact! When you were in Norway on the Oslofjord you literally drove the boat right past my childhood home and the area I grew up in. I still go paddleboarding there every summer! :) Did you stop by the marina in Sætre? They got some pretty good mussels!

What the local health care system in EU countries covers for a tourist varies a lot. If you are a citizen or a permanent resident of any EU country, you are entitled to the same urgent care as the locals, with the same terms. As for foreigners... I'm not aware of cases where the system would have tried to bill the tourist for any huge amounts. There might be something extra though. Also, bc the expenses would not be excessive in any case, insurances are probably very affordable.

If you're ever in Östegötland (Linköping) in Sweden, I would love to meet up if you need a guide!

We are in Iceland right now. It is wonderful. High season is very expensive though.

If someone working in a customer service doesn't know what a vending machine is, they need to be replaced. Shame on you, Denmark / Norway for failing.

I love that you wore the outfit. Absolutely perfect. 😁

You mentioned Iceland. I have booked a trip to Iceland going to Reykjavik by the end of August.0

When we start to learn about other cultures, often we don't realize, that we'll learn just as much about our own culture at the same time. Have you had the same experience? Often we don't question things we're used to, but when we see it can be done differently, and when we see some people are used to do the same things very differently, and perhaps in a way we would like things to be done where we live. Bryson, in one of your early videos, it seemed as you didn't see yourself as a socialist/democrat, but has free healthcare, free education, etc., and some fact-based knowledge about Scandinavian countries, moved you a bit "to the left"? And being a dad, do you see these things (like free healthcare/education, better working conditions (36 hours/week = full-time job, 6 weeks of paid vacation a year, paid, etc), more strict gun control (less gun violence) or other things you now know is a way of living in other countries,, do you now think that could improve your children's lives, now and in the future? I'm not talking about politics, like GOP vs Dem, not at all, but more the way of everyday life, and which things you would like to see more or less of, no matter if you live in the USA, in Europe, or elsewhere. All the best /Pia

Even though we do have a great Healthcare system in Scandinavia, you always have a travelers insurance. For more intensive care, if it's needed an you never know, our rules for not paying doesn't accure to you. Because you don't pay your taxes to that country. Our prices on a ER visit for smaller things are probably cheaper than in the US, and more extensive treatment too, l think. But still.....travelers insurance is something l don't travel without. Except to Sweden and Denmark, we automatically have the same benefits 😉 Love to hear about your trip and what you thought it would be like vs. how it was😀

Hey man what's your stomach condition? I've been struggling with a GI disease for 16 years. I've felt really isolated because of it, so thank you for speaking up about it, it actually made me feel a little less alone.

In my neck of the woods the sun's been up for three weeks now. You kind of gets used to it, but I'm thinking about replacing the blinds in my bedroom with some proper blackout curtains. It is good to see that you've been enjoying your trip and are planning more. You are gathering experience and knowledge. And knowledge is power... to plan and shape your future. You didn't get the 24h daylight, but maybe you'll get to experience the three weeks when the sun doesn't rise above the horizon in one of your future travels. Good luck and Glad Midsommar!

I remember starting a BBQ in the north of Sweden at 2.30 am :-) Just daylight :-)

Glad midsommar! This is the weekend when we celebrate summersolstice, it is also connected to St John, because the early Christian missionaries thought it a good idea to connect Christian myths to pre-existing habits and celebrations and kind of try to takem them over. A peculiar mixture came up. Jesus was celebrated in the darkest winter and St John (Johannes as we call him) in the brightest summer. Also the equinox in the autumn and spring were noticed specially, when the whole globe has exactly the same length of days and nights simultaneously, 12+12. Right now, we have about 4 hours of semi-darkness in the night in southern Sweden, especially if it is cloudy. There are funny traditions which connect new and old celebrations - for Christmas we have the spruce and for Midsummer we have the flower-decorated "pole" and traditionally there are danses around them. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mddxnLOczLrUqWg.html

You should go up north in Sweden 🇸🇪 a beautiful place to be in The summera or winter.

Maybe the ice cream consumption is to stay warm inside the body like people in really hot countries drink hot beverages to stay cool.

Also in smaller cities there are moving ice trucks, that circulate the town every day. Even in the colder seasons. Actually one has one of its stops outside my front door

An American talking about the language barrier when traveling in Scandinavia? Oh dear. The fact that you can speak to anybody IN YOUR OWN language and they will understand you and reply IN YOUR LANGUAGE? All of this without you having to make any kind of effort or even adjustment language-wise. No, that's not a language barrier.

Oh, going without travel insurance? That is baalllssssyyy! Happy you plan tomget it the next time. I get it just to be able to be airlifted home if something really nasty happens, or if I’m unlucky enough to need treatment in the US. Nothing like being able to be buried at home without having to deplete my children’s inheritage 😜 And so far I have only had to use it to cover expenses for a trip not taken because my mom got seriously ill. So thankful for that. And the peace of mind insurance gives 🤩

1. Use Melatonin when you travel 2. Use a sleep mask 3. Always. Always have travel insurance. It’s the most stupid thing ever to travel without. If the US ones are to bad, there’s international ones that will cover stuff like medical prescriptions ambulance accidents and being airlifted. Please don’t think “I’ll be fine” is enough. It’s not. You have insurance for everything else at home right, but not for you and your health when traveling? Makes no sense. The insurance info passport ID card copies are the most important things. You need to have your insurance providers number on your phone. They’ll coordinate 24/7 in case of an emergency. Try reading up and learn about this now before you travel again. Compare conditions. I have an extended travel insurance through my regular home insurance and that’s much cheaper than paying millions if I’m uninsured and break my neck somewhere. Or need surgery or am in an accident somewhere.

Try northern Norway mid summer - the sun never sets. Iceland is south of the polar circle. So maybe: Iceland - Faroe Islands - Scotland - England - Western Norway - Northern Norway - Finland? But like a month or two vacation to really explore and trek the various areas if into landscape trekking compared to city hopping.

Love from Copenhagen ❤️