In Denmark alone, the new law on fixed screwcaps means that approximately 140 tonnes of extra plastic per year is now recycled instead of ending up as waste...

We don’t have enough hot days in Denmark to have AC. People just open the windows and use table fans 🤗

Dar, as I understand it, you made the typical American trip of five to ten days to Scandinavia/Europe. Barely enough time to even skim the top of the possibilities available to any tourist. You deserve better! I SO appreciate your humble and profound appreciation for everything you encountered! I’m American, so I understand the limitations of a two week vacation, if that, to most of us Americans. I also fully understand the THREAT attached to being absent from your job “merely” for a vacation. “If OUR needs as EMPLOYERS are so meaningless to you, you can easily be replaced.” I worked in International Marketing at Apple Computer in Cupertino, California during the years of the development and release of the first Macintosh computer, when it was considered normal and quite ordinary to work AT LEAST sixty hours a week. I emphasize, “normal and ordinary”. Since we were “salaried” employees, there was no extra financial compensation for “overtime”. There were engineers who had earned over a year of vacation, never taken. Eventually they received financial compensation. The rest of us “lowly” employees never did. Since those years I have lived for the last 35 years in Paris, France (International headquarters of Apple in Europe), Northern Germany and Sweden. In each of these countries, six weeks of vacation, in addition to holidays such as two weeks at Christmas or national celebrations, are REQUIRED! Thank you for your appreciation of that which you did experience 🫶💥 When you return to Sweden with your family, know that you will be warmly welcomed to our home in extraordinary, beautiful Dalarna!

Plastic caps on bottles must be secured according to a relatively new EU directive. The reason for this is an environmental perspective to prevent the cork ending up in nature and not in a recycling bin. Regarding the toilets, most public toilets are for tourists or urgent occasions, otherwise, those of us who live here tend to be on our way between places and not walk around in the same way as a tourist. Then it is also to prevent for example, homeless people not using them as places to sleep or take illegal substances. Restrooms are available in almost all major restaurants and if you shop there you almost always get to use them for free. Even McDonalds are locked when they are in cities, but outside on major roads, they are open to everyone.

In Sweden we have a concept called Plogging, a combination of the words Plocka upp (Pick up) and Jogging. A training exercise where you run and pick up trash at the same time.

You get to see much more when walking. So you did the right thing! (The tunnelbana is for the coldest winter months.)

Re: the bottle cap. It's a new thing. Most people here hate it! I guess it's good for the environment, but it's a hassle with some brands not having perfected the production yet haha. Loved the videos, hope you come back and we can have some small meetup.

Great that you mentioned our clean streets and squares. In Sweden, we take cleanliness seriously =) Even I, who haven't bothered with paper and so on in the streets, think we're damn good at cleaning these days =)

Great channel! Calm and entertaining, while informative! ❤❤

it's very few restrooms in Copenhagen where you have to pay only on a few train stations, there are free public restrooms all over the city , there are also free restrooms in restaurants and bigger stores , in small shops they don't always have restroom for customers but if it's a emergency like a small child they will let people use the one for the staff

FYI: Public restrooms in Copenhagen are free. However the restrooms at the train station are pay to use - but they're only $0,70 :-) (5 DKK)

Hey Dar, Glad you had a good time in Sweden and Denmark! I hope you'll be able to visit Sweden again with your family and use the local transportation (trains, buses, boats, and metro) to get around Stockholm. The metro in Stockholm is truly something else and well worth visiting just for its artistic value! ACs (air conditioners) are quite common in Sweden, but not in hotels. Hotels typically only have heating. Houses and some offices have AC, but its primary use is for heating during the cold months. Our ACs can cool as well, but it's not used as much for cooling because we normally only have a few weeks every year with very high temperatures. (By the way, I live about 400 km north of Stockholm.) Finally, about the sunrise and sunset: There's quite a difference between Denmark and Stockholm, as well as between Stockholm and the north of Sweden. What might surprise most visitors (and something they wouldn't normally notice unless they stay for more than 6 months) is that around mid-June, Sweden experiences the longest day of the year (the most daylight hours). Conversely, around December 20th, the day is the shortest. If you compare the daylight hours in June with the nighttime hours (darkness) in December, you'd see that it's dark for roughly the same amount of time in the winter as it is light in the summer! While this might mean no trouble sleeping in winter, it can be tough to get out of bed and work when it's dark until almost lunchtime and then dark again when you leave work. During a significant portion of the winter, we only see daylight during weekends where we live. I hope this clarifies some things!

You should have used more time on the transportation. I remember first time I was in Berlin, I studied the transportation for hours, so I was sure I knew the basic. We don't use AC, it is an unnecessary cost. We have one or two weeks when it would be nice. If we get “fried” we jump into the sea. Nowhere in DK are you more than 34 miles from the sea. I have invented a nice trick to sleep when it is light outside. I close my eyes and it gets dark. Smart? 🙂 CPH actually have free public toilets. There is an app, where you can find the toilets over big parts of Europe. The top, on the plastic bottle, is a quite new thing. It is a EU law. It turns out those tops are a big polluter, as you described, people lose them. Trash is money. In CPH much of it get incinerated in CopenHill. It produces central heating for the city. Sweden and Denmark actually import trash for incineration. And we don't litter, the children are good at educate their parents on this issue. I would be very embarrassed if I got caught littering.

500kr????? So 50 bucks for a toilet noo that can’t be right they are usually 5-10kr so 0,5-1 dollar. And every restaurant I ever been to in Sweden has free toilets not tech stores maybe but places where u eat they are always free

Oh I missed you visiting DK.. 😮 glad you enjoyed .. love Your Channel by the Way..🙏🏼🌸🌸🌝👍🏼

Regarding everyone saying that we don't need ACs. A couple of years ago we had a heatwave with forest fires and everything. That summer everyone was running around like maniacs buying up portable fans and companies marked up their prices in kind. So even though we usually don't get the temperatures that would demand ACs installed in houses....we ARE getting there. South of Europe is burning up which means up here in the north we'll have it cozy for a few more years until we too burn like vampires in the sun. 😎

It's quite new that the top doesn't come of bottles at least in Denmark but you're exactly right it's to make sure people doesn't just lose it.

Even if you had to pay for restroom, you don't have to tip here.

The thing with the lid stuck to the soda bottles is a pretty new thing in Denmark at least. Usually you could remove the lid completely, but because we have the pant system where you can get money back from your empty bottles, i guess they got tired of recieving so many bottles with a missing lid.

That the cap is stuck is relatively new. It is on directives from the EU parliament to reduce littering.

Love you, man!

Loved your video, hope you come back soon! Hugs from Denmark!!

When I get real warm in the summer, I just cool my wrist or the feet in cold water. It is the fastest way to cool your blood, and that is effective.

Glad to hear you liked Stockholm! There is so many beautiful places in our country...don´t know where to start. I prefere nature and therefore the countryside so Stockholm archipelago (visit the viking village of Birka), Gothenburg and the west coats (picturesque fishing villages and beautiful seaviews), county Dalarna (rich history with beautiful nature and historical farm buildings) but if you want to go wild you come here up north. Hiking for a day in the mountains (easy access at a lot of places), rafting in the rivers, sleep in a kåta (sami tipi) and have a camping experience. If you come in winter you would visit the winter market in Jokkmokk, go skiing and take a tour with a sledge pulled by huskies and visit the ice hotel in Jukkasjärvi and look our for the northern light at the same time.

Separate things that rot and causes unpleasant smells from the rest of the garbage for purposes of recycling and composting. Means smells are more easily contained when all the rest of your waste isn't fouled so won't stink. It's just a minor bonus perk of recycling.

Good choice to fly Finnair, top safe airline company in the world. On your bottle is the words: Villi - it means wild, and is pronounce almost like Willy, but with V instead of w. About pronuncation: you said "Gamla stan" like a native. How on earth did you learn that? It impressed me a lot. Your impressions are interesting to listen to. Once I was a new traveller, too. Stockholm is known for its busy and efficient pedestrians. Perhaps one of the towns like Örebro, Västerås, or Borås, all very "Swedish", would be a suitable destination for a trip with your family - there is a lot to see and learn, and people in general might be more approachable, I believe so. Part of the trip is to plan it and to remember it, as you know. There are free restrooms, toilets as we call them, as far as I know for example in libraries, just walk in, and in restaurants and cafeterias and museums, they are usually free for customers. The fee is normally about one US dollar or 10 krona, which earlier was a common yellow coin, but now cash is ever less used. I think some tourists buy a prepaid card to pay small fees and prices with, so that not to risk your VISA card in whatever kiosk and street-vendor. Learn from the savvy (which I'm not) young ones. Family-friendly hostels are for example those in the chain called STF's vandrarhem. Yes, air-conditioning is more common in expensive hotels, but mainly we just open the windows. Avoid July and August, they are the warmest, and some nights are a pain, as the sun is up for so long. Also Swedes are on vacation mainly in July, and you meet more tourists than Swedes in towns and cities and any location of interest for tourists. Also July and August are high-season, and accomodation prices reflect that. Ask your followers for tips and advice, please. It is charming that you are so open to travelling to learn, while taking in all the impressions.

Hostels won't have AC. Generally a lot of hotels will have some kind of AC system in their rooms but from experience whether it's effective or not vastly differs.

Most places are fine with you using a restroom, some might ask you to buy something, but for example a reasonably sized supermarket will let you use it for free (you might have to ask a cashier for the key) Train stations will have a toilet but more often than not require you to pay 10 kronors to use it. (they have card machines at the door, older toilets take the coins) So it's worth carrying a 10kr around with you just in case (These are also needed for shopping carts)

Nowdays it is quite common for homeowners to have a "luftvärmepump" tha can blow hot AND COLD air. Some apartment complexes have central heating with termostats in each apartment,where u choose temp.. even cold..

I am surprised that you pay for restrooms these days in copenhagen, that is not common in jutland, maybe in aarhus but i have never encountered it, i come from a city near aarhus and i have never even heard about it.

Yes Dar show us Texas please 😊🤝🇸🇪

Hotels in Scandinavia have tempcontrol...you can turn it up or down (control is in the cupboard) - or you can open the window 😉 The restroom costs 5.00kr = 0.70cents - should have gone in, they're clean, bc you pay 😊 The plastic top is the 'new pet peeve' of Europe...EU law of 2024, to keep plastic out of nature hello from Denmark 🌸

If you bring your kids next time you come, then you should try to visit 1 or 2 Amusement parks, Tivoli Garden between the central station and the Town Hall Square or/and "Bakken" a little north of Copenhagen, in Klampenborg, you can take the S-train up there, it's a 10 minutes walk from the station. But wait to enter after 2 o'clock, many of the amusement things don't open up before that.

Stockholm is further north so their midsummer nights are a tad shorter than they are in Copenhagen. But they're also a tad more to the east, while they use the same timezone. So, on the clock they're perhaps 30 minutes ahead regarding the daylight cycle. So I'm not surprised that you could feel a difference. Here in Copenhagen sunset in midsummer is around 22:00 (10pm) and sunrise is around 04:30, so we have a whopping 6½ hours per day with the sun below the horizon. But the sun ain't that far below, so even at solar midnight, it isn't truly dark, you can sense that the sun is still near, just up there to the north. Reminds me, wanna wish a happy midsummer party to everyone out there who celebrates it, tonight Denmark celebrates St. John's eve (Skt. Hans) as our midsummer celebration.

We have a problem with vandals in Denmark. People just smash free toilets. Charging kr. 5 (less than USD 1) seems to deter them. But most stations do not have toilets these days. It is very inconvinient.

How to sleep: curtains... and in the winter we just add lamps in our homes. But we in the north generally like the calm and dark.. I like the dark and think it's cozy. :) The price for the restrooms are often 10sek so its about 1$.. the reason for paid restrooms are because of drug users shooting up in the free restrooms and if you pay to use it prevents some of them. All restaurants do have restrooms but they often ask you to buy something in order to use them.. but if you REALLY need to go I don't thing the conflict-afraid Swedish person would deny you to use it... All malls and long-going buss and trains have free restrooms.

Public restrooms is paid today mostly - they changed that years back now. I know in my town many of them got changed, because of addicts using them for getting their fix. They started sitting up the yellow lights all over the public restrooms - but was not enough. So pay was the last solution to keep those addicts away from those kind of restrooms - at train station and such. But a lot other places they are free to use. Also if you ask nicely, some might even let you use theirs inside the home. Hope you enjoyed your time in copenhagen - next time, more time is needed. To get a full experience ;D EDIT: Oh yea, and the caps is very new actually - but annoying to drink from the bottle sometimes with it. But way less plastic trash :)

❤🎉😅You made it to Finland! But how? Somebody said in a video it does not exist. Just water?!😂😂. Do not worry about that you "only" visited two cities. It is more than enough for the first time. But I am sure you will have great memories and stories for a long time still❤😊. I hope we are still here when you come back😅. Best regards from Finland. Better than Denmark which we call "stupid" Sweden"😂😅😊.

Remember that your normal can be special or interesting to us, far away, it doesn't need to be some big thing or expense. Dave's food truck might be golden, dude at work could have a beautiful fishing or hiking spot or whatever random roadhouse may serve some good food.. Ok not a food channel but lol you get me. Maybe your nearest Forest Kindergarten 🤷‍♂ How your Farmer's Markets are or maybe there's some projects and ideas from topics you've covered, that people are trying to make work in the US.

For AC, they usually have a central AC at the hotel and in the malls, etc. and the temperatures is usually kept around 21 Celsius or so I think it's about 72 fahrenheit But for private homes there's not really any AC'S

As Stockholm it be a little longer with light than Copenhagen. But in my hometown in Denmark it never get fully dark in June/July. The sun would go down around 11 pm and get up around 3:30-4:00 am. You'll see the light in the horizon all night 😁

As for the cost of using the Restroom, that's simply because drug addicts would otherwise use them and then there are loiterers who would use it as a place to sleep. In Sweden, the cork is also attached to the milk packaging. Why the streets and sidewalks are so clean is because if the police see someone littering, they get a fine of 80 dollars. If you pee in a public place, you also get a fine of 80 dollars and it's called . Disorderly conduct.

The restroom fee is more like a one dollar, 10 SEK.

To sleep I use THICK curtains and sometimes eyemask or sleep mask... I need darkness so I don't sleep good during summer months

You passed right pass the the place I live in in Denmark - wished we could have met.

You've really missed out with Stockholm's metro stations! They have some of the most beautiful and interesting in the world.

You must leave the cities and hit the nature camping instead here in sweden ..I recomend south part "Skåne" eastcoast from Simrishamn and then North up to the National park called Stenshuvud then Noth North/ west up in the forests there a places to stay over for free...

here up in the north the sun does not go down at all during the suummer so

70°f is abut 20°c, normal indoor temperature. And the toilet in Stockholm is 5sek, so less than 50 cent. And if establishments in the US charged maybe you'd get better doors and cleaner restrooms.

Swede here: It is very natural to feel the urge to pee when you first get to Denmark. :D

The metro stations in Stockholm is worth a visit on their own. They each have their own art and look. I live in Copenhagen and the ones we have are boring, stone cold to look at and not a good vibe.

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I am from sweden and the caps Are new thing,but a get wy it is,because we dont want to have it on the street for the birds to chok on😊

Well... who do you think clean up the restrooms? People tend to act like pigs... aspecialy if they use it and just then leave.

Stockholm is the only city in Sweden with a Metro.

Btw correction, got fine because I forgot to check-in my travel card in the evening. 1000DKK

The cap thing is very new. Introduced in the last few months. In Denmark at least. I find them annoying personally.

if u cant sleep u just put up some dark curtains and ure good

You wasnt there long time,and we dont take so much to going to the toilett

It was prob. a ventilation system

Look, I know very well that I'm about to state the obvious, it should be a fairly common notion, yet since I often see people being surprised, I'll briefly explain what any decent middle school astronomical geography teacher should have explained. In mid-spring and mid-autumn anywhere in the world there are 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness minute by minute. From the equator to the tropics 12 0h on average all year round. Conversely, the closer you get to the poles, the more the gap between hours of light and hours of darkness increases between winter and summer and after the Arctic Circle there are 6 months of continuous light and the same number of continuous night.

Any culture shocks when you got back to the US? Or wasn't away long enough? :p

10SEK =1$ cost not everywhere but outside and Trainstations are not in type in Mac Donalds or Gallerias are not free hold those clean are people work and hete get paid even if clean toilets have a sallury can live on so are for a reason take pay

IN THE DANISH METRO IS`s ONLY 2MIN MAX BETWENN THE TRAINS, AND ALL AUTOMATIK NO DRIVER IN THE METRO…

Not again NO AC Miii miii miii😢taff guys from America 😂

Why are americans so easily "shocked"?

America Restrooms alot of food alot of Poop😊

Sweden is like the big brother in Scandinavia or they want to be. Denmark and Norway were occupied by Nazi Germany during WW2. Sweden were very happy selling iron and steel to Nazi Germany. They could do so because they were neutral in WW2. Beside upholding the German war machine they did good stuff also. Jews in Denmark were evacuated to Sweden thus making the Danish jews the ones with least casualties during WW2. Some swedes also fought with Finland against the russian army. But at the end of the day Swedens success is build upon supplying Nazi Germany with iron

The EU needs to be disbanded because the stupid bottle cap law.

It's all part of the development in Europe. Plastic caps from bottles being spread all over the landscape is not what you want hence the caps now being part of the bottle. The pay toilets are getting more and more normal and this is probably due to a couple of reasons. First of all, by paying for the public toilets, it becomes easier to keep them properly clean. A second reason could be that pay toilets may discourage drug addicts from using these toilets to shoot up locations. It may not be ideal but until a better solution is found, this will probably become the norm for now. In Copenhagen, the pay toilets pretty much started at Copenhagen Central Station but the concept is slowing spreading.