American Reacts to the BEST Things to do in Tromsø
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As an American I really enjoy learning about Norwegian cities. Today I am interested in learning about some of the best things to do while visiting one of Norway's most Northern cities of Tromso. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Glad to see you are back to the capital of Northern Norway, Tyler! This is my hometown and I can help you with some of your questions. Roald Amundsen, who was the first to reach the South Pole in December 1911, was born in 1872 in Borge in the county of Østfold, next to Oslo, and died after leaving Tromsø in a plane in June 1928, trying to rescue those who crashed with the Italia airship in the Arctic, as mentioned on the Nobile Monument. The place where the statue of Amundsen is situated, is named after him (Amundsen).
Tromsø is really a great city to visit. You can meet the reindeers, go on whalesafari, there are many amazing hikes. A little trip from the town you can go on a trip with reindeer sleed. See how the sami people live. There are all kind of skiing in the winter. And it is very easy to get in contact with the people who live there. They love to talk 😅
03:38 Yes, Norway is very used to English, so much so, that a lot of products, items, and other things we have have English names only. The vast majority of TV and Cinema media is in English with Norwegian Subtitles, with mostly only kids movies and media being dubbed to Norwegian.
The Library is the old Cinema building repurposed to preserve that cool roof arcitecture, the building right next door is the new one with 6 screening rooms, the street level part is the cinema and the stuff on top in the Town House. (our local government)
I was in Tromsø when I was in the military in 1982, and it is a very cozy place. Was there in August, and it was so cold that you had to wear both a T-shirt and a jumper, with a jacket over it and with long trousers, even though it was summer! A friend of mine works up there for the second year, and as he said, last summer he could only wear shorts 14-15 days in total for the summer! So you realize that you are north of the Arctic Circle.
I have been to Tromsø a few times, but have made an intermediate stop there by plane many times. I will never forget a late winter evening we flew in. The plane took a turn over the city that lay below us in all its glory. The contrasts were amazing. The island and the town were covered in snow. The sea was pitch black except for the orange lights from the city and the bridge reflected in the surface of the water. It is the most beautiful approach I have ever experienced, and I have landed many times in various places in Norway.
I’m going to Tromsø in exactly 1 month! February 8-11th 😁
Tromsø is broken into three parts, with one bridge on each side of the island, theres also a huge underground road network with roundabouts and parking spaces
My home town. Born and raised in Tromsø ✌️
You should see it in winter as well. It's much more beautiful covered in snow 😜 I personally think it has snow for too long, but it looks good. lol.
Lived there for a decade. Its a neat city, but anyone not from Norway will call it a town. That said, if we used other countries to define what is a city, we would have 1, max 3, cities... EDIT: in the cable car, what you are seeing below is not the city, but one of the living areas before you take the bridge over to Tromsø, an Island city. A lot of people also live on the island, but plenty more have to comute to it (basically a walk over the bridge, or a 2 min drive). Tromsø directly translate to "The Island of Troms", thus the actual city center is the island, but everything is just refered to as Tromsø by most.
I'd never heard fo this beautiful place until quite recently when a celebrity version of a TV programme called Race around The World was aired. Four pairs, A well known person and one family member are given the challenge to make their way from one point to another by land or water using only the budget of 2 full fare air tickets. In this series the 8 had to make their way from Casablanca in Morroco to Tromso. They had 5 stages and had to reach certain cites along the way. The 3 pairs that made it to the end (one a brother and sister had a family emergency and had to fly home) arrived in Tromso at night and the finish point was the viewing platform of the cable car and even at night it looked beautiful.
I haven't been to Tromsø since late 1970s or very early 1980s. It's just the right size, very beautiful and has great nightlife. Well worth a visit. Just note that the weather is not always this nice... Great narration, Tyler :-)
In norwegian the letter "Ø" mean island. Often places ends with "øya". Like Helgøya, in the beautiful lake of Mjøsa 😊
Roald Amundsen and his team was the first pepole who set foot on the south-pole in desember 1911.
12:38 *4 parts. Ive just been there on vaccation But it was AMAZING being there But the beach was werry cold! Btw This is only in the city, so i woud recomend Jekta, wich is a shopping mall!😊
You are becoming Norwegian Tyler !! Great pronunciation
I lived there for 10 years. This makes me want to move back 😊
I will be there in March! I can't wait.
Hi Tyler 😊 Please do a video on Trondheim, Norway to ❤ Every city in norway is stunning actually 😃 Greetings from Norway ❤
He have made 2 videos on Trondheim already
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@@88Wern3r Thanks ❤️
The cruise ship in the end of the video i have worked on for many years😊
Great video with awesome narration! It would be cool if you made a video of Eidsvoll too
Roald Amundsen was from Sarpsborg, far from Tromsø.. This is just a statue outsid of the polar museum as he was the one that went to the south pole first.
For Tromsø: You know it's called "NNordens Paris"/"Paris of the nordics"
Sarpsborg but en far from tromsø ?
yes, Sarpsborg is in south-east while Tomsø is in northern Norway. @@kendexter
Roald Amundsens was the first man on the South Pole, and one of the first handful or so on the North pole, as well. That expedition started from Tromsø, logically, and he spent quite a bit of time there preparing for the trip.
Very fond memories from my navy days in Tromsø. Fairly large university there so that had a nice impact on night life. ;)
The city train, or shitty train as it is also called, is for transporting tourists.
MS Polarstjerna:
The ship had 33 fishing seasons and harvested close to 100,000 seals from the West Ice and East Ice, before its final season in 1981.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Polstjerna
The bow of the ship is insanely strengthened to enable it to break up ice without damage, since the polar region in which it was hunting is "full" of moving ice. Seals rest on the ice, so just ramming the ship straight into a colony was the most efficient way to hunt them.
As someone born and raised in Tromsø I can assure you it's not as nice as it seems 😅 This video made it seem very beautiful tho😊 But the winters are very long, from October to June. And during summer we have a seagull problem. Seagulls everywhere in the central area, which means it's birdpoop EVERYWHERE 😅😅
Perfect place to live? Well....the weather right now is - rain, ice and slushy snow. Tomorrow there will be "speilholka" - Which means tomorrow i can look forward to falling on the ice if i'm not very careful.
Which reminds me of the blizzard of 1997. I have never seen weather like that ever since. You could see the end of your own carhood, the emergency lights of the car ahead of you and the air intake on your car could get clogged with snow.
You could not see the building across the street except a vague shadow and hints of lights from windows.
Man. You should really start saving some money and visit Norway.
The greatest thing about Tromsø is that it's so far away from the Capitol!
im from tromsø
There are so many tourists visiting that there is a tourist tax and it is consantly under review of if it should be increased.
Han har lært om Norge i over ett år, og EGENTLIG burde han huske og vite mye mer enn han gjør. - Likevel liker jeg fyren.
He knows a lot.
Living 1 hour south of it.
We can't forget Amundsen now can we
when are you comming to Norway?
You are norwegian now. We claim you
Tromsø is actually in 3 pieces😂
Sometimes. J,,, is pronounced as a K.
You shud go there If you like it
Hva? En hel turistvideo uten Raketten?
I live in Tromsø😊 and if you don’t belive me read this : du burde tro på meg😊
Why does Tyler think that all of America looks like Evansville, Indiana?
(It doesn’t.)
It's because the rest of the US looks like the favelas of Brazil .👍👍👍
Exactly what I was thinking. If he is not acting in these videos, then he probably has not been outside of some basic suburban city in Kansas somewhere. Do not get me wrong, I love Norway and think it is gorgeous. I also love the language. But I just found this guy and I am sorry but he is so incredibly fake. His constant narration over the video is extremely over the top, and his faux surprise about things like... a bridge... and acting as if it is unheard of is just ridiculous. Nothing like it in the USA? There are so many coastal cities with amazing scenery, architecture and yes even suspension bridges (gasp!). I feel like he noticed how many foreign youtubers are making money reacting to the USA (which I honestly feel are also fake reactions) decided to copy them, and just turned up the ridiculous-ometer to 11.
My brother, that bastard, lives there. We are both from Narvik, which has a richer history. See WW2.
why don't you start a go fund me and travel to Norway.???
Tyler er forelska i Norge..Men , vinteren her er ikke alltid like fin...Bor i Bergen...regn, regn, regn..
Tromsø is South of Norway.
Mother North 😂
Then I guess you live In Finnmark.
Dude 😂Tromsø is north😂.Arendal here😂Agder
And Trondhjem southern europe
@@kendexter
Syden 🤣
@@kendexter Skål for den 🍻
dude stop talking shit about youre own people i am sure americans are great people bro i love americans beacuse they are so patrotics and are in the land of freedom we dosent have equally the rights and freedom here in norway as you guys have in a america we live in a dicatorship if you dident know.and ppl here have also a funny way to aceept that we do xD
What planet are you living on?! There is no dictatorship in Norway, and Americans are definitely NOT more free than us!
Very tempting to give you the boomer answer: You're free to leave and go live there...
You really should try, at minimum spending one to three months there! I went straight from landing in Boston to visit my old host family (foreign exchange student) in Canada for 10 days, if I remember correctly. We drove around a lot to geocache and I will never forget how crossing the border back to the States in Niagara Falls shocked us. We had not foreseen how unsafe we suddenly felt because of all the people walking around carrying firearms and threatening body language. The more we saw, especially in cities, the more aggression was on display everywhere, even in hospitals! They treated anyone and everyone like scum of the earth and threats to them, overwhelming us by the lack of humanity, compassion, dignity, and respect.
I have traveled quite a bit by living in different countries for ten months up to three years at a time, and lived in very international environments (such as dormitories with students from 46 countries), so I don't think my perception of cultures is statistically unrepresentative.
Norwegians are used to being taken seriously and met with respect when walking up to a counter of public servants. In all my years abroad I had never had to go through metal detectors manned by heavily armed and hostile police just for my friend to renew his passport, nor to be demonstratively looked down at by a hospital receptionist! That last one surprised me so much, and it got even worse when I asked for a doctor to check on my daughter's extreme headache. Two more receptionists moved closer as the one I talked to declared that I could not afford their care.
What?
Yes, she had really said that! It was absolutely surreal to be treated with such disdain by anybody, never mind a receptionist (I used to work as a Reception Manager, and would have promptly fired anyone treating customers so rudely)! Giving her my travel insurance card just made her scoff "You still have to pay the deductible" as she freaking held the card at arm's length by her fingertips! I am a very conflict averse person, but this behaviour was so blatantly condescending that the look on her face when the billing department told her that any bill would be paid IN FULL by the insurance company made me feel triumphant for having broken her arrogance.
She turned out to be sadly representative of the great majority of the people I ran into during the extended trip. The number of homeless and intoxicated people on the streets was at least ten times that of any European city, and they were openly harassed by police and health care workers instead of quietly guided to a less hostile environment with access to food and drinking water, at minimum.
It was a great relief when our plane left Logan airport! My friend left with me using the new passport that had been such a hassle and humiliation to get (I still don't understand why that should be part of anyone's process to renew a passport?). When he happened to require medical attention four days after arriving in Norway, he was shocked at how genuinely NICE everyone was to him, and how lucky he was to get a "hotel room" (his description) at the hospital, and how much compassion the nurses were every time they looked in on him during his three or four nights stay. Apparently, it was not at all normal in his country that "even doctors" listened carefully, took his complaints seriously, and even struck up funny conversations with him. His illness was effectively treated, and he was back to full health in half the time he was used to (chronic illness that occurs at intervals). What impressed him the most was not even the ability to just walk out of the hospital without any bills to pay, but that he never once saw any sign of disgust on a single face, even outside the hospital in his shabbiest clothes (we were clearing out a garage when he became ill). I had asked "Why would they show disgust?" before I remembered my meeting with American health "care".
My friend chose to stay in Norway, and counts himself as lucky not to have to go back to the "freedom" of the land of money and gun worship.
@@eirintowne dude made up a hole bible script on youtube xD in norway also now it is alot of murderers brah and that is a way smaller country to with less people in it... the crime there is now florishing and its almost no better then the US.and with less freedom also since it is a dictatorship... ive have also been to US and i cant cope at all of what you saying i was in new york i tought it was going to be bad and rude people there but they was so kind actuelly and also genourous people very outgoing, not like the norwegians at all....and i dident see one goi9ng around with firearm on them so i am not sure where you guys was in the US but i guess you was on a wrong place to wrong time xD and i am maybe going back there again in the summer so ive allready try the US you see.. and the US also has 10 times more fun stuff to do then the boring norway....
@@eirintowne if ive even had the money enough i could even live in the US without any of the hassle you are saying :-) so it cant be that bad then, i mean over 5 million norwegian people are allready living there and that is almost more norwegians then it is in norway allready brah.... the US is beautiful and the second home to norway :) so yes i guess you are a boomer then xD