We rented a car in Denmark to explore small towns and hidden gems!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- After being in very touristy areas for a few days, we decided we wanted a break. So we took our car and just drove around Denmark to see what we could find. Spoiler: it did not disappoint!
Who are Katie & Andrew?
Katie grew up in a small town on the coast of Washington State (think Twilight country), and Andrew grew up in San Diego, CA. We met when we were both interns working at Disneyland and have been inseparable ever since.
After getting married in 2015 we decided we wanted to dedicate our lives to adventure and fun!
We have traveled to 31 states, 9 countries (so far), and have visited Disney theme parks probably over 500 times in the last 12 years. We are always looking for the next venture, because as we like to say, "you can make even the simplest things like going to the grocery store fun."
When we are not filming or traveling you can probably find us making pancakes or traversing whatever city we are in to see all of the local movie/tv filming locations in person!
Thank you. At last someone leaves Copenhagen. sadly you did not go further away. Denmark has soooooo much to offer nature wise. We Danes don't think that happiness is not found in a store.
There's 40 kings and queens burried in Roskilde church and Queen Margrethe's mausoleum is already in place.
"Fika" has no meaning in danish. Isn't it like a swedish word for an afternoon break with coffee and a cookie/cake or something? But I guess we'd consider that a type of "hygge" in Denmark.
Not Danish at all
@@Ikkeligeglad yeah its Swedish)
@@lurkiandanti367 I know
The forbidden hygge
yeah, no "fika" in denmark.. we just invite people to "kaffe" (litterally just translated to coffee, but is refering to pasteries, cake, tea and coffee) or sometimes "eftermiddagskaffe" (afternoon coffee). its the same type of meal tho (in the same way afternoon-tea is to fika).
_"Hjortepølse"_ -> Deersausage (Venison-sausage).
_"Råvaren er fra fynske jægere"_ -> The raw ingredient is from Funen hunters (The deer meat is provided by hunters from the Danish Island of Funen).
Yeah no wonder it was nice, you don't find those types of sausages just anywhere!
The cathedral is a must when you visit Roskilde. It is on the UNESCO world heritage list beacuse of its architectural and royal history. I went to high school right next to it and loved going in there in some of my lunch breaks ❤
Nice to see people going outside of Copenhagen - there are so many interesting places you could visit in the rest of Denmark!
We would love to see even more!
Must subscribe to your channel, tourists who go the extra mile (literally) for an experience are worth following. Thanks for visiting Denmark, you make good videos.
Nice to see a tourist exploring smaller towns and not just the larger cities.
Denmark is more than just Copenhagen. 😅
You were in Roskilde and did not enter the cathedral, where all our former monarchs are laid to rest? You will have to com back 😃
Great thanks for treating us/Denmark so nicely, and more thanks for moving out of Nyhavn, Copenhagen😊! A little hint: Google Translate is a big help when looking at signs, menus etc. in a foriegn language😊
Drop by Korsør on your way to Odense, it has some of the oldest streets in Denmark, and a big old fort, as well the great belt bridge, I recommend driving to the beach and enjoy the view of the bridge before crossing it 😊
the Cathedral in Roskilde you passed is where most Kings and Queens of Denmark is buried, it's quite a sight the Cathedral itself was build in 1180 AD , in Roskilde there is also a Viking ship museum
Roskilde, which developed as the hub of the Viking land and sea trade routes over a thousand years ago, is one of Denmark's oldest cities, from the 11th century until 1443, it was the capital of Denmark, by the Middle Ages, with the support of kings and bishops, it had become one of the most important centres in Scandinavia.
Salami with deer meat, from local hunters
Haha “I find broken toasters” that really got me 😂
Btw I’ve bought salami from that guy at the market too - I can confirm they are good
But go easy on the traditionel folk music. It’s a few hundred years outdated and just as foreign for a Dane as it is for you! 😅
How crazy! I got this video recommended. and i used to work in the bakery you visited in Roskilde! It have been family owned for the last 40 years. It got rich history with the locals. The regular costumers have come for many years some even as kids with their parents. Very unique of you to visit not only Copenhagen🇩🇰. Great video☺️
Ps. “Romkugler” is made out of the leftovers from the days batch of “danishes”, Cocoa powder and rum essence. So no alcohol😉
Køge is a very difficult name to pronounce for non-nordic/germanic people, especially since the "ø" doesn't have a directly equivalent sound in English. The closest you'd get is like how you pronounce the first "e" in "Jersey", but a bit deeper/closer to an "o". And then the "ge" is sorta kinda like "eh" at the end.
This is still a bit off from the actual pronunciation, but it's the closest I think you'd get without hearing a Dane pronounce it for you :D
I usually explain it like this.. Try to say "ehh?" in English, but make your mouth round like you're whistling. It.. Almost works 🤔
I love seeing my home through your eyes😊
Thanks for sharing this video from my country 🇩🇰😊
Did you know that american actor Jeremy Strong from “Succession” is married to a danish woman and spent their summer vacation in their summer house not far from Roskilde? 😃
This summer Bradley Cooper and his daughter spent their vacation with Jeremy and his family.
They also spent a day in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen with Matt Damon and his family.
It’s all over the internet ☺️
Oh man I hope you visit Odense the 18th or 19th October for the Festival of Magic!
It is a really fun yearly tradition with loads of things to see and do, good food, tasty treats, games, drinks and more.
7:32 just a fun fact about the church you heard it was used in a famous and popular Danish TV Series from 1978 to 1981 called Matador It's a story of a little town on Sjælland called Korsbæk in 1929 to 1947.
When the second episode was aired there was 3.6 million danish people watching it and the population was only 5 million.
It has been on TV 6 times and the last time was in 2006 and I still has 1.5 million watching Myself I have watch it about 30 times and I'm still loving and that is the same with other Danes There is a Facebook sites where people Maybe have seen it a 100 Times+ .
It comes with English subtitles and I recommend seeing it if you are curious about What's happening Denmark en 1929 to 1947 the character And Town is fictional but the times is real like like pre Second World War enduring Second World War And couple of Year after Second World War. I would recommend recommend you watching it You won't regret it
Should visit the Viking Village near Risby on Sjælland, in 2017-2019 they built a 140m long bridge, only using tools that would've been available back then, that is a smaller copy/reconstruction of one built in Jylland that was 760m long and 5m wide which was built under King Harald Bluetooths rule roughly year 980 (Bluetooth the technology is named after Harald, and the Bluetooth icon is HB in runes.)
Most small Danish towns look like Køge 🥰
Odense (O-then-seh) not O-dense 😅 Few Danes would have a clue to where you're going if you say it like that 😋
Køge is a bit difficult because of the Ø, but it's not an oo sound and the g is soft, the easiest would probably be Ko-jeh/Koe-jeh (soft J, not said like a singular J)
I want your travel life! Sending love, cousin Karla in Tacoma! Heart❤
Thanks cousin Karla!
15:04 The cake is a "Kajkage" - Kaj cake. Kaj is a frog from a Danish children's show called "Kaj & Andrea" - Andrea being a parrot. :) It's a pretty common cake to see in many Danish bakeries.
Cool!
@@disKoverwithKatieandAndrew Occasionally you will encounter the much rarer Andrea cake. (basically the same, but with her blue colours instead. and a beak)
Bilka is the equivalent to Target. They are much bigger than Kvickly :)
Nice! Thanks for the info
Nice to see experience outside the normal tourist traps 👍👍👍
Romkugler is very Danish, but do you know how they are made ? Old unsold cookies is churned in a mixer with rum and water to get the moisture correct, and then rolled in coconut-chokolat, each local area have their versions!! You missed "Kirkestræde " in Køge, which is just off the square where the market was(google streetwiew)!!
It's not only cookies. but cookie and all the other pastry in the Baker That's not sold the day before that is used to make Romkugler
@@allanjensen31 no cakes with cream allowed though.. nor any bread or rundstykker.. but most pastries yes though rarely just the ones from "the day before" they usually save up for 3-4-5 days in the fridge then make a huge portion all at once
😂 Kuge instead of Køge. It's so funny when English people try to pronounce words with, æ, ø and å.
Goggle Translate does a good job pronouncing Danish words. It does that very good because of linguists form the Southern University of Denmark (SDU) made a database of the Danish language.
Odense is pronounced as one word: and not "O-dens".
There're 2 types of "d" in Danish, you know the hard "d", but we also has the soft "d", which is pronounced like "th" from the word "the".
Odense has the soft "d", so try to pronounce it like "Othense", remember to think hard about saying "th" from "the" or you will get the pronunciation wrong.
Odense is definitely worth a visit ❤️
We made it to Odense the next day, we just didn't film that one :)
@@disKoverwithKatieandAndrew was it worth it?
Køge and Roskilde were good choices on sjælland both fairly large and worth a travel and also very old cities from back to medieval times
Not all the romkugler are made with rum, but the real ones are. Looks like you found a real bakery. :)
Interesting fact, if you like the romkugle taste.. Stroh rum mixed with cola inexplicably tastes almost exactly like them. Wish I could still drink, I miss those!
Now you've done it! Every young American couple on vacation here will now be swarming our cozy smalltown Denmark, which we thought we were having for ourselves! 😄
Romkugler are usually not made with rum but with rum essence, so there is no risk of drunk driving ;-) But with that being said, there may be some quality romkugler that MIGHT be made with proper rum.
But as mentioned elsewhere. Romkugler used to be made from day old bread(Unsold pastries for instance) but that may not apply anymore due to the regulations from higher places due to the "healt hazard" it could be with bad bread etc.
But something else that used to be made from old bread is something called studenterbrød(Students bread) that was so cheap that even the students could affod it(WAY back before students got paid for attentding an education)
"How is this not in the tiktoks when we were looking for places to come?"
Honestly, most of Denmark looks like this, you can drive to any older town and see areas like this in the older parts of town. These areas are generally not marketed to tourists because they are seen as offering nothing particular or special.
That said Roskilde is marketed to tourists and have a lot of tourist attractions and is a wonderful city.
Køge and Roskilde are both large towns, with Roskilde even having a small university and a large student population. Both are popular places to live for people commuting into Copenhagen for work and studies as well.
I would say that Roskilde and Køge are both examples of normal city life in Denmark and how most Danes living in towns and cities live, but they are not quite examples of village or rural life in Denmark, I would probably head further west for that experience.
@@NATIK001 Ærø, with 3 wonderful towns, Søby, Marstal and Ærøskøbing.
The sausage is Venison sauge
Had a giggle at the village comment :)
Romkugler is survival food. Made from yesterdays Danish, rom, coco, raspberry marmelad. 👍🇩🇰. Go vind.
You come
To my ❤ hometown
You should visit Egeskov castle on Fyn you 2 would love that place :)
6:06 Deer sausage. This item/source is from funen hunters.
You in Køge. So its not local meat as someone else said in the comments. Fyn is the "middle island" Odense is located on
You should ha visited the cathefral. All royals are burried there 😊
not all, but many are yes..
@8:00 Tøxens school was HQ for the german troops in Køge during WW2
Your videos are great, you will soon have 100 000 subbs and views!
My hometown
The "Lake" you are standing at are the the sea, its a fjord called Roskilde fjord.
Yep. There´s actually a real possibility that the Vikings that reached America took off from this very spot,
@@Mike-zx1kx no... Cause it was norwegian vikings, living in Greenland......
@@JesperSandgreen Do you have any substantial evidence for this claim?
@@Mike-zx1kx Learn history, Should be common knowledge...
@@JesperSandgreen I am aware that Vikings used the bottom of Roskilde Fjord where they visited as starting point to trips going very long distances, from now Turkey over British isles etc. I have not seen anyone being able to reject that it should not include America or Iceland, Greenland etc.If you can then please enlighten me.
"Everyones here is happy" Well we may seem happy, but dont forget that Denmark has a high % of depression etc.. Sad on the inside 🤣🤣
My guess is that it is because of free healthcare. You go to the doctor if you're depressed and don't tough it out because of the cost
@@bf810 Not really.
@@hamza9540no?
So the meat you were tasting was deer sausage. The sign said "Deer sausage, the raw meat came from fynske(basically just saying the animal was killed locally.) hunters." Hope you enjoy your stay in Denmark. A cute place to visit is Sæby. But its more of a summer town.
6:11 it's deer meat provided by hunters on the island of Fyn.
venison sausage, i suspect this would be farmed.
Yeah. Bambi's dad.
Bahaha
@@disKoverwithKatieandAndrew ua-cam.com/video/lNtd6mtA8QY/v-deo.htmlsi=vJH7EoyX6tbydYGK
If you like old stuff, Kalundborg on the westcoast of Sjælland, has the largest collection of middle age buildings in northern Europe, + a very nice church. Kalundborg is also Copenhagens "sister city". 2 brothers founded Kalundborg and Copenhagen (København, in danish) They are both from the late 1160´s. Kalundborg was also the "capital" of Denmark in periods, before Copenhagen became it.
We will have to check them out!
Hjorte spegepølse is deer salami
Odense er ikke specielt turistet.
Roskilde
You don't pronounce the d in Roskilde
Roskilde is mild (and is a free pass for foreigners, as it's 100% understandable what they say) compared to Køge and Odense 😅
@@Masterfighterx Anyway and I don't expect them to pronounce Køge
In Roskilde you missed two important places. The cathedral were all the kings and queens are inside in their coffins and Roskilde Viking ship museum.
Not all, but alot are..
Coming to a country, but can't prounce one city, so i actually lnow what you talking about???
What? That the content? Watch it again, then 🤔😏
the sausage you ate was reigndeer
Deer*
Hjort = Deer/Venison
Rensdyr (findes ikke vildt i Danmark) = Reigndeer (doesn't exist wild in Denmark)