#3 is utter bullshit. maybe if you're in a backwater hamlet in the middle of nowhere, but every city has a decent selection of bars with competent bartenders.
Maybe the person visited in the summer when there are a lot of new workers? Maybe the person ordering had a very strong accent so they didn't understand? I know some people who blanks out when people speak English to them.
yea, the guy writing the article must have maincharacter syndrome. "does not find minibank right away... CASH IS USELESS" "goes to one place without view... NORWAYS HOTELS HAS NO VIEWS" "Goes to one place were the bartender was new.... NO COCKTAILS IN NORWAY" loool
Yeah weird. Like everyone knows gintonic. One can even make it themselves for fucks sake🤣🤣🤣 Blandevann hvor det til og med står tonic vann eller gin tonic. Typen elsker gin tonic og aldri hørt at det er et problem, men bor i Oslo/på Østlandet. Virker som en bakevje et sted👀
@@kilipaki87oritahiti Drinks are not as normal in Norway as it is in other parts of the world. Bars should obviously have competent workers, as they're, well, _bars._ However the establishments can vary in what's normal (and exposed to [new?] workers and what's not). GT is very simple yes. I mean, in Oslo for instance, you can just search for "Cocktail Bar" and you'll find some of the best bartenders in all of Europe lol. The Restaurant & Bar scene (and Norway in general) is very attractive to many in the work field from all abroad. However if you go to a "høyfjellshotell" (mountain lodge) and expect a drink, that's not only weird, but also casually not expected at _all._ I have some experience with all of these. I can say at a mountain lodge, in season, there's probably 10 000 other things to be concerned with to make things go around before learning how to make a drink. But once you "learn" it, it shouldn't be hard to retain the knowledge. In Oslo, the failure is on _you_ if you can't manage the simple task of finding "good [x thing]" 😅 At least when it comes to food and drinks. There's simply no excuse, there's a *lot* of healthy competition and wildly varied places to go eat or drink. With a lot of skilled people, often from abroad too as mentioned earlier.
The reason behind the "no view" is weather conditions ;) If you hade big windows facing the ocean , good luck when the next storm hits..... Most tourists are there in the summer when waether is ok, however in the fall the big storms hits and those islands in Lofoten is really exposed....
Point 8, about building stuff without view in beautiful scenery: The weather on the coast is so amazingly brutal with hurricanes, that we traditionally build things in safer nooks in the landscape, and not on some top or right next to the ocean. Earlier times they were even more wize about this, and avoided large windows. Sometimes no windows at all on the walls to the west (facing the ocean), because the hurricane will break the window, and when it has found a way in it will lift the roof and tear down the walls. Weather is worst around december and january. I love a good storm, and feel energized by it, but it can be pretty scary too, when the house is shaking. Some years worse than others, but often there are houses blown away. Do NOT take this as an "it could be cool to experience"-thing, tourists have a tendency to go to near the ocean, and that is an amature move that can be fatal. We stay indoors, unless we have to rescue something. So this is completely normal: ua-cam.com/video/rKUipxR3bDc/v-deo.html
They only have a limited cash supply in stores; it's not normal to take out cash. A tourist should not _expect_ to get what they want at such a place (at least end of the week or whenever they replenish the machines) but rather have it as a possibility - especially since a sudden surge will drain it quickly
I'm from the PNW in the US and have a nephew is 15 months who not only likes hiking, he'll get his little Keen boots, waterbottle and carseat and drag it across the room and heave it up onto the couch and start shouting something like NANANAnnnanaGOGoGOgogogogo. He'll try to do everything on his own two feet just like the grown-ups but obviously has to be carried over some rougher sections, but he'll very vocally indicate his displeasure at being deprived the experience of trying to do it on his own 😂
Yeah, I'm not from the PNW, but hiking with kids is extremely common where I am. It was less common when I was a kid because our parents just released us into the streets to play and we would hike local trails with just us kids. But that was in the burbs. Now that my area is urban, the trails are PACKED with families each weekend. Not sure where he's from that this is so shocking 😂
When you have grass on the roof, it is very good to have a goat farmer nearby, because then you just borrow a goat or two, and you put them on the roof, and the maintenance is done quite quickly!
10:44 Oslo has few ATMs? Would've thought they had many. Anyway, the thing about Norway is that you don't need an ATM to take out cash, most stores in Norway will allow you to withdraw certain amounts of money from your bank account through their cash registers. These days, you can even do the same thing for depositing money into your account, which is really nice, since there are far fewer deposit ATMs than there are withdraw ATMs. As for ATMs in banks, I don't know what's up with Oslo, but every bank in Stavanger area I have gone to has at least one ATM, the DNB bank even has their ATMs available for their customers 24/7 via unlocking the outer sliding door with their DNB card.
Regarding the view, it is more important here to take the weather and wind into account than the view. For most of the year, the sea and snow and wind play a bigger role than the view.
Cash is not useless in Norway. Its against the law if a business refuses cash as payment. I guess the misconception stems from tourists not being able to pay with euro and usd i Norway
That's not quite right. We don't learn English so we can speak with the rest of the world. We are forced to learn English from age 8 in school, even if we don't want to or like it. Because English is the worldwide universal language we speak when we travel to foreign countries. Nowadays we travel way much more than before. It's a trend to travel to a foreign country at least 1 or 2 times every year. Especially Spain and Greece. Thailand too. Young parents travel as soon as they are finished breastfeeding their youngest child. And they usually rent a house in Spain for a month or so before they have to start working again. A so-called paid vacation. So the kids learn English very fast, also Spanish, at the age between 2-8 y.o. And kids have a tendency to learn the most awkward words too. 🤯 Many young Norwegian people also rely on family, parents or grandparents who own their own house or apartments in Spain. Many of them live there permanent and are thrilled to have their grandchildren visiting them the whole summer, from June to August, and a couple of weeks during the winter. And they learn a lot. Super scary fast. 😅
Stop complaining...its a very close related fellow North-Germanic language. It could have been latin(like back in the day) or mandarin, russian, french,spanish
Because really hiking like we do here in Norge and not some jog through the local park, is not the norm or culture in other countries. Hell they don’t even let their kids play outside because it’s dangerous: drive buys, kidnapping etc. But this is mainly in America🤡
@@kilipaki87oritahiti I just had a mother jog by on my way home with her two daughters, must have been between 3 and 6 years old. They were out jogging with mom. This wasn't even in the mountains it was in Oslo. I personally find it insane that it should _not_ be normal to take your kids hiking...
The USA is a very large country, and he's from Indiana. here in Arizona it's very common for little kids to go hiking in the mountains. I've seen it very often.
@@kevinwalsh1619 My thoughts exactly. I have been to several places in the US where the people love to go hiking. And I don't know how many times I have commented on Tylers' previous videos saying that; "it depends on where you live in the US." It's impossible to compare a country with a population of only 5.5 millions to the 3rd biggest populated country in the world. Minnesota alone has about the same population as Norway. When it comes to hiking. Places like around Lake Tahoe (Twin Lakes) in California, Sierra Nevada in Nevada, Page in Arizona, Moab in Utah, Badlands in South Dakota and many more - are very popular hiking places. Actually Moab has a very similar hiking culture to Norway. And they even had a Norwegian pancake house there where they served real Norwegian pancakes 😅
If you see a road beside a tunnel it’s likely the old road. I have never been to a bar in Norway where they didn’t know to make Gin and Tonic. 6. It was common to have a goat or two. They jumped easily up to the roof. We don’t use only credit or debit cards. We have several cards and apps. 8. If you build a lot of cabins close together, you will not be able to make them all to have the best view, but when he talk about north of Norway, most of the ‘cabins’ was ‘naust’ (boat houses), because due to newer laws it’s hard to get a licence for building something closer than 100 meters from the coast/sea line. Then you get the view where it was most practical to build the windows. That means back or front of the building. The view in the picture is rare and the construction equipments are most likely placed there temporary. There is always some work to do in Norway 😂 Yes, we love to have a spectacular view from our windows, but sometimes we must prioritise practical situations.
and in lofoten houses had to be built sheltered from the wheater. Had they been built by the sea with a view of the sea it would be destroyed by wind and waves
that makes more sense. Lupin was not a common plant to see when I was a child. Now its everywhere. It is a good plant for nitrogen though, so.. not all terrible:)
Yeah, we take with us our kids to the mountain peaks, but did you know that one of our kings had to cross the mountains as a newborn? This is a story from the 100 years of Norwegian Civil War in medieval time, when the Birkebeiners had to protect the baby Crown Prince (Haakon Haakonsen) from the Baglers. I am sure you can find the story here at UA-cam.
Yep... worked at one such establishment myself. Awesome people in the bar, from all over Europe. I even learnt some Italian for fun and there was a Dutch guy there too. French guy headed the wine cellar. It was fun to see them work and to get to try some new "experiments". I think maybe other nationalities have different customs as to _WHERE_ you go get a drink? I don't know. Part of me assume some of these people go to a McDonalds expecting a cocktail, then complain about "Norway don't have cocktails" afterwards...
Number 8: We like houses with views as well. I worked in a hotel once. The front of the hotel had view to the waterside and mountain range. The back of the hotel had view into the back yard. A building has four sides... The guy was probably unlucky or didnt ask for a room with a view.
@@hansmonsen1359 Why would a plant spread from north to south, when it is common i temperate climate? Has something happened to the climate in southern Norway the last 40 years? It is not a new plant in the south of the country. What you may have noticed, is that it is among the first species to spread in felled fields, after forest fires and on the roadside on newly established roads. It can therefore appear in places you are not used to seeing it. Geitrams is (was?) the county flower for Hedmark. It has traditionally been collected for animal fodder, and in Finnskogen it was used to dye fishing nets. It is a medicinal plant that has been dried, boiled, and used as an astringent for gout and back pain.
@@TomKirkemo-l5cYay, Hedmark! 😁 I'm from Oslo, but I moved to Ringsaker 25 years ago. I spent time here and in Solør every summer growing up. My best friend's mother loved geitrams her entire life. She would have been 96 years old if she'd still been around, so geitrams isn't exactly news around here...
Another thing. Hiking with kids. Me and my family where hiking to the Kjerag bolt. There was a guy, Iraqi, maybe Syrian or somewhere from down there, he was carrying his kid (about 1 year old) up that mountain. I told him: "I have so much respect for you."
Gin & Tonic is a fairly common go-to (when first getting a drink) though it's not normal to order drinks unless at some bars I guess. Beer is the most common, then wine. Gin & Tonic is usually just called "GT". I was a "backpack" baby (I joined skiing in a "pulk") however I always wanted to walk/ski, it wasn't really fun to just sit there (dunno about before 2 years old). I learnt to ski at about 2.5 years old.
The "view" thing is about safety. Thing is, the tourists only see the cottages atca point of the year when the weather is nice. But imagine that same location down by the sea during the fall or winter ss a storm passes by, and all the ruckus are flying through the air. Justvthe share strength ofvthevwing can crush the window, but having a piece of wood floating in the sea being thrown through the window. Keepbin mind that along the coast, storms more or less comes from wherevthe View is nicest during summer.
I think an important reason Norwegians speaks English quite good, is because all English movies and series for an audience older than 10 to 12 are texted rather than dubbed. When I first traveled in Central Europe some years after the end of The cold war, Germans spoke much better English than Poles. A few years later, it was the other way around. (Pronunciation, not necessarily vokabular.) The Poles themself attributed it to texting rather than dubbing of films in movie theaters. The real multilingual masters of Europe is in my view the Dutch. They are often quadrilingual, the same way Norwegians are bilingual.
15:37 Norwegian and English even have the same roots at some point. Well, not the exact same but mutually intelligible (Old Norse and Old English). You can expect to communicate in English if you so want while being here, however you may miss out on some "pearls" by not knowing Norwegian. The further you get away from "society" the more wonders you can find. Of course, even the most remote village has some kind of (or the opportunity to have) internet access and other communications.
The school I went to had a small forest on top of it. It had a glass roof in the middle and grass on the sides. It even grew small trees on top of it. The janitor would go up every spring to root out a few trees for it to not get overgrown. Otherwise you don’t really do anything to the roof.
Grass roof is quite common on cabins, we have it on ours. And it was very cheap, because the grass was for free👍 Of course we use cash, but not often. And of course we take our kids hiking, it’s a healthy way of living👍
2:26 ABSOLUTELY NOT. Some of our tunnels are so long that it takes 10 minutes to get out of them, when i go to roadtrips theres even 30 minute long tunnels.
maby the reason why tourists feel like they get treated like a person here, is because norwegian is a wery informal language. most words in norwegian is both used with both your closest family and evry stranger you meet. alot of gretings and plesantries in norway are unecesary unles youre talking to the king. when we learn english we have to learn about the formal way of greeting strangers and it dosent come naturaly to most.
05:13 Looks like they got the percentages wrong, you *can* drive with alcohol levels of up to - but not including - 0.2%, but it is strongly recommended against. You get fines and no imprisonment between 0.2% and 0.5%, fines and conditional imprisonment between 0.5% and 1.2%, fines and unconditional imprisonment over 1.2% including a fine the equivalent of 1.5 times your yearly income and you lose your license for one to two years.
I live in Bergen, and each year it come millions of tourist each tourist season. :D We are glad that people choose to visit Bergen, so we gladely help them to find the way to different places, and make sure that they are most welcome here in Bergen. :)
my daughters first mountain hiking was when she was 2 weeks old. I couldnt with my son because of medical issues(mine). The one with the coctails is not true, the one who said this has just been unlucky, we drink a lot og coctail/mixed drinks!
Fireweed is a common plant, growing in temperate regions oin the northern in northern hemisphere in both Europe, Asia and North America. It is pretty invasive but you can make a nice tea from the leafs and animals love to eat them. I think that our children tag along everywhere outside here in the Nordic countries. Fresh air is good for our health, exercise is good for our health and they learn to respect and worship nature as it provide us with what we need for our living. We have not been hiking a lot in the mountains with them, living a little to far away to go often but always being outside in winter, skiing, sledging, BBQ outside for lunch or dinner and having fun in the snow. In springtime doing the garden, growing veggies and herbs, foraging in the forest for berries and mushroom or fishing and swimming in the river...I have very healty children BTW. 😉 I think Norweigan and Swedish school are almost the same when it comes to English lessons, we start to learn from grade 1. In Sweden it is also estimated that 89% of the population speaks (understandable) English (German 30%, and French 11%). Less in Denmark (47%) but we share German with 30% and they beat us with the French with 23%. Understandable because they live closer to France than us. I recommend you to visit Norway, beautiful country...and of course all of Scandinavia/the Nordic countries! Greeatings from north of Sweden!
most old style houses were not for staying in unless you were sleeping or eating. so the view from the windows would not be important. as for things like 'nasty things in the foreground' just ignore them for the background. chances are it's worthwhile. :)
Turfed roofs: A lot of cabins still has it, and we have kept some of the buildings from the viking age with the turfed roofs. You could see it on a house people live in if it's a log-cabin style house. They are every here and there. I'm pretty sure you can find some mansions with them on the west-side of Oslo. It's stunning with varnished pine wood logs as a base.
Wait. Americans don't hike or bring their kids on hikes?? Where are you from? I'm from a major metro area that happens to have a bunch of trails and hills ... it's a godsend for parents who need to keep their kids entertained. We taught our youngest to rock scramble when he was 4.5/5, and all of his fellow neighborhood kids were the same. Hiking is very, very common here.
When it comes to cash, we have something called "cash services in stores" were we can just ask the cashier to withdraw our card for up to 10 000 NOK and deposit up to 20 000 NOK. Most grocery stores have that option now. That's our ATM.
What about several roundabouts in a network of tunnels combined with a huge indoor parking area for cars? We have that on the Tromsø island .... lots of tourist gets lost in those tunnels :D But I lovet that we can driver from one side of the island in the winter without going over the island on icy roads. Its also a lot quicker to go from the south end to the north end without going through the city center. I lovet it!
The Lofoten area get really bad weather along the waterline at times. You don't want your larger windows facing that way when there's a storm on, so older cabins have small windows there. These "Naust" were originally built to store fishing boats and equipment. More modern might be better. The construction in that particular picture... Lofoten suddenly became a huge tourism growth area during covid. Construction is ongoing.
The pink plant they are referring to is actually geitrams "fireweed". It's considered a weed, but it's actually an edible and a medicinal plant. Nothing wrong with it spreading, it's perfectly safe. In In the past the leaves was used as astringent for gout and back pain. And even to calm irritated or sunburned skin. Now a days most people steep tea out of the leaves or just put some leaves into their smoothies. This plant is very potent and has great anti inflammatory properties. The sap inside the stem was even used for boils and acne. It's a perfectly safe plant, and it has been used for many ailments over the years. In the past they also used this plant to dye the fishing nets. The reason why this plant is spreading so quickly and especially in areas were humans have interrupted the vegetation. Is because this plant is very dependable on nitrogen. It manages to utilize the nitrogen that is being released when the forest is felled or burned. But when they say that this plant is destroying the Norwegian vegetation, that's not accurate. I believe they are reffering to the black listed lupin, a poisonous plant, that we don't like see spreading all over the place. The pink version of lupin looks sort of similar to fire weed. But it often has a more purple color compared to fire weed. And the flowers isn't similar at all. So if you know how fire weed looks like, like most Norwegians do, you will never end up foraging the wrong plant. Fun fact; sheep, pigs, cows, and especially horses love love fire weeds. It's packed with nutrients. And it's also said that fire weed is one of the main nutrient dense foods for the deers to eat.
Here in Arizona I very often see young children hiking with their parents. Sometimes parents carry babies on their backs. I remember one time my climbing partner and I were going up Squaw Peak here in Phoenix, and we passed a mother and her young son. She used us to shame her son, saying, "Those two are old enough to be your grandfather. You should climb faster than they do."
I remember walking Trolltunga as a kid with my grandparents, so that is about 1100 meters above sea level and I was walking it with my grandparents who was maybe 60 at the time. I guess I had the endless child energy back then because at 36 I think it would be so much harder to do now then when I was a child.
It's so funny: I spent a couple of days on a Danish cruise and in Denmark this week. When I spoke to the crew or locals in Norwegian, they instantly began speaking English to me, and I went along without any pause in the conversation. And vice versa 😂 I can understand written Danish like my own language, but spoken... no.
holding the breath through a tunnel? I'm not that good at holding the breath, maybe on the shorter tunnels, but many tunnels are very long and takes 5-20 minutes to drive through
also, it's never too late to learn a new language. There are aspects with language that is easier for kids to pick up, but it's mostly just time and effort. Many people give up on language learning, because they don't like spending time on it.
Plenty of people who make a decent cocktail in norway. It just doesn't really happen that much at bars, since alcohol is expensive you'd buy beers at the pub and leave the mixing of stuff for the party before the pub.
how to make gin & tonic - step by step: 1 - Put ice cubes in a glass 2 - Pour a dash of gin over the ice 3 - Fill up the glass with tonic 4 - put a slice of lemon on top
As for the cashless thing, quite a lot of grocery stores also let you pay with your phone now. Either via the most popular money app, or via an app some banks have that like... I don't personally have it, so I'm not sure, but I think it basically ties your phone to your card, so you can tap your phone against the card machine just like a debit card. I don't see it used very often, but I've seen it a few times.
There is a trend towards that with some institutions in the USA. I tried to pay my doctor $30 in cash, but he insisted on a credit card. Then again maybe in Sweden you don't pay your doctor directly. My favorite fast food establishment accepts only cash, but they have an ATM on site for those who don't have it.
1 - Just from here to my son's mother's place, a 10-15 minute drive, I pass through three tunnels. And I don't even live in that much of a mountainous area. 2 - Various "weeds" grow "all over the place" at different times of the summer half of the year. It starts with tussilagos, then dandelions, these guys come later. 3 - I have no idea where these guys went, that bartender's reaction sounds odd. Granted, many establishments have a very limited liquor selection, but anyone not on their very first day on the job (and most likely if they were) should know what a gin & tonic is. Yes, one beer puts you over the legal limits for driving. 4 - No lies. 100% accurate. 5 - Still no lies. I live in a small town (sometimes counted as a suburban area to a larger city nearby), and I have literal dozens of options within a 30 min walk/5 min drive. Independent little shops to McD and Burger King, and everything in between. But also (in a slightly larger radius, or slightly "hidden") Mexican, Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, etc, etc 6 - Accurate. More of a cabin thing than a house thing, tho'. 7 - I wouldn't say cash is useless. Every establishment are required by law to accept any legal tender. I can appreciate it might be less convenient for tourists, but even those can buy pre-paid cards that are accepted pretty much everywhere, and it is cheaper than taking money out (from non-Norwegian bank accounts) of the ATM. Credit card fees can be stupifyingly high as a tourist. 8 - Why would you see the view from a hotel room window? You stay at your hotel room to sleep and take a shower. Maybe have a quick meal. Get outdoors and get the view ;P 9 - Back when I was in elementary school, I think English was started to be tought around age 9-10. My kid is now a firstgrader (age 6-7), and they have English lessons. He's going a bit back and forth if he should start learning French or Spanish next :P 10 - There's a saying in the restaurant business here: "We don't have customers, we have guests". Can swing both ways, as it is often used as a reply to "the customer is always right" xD
3:38 Invasive species means *not* indigenous. It came here from somewhere else and our local nature has no way of dealing with it. Iceland has the same problem...
My kids are nine and eleven years old. They both speak english fluently, and typically speak english when they are playing together with friends. It is getting more and more common here in Norway.
Scandinavia is very digitalized. Early on dev. We got debit cards for payments. For us it cost nothing to buy with our card, and now adays its often integrated on our smartphones. We use cash less and less. But but shop can take our cash. But dollars are not used and Euro rarely. English is second language and we are all fluent. Besides understanding each others languages.
Tunnels: We will soon have the Boknafjord-tunnel, dobbel (two-way) tunnels under water 26.7 km each that means longer than Lærdalstunnelen. I guess the next will be from Oslo to Tromsø. :D I think it is going to be too much now. We have a Railroad system that need a huge bettering/upgrade for 123 billion kroner.
The cash is useless is not true. But we can take out cash in a regular grocery stores. So we use bills and coins. Every store that sells something has to accept cash in Norway.
I've never seen an ATM that charges 10% commission. I guess that's for cards from foreign banks. That said, I don't think I've even seen cash in a couple of months.
I haven't had cash on me in years. If I get some, I go to the nearest grocery store and put them into my account straight away. We have a bank in store in Norway - there are almost no banks that are open to customers - you have to make an appointment, but everything is done digitally. If you go into a bank, they just give you a place at a PC and you have to write what applies and what you want. But - what are we going to do with cash? Absolutely ridiculous - bad paper and coins making noise in the washing machine and in my pockets are not something I miss. We'll probably switch to just using the phone now - it looks like - plastic debit or credit cards may not be so common anymore. Some of us have the card on the phone, ID cards, passports and driving licenses are also on the phone so the world becomes easier.
13:40 This is of course complete nonsense. Most Norwegians would be embarrassed about how views are flashed in the faces of tourists - like there is no moderation. Their experience comes from a very tight hotel budget.
The rest of Europe is always ahead of the curve compared to America. An example is the tax system that each individual has to file a tax return to the IRS . In Europe and the rest of the world taxes are deducted directly from your salary each month or weekly depending on when your salary is paid.The system used in the UK is PAYE (pay as you earn) .
I absolutely forgot how I ended up with this; I just read the entirety of "Moskva Kjenner Ingen Tårer" by Osvald Harjo. Jesus christ... It was freely available at "nb" but only in Norwegian (that I know of). Not only was it an absolutely harrowing read, but it's almost _exactly_ the same as modern Vatnik-land.
On the looking out on fuel depoes, harnors and lumber yards.... menny of these cottages mabe even hotells where previusly accomodations fore workers on fishing boats, verius jobs arround the harbor or idustrial plants nearby. They were built with this in mind fore pure functional and practikal reasons. You might also bee on point when you say that we dont notice the nature arround us. In manny ways we dont we offcorse reconice that the nature arround uss is beautiful, but that's hove it has always been it is normal too uss. We kinda have to slapp our face a bitt and go hang on this nature issent normal at all, it is spectakular
Norway isnt coimpletly cashlesh. But its certanly true that the need to use cash as a means to pay for stuff is getting rarer... You can still find ways to pay for cash in places where the infrastucture for digitial paymant isnt as widespread forexample in the mointains where electrity and internet isnt as easy to come across
7.) 10%?!?!?!? Must be something we charge people who don't use a Norwegian bank. I can't remember ever paying a commission for getting cash from an ATM. (Had to check my spelling three times during the writing of this post... Thanks number 3. Had to prove you wrong!) 10.) Well, here's a fun fact about tourists that you might have missed if you're somewhere like France or the USA. Tourists are people too :O (I know it's hard to fathom. But just do me a solid and give it a whirl)
10:47 yes this is true. Most of the people who use cash, are children coming to the store after school and buying whatever with money from their parents.
In Norway you don’t drink and drive. At all! If you touch a drink you don’t drive that day, it is that simple. You have a designated driver or call a cab.
No cash : not a good idea. Breakdowns happen. If you are shopping or trying to refuel, cash is still necessary. By the way, the subject is very real considering the solar flares these days....
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#3 is utter bullshit. maybe if you're in a backwater hamlet in the middle of nowhere, but every city has a decent selection of bars with competent bartenders.
yeah, i'v never been to a bar in norway that could not make a decent coctail
Maybe the person visited in the summer when there are a lot of new workers? Maybe the person ordering had a very strong accent so they didn't understand? I know some people who blanks out when people speak English to them.
yea, the guy writing the article must have maincharacter syndrome.
"does not find minibank right away... CASH IS USELESS"
"goes to one place without view... NORWAYS HOTELS HAS NO VIEWS"
"Goes to one place were the bartender was new.... NO COCKTAILS IN NORWAY"
loool
Yeah weird. Like everyone knows gintonic. One can even make it themselves for fucks sake🤣🤣🤣 Blandevann hvor det til og med står tonic vann eller gin tonic. Typen elsker gin tonic og aldri hørt at det er et problem, men bor i Oslo/på Østlandet. Virker som en bakevje et sted👀
@@kilipaki87oritahiti Drinks are not as normal in Norway as it is in other parts of the world.
Bars should obviously have competent workers, as they're, well, _bars._
However the establishments can vary in what's normal (and exposed to [new?] workers and what's not).
GT is very simple yes. I mean, in Oslo for instance, you can just search for "Cocktail Bar" and you'll find some of the best bartenders in all of Europe lol. The Restaurant & Bar scene (and Norway in general) is very attractive to many in the work field from all abroad.
However if you go to a "høyfjellshotell" (mountain lodge) and expect a drink, that's not only weird, but also casually not expected at _all._
I have some experience with all of these.
I can say at a mountain lodge, in season, there's probably 10 000 other things to be concerned with to make things go around before learning how to make a drink.
But once you "learn" it, it shouldn't be hard to retain the knowledge.
In Oslo, the failure is on _you_ if you can't manage the simple task of finding "good [x thing]" 😅
At least when it comes to food and drinks. There's simply no excuse, there's a *lot* of healthy competition and wildly varied places to go eat or drink. With a lot of skilled people, often from abroad too as mentioned earlier.
The reason behind the "no view" is weather conditions ;) If you hade big windows facing the ocean , good luck when the next storm hits.....
Most tourists are there in the summer when waether is ok, however in the fall the big storms hits and those islands in Lofoten is really exposed....
Try holding your breath troug the "Lærdalstunnelen"....15 US miles. ;)
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Oh dang 😂
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Lol.
Point 8, about building stuff without view in beautiful scenery:
The weather on the coast is so amazingly brutal with hurricanes, that we traditionally build things in safer nooks in the landscape, and not on some top or right next to the ocean. Earlier times they were even more wize about this, and avoided large windows. Sometimes no windows at all on the walls to the west (facing the ocean), because the hurricane will break the window, and when it has found a way in it will lift the roof and tear down the walls.
Weather is worst around december and january. I love a good storm, and feel energized by it, but it can be pretty scary too, when the house is shaking. Some years worse than others, but often there are houses blown away. Do NOT take this as an "it could be cool to experience"-thing, tourists have a tendency to go to near the ocean, and that is an amature move that can be fatal. We stay indoors, unless we have to rescue something.
So this is completely normal: ua-cam.com/video/rKUipxR3bDc/v-deo.html
the babies loves it, fresh air and close to mom and dad out in beautiful surroundings 😊
Now it's almost summer here in Norway. Isn't it time you got up from your desk, ordered a plane ticket, and came to visit us here in Norway?😉😊✌️😊😊😊
I love that ide 😁
He would never go back, little fanboy 😂
ATMs are still plentiful in norway. In addition you can take out cash in any grocery store.
They only have a limited cash supply in stores; it's not normal to take out cash.
A tourist should not _expect_ to get what they want at such a place (at least end of the week or whenever they replenish the machines) but rather have it as a possibility - especially since a sudden surge will drain it quickly
I pay with my mobile or vipps
I'm from the PNW in the US and have a nephew is 15 months who not only likes hiking, he'll get his little Keen boots, waterbottle and carseat and drag it across the room and heave it up onto the couch and start shouting something like NANANAnnnanaGOGoGOgogogogo. He'll try to do everything on his own two feet just like the grown-ups but obviously has to be carried over some rougher sections, but he'll very vocally indicate his displeasure at being deprived the experience of trying to do it on his own 😂
Yeah, I'm not from the PNW, but hiking with kids is extremely common where I am. It was less common when I was a kid because our parents just released us into the streets to play and we would hike local trails with just us kids. But that was in the burbs. Now that my area is urban, the trails are PACKED with families each weekend. Not sure where he's from that this is so shocking 😂
@@kldawson53Tyler is from Indiana. Hiking isn't as much of a thing there.
@@kevinwalsh1619 Interesting, thanks!
When you have grass on the roof, it is very good to have a goat farmer nearby, because then you just borrow a goat or two, and you put them on the roof, and the maintenance is done quite quickly!
Sheep are the best lawn mowers, while the goats take care of branches, bushes and such. Very efficient.
10:44 Oslo has few ATMs? Would've thought they had many. Anyway, the thing about Norway is that you don't need an ATM to take out cash, most stores in Norway will allow you to withdraw certain amounts of money from your bank account through their cash registers. These days, you can even do the same thing for depositing money into your account, which is really nice, since there are far fewer deposit ATMs than there are withdraw ATMs. As for ATMs in banks, I don't know what's up with Oslo, but every bank in Stavanger area I have gone to has at least one ATM, the DNB bank even has their ATMs available for their customers 24/7 via unlocking the outer sliding door with their DNB card.
I can't even remember when I used an ATM or needed cash last. Vipps and the bank app is enough for me. And I live in rural Norway.
As another has commented in Lofoten the weather is harsh in the winter, really bad weather swipes in from the oceanside
Regarding the view, it is more important here to take the weather and wind into account than the view. For most of the year, the sea and snow and wind play a bigger role than the view.
Cash is not useless in Norway. Its against the law if a business refuses cash as payment. I guess the misconception stems from tourists not being able to pay with euro and usd i Norway
Norwegians realize that not many people outside of Norway speak Norwegian so they learn English to speak with the rest of the world.
That's not quite right. We don't learn English so we can speak with the rest of the world. We are forced to learn English from age 8 in school, even if we don't want to or like it. Because English is the worldwide universal language we speak when we travel to foreign countries. Nowadays we travel way much more than before. It's a trend to travel to a foreign country at least 1 or 2 times every year. Especially Spain and Greece. Thailand too. Young parents travel as soon as they are finished breastfeeding their youngest child. And they usually rent a house in Spain for a month or so before they have to start working again. A so-called paid vacation. So the kids learn English very fast, also Spanish, at the age between 2-8 y.o. And kids have a tendency to learn the most awkward words too. 🤯 Many young Norwegian people also rely on family, parents or grandparents who own their own house or apartments in Spain. Many of them live there permanent and are thrilled to have their grandchildren visiting them the whole summer, from June to August, and a couple of weeks during the winter. And they learn a lot. Super scary fast. 😅
Stop complaining...its a very close related fellow North-Germanic language. It could have been latin(like back in the day) or mandarin, russian, french,spanish
i got so confused when they get suprised by us hiking with babies and taking our children on mountains
Because really hiking like we do here in Norge and not some jog through the local park, is not the norm or culture in other countries. Hell they don’t
even let their kids play outside because it’s dangerous: drive buys, kidnapping etc. But this is mainly in America🤡
me too 😂
@@kilipaki87oritahiti I just had a mother jog by on my way home with her two daughters, must have been between 3 and 6 years old. They were out jogging with mom. This wasn't even in the mountains it was in Oslo.
I personally find it insane that it should _not_ be normal to take your kids hiking...
The USA is a very large country, and he's from Indiana. here in Arizona it's very common for little kids to go hiking in the mountains. I've seen it very often.
@@kevinwalsh1619 My thoughts exactly. I have been to several places in the US where the people love to go hiking. And I don't know how many times I have commented on Tylers' previous videos saying that; "it depends on where you live in the US." It's impossible to compare a country with a population of only 5.5 millions to the 3rd biggest populated country in the world. Minnesota alone has about the same population as Norway.
When it comes to hiking. Places like around Lake Tahoe (Twin Lakes) in California, Sierra Nevada in Nevada, Page in Arizona, Moab in Utah, Badlands in South Dakota and many more - are very popular hiking places. Actually Moab has a very similar hiking culture to Norway. And they even had a Norwegian pancake house there where they served real Norwegian pancakes 😅
If you see a road beside a tunnel it’s likely the old road.
I have never been to a bar in Norway where they didn’t know to make Gin and Tonic.
6. It was common to have a goat or two. They jumped easily up to the roof.
We don’t use only credit or debit cards. We have several cards and apps.
8. If you build a lot of cabins close together, you will not be able to make them all to have the best view, but when he talk about north of Norway, most of the ‘cabins’ was ‘naust’ (boat houses), because due to newer laws it’s hard to get a licence for building something closer than 100 meters from the coast/sea line. Then you get the view where it was most practical to build the windows. That means back or front of the building.
The view in the picture is rare and the construction equipments are most likely placed there temporary. There is always some work to do in Norway 😂 Yes, we love to have a spectacular view from our windows, but sometimes we must prioritise practical situations.
and in lofoten houses had to be built sheltered from the wheater. Had they been built by the sea with a view of the sea it would be destroyed by wind and waves
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Yes, and the wind can be rough on top or aside of mountains as well.
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This applies to large parts of the country.
I think he mixes this native flower geitrams with lupiner.
that makes more sense. Lupin was not a common plant to see when I was a child. Now its everywhere. It is a good plant for nitrogen though, so.. not all terrible:)
Yeah, we take with us our kids to the mountain peaks, but did you know that one of our kings had to cross the mountains as a newborn? This is a story from the 100 years of Norwegian Civil War in medieval time, when the Birkebeiners had to protect the baby Crown Prince (Haakon Haakonsen) from the Baglers. I am sure you can find the story here at UA-cam.
Turf roof is more common on cabins and huts these days😊 i really enjoy these videos about our country 💕
Oslo have some of the worlds best bars, like Himkok and Svanen. If you know where to go, a good coctail shouldn't be hard to find.
Yep... worked at one such establishment myself. Awesome people in the bar, from all over Europe. I even learnt some Italian for fun and there was a Dutch guy there too. French guy headed the wine cellar.
It was fun to see them work and to get to try some new "experiments".
I think maybe other nationalities have different customs as to _WHERE_ you go get a drink? I don't know.
Part of me assume some of these people go to a McDonalds expecting a cocktail, then complain about "Norway don't have cocktails" afterwards...
Number 8:
We like houses with views as well.
I worked in a hotel once. The front of the hotel had view to the waterside and mountain range. The back of the hotel had view into the back yard. A building has four sides...
The guy was probably unlucky or didnt ask for a room with a view.
#3 cleary is just some one how is new or just joking, i have never heard anyone thinking its vodka in a GIN and tonic
In Europe you can see such things in cities on top of several floor buildings, some have pools too and tiny trees and shrubs....
Isn't that flower just "Geitrams"??? That is not a new species here. And it's actually edible.
yes it is geitrams, and it have spread from north alle the way south in just 40-50 years, so you are young to say it has aleays been here:) It i not.
@@hansmonsen1359 Wel, it has been here for my 52 years of living. I'm in the middle of old Hedmark. :)
@@hansmonsen1359 Why would a plant spread from north to south, when it is common i temperate climate? Has something happened to the climate in southern Norway the last 40 years? It is not a new plant in the south of the country. What you may have noticed, is that it is among the first species to spread in felled fields, after forest fires and on the roadside on newly established roads. It can therefore appear in places you are not used to seeing it. Geitrams is (was?) the county flower for Hedmark. It has traditionally been collected for animal fodder, and in Finnskogen it was used to dye fishing nets. It is a medicinal plant that has been dried, boiled, and used as an astringent for gout and back pain.
@@TomKirkemo-l5cYay, Hedmark! 😁 I'm from Oslo, but I moved to Ringsaker 25 years ago. I spent time here and in Solør every summer growing up. My best friend's mother loved geitrams her entire life. She would have been 96 years old if she'd still been around, so geitrams isn't exactly news around here...
@@Kari.F. Jeg bodde på Kirkenær og Svullrya..nuh i Nord-Odal. For those who only speak English...kiss my a**! :D
Little bit sad you didn't read more of number 5. I wanted to see your reaction of you reading reindeer as pizzatopping
The fine for driving drunk is 150% of a months salary. You can also lose your license for a period
Another thing. Hiking with kids. Me and my family where hiking to the Kjerag bolt. There was a guy, Iraqi, maybe Syrian or somewhere from down there, he was carrying his kid (about 1 year old) up that mountain. I told him: "I have so much respect for you."
Gin & Tonic is a fairly common go-to (when first getting a drink) though it's not normal to order drinks unless at some bars I guess. Beer is the most common, then wine.
Gin & Tonic is usually just called "GT".
I was a "backpack" baby (I joined skiing in a "pulk") however I always wanted to walk/ski, it wasn't really fun to just sit there (dunno about before 2 years old). I learnt to ski at about 2.5 years old.
Thank you for good, entertaining videos and always kind words about Norway and our culture. Aleays fun to watch your're reactions😊😊🥰
The "view" thing is about safety. Thing is, the tourists only see the cottages atca point of the year when the weather is nice. But imagine that same location down by the sea during the fall or winter ss a storm passes by, and all the ruckus are flying through the air. Justvthe share strength ofvthevwing can crush the window, but having a piece of wood floating in the sea being thrown through the window.
Keepbin mind that along the coast, storms more or less comes from wherevthe View is nicest during summer.
I think an important reason Norwegians speaks English quite good, is because all English movies and series for an audience older than 10 to 12 are texted rather than dubbed. When I first traveled in Central Europe some years after the end of The cold war, Germans spoke much better English than Poles. A few years later, it was the other way around. (Pronunciation, not necessarily vokabular.) The Poles themself attributed it to texting rather than dubbing of films in movie theaters.
The real multilingual masters of Europe is in my view the Dutch. They are often quadrilingual, the same way Norwegians are bilingual.
15:37 Norwegian and English even have the same roots at some point. Well, not the exact same but mutually intelligible (Old Norse and Old English).
You can expect to communicate in English if you so want while being here, however you may miss out on some "pearls" by not knowing Norwegian.
The further you get away from "society" the more wonders you can find.
Of course, even the most remote village has some kind of (or the opportunity to have) internet access and other communications.
The school I went to had a small forest on top of it. It had a glass roof in the middle and grass on the sides. It even grew small trees on top of it. The janitor would go up every spring to root out a few trees for it to not get overgrown. Otherwise you don’t really do anything to the roof.
No mention of the goats on the grass roofs?
Grass roof is quite common on cabins, we have it on ours.
And it was very cheap, because the grass was for free👍
Of course we use cash, but not often.
And of course we take our kids hiking, it’s a healthy way of living👍
2:26 ABSOLUTELY NOT. Some of our tunnels are so long that it takes 10 minutes to get out of them, when i go to roadtrips theres even 30 minute long tunnels.
maby the reason why tourists feel like they get treated like a person here, is because norwegian is a wery informal language. most words in norwegian is both used with both your closest family and evry stranger you meet. alot of gretings and plesantries in norway are unecesary unles youre talking to the king. when we learn english we have to learn about the formal way of greeting strangers and it dosent come naturaly to most.
05:13 Looks like they got the percentages wrong, you *can* drive with alcohol levels of up to - but not including - 0.2%, but it is strongly recommended against. You get fines and no imprisonment between 0.2% and 0.5%, fines and conditional imprisonment between 0.5% and 1.2%, fines and unconditional imprisonment over 1.2% including a fine the equivalent of 1.5 times your yearly income and you lose your license for one to two years.
I live in Bergen, and each year it come millions of tourist each tourist season. :D We are glad that people choose to visit Bergen, so we gladely help them to find the way to different places, and make sure that they are most welcome here in Bergen. :)
my daughters first mountain hiking was when she was 2 weeks old. I couldnt with my son because of medical issues(mine). The one with the coctails is not true, the one who said this has just been unlucky, we drink a lot og coctail/mixed drinks!
Do Lars Monsen Across Canada!
Fireweed is a common plant, growing in temperate regions oin the northern in northern hemisphere in both Europe, Asia and North America. It is pretty invasive but you can make a nice tea from the leafs and animals love to eat them.
I think that our children tag along everywhere outside here in the Nordic countries. Fresh air is good for our health, exercise is good for our health and they learn to respect and worship nature as it provide us with what we need for our living. We have not been hiking a lot in the mountains with them, living a little to far away to go often but always being outside in winter, skiing, sledging, BBQ outside for lunch or dinner and having fun in the snow. In springtime doing the garden, growing veggies and herbs, foraging in the forest for berries and mushroom or fishing and swimming in the river...I have very healty children BTW. 😉
I think Norweigan and Swedish school are almost the same when it comes to English lessons, we start to learn from grade 1. In Sweden it is also estimated that 89% of the population speaks (understandable) English (German 30%, and French 11%). Less in Denmark (47%) but we share German with 30% and they beat us with the French with 23%. Understandable because they live closer to France than us.
I recommend you to visit Norway, beautiful country...and of course all of Scandinavia/the Nordic countries!
Greeatings from north of Sweden!
most old style houses were not for staying in unless you were sleeping or eating. so the view from the windows would not be important. as for things like 'nasty things in the foreground' just ignore them for the background. chances are it's worthwhile. :)
Turfed roofs: A lot of cabins still has it, and we have kept some of the buildings from the viking age with the turfed roofs. You could see it on a house people live in if it's a log-cabin style house. They are every here and there. I'm pretty sure you can find some mansions with them on the west-side of Oslo. It's stunning with varnished pine wood logs as a base.
Wait. Americans don't hike or bring their kids on hikes?? Where are you from? I'm from a major metro area that happens to have a bunch of trails and hills ... it's a godsend for parents who need to keep their kids entertained. We taught our youngest to rock scramble when he was 4.5/5, and all of his fellow neighborhood kids were the same. Hiking is very, very common here.
When it comes to cash, we have something called "cash services in stores" were we can just ask the cashier to withdraw our card for up to 10 000 NOK and deposit up to 20 000 NOK. Most grocery stores have that option now. That's our ATM.
What about several roundabouts in a network of tunnels combined with a huge indoor parking area for cars? We have that on the Tromsø island .... lots of tourist gets lost in those tunnels :D
But I lovet that we can driver from one side of the island in the winter without going over the island on icy roads. Its also a lot quicker to go from the south end to the north end without going through the city center. I lovet it!
The Lofoten area get really bad weather along the waterline at times. You don't want your larger windows facing that way when there's a storm on, so older cabins have small windows there. These "Naust" were originally built to store fishing boats and equipment. More modern might be better. The construction in that particular picture... Lofoten suddenly became a huge tourism growth area during covid. Construction is ongoing.
We do hold our breath through tunnels in norway as well. Tho it's pretty hard through the Lærdalstunnel. It's 24,51 km long(15,2 mile).
The pink plant they are referring to is actually geitrams "fireweed". It's considered a weed, but it's actually an edible and a medicinal plant. Nothing wrong with it spreading, it's perfectly safe. In In the past the leaves was used as astringent for gout and back pain. And even to calm irritated or sunburned skin. Now a days most people steep tea out of the leaves or just put some leaves into their smoothies. This plant is very potent and has great anti inflammatory properties. The sap inside the stem was even used for boils and acne. It's a perfectly safe plant, and it has been used for many ailments over the years. In the past they also used this plant to dye the fishing nets.
The reason why this plant is spreading so quickly and especially in areas were humans have interrupted the vegetation. Is because this plant is very dependable on nitrogen. It manages to utilize the nitrogen that is being released when the forest is felled or burned.
But when they say that this plant is destroying the Norwegian vegetation, that's not accurate. I believe they are reffering to the black listed lupin, a poisonous plant, that we don't like see spreading all over the place.
The pink version of lupin looks sort of similar to fire weed. But it often has a more purple color compared to fire weed. And the flowers isn't similar at all. So if you know how fire weed looks like, like most Norwegians do, you will never end up foraging the wrong plant.
Fun fact; sheep, pigs, cows, and especially horses love love fire weeds. It's packed with nutrients.
And it's also said that fire weed is one of the main nutrient dense foods for the deers to eat.
Keep up the great work Mr Walker😊👍
Here in Arizona I very often see young children hiking with their parents. Sometimes parents carry babies on their backs. I remember one time my climbing partner and I were going up Squaw Peak here in Phoenix, and we passed a mother and her young son. She used us to shame her son, saying, "Those two are old enough to be your grandfather. You should climb faster than they do."
I remember walking Trolltunga as a kid with my grandparents, so that is about 1100 meters above sea level and I was walking it with my grandparents who was maybe 60 at the time. I guess I had the endless child energy back then because at 36 I think it would be so much harder to do now then when I was a child.
It's so funny: I spent a couple of days on a Danish cruise and in Denmark this week. When I spoke to the crew or locals in Norwegian, they instantly began speaking English to me, and I went along without any pause in the conversation. And vice versa 😂
I can understand written Danish like my own language, but spoken... no.
holding the breath through a tunnel? I'm not that good at holding the breath, maybe on the shorter tunnels, but many tunnels are very long and takes 5-20 minutes to drive through
also, it's never too late to learn a new language. There are aspects with language that is easier for kids to pick up, but it's mostly just time and effort. Many people give up on language learning, because they don't like spending time on it.
Plenty of people who make a decent cocktail in norway. It just doesn't really happen that much at bars, since alcohol is expensive you'd buy beers at the pub and leave the mixing of stuff for the party before the pub.
how to make gin & tonic - step by step:
1 - Put ice cubes in a glass
2 - Pour a dash of gin over the ice
3 - Fill up the glass with tonic
4 - put a slice of lemon on top
That pink flower that you see in Norway.The fire wind is in canada too
As for the cashless thing, quite a lot of grocery stores also let you pay with your phone now. Either via the most popular money app, or via an app some banks have that like... I don't personally have it, so I'm not sure, but I think it basically ties your phone to your card, so you can tap your phone against the card machine just like a debit card. I don't see it used very often, but I've seen it a few times.
I love tunnels, my bf and I went on tunnel-sightseeing one of our first dates..
Number 3 is just stupid.
I don’t know where this person was, but bartenders can mix drinks. And gin is super popular here
Here in Sweden I haven't used cash in a long time some stores don't take cash anymore
There is a trend towards that with some institutions in the USA. I tried to pay my doctor $30 in cash, but he insisted on a credit card. Then again maybe in Sweden you don't pay your doctor directly. My favorite fast food establishment accepts only cash, but they have an ATM on site for those who don't have it.
1 - Just from here to my son's mother's place, a 10-15 minute drive, I pass through three tunnels. And I don't even live in that much of a mountainous area.
2 - Various "weeds" grow "all over the place" at different times of the summer half of the year. It starts with tussilagos, then dandelions, these guys come later.
3 - I have no idea where these guys went, that bartender's reaction sounds odd. Granted, many establishments have a very limited liquor selection, but anyone not on their very first day on the job (and most likely if they were) should know what a gin & tonic is. Yes, one beer puts you over the legal limits for driving.
4 - No lies. 100% accurate.
5 - Still no lies. I live in a small town (sometimes counted as a suburban area to a larger city nearby), and I have literal dozens of options within a 30 min walk/5 min drive. Independent little shops to McD and Burger King, and everything in between. But also (in a slightly larger radius, or slightly "hidden") Mexican, Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, etc, etc
6 - Accurate. More of a cabin thing than a house thing, tho'.
7 - I wouldn't say cash is useless. Every establishment are required by law to accept any legal tender. I can appreciate it might be less convenient for tourists, but even those can buy pre-paid cards that are accepted pretty much everywhere, and it is cheaper than taking money out (from non-Norwegian bank accounts) of the ATM. Credit card fees can be stupifyingly high as a tourist.
8 - Why would you see the view from a hotel room window? You stay at your hotel room to sleep and take a shower. Maybe have a quick meal. Get outdoors and get the view ;P
9 - Back when I was in elementary school, I think English was started to be tought around age 9-10. My kid is now a firstgrader (age 6-7), and they have English lessons. He's going a bit back and forth if he should start learning French or Spanish next :P
10 - There's a saying in the restaurant business here: "We don't have customers, we have guests". Can swing both ways, as it is often used as a reply to "the customer is always right" xD
3:38
Invasive species means *not* indigenous.
It came here from somewhere else and our local nature has no way of dealing with it.
Iceland has the same problem...
My kids are nine and eleven years old. They both speak english fluently, and typically speak english when they are playing together with friends. It is getting more and more common here in Norway.
Yeeh. Calling bs on the cocktail one.
If you want to see large parts of Norway, I recommend "Off she Goes" Season 5. Enjoy😉😊✌️😊😊😊
Fireweed is found in the US as well.
Its not hard to find good cocktails. Just Go to a proper bar. I mostly drink good cocktails and wine and have no problem finding good bars.
Scandinavia is very digitalized. Early on dev. We got debit cards for payments. For us it cost nothing to buy with our card, and now adays its often integrated on our smartphones.
We use cash less and less. But but shop can take our cash. But dollars are not used and Euro rarely.
English is second language and we are all fluent. Besides understanding each others languages.
Sweden can sign under on this to :)
Tunnels: We will soon have the Boknafjord-tunnel, dobbel (two-way) tunnels under water 26.7 km each that means longer than Lærdalstunnelen. I guess the next will be from Oslo to Tromsø. :D I think it is going to be too much now. We have a Railroad system that need a huge bettering/upgrade for 123 billion kroner.
I hope that you know this is exactly the same in sweden. And the most of the straff is swedish in norway at restruants (in Oslo).
in regards to views:
EIther it is about getting a cheap property to rent out, or the property is old, from a time of different needs.
If you get invited to people’s places in Norway, that is where you find the views. Hotels and stuff like that are often more a place to store you heh.
Turf roof is not COMMON. It’s more a cabin thing. If you see a house with it then that’s an uncommon house.
We get home after a night out by having a designated driver, using public transport or taking a cab. It's safer than driving while tipsy.
fireweed is nature's 'femme fatale'. :P
The cash is useless is not true. But we can take out cash in a regular grocery stores. So we use bills and coins. Every store that sells something has to accept cash in Norway.
I've never seen an ATM that charges 10% commission. I guess that's for cards from foreign banks. That said, I don't think I've even seen cash in a couple of months.
I haven't had cash on me in years. If I get some, I go to the nearest grocery store and put them into my account straight away. We have a bank in store in Norway - there are almost no banks that are open to customers - you have to make an appointment, but everything is done digitally. If you go into a bank, they just give you a place at a PC and you have to write what applies and what you want. But - what are we going to do with cash? Absolutely ridiculous - bad paper and coins making noise in the washing machine and in my pockets are not something I miss. We'll probably switch to just using the phone now - it looks like - plastic debit or credit cards may not be so common anymore. Some of us have the card on the phone, ID cards, passports and driving licenses are also on the phone so the world becomes easier.
We have that Pink Flower in Sweden too it's a bad Flower
I don't know if you read it closer later, or have some other reason for skipping relatively important points, but I found it annoying. that is all.
13:40 This is of course complete nonsense. Most Norwegians would be embarrassed about how views are flashed in the faces of tourists - like there is no moderation. Their experience comes from a very tight hotel budget.
Norway is top 5 when it comes to reading English books and movies with no subtitles
The rest of Europe is always ahead of the curve compared to America. An example is the tax system that each individual has to file a tax return to the IRS . In Europe and the rest of the world taxes are deducted directly from your salary each month or weekly depending on when your salary is paid.The system used in the UK is PAYE (pay as you earn) .
I absolutely forgot how I ended up with this;
I just read the entirety of "Moskva Kjenner Ingen Tårer" by Osvald Harjo.
Jesus christ...
It was freely available at "nb" but only in Norwegian (that I know of). Not only was it an absolutely harrowing read, but it's almost _exactly_ the same as modern Vatnik-land.
On the looking out on fuel depoes, harnors and lumber yards.... menny of these cottages mabe even hotells where previusly accomodations fore workers on fishing boats, verius jobs arround the harbor or idustrial plants nearby. They were built with this in mind fore pure functional and practikal reasons. You might also bee on point when you say that we dont notice the nature arround us. In manny ways we dont we offcorse reconice that the nature arround uss is beautiful, but that's hove it has always been it is normal too uss. We kinda have to slapp our face a bitt and go hang on this nature issent normal at all, it is spectakular
I grew up in a hole in the ground that my mom and dad digged to keep me warm🇳🇴
We have lots of tourists in Norway and many Americans.
Norway isnt coimpletly cashlesh. But its certanly true that the need to use cash as a means to pay for stuff is getting rarer... You can still find ways to pay for cash in places where the infrastucture for digitial paymant isnt as widespread forexample in the mointains where electrity and internet isnt as easy to come across
Children in kindergartens may go on hikes up to 7 km.
7.) 10%?!?!?!? Must be something we charge people who don't use a Norwegian bank. I can't remember ever paying a commission for getting cash from an ATM. (Had to check my spelling three times during the writing of this post... Thanks number 3. Had to prove you wrong!) 10.) Well, here's a fun fact about tourists that you might have missed if you're somewhere like France or the USA. Tourists are people too :O (I know it's hard to fathom. But just do me a solid and give it a whirl)
Classic Norwegian reaction to your thumbnails struck again: "What? Why not hike with children?"
10:47 yes this is true. Most of the people who use cash, are children coming to the store after school and buying whatever with money from their parents.
If you want you can come and visit. Then I take you to some tunnels. Let's see if you manage to hold your breath through the whole tunnel.
In Norway you don’t drink and drive. At all! If you touch a drink you don’t drive that day, it is that simple. You have a designated driver or call a cab.
Do you ever reed the comment?
No cash : not a good idea. Breakdowns happen. If you are shopping or trying to refuel, cash is still necessary.
By the way, the subject is very real considering the solar flares these days....
the cash is making a comeback. easily 40% of people pay with cash at the foodstore.
If you order with wiew . You get it most places