Nordic Europe with Rick Steves
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2023
- Enjoy our live Monday Night Travel party with this video recorded on August 7, 2023.
Rick reports on his adventures filming two new episodes of Rick Steves' Europe in Iceland and updating his guidebooks in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, and Estonia. Rick first booked these destinations for 2020 - before the pandemic put his travel dreams on hold. Three years later, he finally made the trip…and he's eager to show and tell why it was well worth the wait! #RickSteves #MondayNightTravel
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You" Hit the nail on the head!!". From a Swede son of diplomats in Spain....
This is way better than my college history classes
Time to catch up on the beginning of show that I missed.
the Smørrebrød/open face sandwich looks good , but seems like you forgot the butter!.
Thoughts on overtourism in the Nordic countries now? Rick only mentions it a little here. This seemed to be a big issue in the years leading up to the pandemic; I spent a lot of time working in Iceland during the winters of 2017-19, and my thought was the dark season and its absolutely horrific weather would scare away masses of tourists. I was totally wrong; there were so many tourists traveling the Golden Circle (in JANUARY) that those masses were much more interesting to take pictures of than Geysir itself. I found the same thing in January 2015 in Copenhagen with weather almost as bad; after an unsuccessful job interview i took a boat tour of the harbor and found at least 30 tourists packed like sardines on the shore opposite the laughably unimpressive Little Mermaid statue, trying to get a passable picture 😁
It's coincidental, more than likely, that you see tons of North Americans in say, Copenhagen or Rekyevic, because it just so happens a LOT of the cheapest flights to warmer parts of the continent have LONG layovers in the north, from a few hours to actual stopovers overnight. I spent the last few weeks researching flights for a fall tour, and finally booked (I have a 7 hour layover in Stockholm, and 2 hours in Copenhagen on the return trip). I was looking into it and seen a lot of people on travel forums mentioning this phenomenon going back around 8 years, but it's become more heavy in the last 4 :)
Those little turn-out maps go away when you get further out. We had a great 2 week trip tent camping around iceland clockwise this July.
Nordic countries are :the 3 Scandinavian Denmark, Norway, Sweden plus Iceland, Finland, Faroe Islands, Åland and Greenland , the Baltic states would like to be part of the Nordic and have a seat in the Nordic council but are not members
the average temp.in the world have risen 0.84 degree celsius the past 100 years , the Italians travel to Scandinavia for the same reason Americans do, they want to see the world, I know it's diff. to understand when you follow mass media but try and google how much the temp. have actually changed, also we are at the same level as in the Viking age, that said we should worry about pollution of our water, air and ground that is the real issue
Don’t mean to be nit-picky, but the American and European plates aren’t rubbing together, they are drifting apart. 👍🏻
800 miles 30 hours nonstop? I can go 1200 miles from my house to Chicago in just over 18 hours nonstop.