I'm from Charleston, SC and have been living in Kristiansand, Norway for about 12 years. I hope your stay was great!
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Whoa, shit. That was a huge culture change I bet.
@DionIsaiah
Жыл бұрын
@@mykectown Yea big culture change. I’ve adapted to know their ways, but still stay true to who I am. I would say I evolved more of a sense.
@minime453
Жыл бұрын
Lmao watching this in frankfurt airport and this place is crawling with cops with MP5s
@ezwar99
Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip, Myke! I'm from Oslo and went to uni in Bergen. Super enjoyable to hear about your experiences and perspectives. And btw I walk past that tiger (13:05) everyday, and I still have no clue why it's so famous.
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Haha! That tiger thing is so damn weird. Every travel blog I saw talking about Oslo showed that tiger and we honestly just happened to walk by it on the way somewhere. And, even then, there were people crowded all around it.
@nor-wayking6757
Жыл бұрын
The name originates from arch-norwegian Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. He wrote the poem "Last Song", in which he described the dangerous and merciless big city. Nickname Tiger City.
@akselwestlund4691
4 ай бұрын
Surprised you didn't mention the statue of a giant hammer smashing a swastika
@ivanooze8500
Жыл бұрын
Easy 2 please when i'm traveling overseas 🔥🔥🔥
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Effortless bars.
@nobodyburgen4594
Жыл бұрын
Hope you enjoyed your trip myke! :)
@reecemcdermott
Жыл бұрын
your pronunciation of norwegian words is hilarious myke. happy that you had a great experience over there man! sidetip: to pronounce neseblod (nosebleed), you'd say it like this: neh-seh-bloo
@DisintegrationZerfall
Жыл бұрын
For me as a german it is mind boggling to hear someone saying he has never seen snow. But yeah as a US citizen you have to cover a lot of mileage to get to different climate zones, in ol‘ europe its all pretty close. Dig your Payssage d‘Hivier shirt, quite fitting
@ivanooze8500
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes i dream being in record stores like that
@Localbandography
Жыл бұрын
That Bathory on the wall. Damn.
@wetsticker3860
Жыл бұрын
Just hopped on Duolingo to start learning Norwegian, cool to hear you speak a bit about your time there.
@TheTelepathicKid
Жыл бұрын
as someone who's about to be visiting the US in under a week, you saying you just like experiencing shit that's different than from what you're used to really hits home to me. I probably will have a day just walking being like "ooh, that's weird .... walmart!"
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Haha! Well, hopefully you see much cooler things than a Walmart.
@mairbek
Жыл бұрын
I'm not much into black metal, but neseblod and metal exhibition at Deichman library sounds pretty interesting. Wasn't expecting to get a recommendation where i currently live today, thanks Myke😄
@Godovgrind
Жыл бұрын
🤘🤘🤘🤘
@Massivecarcrash
Жыл бұрын
08:46 We call it "Horn". Just like a carhorn or bullhorn, means the exact same thing in both languages. They are shaped to resemble some old bugle. Norways weather is pretty shit. It pretty nice in the middle of the summer and it's pretty nice in the middle of the winter, but anything in the middle of those two seasons is rain and gloom. Next time I would aim at going in the middle of the summer, never gets that hot around here and the sun is out untill near midnight.
@Tullekunstner
Жыл бұрын
Am from Bergen. Grey and rainy defines 80% of the year lol. But during those few days every summer when the sun's out, it's amazing.
@blackras
Жыл бұрын
Drove like he was auditioning for the F&F 12😂
@superiormusic
Жыл бұрын
Killer Paysage d'Hiver shirt! Also, the Stave Church was reconstructed in 1998
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
For some reason I thought it was way earlier than that...
@superiormusic
Жыл бұрын
@@mykectown The whole restoration was 6 years. Side note; there are cool taxi drivers here too, so do come again😅🇧🇻
@theflourishing
Жыл бұрын
Nice bit of synchronicity when this video dropped as I have just been revisiting old Terrorizer issues, listening to the band Mork and The Thomas Eriksen Podcast. So, also been re-listening to a lot of Norwegian Black Metal as a consequence, obviously I’m on the right path.
@2ndBreakfassst
5 ай бұрын
Being nice for its own sake is a lost art; glad you got to witness it, even if you had to fly to Norway 😂
@ZodMagus
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like an awesome experience 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿
@LeafGreen906
Жыл бұрын
norway is nice weather wise during late may to august, great to hear you had a good time!
@southportrocker
Жыл бұрын
An Aussie friend that has lived in Bergen for decades lived not far from Fantoft Stave. We were able to go in & for some reason found it funny they had smoke detectors in there. Bergen is so nice. Didn't get to Gaal' Gallery as he was away but spent a bit of time in the tattoo shop nexy door chatting with the designer of many BM logos - Jannicke Wiese-Hansen. Unfortunately, the day I was able to go to Neseblod, of course it wasn't going to be open that day. So missed out visiting. Ha! That park is so crazy. It's great. Did you see the Thor styled hammer smashing the nazi symbol? .... not far from that tiger from memory. Cool video. Was there in 2019, memories came flooding back.
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I really wanted to go to Gaahl's gallery too but we simply didn't have enough time. We were only in Bergen for the day. And, no, I didn't see the Thor's hammer thing! That sounds awesome.
@moselaw2
Жыл бұрын
For a second I thought there were actual pigs with guns at the airport
@Lebowski55
Жыл бұрын
We get plenty of snow here in Chicago Myke.
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
I've been to Chicago but it was during the summer. Never really got the urge to go back.
@poopymcpoop9945
Жыл бұрын
That first Burzum, first couple bathory albums and first mayhem album got me into Norwegian metal. That record shop would of been super overwhelming for me. Seemed like a really cool trip man, yeah I love traveling for the same reason. I never thought about the struggle for food with specific diets (as as chef, my chubby ass eats everything lol). You ever travel south America at all?
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Nah, I haven't done much in S America yet but I def plan on it!
@poopymcpoop9945
Жыл бұрын
@@mykectown argentina was one of the best experiences I've had ( I'm mexican American) seeing so many diverse Latinos was a trip but it was such a dope place. Peru was tight but when I got to Machu Pichu I was in awe, the Andes mountain range and Machu Pichu itself was impresive. Get on down there man, you'll definitely dig it.
@Solarisxx
4 ай бұрын
there was a fire recently in that oslo record store you went to.......sad news
@othelliusmaximus
Жыл бұрын
Very aggro pigs kinda checks out for Frankfurt unfortunately. Very diverse city, dope music scene but overactive police 😒. That's FFM in a nutshell.
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Cool. Makes note to NEVER visit Frankfurt...
@othelliusmaximus
Жыл бұрын
@@mykectown you'd probably like Berlin or Hamburg more. Just as diverse and pretty vegan friendly.
@sindrepettersen4974
Жыл бұрын
Love how the image showed when talking about “crazy food” was plastic bags haha
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Poser.
@rockkzillatv444
10 ай бұрын
5:20 😂😂😂😂😂
@alvxnw
Жыл бұрын
Idk why I never knew you were from Georgia lmao! Love from atl, love your videos myke
@dertodesking.
Жыл бұрын
I've been to Norway. It's alright.
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha! Yeah I'd imagine you'd know quite a bit about the place. But yeah "alright" sums it up. 😂
@enri_mucca
Жыл бұрын
1:05 Sir, your Paysage D'Hiver t-shirt makes me envious
@tom202404
Жыл бұрын
the church pic looked straight like a Billy Woods cover.
@ixtapaparabundi5997
Жыл бұрын
Of courses, travelin with a BUDDY
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Huh?
@ixtapaparabundi5997
Жыл бұрын
@@mykectownbuddy traveler eternal, thats a vybe
@verraguid
Жыл бұрын
that thumbnail is so funny
@Neurozumim
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the testimony. Reminded me of the one time I was astounded by a specialized music store which was Staalplaat in Amsterdam but I don't know if it exists anymore. It was mostly industrial tape-culture, if someone wasn't into the scene they would have not understood.
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Staalplaat was one of those places I always wanted to go to as well. But yeah I don't know if it's still open either.
@Solarisxx
4 ай бұрын
@@mykectown hey Myke - idk if you heard the sad news but i think the oslo record store you visited had a fire....luckily you were able to visit before
@dictionary9150
Жыл бұрын
Myke loves to travel lol
@sosa0
9 ай бұрын
i fuck with the Slaughtersun shirt
@Mezelenja
Жыл бұрын
1:50 Stanced tf UP. Pic hard as hell.
@petrirantanen
Жыл бұрын
You should come to Finland one day. Cheers, Petri
@ozymandias___868
Жыл бұрын
Nice
@kngflxx
Жыл бұрын
myke c towne :D
@wheelsofmercury
Жыл бұрын
Dude! I want to go to Bergen for Beyond the Gates Festival in August. That's so cool that you went there! Also, fellow metal KZitemr Questy and his good buddy Jamie Horsley of DML attended Inferno Fest while you were there!
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Never heard of Questy but I'll check him out. We spoke with some guy at Neseblod who had gone and he told us all about how amazing it was. Maybe I'll go one day but I don't think I wanna deal with that many heshers in the same place at once.
@wheelsofmercury
Жыл бұрын
@@mykectown That's perfectly fine, dude. Glad you enjoyed your trip!
@prime-directive
Жыл бұрын
"I was the only black person there." My good king, you were the only black person in Norway🤣🤣🤣
@Gbear11100
Жыл бұрын
Mike=based
@CBiscuit25
Жыл бұрын
No skiing, Myke?
@mykectown
Жыл бұрын
Nah
@ch3e5eburglvr
Жыл бұрын
Hii myke
@marlondavis9450
Жыл бұрын
You remind me of my homeboy who’ll travel all the way to some boring ass country over some Black Metal. Next time you should pull up rockin a Durag with Burzum shirt.
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