Grab one of those oars and push us off of there
So many splinters, oh so many splinters
So we got to go way the heck over there.
We'll be so fine.
All right full speed ahead. Almost broke the engine. So keep it slow.
What is this little place? This is awesome.
Good morning adventurers.
Good morning!
From Stockholm.
I'm just gonna let you guys know right off the bat. We're not off to a great start today
We found out the hard way that you can't purchase tickets on the buses here
We thought it would be like Malmo where we could use the app
We couldn't find the stuff we needed to go to so we assumed it would still be like Malmo where you could use your card
On the train.
We couldn't use your card couldn't use an app couldn't pay on the bus
So, I don't know how you take the bus here
but anyways, we're hopping on uber because we're heading over to a spot nearby to rent a car and
Like we mentioned our previous video, we're gonna be exploring the archipelago area just a little bit
We're going to head to a very cool place to stay a houseboat, which they have houseboats all throughout the archipelago
and once we saw that we were like we've got to stay on one of those but we've never done it before.
It was one of the most adorable little houseboats you've ever seen.
It's basically a tiny house on water. Yeah
We are waiting for our uber now
That was our plan B and then we're gonna head and pick up our car and we're gonna be off. Let the adventure begin.
[background music]
Yeah
All right, this is gonna be our trusty vehicle
We got kind of an SUV this time. That's pretty cool.
This is pretty sweet
I mean, I instantly feel more free once we rent a car somewhere because you don't have to rely on transit
You can just go anywhere the whole country
And I think driving here is gonna be pretty nice
I know the roadways are pretty good actually
Because we got these rolling pegs
I feel like our bags are considerably heavier because I'm just carrying more stuff. Just cuz I can
Yeah.
Okay, we're all loaded up. We're gonna be on the road
♪ Driving in Sweden, driving in Sweden. Yeah. ♪ How do you feel?
Oh you..I thought you were just singing to yourself.
I am!
(Allison and Eric laughs)
I guess that's true.
How do you feel about.. ♪ driving in Sweden ♪
I guess it feels good, not about that song though
So far so good though
Look, I made it around, one roundabout
We actually had to make one quick very important stop to a shop called a Systembolaget
I have absolutely no idea actually how to pronounce it but it's the alcohol store here in Sweden, I guess
It's like a monopoly store. That's run by the government
So you can't buy anything over I think three and a half percent in the regular store
You have to go to this special store
which is
actually
super duper annoying because
It's closed what Saturdays and Sundays I think and only open to like like seven or eight
So you really have to be intentional if you want alcohol
Yeah, so you got to go there buy everything you need for the weekend and then you're good to go. Yep
Anyways, we have everything we need for the weekend
But just for one night. Actually just got a sampler of a bunch of different beers. That sounded really cool. All right
Archipelago. Here we go
Here we come
Archipela...go.
Well, we've got all of our provisions and we think we're in the right spot, we're just in some parking lot
It looks very industrial, but the boat should be over here somewhere. And I don't know if we mentioned we have to park here
We're gonna take a ferry out to the island. And then maybe we have to take another boat
I don't know stay tuned for that. We're not exactly sure. It'll be an adventure
This is the boat and according to this sign here - here. It should be leaving at
[Eric]: When? [Allison]: 2:30
2:30 right there. We'll see if that's right. I don't know no one else is here so far
[background music]
We've made it - oh crap, we have some water on my lens. We've made it onto the ferry
We're underway. It turns out that it actually leaves at 3:30.
We were looking at the weekend schedule
[Eric]: Yeah. [Allison]: My bad.
They sell beer on board the boat
Yeah, and I think this is Got - from Gott - Gotland, Gottland?
Which is an island kind of closest to Stockholm's. It's a local beer
It's a nice little pilsner.
I like how it looks too
[Eric]: Scratching the ground. [Allison]: The first stop.
I think we're scratching the ground.
I was gonna say was this looks like a little bottle of gin or something
I thought that's what you brought back but no, just a pilsner
Yeah, all right anyways we're gonna enjoy this ride and then we'll be there in no time
We're just exploring the archipelago. The area is awesome
I mean
Obviously, there's a ton of islands
But it's lined with so many little houses
Of different colors and every single person seems to have a tiny house on I guess it was like a boathouse
But then a lot of them aren't just boat houses
They are renovated to look really nice
And I don't know if they're all just guest houses or if they're all up for rent on Airbnb now
But we haven't seen one yet that's floating in the middle of the water
Like the one that we're heading to
We've arrived on Storholmen Island, which is just one of the - with the
30,000 land masses within the archipelago here [Eric]: Yeah, it's just a speck.
Yeah, so it's just a little blip, but I think we now have to go on a bit of a wild goose chase
So we took the ferry here and now we have to take a small boat to our house
Not really sure where it is or how to get there. We think we saw the house.
Yeah, the house was over there
Like around the corner.
Get our rowing arms go in here. Our direction say once we get to this restaurant right here
We walk straight ahead 20 meters. There's a red fence at 20 meters to the left
Open the door and you'll be on our deck
And then we find the buried treasure. Oh
That would be so cool.
If we actually found buried treasure, that would be cool.
We were worried maybe we wouldn't be able to find where we're going. But our hosts made it super easy for us
There's a sign that their name on it.
They have so many of these little houses. There's one here
I don't know if this one can be considered a house, but there's one
So we actually almost rented this one. It looks really cool, but the other one that we're going to just seem so much cuter
Yeah, there's our boat. You know, I thought it was a rowboat, but it's a it's got an engine
This is almost the same engine from that one in
Copenhagen
I was about to say now you know exactly how to use it
All right. Here we go, I guess, Jesus
Woohooohooo
That's a boat all right
You got it?
Oh geez.
All right, we're - we're naturals at this you guys
This is gonna be great!
Grab one of those ars and push us off of there
See if I can go somewhere
Full of splinters, oh so many splinters
The motor is spinning
Yeah, we're going?
We're going
Wooh baby!
This is working so we got to go way the heck over there
We'll be so fine
You know we were wondering we saw the place on the way in and if we hadn't seen it
I don't know where - how we'd know where to go - cuz it's hidden over in that cove over there
All right, full speed ahead almost broke the engine so we'll keep it slow
This is fast if we're going guys this is it. There it is. We see the house
Our home it's so majestic over there all on its own
We made it you guys
We did it!
Help me tie with this?
Yes.
We're really...
We know exactly what we're doing.
Is that how you do it?
I don't know
We're all tied up. I think we're good. We're definitely gonna wake up and this boats gonna be gone
Oh geez
This is our land
Claimed!
Wow!
What is this little place
I guess I need the key huh
Yeah
Look! We got a little yard here
Yeah, front lawn.
Got it!
I'm real good with locks.
Oh my goodness!
It's so cute. Oh there are spiders in here
No, but a confirmed houseboat # 1, that's where we were trying to go
We did it! Look at our little home for the night.
Well hello and welcome to our tiny floating home come on in so I can show you around
So this is the main area
We have a little living space here little table and chairs a little cooking area
Behind you the sauna
Apparently this will get super warm. Luckily. The Sun has been warming the house up for us though. So we're good
We're good right now, but maybe later this would be perfect at the wintertime. Behind this door,
A bathroom...of all frickin bathrooms you guys it has a
Composting toilet which Eric and I are now very familiar with after our road trip in Canada and our van
It also actually has a shower. Here's a tank water
So I guess the pressure of it you shower with that so you couldn't do a long leisurely shower
But you can still shower out here
And this is the balcony area
So it's pretty much what you see here you walk up and you're greeted with a bed
Which is where we will be resting our little heads tonight
There's also another bed over here
So you could cram more than two people in here if you'd like to and that's pretty much it. That's the whole place I guess
Alright, let's cook
[background music]
Well, I'm having tons of fun out here you guys I was just telling her like
"I'm just havin' a blast!"
It's funny. Cuz the first hour we were here
He was like going in panic mode like trying to get everything set up get all the shots and everything and all of a sudden
He just cracked open a beer and he's like now I'm in chill mode
Well, we got our grill going over there
I don't know if we're gonna have enough heat to cook everything we want but whatever. We're chill. Yep. We're on island time
Yeah
World's smallest island
Got a couple beers
not cold at all
The host gave us a cooler with some cooler packs in there, but we didn't have enough time to actually cool anything
You know by cold beer. Yeah, so we told you about the what are they good alcohol stories?
Yes, but one interesting thing about them is they don't sell any chilled drinks
So nothing is ready for you to consume
unless you want a really low alcohol percentage
Well, yes, unless you want the three point five, but we wanted the good stuff
There's a bit of a storm trying to creep in I can see rain off in the distance
Gonna be fine.
I felt a couple droplets, but hopefully, we don't get rained out, if we do, whatever we'll just go inside I guess and you know... raw meat.
Nah, god. No, they got the pan in there. We'll be fine.
Oh, yeah, there's a there's a burner in there I totally forgot. Yeah. All right, we're good
Well y'all the rain is coming for us. So
Like legit rain.
We might be getting a little screwed. Oh, no just came out of nowhere. Maybe maybe it won't last that long
[loud rain drops sounds]
It's pouring down deep got some swells out there
It does seem more sunny though, even though it's raining
Yeah, it seems like it's not gonna last that long.
Yeah, I guess got enough room for a dance party
This is what we got going on.
There's actually nothing playing
There was not. You're right.
[background music]
So the grill actually did really good and cooked everything pretty well
but
we weren't able to get like the fiery grill marks on it that we want
So we're searing things in the pan last minute just
To get them a little brown
I was a little nervous for a second there. I'm not gonna lie
I thought maybe our grill wasn't hot enough.
We both thought that after the rain came we went and checked on it and it
Didn't seem to be that warm the coal seemed to be dead, but brought them back
[fire alarm system beeping]
Oopsie, we got a little too smoky
We thought we had a good idea but...
Ah! Shut up!
Totally worth it though. Look how beautiful these peppers are
For a mo - oh okay
For a moment there you might have been thinking we don't know what the heck we're doing
But we've made a feast you guys check this out.
We're freaking badass as it cook in
the end
What does this lovely dinner we created?
Some random sausage that we some barbacoa something that we picked up at the grocery store last night
It was all in Swedish so we weren't quite sure but it looks beautiful
It's nice and oily and juicy if you can see down there we got some
Halloumi that I fried, but it's also seasoned
I think this is gonna be amazing little potatoes that we while everything is the surprise coated in butter and then some little
Pimento peppers, I believe?
I've already tasted the peppers there.
Oh my god, they're so good. We didn't quite get everything seared on the fire
So we did it on the pan as you saw when we almost burned this place down
[fire alarm system beeping] [Eric]: I've been doing this for like 10 minutes!
Now looks beautiful, let's see how this halloumi goes. I haven't made halloumi in a long time but you pan fry it
You can't mess that up, right?
You hear squeak
Squeaky halloumi
That is my favorite part about halloumi
Yeah, if you've never had it at squeaked when you crunch it in your oh, yeah, it's the goofiest cheese in the world
But it's so yummy
♪ [Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - Scared To Be Lonely] ♪
We are retiring to our chambers upstairs
But as the night has fallen the spiders have come out you guys
It's become spider land
Yeah, so we're in this like 10 by 10 square foot area and I can see maybe like 30 spiders, right?
they've taken over there were a lot of mosquitoes earlier and we're just hoping all
They're gonna do tonight is just feed on mosquitoes and keep us safe. Right? We're gonna leave the spiders alone
They're gonna leave us alone. Yeah, I think they're just in the window
It's because it's where everything comes to because of the lights
We really haven't seen too many like in living spaces. Anyways, we're gone
We're gonna eat some snacks and watch something on our phones or something.
Yeah Netflix!
See ya! Bye!
Aah!
What the? Don't you dare fall
Well, good morning, so the spiders managed to stay away from us all night, which is great
I don't know if you can tell it's rocking a little bit it got pretty um, windy I think in the night?
We don't know properly I don't think how to tie off the boat. So the whole night it's just caching against the
Yeah
It would go for like an hour or so not doing anything in the water would get still then all of sudden we wake up
Cuz it would smack against the dock here and I was way too lazy to get out and fix it
I think we're gonna get all packed up here
We were going to ride our little dinghy boat back to the shore and then we're going to be off
[background music]
Caught the ferry and we got on the road
And so I don't know if we really mentioned but the goal today we're heading across Sweden to an area called
Gothenburg, that's the city, right? Yeah. We'll be staying a little bit outside of the city about an hour
I think that we're going to wrap up this video because uh, I'm honestly just
Exhausted you guys. I just didn't sleep that well last night. I was just sleeping here for an hour
And I was like, oh, yeah, we didn't in this video. So that's all we're doing
Even though we didn't sleep that well, I will say the bed and that upstairs area was super cozy
But I do hope you guys enjoyed coming on with us to our little of floating tiny house. It was a really unique experience
But I think that's gonna do it for this video. We're going to
Just enjoy the Swedish countryside. Yeah, we have about four more hours of it
so plenty to see
Goodbye adventurers - I was gonna say goodnight but it's not nighttime
Goodbye, we'll see you on the road