Germany’s Most Beautiful City? 🇩🇪 Exploring Schwerin & Its Fairytale Castle

Germany’s Most Beautiful City? 🇩🇪 Exploring Schwerin & Its Fairytale Castle

[Music] that’s [Music] good about Germany then 
Hubble streets and BW V [Music] hello from scharen Germany finally arrived here 
in Germany after spending 4 months in England we flew in yesterday we took the train system to come 
down from Hamburg to SCH you could come to for a road trip you could come for a day trip by train 
from some of the major cities so we’re going to take you around and show you a little bit of 
what this place has to offer so first of all how cute is this it’s really gloomy it is July 
right now um cool temperatures very cloudy so we’re in Oldtown right now and we’re going to take 
a look around and show you what this area has to offer we’ll have to get a dessert later okay so I have the chop it’s delicious and 
mashed potatoes with gravy and onions which are great and this place is actually quite affordable 
I think like for Leon and I to have a full proper homecook type of meal for €20 in total with 
the drinks I think is really great pretty much everything on the menu was traditional food but 
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nice and tender mhm that’s mushrooms you get there TR so what’ you get I’m not really too sure I 
think it’s like kind of like a meach stew pot some sort of beet cabbage type beet thing yeah 
I’m not too sure but you can kind of pick your own there’s like a whole uh selection there 
you can see quite busy mhm I don’t know if it’s a pork schnitzel but it’s a pork chop reded 
pork chop and mushrooms and mashed potatoes with gravy and this oh and we got a 7 up to share 
and it is 20 here’s the names of the things we actually got not to bad I think so it’s proper 
meal too yeah thank you sir sorry thank you sir getting there almost this is why we were just eating there 
the loue all right and now now we’re going to go um there’s a really popular Castle so 
it’s the schin castle we’re going to go see it down here I believe it has some old 
history we’re going to find out but I think it’s been um there was a fort there I think 
like about a thousand years ago and then they erected the main Castle just about 100 years 
ago I think so but I’ll know more when we go but we’re headed there and we walked here from 
the train station so this is the train station behind me it’s really beautiful um it’s literally 
you come out the front doors you turn right you walk straight down and you’re in the thick of it 
within 5 minutes so this is the stfe it’s really beautiful easy to navigate there’s buses here Flex 
Bus and stuff so you can get tours from different cities or you can take the train like we are so 
how it isn’t it pretty look at the fountain so nice it was only like about maybe a 7 minute 
walk super easy you could have taken a direct little bus if you wanted to and to my left is the 
shopping area so we came in here to escape the rain stopped got a couple new dresses and stuff 
for the hopefully warmer weather and we’ll be going to Thailand after Germany so I got a couple 
jumpers and stuff you beat the rain hopefully the rain is gone now we’ll see but there’s a lot of 
shopping here so there’s a lot of great things you can do really nice Mall you know there was 
like H&M and different kinds of clothing shops so yeah nice little nice little area it’s a bit 
Breezy for July like I’m a little chilly but I’d rather be that than boiling hot it was quite 
quiet last night it really quiet actually when we we sat outside on our balcony at like 11:00 p.m. 
and you you literally couldn’t hear anything she just about to walk past uh the Scotsman which is 
where we were again we just literally got here yesterday we were in England for 4 months and 
everything was closed so the one thing we found was was the gmanman so um it was pretty decent 
in there last night it was really fascinating because um you have the front seating area here 
and then there’s a small area in the front and then an area at the back match the sign today 
like you do yeah and the area at the back is a smoking inside area and obviously people are 
smoking out the front but just this tiny spot in between where you cannot smoke like non smoking 
it’s really interesting and it’s definitely seems to be the culture here I mean you know most 
of the restaurants they they have outside seating areas you know that typical European Vibe where 
people are smoking and things um so uh be aware of that obviously if you’re not a smoker so I wanted 
to also mention so this area of schin shinin sorry let me know how to pronounce it um I think it’s 
like a good day trip like you know it didn’t take very long on the train and it seems like 
it’s really busy but then we arrived here last night around 600 and there was some people but 
by the time we went out Leon got a haircut by the time we went out at 7:30 literally everything 
was closed so maybe it stays open a little later on the weekends but I think the majority of the 
tourism are like just short day trips coming in from Berlin or from Hamburg so yeah we’re going 
to be home basing for six weeks in Hamburg so we’re going to take a lot of the little day trips 
and um show you how to navigate the trains and how to get around so we just came here for first 
right off the airplane yesterday to you know have a nice little night in a hotel and find a little 
quaint spot I was excited to see a castle yes yeah so you can hear the bells timing at the main 
Cathedral it’s just right here we’ll take take you for a walk to go and see it a little 
further on but so nice who doesn’t love the sound of church bells especially when they’re 
old Bells they just have a certain sound [Music] so one thing I’ve definitely noticed is there is 
a lot of graffiti everywhere here um we noticed it on the train forward as well but you can 
see like even on this really cool beautiful building here a lot of graffiti um which is fine 
I mean as Jen says it’s kind of part it’s kind of a European thing I guess like of European 
culture I mean we it reminds me a lot of um like in Mexico there’s also a lot of street 
art but it’s a lot more artistic I find here there’s a lot more intentionally designed you 
know art you know like here it just seems more like tagging which um signs here look I love it 
though I mean definitely adds a real element to the to the place so yeah we’ve noticed a lot of 
it um on the train here as well yeah what are your thoughts what do you think about graffiti 
should it be cleaned up or should it is it part of the like do you think the whole it should 
be taken from everywhere or do you think like it adds to places like in Georgia we we saw it 
Albania we saw it but I I don’t know I really like it kind of really like these electric 
scooters they’re really cool too yeah I’m not sure there’s anything more iconic about Germany 
than cobal streets and a VW VOR look what I found Leon look are you kidding me I didn’t 
realize even I was just like oh that’s a cute little truck and I was like 
what is that and then that’s the pub we were at last night that is 
hilarious what the chances of that fresh so we found this uh little sitting area in 
the middle of this like quaint spot and what’s really interesting is the entire ground is 
made of broken glass like literally all of it is broken glass so I’m not really sure what 
that’s about I tried to look on Google Map I couldn’t see it’s so interesting you wouldn’t want 
to fall over in this you no spot to sit good way to recycle things I guess you know sparkly in 
the Sun so it probably looks really pretty but pretty they’re like [Music]
[Music] clay hor statue I I don’t think it’s 
supposed to be a playground I don’t think so [Music] you see a lot of people 
come for the day trip right like a little guy with like an ax oh yeah that’s true look you look like a little soldier 
or something [Music] [Applause] [Music] I love the sound of the trees and 
wind that is a big tree look at the size of this tree that’s my 
hand [Music] [Applause] [Music] so it’s such a beautiful 
place here with such a [Music] beautiful kind of like swiv around [Music] so there you have it that is the castle behind 
us so it’s like a it’s the Parliament building inside right so you can’t I mean we tried to go in 
through the front entrance and we couldn’t get in but I’m not sure if there’s maybe an entrance in 
the back here that we can go and check out inside yeah I think so cuz I saw that you could go in 
but I’m not really sure but we’re not going to do that but like the gardens here really beautiful 
so we’re going to go back to Oldtown and take a look at what we can see I think we both would 
like uh coffee and maybe a little cake yeah and actually when we were walking through main 
town I noticed that um there was a lot more to it so last night we only really checked out 
the main bit leading up to the Fountain and the lake Pond kind of area but as we went walking 
further in there was a lot more restaurants a lot older buildings a lot more quiet areas to 
walk so yeah it’s really beautiful it’s I’m I was very impressed walking up to the Castle too so 
yeah definitely recommend absolutely yeah [Music] oh there’s so many one of these on Mango buttermilk thank you thank you [Music] two so you order the cake inside 
bring it outside there’s the pretty and then they bring you the which is 
waiting for us already it wasn’t it yeah what do you think yeah it’s good it’s 
a good cake nice and Airy light out of 10 maybe about seven I mean I I like more like uh 
like different styles of cake like I like white chocolate cake lemon cake um black black 
forest is nice as well so wouldn’t be my first choice but I wouldn’t knock it it’s still good 
here at this spot it was €280 for one cofy not too bad they’re always a bit tiny though aren’t 
they it’s nice though so that’s toys now that if you don’t spend € 20 they kind of say something 
about they they prefer cash yeah so well I mean yesterday we was in the Scotsman bar and they said 
the minimum is 20 for car20 which I thought was I mean it was a bar and and it they didn’t serve 
food or anything it was a small bar so understood but this is quite that was quite a quite a nice 
sort of restaurant area so restaurant place so I’m surprised uh that they would have a minum 
spend I mean originally she wanted me to get cash that’s nice little market if we didn’t have all of our suitcases to log to our home 
base I would pick some things up yeah FR Market yeah I’m sure there will be yeah that’s cute there’s the train 
again look at the dog he’s so cute yeah so it looks like the Central Market area here sun sun shining as soon as we turn 
up to the church Bakery and like flowers and there’s cheese and meats very nice 
and then this is the big Cathedral here [Music] there’s a main um app that you can use for the 
trains here in Germany and even though you can get it on places like you know travel too and 
different platforms like that I do recommend that you download the actual app from the in 
Germany um actual website which I’ll leave the link in the video description and the reason I 
recommend that is because it gives you all the information it tells you the platform number it 
tells you the train number um it gives you like right now you can see we’re departing sorry 
I have on saber mode if it’s dark but see how it says train departing in 30 minutes yeah 
and and is it got the brand on there oh no it doesn’t say so this is the app logo so the 
DB Navigator there oh DB Navigator yeah so so it just gives you like a countdown even when 
you’re on on the train it highlights like the time of each stop it tells you when to get off 
and you know if you’re on time and all of that so I would recommend if you’re going to travel 
extensively here to get the apps you could even get the app and maybe search online but the thing 
is when you when you get it from a third party app you’re not going to get as comprehensive of a 
breakdown and I actually feel more comfortable with that so I think even if you pay a couple 
Euros more for a train it’s worth it to have

Welcome to Germany! 🇩🇪 In this video, we explore Schwerin, a stunning medium-sized city in northern Germany that just might be the country’s best-kept secret. With traditional German food, cozy cobbled streets, a lively local market, and the breathtaking Schwerin Castle (a UNESCO World Heritage site), this city quickly stole our hearts.

Join us as we search for the answer to the question: Is Schwerin the best city in Germany?

🍽️🏰 What you’ll see in this vlog:

Trying authentic German dishes (spoiler: delicious)
Strolling through Schwerin’s charming Old Town
Visiting the stunning Schwerin Castle
Exploring local markets + enjoying something sweet
Our thoughts on German train travel and travel tips
This is our first stop in Germany, and we’re excited to share this hidden gem with you.

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00:00 Video Introduction
01:14 Trying some traditional German foods
06:25 Exploring Old Town Schwerin
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