A day in our life on the Lofoten Islands | Van Life Norway
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2 жыл бұрынThe midnight sun took it's toll on us and for the first time in a month we didn't feel like picking up the camera. We can see why there's so much hype around these majestic islands! I can't believe they built a football pitch here!
We've driven all the way from the UK to Norway in our trusty old ford transit van!
NEW VIDEO EVERY DAY AT 5PM UK TIME. Welcome to the daily vlog series! We are attempting our biggest ever challenge on KZfaq; creating a daily video whilst we travel from the UK all the way to Estonia for six whole weeks (42 days). This is day 31 of our daily van life vlogs on the road, come join us as we travel into the unknown!
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Who are we? 💁🏼♀️
We're Tom and Iz, who live and travel in our van La Bamba. We love nature and are currently traveling in Norway!!
You might find Tom in the forest IDing a mushroom, fixing something or starting an ambitious project with his laid-back relaxed approach whereas you could find Isabel cooking up a storm, sunning herself on a beach and being a busy, energetic bee with her endless enthusiasm and positivity! We are total opposites but it works!
How did we end up here?! 😁 ⏮
We met 10 years ago when we were both finishing our A-levels and had a whirlwind summer romance, hitch-hiking around France together before before going our separate ways to travel and to university. We've both always prioritised travel and adventure and have worked hard over the years in hospitality jobs to enable us to keep exploring.
Tom hitch-hiked across Europe and road tripped around Australia whilst Iz studied Environmental Science at York. Iz backpacked around South America with her sister whilst Tom studied Forestry at Aberdeen University. Little did we know we just weren't going to get each other out of our minds! Fast forward 4 years later, we found ourselves in campsite warden jobs, living in a bell tent in a wild flower meadow together! Maybe without realising this was the start of our van life journey!
Next, we both trained to be science teachers and during training, we bought a van, ripped out it's interior and converted it to live in it. Iz managed to get a remote work-from-home job that she could do from the van and Tom was passionate about starting up a KZfaq channel.
Since then we haven't looked back and when the pandemic allowed us to, we travelled to Spain, Portugal, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and around Cornwall. We are now on a big European road trip! We are giving it our best shot to do KZfaq full time. We have a dream of one day owning a little plot of land and building ourselves a cabin in the woods. If you're new around here you can check out our previous videos; we've been uploading weekly videos for the last 9 months and are currently releasing DAILY VIDEOS.
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@hughtempleton8640 2 жыл бұрын
Yet again I'm blown away by the unbelievable view's . Thank you so much for sharing your fantastic travels with us . ❤
@TravelswithaPodengo 2 жыл бұрын
Tom, yet again you have created an amazing vlog with absolutely astonishing drone footage and great musical accompaniment. These daily vlogs are an absolute treat, thank you. Stay safe.
@DaveyPalmer1 2 жыл бұрын
Lovely to see out and about in a Norwegian town and really interesting stuff about the history of the place. Another video full of breathtaking scenery too.
@shellyhayes1286 2 жыл бұрын
All the drying fish! This area has been incredible, you are giving us quite the tour 👏
@loadingmikke7451 2 жыл бұрын
When the wind is coming from a certain direction you get that foul fish smell in and around svolvaer. Worst in spring though. When windows are open: "what is that smell? Did I forgot some trash? Oh, right! The drying cod heads!"
@jrm8206 2 жыл бұрын
Nice nice. Tom is killing it with these Thumnails haha
@julymoon4815 2 жыл бұрын
I love the daily vlogs very much, Norway is a brilliant place to visit but seeing it through yours and Toms eyes has been wonderful, so thank you both very much.
@kespens 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for creating the vlogs, love to follow your journey.
@marymagerr6488 2 жыл бұрын
Love the drone photography! It’s 🤩 amazing
@decotronq9054 2 жыл бұрын
I've loved that football ground forever. It's amazing
@simonzorgdrager4700 2 жыл бұрын
Fabulous shots with the drone. Fabulous! Enjoying your personalities and enthusiasm.
@LeonTrotsky6782 2 жыл бұрын
Lovely young couple. Amazing pictures & experiences. Really enjoy following you.
@mrbluesky9891 2 жыл бұрын
What a lovely place. Not to hot and stunning views. Thanks for sharing.
@JPJMando 2 жыл бұрын
You can see and learn more about Norway in your 10 min shorts than most documentaries. BBC should snap you up! Brilliant guys.....
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Open to offers, haha
@sergiobasilioli384 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah in Italy we love the dried cod especially at christmas time and we call it Baccala'. Fantastic video!
@declanconway2903 2 жыл бұрын
Great video again Norway looks great. Enjoy.
@LorraineG123 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. Nice place to visit.
@christinepenfold7947 2 жыл бұрын
Wow your vlogs are just fantastic. We want to go to Norway and have watched most of the vlogs on utube but yours are by far the best, most informative, most fun and great to watch 👏🏻👏🏻
@bestautomotive4909 2 жыл бұрын
Enjoy your time
@JustinBrehm 2 жыл бұрын
Subscribed to you the other day thank you for taking us in your travels and be safe
@johnorrells3797 2 жыл бұрын
You know, I think you are getting the hang of this 😃
@norwegianzound Жыл бұрын
I was there in 2019. The football pitch was a bit of a surprise. I know many here are vegan, but there are just the best of sheepskins to be gotten from Viggo Lartensen nearby.
@xxxthestuffxxx 2 жыл бұрын
Think there's a new place on my bucket list
@norwegiangadgetman 2 жыл бұрын
I've visited that Viking longhouse. Definitely worth visiting. Drying cod doesn't stink. It smells of MONEY! Fun fact; Italy paid for their debt(from buying dried cod) before WWII with a couple of bombers. (Several Caproni 310, and a Breda 28 as a trainer.) Worst deal ever... Brazil... Know two things about Norway. 1. We always beat them in Soccer... which they forgive us for because... 2. We sell them drived cod which they need to make Bacalao.
@user-Kenny631 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing town another great video cheers guys..
@rocknrollramblers4051 2 жыл бұрын
Wow, that place looks beautiful and I’d love to have an knock about on that football pitch ⚽️ awesome
@magnusberrftt6363 2 жыл бұрын
Was just there 2 weeks ago on the awsome music festival «codstock» blues festival. 😎😀
@shikantaza 2 жыл бұрын
Another amazing vlog! Always full of captivating content and so punctual!! 5pm on the dot!!! I wondered if the colour of the sea might be due to minerals from the melted snow runoff of the surrounding mountains? Beautiful none the less. Well done guys.
@loadingmikke7451 2 жыл бұрын
It's because of coral.
@jj8526 2 жыл бұрын
Watching and listening to Tom speaking of the road ahead to Estonia and while mulling over my comment with La Bamba for once foremost in my mind. Apart from the few running repairs, have to say it's been (and am sure will continue to be) a trojan campervan. Then Isabel stops in her tracks and points to it...😂 Another lovely relaxed Vlog....🚐👏👏☘
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
La Bamba is a true work horse. We definitely struck gold with our rusty old transit!
@gertwestblad9052 2 жыл бұрын
I live there and it is always Nice to see it trough the eyes of tourists..😉 Nice vlogs you have..
@whoami.24601 2 жыл бұрын
Been watching you guys the last couple of days! I think youtube recommended me this because this is my area, maybe! No idea, but I've been really enjoying it! Not sure where your route goes later, but if you're driving back down through Norway there's a great lighthouse called Tranøy fyr right across the fjord from Lofoten. Hamarøy and Steigen are what's across the fjord from Lofoten and honestly very underrated!
@Nickle314 2 жыл бұрын
You can start to understand norse myths. ie. Thor in clouds making the thunder with his hammer. Trolls guarding passes etc.
@jrnsteen8136 2 жыл бұрын
Not with his hammer. Its the goats pulling his cart making the thunder with their hoves
@eddiegribben1397 2 жыл бұрын
wow 800 more subs overnight to hit the 25k+ well done guys testament to the quality and enjoyment of your videos ,love your videos ,on to 30 k subs soon 😁😁😁
@Appelsnoes 2 жыл бұрын
I'm going to Lofoten this friday. I will be backpacking there for 10 days, so your videos came just in time to give me some idea of where to go. It looks incredible and you got some nice weather. I'll be sure to go for a swim as well :D
@ThomasHnzHansen 2 жыл бұрын
Hah, so cool! My father grew up less than a kilometer away from your opening b-roll. I've been fishing a lot in that water with him and my mom. =)
@geoffreyraleigh1674 2 жыл бұрын
Treat of treats daily. Cheers!
@johnclankie324 2 жыл бұрын
As you say you could explore Lofoten for much longer but you must get cracking over to Sweden and Finland. Great to see the place, I’ve been to Narvik and Tromso but not the islands. Lovely video.👍👍Mike 🍷🍷
@astrogeo1 2 жыл бұрын
Those mountains just north of Henningsvær in your video are part of some of the oldest rocks of Norway being about 2 800 000 000 years old.. 🏞️
@simenvalnesnilssen3188 2 жыл бұрын
I hope you loved Lofoten 😊 i live here in Svolvær 😊
@garysollis202 2 жыл бұрын
From the north Cape if you drive down and cross over to Karagsniemi into Finland you just head south towards Roverniemi. Then your are about 850klm from Helsinki where you can take a 2.30 hours ferry to Estonia. Safe journey.
@ianwoodzy638 Жыл бұрын
Incredible I will see Lofoten next time I really should had gone, next time I will take the car/van and stay there for a week t 10 days for sure, my friends moved from Bergen and now lives there, I remember when I was vegan in 2020 I though the giant Avacados were relatively the same price as the UK around £1.50 for a giant avacado, some things are comparable, tins of bonners / beans 70p a tin I loved the dry crispbreads they were cheap also 90p a pack, and barmix a mix of nuts peanotters, and savory snacks, and I think they had soya or vege mince alternatives, and tinned tomatoes were as cheap as the UK, but vegan alternatives are costly, but there were hardly any Vegan alternatives back then I could find, (I eat fish now, so I will be spoilt for choice in Norway next time) I did however fall in love with a vegan restaurant in Bergen we went to a few times the contrast of Organic fresh veg and salad and fruit in a huge bowl with zesty flavours
@TheClipper7 2 жыл бұрын
The Joker food shops is actually of the cheaper ones in Norway, but since everything must be transported to these islands and other small places,the prices is bigger then average due to the transportcosts !
@norwegianzound 2 жыл бұрын
An avocado has no place north of the Arctic circle. No wonder the little collection from the shop cost so much! 😁
@bigwill4423 2 жыл бұрын
Don't know what the Italians do with all that dried cod but it certainly didn't look too appetising hanging up on those racks! 😮😮😮 Great vlog, loving the entire series! 😎😎😎👍
@Sofia-Lala 2 жыл бұрын
Bacalao😋
@mauranolan843 2 жыл бұрын
My granddaughter is called Freya after the Norse Goddess’s.
@its_marc 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many footballs the local fisherman ‘catch’ off the area round that pitch! Looks awesome.
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Haha
@punjabseth260 2 жыл бұрын
nice👍
@paulmillen1758 2 жыл бұрын
You guys are doing an incredible job. Putting us oldies all to shame. Giving me lots of ideas. I've posted a coffee for you each on PayPal. Enjoy
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Paul, that is so kind of you ☕️☕️🥰
@robertburton.wandering.won9154 2 жыл бұрын
So pleased that you went to Henningsvær 👍 For a landscape-photography nerd like me it's a really famous location, especially because of the football pitch (by the way, is it astroturf or real grass) but I never thought the whole place would be whiffy with drying cod! Thank you for bringing it to life! ☺️ Will you ever post the bit of video you have of the Viking Longhouse (day 30)? ... It looks quite a lot bigger than the one in Waterford ! 😉
@whoami.24601 2 жыл бұрын
It’s astroturf! Most (if not all) football pitches in Northern Norway are because it would be too difficult to keep a grass pitch nice for practice
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
I’m not sure what we will do with the long house footage (it was 83m). It mostly consists of two exhausted people walking around a museum, haha. We have a lot off footage that never makes the vlogs, think we could retire now and just publish videos using our old footage for the next year or so
@ArcticNorthAdventures 2 жыл бұрын
Nice Vlog about your travels through lofoten, are you both from Cornwall? My dad is from there, living both near Lofoten.
@TravelonlineWalk 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful movie 😍 new sub and bell ❤
@mnp3713 2 жыл бұрын
I did this trip 8 yr ago amazing i recomend driving to Vardø -just a remote scary cold and sad place i think. but interesting and beautiful, just i would not live there. the Varanger island is just amazing and no people
@tobiaslossfinstad206 2 жыл бұрын
i live in lofoten
@zAritiq 2 жыл бұрын
Did u visit Leknes?
@njdar1978 2 жыл бұрын
1:32 Peanut Butter and Banana on Crackerbread. Obviously you have this before a few bottles of Cornish Orchard
@philiplee658 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Thé green blue water is glacier melt water. The glacier melt water is fresh water and it sits on top of the sea water. As a scuba diver when you jump in it looks like heat haze and that’s the salt water and fresh water mixing
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@thekavalry100 2 жыл бұрын
Hey guys! Just stumbled on your channel and love it! Did you guys follow any kind of guide for doing your van? I’m looking for some guidance on where to start from 0 😅 I’m also from the South West UK and my dream is to drive around Norway with my girlfriend 😊
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
We didn’t have any guide, just watched KZfaq videos about making bits and kinda made it up as we went along. Lots of the bits are from ikea, like the fold up tables and the counter. Good luck on your van build
@66TripsLeft 2 жыл бұрын
Loving the daily logs, you both are smashing it. But I have to complain: I now need to buy a drone after seeing all your super footage from yours, but where to start, I haven't a clue.
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
We have the DJI mavic mini two. The cheapest in their line up and you can get amazing images from it. Highly recommend, also get the fly more combo for extra batteries and stuff. I think we have a link in our description
@66TripsLeft 2 жыл бұрын
@@LostInTransit That's great, thanks. We're hopefully off to Malaysia in 7 weeks, perhaps I need to buy it now and start practising. How much practice do you need to master it?
@mattoriental 2 жыл бұрын
Another great vid and those drone shots are incredible. Are you still using the DJI Mini 2?
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah still rocking the mini 2. One day I will upgrade, when we are big time, haha
@iwa_flys Жыл бұрын
What month were you here?
@mmc1086 2 жыл бұрын
I swear the thumbnail is Cameron Diaz in a van xox
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
You have made Isabel very happy
@christineadams3649 2 жыл бұрын
I’m surprised they don’t have seagulls eating all the hanging drying fish 😵💫
@peterjulievinje2756 2 жыл бұрын
Guys are you still in Norway?? My partner and I emigrated over here last year…from one Brit to another you’d be welcome to come and say hi! We’re about 30mins South of Oslo near a lovely place called Søn (for the Oslo fjord) and also quite close to the Swedish border!
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately not, we are heading back down south through Finland, thank you for the offer though
@andreaspedersen3952 2 жыл бұрын
Sadly you didn't go to Røst... You mentioned the italian merchant. His name was Pietro Querini and his ship got into a storm on the way to the netherlands, and lost rudder and sails. So for over a month they were drifting till they hit a reef outside Røst. They got into their light boats and found an island where there were some small shelters for sheeps. This was in the middle of the winter, so the sheds, which were made for sheeps, was empty. One of the young men did by chance deicide to take a trip out to see. Why? Not sure since my memory of the story isn't the best... But heard he had a "feeling" of something was wrong. He found the men and got some one the main island to go out after the rest. Some on the islands are remarkably dark in the skin, so some believe that some of the sailors did leave a mark on the island. In more than one way. As you mentioned: this opened up for trade of stockfish to italy. My brother is now working in Italy. Years back he did make "stockfish from Lofoten" a trademark. On the same level as lets say cognac and champagne. Since you both seems to be very "spiritual". Here is a song by the group Heilung. To describe the music, "amplified history" covers the most! Enjoy! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibySlsJ33MjYZWQ.html
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Thank you so much for more detail on the story. It is a shame we missed the spot. The visuals on that music video are amazing! Wow, very cool, again thanks
@andreaspedersen3952 2 жыл бұрын
@@LostInTransit Well... more or less all tourists are taking your route, so the little island doesn't get that much attention. Mostly because it's easier to promote the archipelago. Though... we get a lot of biologists, birdwatchers and fishers from other nordic countries.
@andrewjohnson9896 2 жыл бұрын
Did you try the dried cod?
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
We are actually both vegan, so no we didn’t
@howierfs5471 2 жыл бұрын
Well, from Narvik toTalinn you can make it in 3 days, so still lets to visit to see on the Lofoten and Vesteralen or you decide to come back one day. I am sure you know the heads of the cod get sold to Africa. During the cod fish season from Jan-April the kids on the Lofoten earn a lot of money by cutting off the tongue of the cods. Its a delicatesse, same as the cod cheeks. Enjoy further more your time on the Lofoten.
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Wow I didn’t know any of this! Thanks, I love finding out little local facts like this. would never get a titbit like that in a guide book
@howierfs5471 2 жыл бұрын
@@LostInTransit No drama, I am a member of a german fishing community and one of the mates is living near Lekenes (before at the Romsdalsfjord) and he provides such info. Hope you have time enough to discover more but dont do in a hurry and decide to come back once again. Next time you will drive the 815 and 817 the road along the ocean. There is lot others to discover further north even in the mid and south. Take your time on your way to Estonia. Assume you heading now to Narvik and than to Kiruna Sweden and all the way through Finnland to Helsinki. Still a long way. All the best from my side
@Sofia-Lala 2 жыл бұрын
@@LostInTransit And when he says kids, he literally mean kids. I have seen 8-9 year olds doing it (and up to young teenagers). Teenagers are super fast and can earn quite a bit. In smaller fishing villages it's the kids that sells the tounges and keep all the profits themselves.
@jarlhenrik 2 жыл бұрын
Love this look into Lofoten, whose very name just makes me and everyone I know go "oh yeh, the fish place" :p Since I just jumped into your vlogs from the start of your Norway journey - How is it keeping a vegan lifestyle on the move like this? I'm admittedly pretty uninformed about the eating habits, but what little I do know was that it's a struggle meeting all the nutritional values the body needs without meat or dairy, and frankly.. Norway isn't great on vegan options. we're getting there, but it's slim pickings still and just as, if not more, expensive..
@hylje86 2 жыл бұрын
So where are you going now?
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
We have a wedding we are attending in Estonia on day 42. So need to shoot down there. Think we will explore some of Eastern Europe after that
@nicolaisvlog8701 2 жыл бұрын
what do you to work with ?
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
We earn all our money from KZfaq at the moment, it’s not lots but we don’t spend a lot either (when we are not in Norway)
@nicolaisvlog8701 2 жыл бұрын
@@LostInTransit that would be my dream, to live by youtube money 🤩
@snoman1999 Жыл бұрын
🚐💨🇳🇴❤
@matildawolfram4687 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the author of the channel for this fascinating video! It is interesting to see how people live in other countries! It is very important to know foreign languages on such trips. I would like to recommend to all travelers a practical guide to learning foreign languages by Yuriy Ivantsiv "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages". This book contains a lot of useful tips on how to learn a foreign language for tourists, students, entrepreneurs and anyone who needs a foreign language in life. There are a lot of good tips on how to solve problems with the language from beginner to advanced level of language learning. It turns out that the traveler only needs to know a few dialogues and you can easily travel around the world! You don't have to spend a lot of time to fully learn a foreign language, you just need to learn what you can use when you travel. I wish everyone exciting travels!
@mrbluesky9891 2 жыл бұрын
I wish Avocados were like bananas then you could peel them easy. Scientists I give you a challenge!
@eddale5557 2 жыл бұрын
It is a pain to se you do as the best you can to avoid the hig prices and you do great i am all for what you do, remember Norway is high cost country so a couple in van is not what Norway want we are greedy and have all or higher income than you so that is why we normally find it cheap not for tourists anyway i recommand capmping on the free places and wild capmping in Norway is free!! But anyway you should have good food and so on so i hope you will be som kinda happy in Norway anyway! :( A i am abarresed for the prices on all things we have this shit sorry!
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
It’s worth the extra cost. What an amazing place! Plus Norwegians enjoy amazing education, infrastructure and justice systems as far as I under stand it. Paying the high prices is our tip to say thank you to Norway 🇳🇴
@nolaw4365 2 жыл бұрын
ta det med ro din knall. flau øve hva ting koster her. prisen følger alt annet her i landet. forstår hvirkelig ikkje ka du vil frem te med å si du er flau
@davidl3621 2 жыл бұрын
Is there a reason Tom never seems to make any of the food?
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
I tend to do the editing and Isabel cooks, kinda how we share the jobs out. The editing doesn’t make the videos though
@LostInTransit 2 жыл бұрын
Also Isabel loves doing it
@minus2837 2 жыл бұрын
Lofoten is stunning but seriously under strain by the sheer number of tourists now visiting. If you really appreciate the beauty of Norway, perhaps driving the length of the country in a diesel van isn't the best way to show it. Driving home isn't going to be cheap either with current fuel prices around 27 NOK per litre..
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