LIFE ON A FARAWAY ISLAND: Story of the Loneliest Store in the Baltic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Imagine living on a tiny island and being surrounded by snow and ice for four months. ⛵️ We took a ferry to Haapasaari, an island in the Gulf of Finland, to find out how is the normal life there. The only permanent residents are two shopkeepers of the smallest independent cooperative store in Finland. For them, the island was a dream come true. 🛟⚓️
But how can there be a store on a lonely island? The answer might lie in the island's history, which keeps bringing people back.
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We want to thank Saara, Raino, Jari, Ismo and all the others we met on the island for showing us their point of view to Haapasaari! We will be missing this island 🫶
Thank you for a very nice video.
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Keep on telling the stories. This is valuable and gives a voice to places that we will never see, yet we connect through your work.
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Thank you from Quebec, Canada. My ancestors on both sides are from the Lofoton Islands of Norway. I feel an urge to go home. My grandmother was my hero in life and she missed home. She came to Canada with her family in 1910. My mothers family came from Oslo.
Wow interesting story! Thank you so much for watching! In our channel you can find also a video about Lofoten Island ✨🤩
Trust me. Find a way to go before you get too old. I always thought I'd go back to see where my family came from once I retired. But I was diagnosed with MS @ 41 & now that I'm 62, traveling is really difficult for me(& painful). So don't put it off. Please!
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Sux when we get old kinda so much we can not do anymore I’m bed bound now so thanks for the amazing video I love taking field trips on here ❤I’m from Oklahoma hills
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I really enjoyed it and I’m back to watch again
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I am writing from Halifax, Canada. My Grandfather, Emil Zilliacus owned and lived on an Island called Hapenensaari in the Vyborg Sound which is now part of Russia. In the golden pre war years I am sure he would have sailed to your lovely outpost. Thank you for sharing it. The names are so close. Saari is of course island in English but would you know what Hapenen might mean? It was never translated to me.
Keep up your fine videos, Ben Weeks
Hey!! It’s so great to heard your story! We are really happy to know that our video somehow is connected with people in other parts of the world 😮About Hapenen, me as a native Finnish speaker, I don’t know that it would mean anything. It sounds a bit like a name, but unfamiliar for me.
God bless from the Philippines 😍😇🙏🇵🇭🇵🇭
They’re better off than the rest of us !
It was an amazing experience. Recording on a fishing boat was crazy!
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Very interesting love the island and the people. Kinburn Ontario Canada.
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👏👏 good job guys! Support from Italy 🇮🇹
Heyyy!! Thank you so much 😍 we really appreciate it ❤️🙌🏻
so much history and well told 🙂
Thanks 🙏🏻
Many thanks for your feed back . I loved your video and am waiting for more to come ❤
We are working for new videos!! Be ready ☺️🤩
Living in such a place is a great blessings nowadays...
Such a nice adventure. Thank you (from Chicago) for sharing with us.
Thank you for watching 🫶🏻
Great video; I really enjoyed it
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Nice Work & Video 👍
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Just found this video of yours. Greetings from Kotka. That is the place from where this coastal service vessel starts to Haapasaari, and some other islands in this region. Actually, long time ago, I have been working on that vessel Rosala II as an AB. Back in the days, when it was still at the Sea of Archipelago.
Thank you so much for watching and tell your story! It was a really nice experience to make this video ☺️
Watching from Philippines!!!
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I love videos like this.greetings from Philippines we have many islands 7,700....
Ohh! Thank you so much! Would be interesting to do some documentary in Philippines 🤔🤩
This video is so valuable!!! Couldn’t find this kind of information in any other channel
Thank you so much! 😇
Intresting video depicting life style of inhabitants of Iceland.
Heavy snow around houses.
There is one grocery run by old pair.
Wonderful Life
Thank you so much! We are happy to hear that 🙏🏻🤗
sound like a wonderful place to live 😀
Yes, we were really surprised about it! Really peaceful 🤩
Always fascinating to see how people live in remote places around the world.
Yes, indeed! We try to keep on looking more fascinating places and people 😌
Loved your video, thankyou so much.
Thanks a lot! ✨ We really appreciate it 🤗
Beautiful work
Thank you 😊
Thank you from Oslo.
I wonder if they have heard about the Nikula Family who owned and lived on an Island in the Gulf of Finland.
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You could plop this entire village down somewhere in Northern MN & you'd swear it had always been there. Lots of Finns up there too.
Ohhh 😮 interesting!!
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So do the locals identify as Russian or Finns?
Finns 👌
Thanks to Haapasaari for this experience 🫶🏻
Haapasaari is not part of Russia and has never been in the past
It’s Suursaari which is now part of Russia. Many people from there moved to Haapasaari when it was lost.
This is the longest episde of your’s. Have to admit it didn’t feel too long. Wanted to watch until the end. This is good! 😄
Thank you so much! We worked a lot for this episode! So good that it shows ✨
To some degree I envy the islanders...I've lived many different places in my life and I no longer have a rich sense of my ancestor's lives...they live an interesting, multi-generational life...
Seems like in modern days it’s more rare to live in the same area as the ancestors where as few hundred years ago it was the standard 🤔
What a great piece of documentation, thanks! That resilience that Saara describes is called “Sisu”.
Thank you so much! It was a great experience 🙌🏻
A beautiful island with a story, beautifully told. Thank you so much for sharing. Hello from Saskatchewan Canada. 🇨🇦
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Greetings from Iran my son and his wife are living in finland. ❤
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Very interesting! Vibrant island communities always make for good stories.
Thanks! Islands kind of protect their communities ❤️
Such a beautiful island!
Really interesting stories!
thanks!
Crazy good episode right there, keep It up guys
thank you so much!!
Wonderful presentation! Watching from India. 🙏
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What helps them cope with the isolation is the Love they have for each other... True Love.
What a lovely adventure! Thank you for sharing!
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GREAT video...thank you!
Thank you 🙏🏻
Very interesting. I am so amazed at the beauty and preservation of old ways that are very practical.
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Very cool channel, keep up the great work!
@@ChuckyFon thank you a lot!! It’s really important for us to hear this ❤️
Such a beautiful and peaceful place - thank you! usa
Interesting channel, new follower here
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Looks beautiful to me. Love from Michigan.
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U got a new subscriber….. keep up the good work …..
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Haapasaari is not part of russia nore does it have "chew" inhabitants.