Actually huskies have 2 coats of fur that allow them to stay warm in the cold and cool in the heat. They are actually better at dealing with heat than most dog breeds. My dog actually sunbathes during the summers in Houston!
@@hannahs5911 I never knew that! I just hate seeing people who leave their huskies (or any other breed tbh) outside in the summer for hours. I’m glad your dog doesn’t mind the heat ! I’m sure he liked the snow we got last winter though haha
I'm in Houston, although this looks so pretty it also looks super cold. I couldn't do it, meaning living up there. Plus, I've never driven on snow/ice before.
In the predator world, babies are easy prey. Then there are the abombinations, the cannibal predator that eats its own. They breed excessively too eat.
Thanks to people like you who put in the effort to make videos like this I get to learn about the different countries and cultures of the world that would otherwise be impossible for me.
The Sun is more of a psychological factor. As @tu dinh said, they tend to be colder nights, the days are warmer and the sun in your face is a great feeling. Especially when you can go weeks in sub zero and gray days.
Honestly, I don't think I could manage to live on Svalbard long-term, but I really wanna come up and visit sooner or later. It's such an enchanting place!
This is so surreal for me, living in Bangalore. It would be lonely but so spiritual and beautiful at the same time. I have great impressions of Nordic in my mind. May be some day, I get lucky to experience this bliss
@@braveindian2628 exactly.... i am just longing to get out of our peculiar overcrowded polluted fast paced environment. It would be a dream to visit that place.
I live in Minnesota and it's so fascinating to see how your area handles transportation--a lot more integration of snowmobiles and skiing as a means of transport!
you'd be surprised how that happens with your northern neighbours too. There are places where you get around like that too. Canada is not far from minnesota. There is even places like nunavut where medical care is done on round trips. Canada isn't exactly warm and much of canada is wintery most of the year. I have been to minnesota and your weather is close to northern ontario but further north then that. A lot of people live on acreages and big plots of land. You'll find similar things in northern parts of alaska too.
Looking up and down the street, seeing a group of 5-6 people in one end, and saying "a lot of people out" like if the streets was packed with people! :D I love Svalbard and Longyearbyen! Been there several times (work related) and last time I had some time to go look and the town has had grown so much last few years since last time I was there, and seems to still grow and develop into the future. By the way I am Norwegian and live in Tromsø so its a relative short trip for me to Svalbard. Love your films Cecilia, they always looks stunning!
Very nice. I don't think many understand how far up north Svalbard is. From mainland Norway it's a 4-5 hour flight to Longyearbyen. That's right, from a position way above the Arctic circle, you need to fly for hours further north.
I'm from Ireland and love your channel but did not expect to hear that Irish dancing made its way to Svaldbard - so cool. It looks very different to what we know as Irish dancing but would love to know more about how it was introduced and adapted over the years x
Norway is a beautiful country. I enjoyed my visit there back in the early 90s. I was with US Marines/NATO doing cold weather training above the Arctic Circle, near a town called Setermoen. I was impressed with how clean and orderly your country was. I also made some good friends during my stay there. I wish you all the best from Colorado, USA.
Setermoen is hardly a town, but yeah.... That is more a military camp. Glad you were here. There is a more permanent US posture in northern Norway now. If you appreciated the nature around Setermoen, I would recommend you not to go to Svalbard at any time. You WILL long back there for the rest of your time. I do! I'm somewhat impressed that you spelled Setermoen correct after what, 30 years or so?
@@spiff1003 Your country and its people left a favorable impression on me. As you could imagine, I have been to many other places which have not. As for the spelling, Google helped me with that. :-)
I’m in love!! I need to be a reverse mail order bride!! 😂 get me out of the US I’m too hot and humid here!! Plus it’s just sooo charming there such a cool culture! Love it
I always get excited when you upload :) Thanks for showing us more of the village and taking us with you on your errands. Your new project sounds amazing and hopefully we will get to see the final product. The views at Svalbard are astonishing. I can see why you love it so much.
I love your vlogs & have learned so much about Svalbard. So beautiful & interesting. I'm not sure why I didn't think about children/kids/high schoolers living there. By the way, you get epic shots/footage (those festivals drone shots were awesome). Keep sharing your wonderful life!!❤
Irish dancing and you lived in Ireland ... what?! I hope you had a nice time when you were here 💚 My Mum is clearing out her attic so I'm getting deliveries of my stuff to my house ... she brought over my dance shoes last week ... blast from the past. Thanks for the tour, such a beautiful place 💚💚💚
I love your enthusiasm for where you live. I feel the same about my home town ( London, UK) but it’s a very different lifestyle. I often yearn for the natural beauty of your sort of landscape. The fact you have had no murder there is incredible!
I always wonder how such remote places get all the normal products and foods of mainland. How often do shipments come in etc. Obviously nothing grows thats green.
Syttende Mai! We celebrate that in Minnesota, all the Norgies come out for lutefisk and lefse in all the little villages and farm towns in Minnesota. My 1/4 Norwegian heart is happy!
New generations of Minnesotan-Norwegians are making lefse in the morning and then spending the day drinking aquavit and eating lots of salmon, ending with a tart! Lutefisk... well. Maybe it's something we leave for the full blooded Norwegians.
@@morgie8805 The only ones I know in Sweden that would eat lutefisk are all 70+, and it's not even common among that age group. Most young people wouldn't even know what it is.
@@WyrdHag The reason why the Norwegian-Americans still hold on to the old Norwegian traditions is because that's the traditions they know from their Norwegian Ancestors that immigrated to America. The Norwegian-Americans still hold on to traditions that are almost extinct here in Norway. Unfortunately the Norwegian-American sociaties are slowly declining as newer generations don't have a direct association with their Norwegian background.
This is an idyllic video of Longyearbyen; hopefully tourism opens up soon so everyone, who is able, can come visit this Arctic paradise (since tourism has been around longer than the mining in Svalbard)
You've added more production value to your videos! Nice touch. Very well done! Also, I love the video of the drive into town from your house. I'd love a road tour of every place you can drive to on Svalbard!
Nothing makes my soul happier than the sight of snow covered mountains and that feeling of winter cold air in the morning right before the sun rises. I need to move up north lol
I think the sense of adventure is something that you're born with.Love to go up there someday.Anything is possible if you put you're mind to it.Good video,keep up the good work.Enjoy your journey through life as it's an exciting one.
I love you're little town so much. I am currently saving to come. I'm sure it will be awhile before visitors are allowed back and things become "normal" again. That snow is the whitest snow I've ever seen. It's just mesmerizing. It has to be so much fun living there.
John Munro Longyear, the namesake of Longyearbyen, also has a number of places in the Marquette, Michigan, USA, area named after him. The scenery in Marquette is reminiscent of Longyearbyen in that there are mine heads and ship loading facilities on the shore of Lake Superior (and is populated by the decendants of immigrants from Norway and Finland). Great video.
I have a strange fascination with folks who live in Svalbard and the kind of life there. I think its so neat how you all adapt and make a home there and still able to have fun all at the same time!
Beautiful! I was lucky enough to visit Svalbard 15 or so years ago, what a place! It looks as though things have changed since I was there, I don't recall that shopping centre and some of the public buildings you mentioned. Plus I was there in August, so there was little to no snow, but there was 24 hours (or thereabouts) of daylight...I recall one night going outside at 2am and taking photos, a surreal experience!
Beautiful town, beautiful photography! I'm excited to see the festival! You'll do great! I'm half Norwegian half Swedish living in the US. So wonderful to see everything. Hugs for Grim💕🐶
Will you do a video on what the research scientists there think about the melting glaciers? Is Slavsbard in danger? I hope not! It is such a precious and important eco system!!! I love your channel. You are preserving this place through your spectacular drone work!💗🐕💗🐕💗🐕
Love your pictures of the Irish dancers. This is such a great video thank you. I love watching your videos I lived in Alaska for over 10 years and I love the weather in the north!!! Also the Huskies are the best dogs. Love your Grim!!
Your videos are so amazing and I love the drone shots. You have motivated me to put Longyearbyen at the top of my bucket list to travel! Oh, and I LOVE Grim! Happiest dog on top of the world!
I only found your videos yesterday for the very first time on Easter Sunday 2022. And I am so jealous Is an understatement. I love It there so calm and serene, not like the crappy place I live
Lovely location! It would also be very interesting to hear about when the polar bears come up to the houses. And what life is like in the Winter, when the Sun doesn't rise above the horizon.
Thanks for another beautiful film. I can see why your filming talents are in demand just from the shots of Grim in the snow at the beginning. Loved the tour of town as well, there can't be many places in the world with a high security kintergarten!
I have only found your channel a few weeks ago and this is now my new favourite. I am of Norwegian heritage living in Australia and though I have visited Norway I did not get far enough north to experience the temperatures and beauty of Svalbard ......and now wish I had ☺ ...... I am slowly working my way through all previous videos and am captivated by it all .....I particularly love Grim and he makes me smile every time I see him ..... e.g. rolling in the snow in this video ..... please keep uploading as this makes my day ......
So many years ago my horses would trot (tails held high) snorting and rolling in the snow. Winter is wonderful! Stunning the Irish dancers. My husband works remotely wish we could spend 5 months a year there.
Thank you so much for posting this video! I love, love, love watching these. I especially love your drone skills. You get excellent shots. Thanks again for sharing❤️
It's so interesting to me how, a few times across your channel, you've said something about it being "super warm today" and there will still be snow on the ground. In another video I just watched, you said that about it being 6 degrees C (42.8 degrees F). Our bodies can adapt to such wide ranges of what is acceptable and manageable temperature. If it was that cold out, I would be bundled up. But maybe it's because my concept of cold means bundling up, when you are already bundled up all of the time to where it becomes normal. If the temp goes below freezing, I genuinely suffer in my joints and mentality both. No matter how much I try to become strong and overcome it. Perhaps it's because our infrastructure isn't built for freezing weather either, and it makes it feel like a near apocalyptic event. I would be so interested in visiting an extremely cold place like yours one day. Where have you travelled to before? I am curious how someone such as yourself and other people living in Svalbard would fare in weather that my area has. Today will be 39.4 degrees C (103 degrees F). I have become so accustomed to the heat that I can stay out for 5-10 minutes before I even begin breaking a sweat (it depends on if I am moving or sitting still). It used to be unbearable to me for a long time. I genuinely don't feel comfortable with the temperature until it's 15.5 degrees C (60 degrees F) outside, but between 21-27 degrees C where I would thrive and feel genuinely ideal and comfortable and secure and like "the weather is perfect". Houses are generally kept at 21 to 23 degrees C, somehow it feels hotter in a 27 *C house than 27 *C outside. What temperature do you try to maintain your home at? Do you have saunas there, and are they popular?
Loving the show and tell! Was fun watching you driving past places and saying to Ann if we recognised them or not. Feels all so familiar. Beautiful day for it too. Thank you for sharing as ever.
Really nice overview of where you live. One question: what does your city/island notice of global warming? Have the seasons changed? What can you show of that change in climate, please?
I'm very curious why the town is so sprawling. I'd think particularly in such an isolated, cold place row houses or flats would be more heat and material efficient, plus I'd imagine the cost of petrol and car maintenance add up
The footage of Grim at the beginning is absolutely delightful! Such a beautiful dog! No wonder you love him so much 🤗 Your entire video is beautiful, as always! Number 1 in my bucket list: Go to Svalbard! xx
Have you ever watched Northern Exposure? It was a very popular tv series a few decades ago. Your tour reminded me of it & it’s very similar! I’m surprised everybody doesn’t wave & greet each other.
Here in British Columbia we have many roads in the Interior that run through mountain passes. In order to reduce avalanche risks the government fires charges into the snow banks and have small non-destructive avalanches instead of letting them build into something too large. Does Longyearbyen do any avalanche mitigation work.
Loved this one - I went to Irish dancing lessons from the age of 7 until I was twelve (Irish parents but living in the England). We even went to Germany to perform at a Picasso festival (yeah I know a strange mix). I love my heritage but did not realise it spread so far as Longyearbyen as far as dancing is concerned Btw - this all happened 40 years ago...😀
Just found your channel and love it. Also got a ZV-1, you seem to like it. Nice to see and hear a fellow country man speaking as good English as you do. One could almost think your Swedish born in the mid-west. You got a new subscriber from half Falköping, half North Carolina.
Congrats on being asked to film for the town again. I can tell you're excited! Thanks for taking us around town...it was fun to see everything. When people are evacuated due to the avalanche risk, where do they go? Does the town find a place for them or does everyone just stay with friends?
Ive been watching you for about 1 year and just looking through older vids. And I see irish dancing on Svalbard suddenly! and you did irish dancing. Cool, great to year that eventially 😊. Ive Bee irish dancing myself for more than 10 years, and Im teaching beginners now. I live in Russia, small world of irish dancing😂.
A girl from Brazil and I (United States) have fallen in lov and want to move to Svalbard to start our life a new : ) However it appears very difficult to accomplish such unless you are financially endowed to do so or can find a job there (which seems very difficult for non-natives). We appreciate your videos, it let’s us live vicariously the life we dream of, thank you : )
very well put.. when I watch these videos in wintertime, I feel less cold because of all of the snow in svalbard.. but, at the same time, I am fascinated by the place.. also, the dark period for 3 months.. thank you for sharing Cecillia..
Wow, amazing video ! I really love it, especialy because i’ll be on Svalbard next year, from 27/02 to 06/03/2022 ! I really can’t wait !!!!!! Thank you very much for this very informative and beautiful video !
Love love love the way you put your video together. The music is absolutely beautiful and goes so well with your beautiful snowy oasis. Love how you take us everywhere with you, love to see what people are wearing, inside the shops and restaurants. Would love to visit your beautiful place so it’s nice to have a tour before thinking about a family trip there.🥰🥰🥰
So beautiful village 😍. Everything seems so well organized there. Enjoyed as always! Also your music choices are excellent in every video. Kisses to Grim!
@@CeciliaBlomdahl is it true they closed the bank their so you'll have to get on a plane and go to make a deposit cause I'm thinking about living there
First time watching your videos, and to my surprise, I've never expected to see people walking about in the middle of the snow... Amazing!!! Thanks for sharing.
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Your dog must love it there. Makes me so happy to see those dogs in the climate they belong instead of in 100 degree weather in Texas
Actually huskies have 2 coats of fur that allow them to stay warm in the cold and cool in the heat. They are actually better at dealing with heat than most dog breeds. My dog actually sunbathes during the summers in Houston!
@@hannahs5911 I never knew that! I just hate seeing people who leave their huskies (or any other breed tbh) outside in the summer for hours. I’m glad your dog doesn’t mind the heat ! I’m sure he liked the snow we got last winter though haha
I had a St. Bernard in NC she was an AC Princess. I do love seeing cold doggos in cold weather. My girl loved the rare snow day though.
Yes and not chained to a tree smh
I'm in Houston, although this looks so pretty it also looks super cold. I couldn't do it, meaning living up there. Plus, I've never driven on snow/ice before.
Well that's one I have never heard before . "The kindergarten is fenced in to keep the polar bears out "
in germany a couple of years ago two pit bulls jumped the fence to a schoolyard and killed 2 kids and injured 20
@@jonhedlund8058 um, killed one and injured two from what I read. also, was 20 years ago.
Driving in euro truck sim up there you have road signs warning for polar bears to lol, i assume that is accurate.
@eblman very observant of you......that talking to another human being can relieve depression
In the predator world, babies are easy prey. Then there are the abombinations, the cannibal predator that eats its own. They breed excessively too eat.
Watching with my boyfriend and he goes “Wow.. she lives in a screensaver” 🥺🤣🤣
Yes!He is right!That’s what I just want to say.
That is funny!
So on point !
LMAO!
I need a job
Thanks to people like you who put in the effort to make videos like this I get to learn about the different countries and cultures of the world that would otherwise be impossible for me.
same for me!!!!!
Agree‼️🥰
Yes, no desire to live here but sure nice to see the different lives people lead. Thank you. It is beautiful.
Yes, I Absolutely love it. ☺️
Staying in the tropics I'm really struggling to imagine how zero degrees temps can be a warm sunny day
Clear days in the winter are quite often the coldest days because there's no cloud to trap heat.
Source: I live in Finland.
@@tayduatrinhcoi The snow reflects the sun and it all depends on how close you are to the ocean.. In my opinion / Cost of Sweden
The Sun is more of a psychological factor. As @tu dinh said, they tend to be colder nights, the days are warmer and the sun in your face is a great feeling. Especially when you can go weeks in sub zero and gray days.
That blew my mind too!! Here in North Texas when it was frozen for a week 0 degrees was so bitterly cold for us! Everything closed. 🥶
right. I live in the caribbean and if the AC is on 23 degrees Celius, my nose freezes. It's so cold.
Honestly, I don't think I could manage to live on Svalbard long-term, but I really wanna come up and visit sooner or later. It's such an enchanting place!
Me too
Same!
I would really miss being around trees 🌲!
@@clarissavaida4058 oh definitely. Trees are everything to me. I would never want to be away from them. They protect us
@@yasminesacristan5855 Yesss! 😊
I love how your appreciation for the island doesn't fade. It is truly a remarkable place, full of raw beauty.
This is so surreal for me, living in Bangalore. It would be lonely but so spiritual and beautiful at the same time. I have great impressions of Nordic in my mind. May be some day, I get lucky to experience this bliss
The place is mindblowing! Nothing less. Don't go there, because you will long back for the rest of your time! I am addicted.
Big cities in India is over crowded..... something feels to run away from this....and stay in places like this.
@@braveindian2628 exactly.... i am just longing to get out of our peculiar overcrowded polluted fast paced environment. It would be a dream to visit that place.
@@arindamghosal7277 lots of opportunities for oil related professionals .Quite a few from India .
@@rahulmehta3588 Please stay in India. Thanks
I love your drone shots and your tundra shots. I could watch hours of them (especially with your editing and production). Such talent!!
Awww thank you! 🙏
I live in Minnesota and it's so fascinating to see how your area handles transportation--a lot more integration of snowmobiles and skiing as a means of transport!
you'd be surprised how that happens with your northern neighbours too. There are places where you get around like that too. Canada is not far from minnesota. There is even places like nunavut where medical care is done on round trips. Canada isn't exactly warm and much of canada is wintery most of the year. I have been to minnesota and your weather is close to northern ontario but further north then that. A lot of people live on acreages and big plots of land. You'll find similar things in northern parts of alaska too.
Its kinda nice to see such positive people content wuth their life in such harsh conditions
Looking up and down the street, seeing a group of 5-6 people in one end, and saying "a lot of people out" like if the streets was packed with people! :D
I love Svalbard and Longyearbyen! Been there several times (work related) and last time I had some time to go look and the town has had grown so much last few years since last time I was there, and seems to still grow and develop into the future. By the way I am Norwegian and live in Tromsø so its a relative short trip for me to Svalbard.
Love your films Cecilia, they always looks stunning!
Very nice. I don't think many understand how far up north Svalbard is. From mainland Norway it's a 4-5 hour flight to Longyearbyen. That's right, from a position way above the Arctic circle, you need to fly for hours further north.
I'm from Ireland and love your channel but did not expect to hear that Irish dancing made its way to Svaldbard - so cool. It looks very different to what we know as Irish dancing but would love to know more about how it was introduced and adapted over the years x
Don't be surprised, it's like Irish pubs...they're everywhere! There's an Irish pub in Namche Bazaar the Sherpa capital in Nepal.
Mad!
Cecilia, the introduction footage is AWESOME.
Thaaank you! 🤩🤩
Norway is a beautiful country. I enjoyed my visit there back in the early 90s. I was with US Marines/NATO doing cold weather training above the Arctic Circle, near a town called Setermoen. I was impressed with how clean and orderly your country was. I also made some good friends during my stay there. I wish you all the best from Colorado, USA.
Setermoen is hardly a town, but yeah.... That is more a military camp. Glad you were here. There is a more permanent US posture in northern Norway now. If you appreciated the nature around Setermoen, I would recommend you not to go to Svalbard at any time. You WILL long back there for the rest of your time. I do!
I'm somewhat impressed that you spelled Setermoen correct after what, 30 years or so?
@@spiff1003 Your country and its people left a favorable impression on me. As you could imagine, I have been to many other places which have not. As for the spelling, Google helped me with that. :-)
I’m in love!! I need to be a reverse mail order bride!! 😂 get me out of the US I’m too hot and humid here!! Plus it’s just sooo charming there such a cool culture! Love it
Grim with snow on his nose💖
Wonderful tour around Svalbard, i think we all feel very much apart of the Svalbard family thanks to you xx💖
I always get excited when you upload :) Thanks for showing us more of the village and taking us with you on your errands. Your new project sounds amazing and hopefully we will get to see the final product. The views at Svalbard are astonishing. I can see why you love it so much.
yo what’s good celina
It is amazing to see how Svalbard is growing. Thank you for sharing.
The blue sky! So clear and vibrant!
I love your vlogs & have learned so much about Svalbard. So beautiful & interesting. I'm not sure why I didn't think about children/kids/high schoolers living there. By the way, you get epic shots/footage (those festivals drone shots were awesome). Keep sharing your wonderful life!!❤
I'm so happy you enjoy my videos! 🤩🙏
Irish dancing and you lived in Ireland ... what?! I hope you had a nice time when you were here 💚 My Mum is clearing out her attic so I'm getting deliveries of my stuff to my house ... she brought over my dance shoes last week ... blast from the past. Thanks for the tour, such a beautiful place 💚💚💚
I’m so excited for you! Can’t wait to see your home completely finished. I know it’s going to be beautiful and functional.
I love your enthusiasm for where you live. I feel the same about my home town ( London, UK) but it’s a very different lifestyle. I often yearn for the natural beauty of your sort of landscape. The fact you have had no murder there is incredible!
I always wonder how such remote places get all the normal products and foods of mainland. How often do shipments come in etc. Obviously nothing grows thats green.
the drive through was really relaxing and wonderful to watch, hope to see more footage of everyday life in the North Pole, it’s so interesting to see
Syttende Mai! We celebrate that in Minnesota, all the Norgies come out for lutefisk and lefse in all the little villages and farm towns in Minnesota. My 1/4 Norwegian heart is happy!
New generations of Minnesotan-Norwegians are making lefse in the morning and then spending the day drinking aquavit and eating lots of salmon, ending with a tart! Lutefisk... well. Maybe it's something we leave for the full blooded Norwegians.
@@GrantSimons2 I've actually heard Minnesotans consume more lutefisk than people in Norway 😉
Minnesota-Norwegian here, not all communities eat lutefisk.... Lutefisk is more Swedish also I believe.
@@morgie8805 The only ones I know in Sweden that would eat lutefisk are all 70+, and it's not even common among that age group. Most young people wouldn't even know what it is.
@@WyrdHag The reason why the Norwegian-Americans still hold on to the old Norwegian traditions is because that's the traditions they know from their Norwegian Ancestors that immigrated to America. The Norwegian-Americans still hold on to traditions that are almost extinct here in Norway. Unfortunately the Norwegian-American sociaties are slowly declining as newer generations don't have a direct association with their Norwegian background.
Love hearing about life in Svalbard, to me it’s now my Wonderland....
This is an idyllic video of Longyearbyen; hopefully tourism opens up soon so everyone, who is able, can come visit this Arctic paradise (since tourism has been around longer than the mining in Svalbard)
What a truly horrible idea 🥺 Much better to keep tourists away as far as possible from this last fragile paradise!
Tourists will trash the place.
Tourists 🤢
The intro sequence with woman standing on top of the mountain was so cool and creative
Gotta love the TH-cam algorithm. Sometimes you find amazing content like this. So great :)
My favorite TH-cam channel. Love learning about Svalbard.
You've added more production value to your videos! Nice touch. Very well done! Also, I love the video of the drive into town from your house. I'd love a road tour of every place you can drive to on Svalbard!
Nothing makes my soul happier than the sight of snow covered mountains and that feeling of winter cold air in the morning right before the sun rises. I need to move up north lol
Grim is SO in love with snow!😍❄️☀️
I think the sense of adventure is something that you're born with.Love to go up there someday.Anything is possible if you put you're mind to it.Good video,keep up the good work.Enjoy your journey through life as it's an exciting one.
Cecilia, please do more videos like this one, I would love to see more of the city and mountains! Thanks 😊
I’m obsessed I’ve been rewatching all your videos lol 💁🏻♀️
Love your film work and creativity !
When I see Grim I cannot help adopting your accent and calling his name, could be you & Krisstopher next 😉✨🧡
Thank you so so much! 😍🙏
@@CeciliaBlomdahl ❤📷😄😇😊
@@CeciliaBlomdahl hello I’m Joseph
I love your work and the apic views,
I would like to know more about the place may I know your email??
Will you ever do a blog about coming and going to the mainland??
Sure! 😃
This dog is the cutest thing to ever walk the earth 😍
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what do people do in Svalbard to make money..what are the industries etc..why would people move there?
My daughter has Phelan McDermid Syndrome and is sick at the moment. Your videos help with my anxiety. Thank You! xxx
That new camera of yours is giving excellent footage!
Best channel on you tube in my opinion love it. you both are awesome x
Wow, thank you so much!! 🙏🏻
I love you're little town so much. I am currently saving to come. I'm sure it will be awhile before visitors are allowed back and things become "normal" again. That snow is the whitest snow I've ever seen. It's just mesmerizing. It has to be so much fun living there.
That scene with that insanely good song and Grim gave me shivers 😍😍😍😍😍
I clicked on this video not knowing what to expect, and I LOVED seeing your filmmaking work. Incredible!!
Ohhh wow thank you so much! It means a lot! 🤩💙
That's amazing that you have an Irish dancing group up there and you even did it yourself 🤯💕 love from Ireland 🇮🇪🍀
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John Munro Longyear, the namesake of Longyearbyen, also has a number of places in the Marquette, Michigan, USA, area named after him. The scenery in Marquette is reminiscent of Longyearbyen in that there are mine heads and ship loading facilities on the shore of Lake Superior (and is populated by the decendants of immigrants from Norway and Finland). Great video.
Where can I find more info on this? My husband works for Longyear in Marquette. The Longyear family is fascinating. Just happened upon your comment!
I'm from Brazil so anytime I hear her say "when it's warmer at 0 degrees" my brain goes into a glitch. lol
I have a strange fascination with folks who live in Svalbard and the kind of life there. I think its so neat how you all adapt and make a home there and still able to have fun all at the same time!
Beautiful! I was lucky enough to visit Svalbard 15 or so years ago, what a place! It looks as though things have changed since I was there, I don't recall that shopping centre and some of the public buildings you mentioned. Plus I was there in August, so there was little to no snow, but there was 24 hours (or thereabouts) of daylight...I recall one night going outside at 2am and taking photos, a surreal experience!
Beautiful town, beautiful photography! I'm excited to see the festival! You'll do great! I'm half Norwegian half Swedish living in the US. So wonderful to see everything. Hugs for Grim💕🐶
Thank youuu!
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@@CeciliaBlomdahl I LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS
Congratulations on landing that gig again this year! You have a lot to do in a few short weeks. I hope we can tag along! Thanks for sharing.
I love your videos so much!! I’m saving up to come and see Svalbard one day! You’re amazing Cecilia!
Beautiful scenery. I love the song at the beginning of this so much. Wish I could get a copy of it. Plus, it's perfect for the scenery.
Wow. This place is so outside of my experience here in Tasmania, Australia. But what a beautiful place.
Will you do a video on what the research scientists there think about the melting glaciers? Is Slavsbard in danger? I hope not! It is such a precious and important eco system!!! I love your channel. You are preserving this place through your spectacular drone work!💗🐕💗🐕💗🐕
Love your pictures of the Irish dancers. This is such a great video thank you. I love watching your videos I lived in Alaska for over 10 years and I love the weather in the north!!! Also the Huskies are the best dogs. Love your Grim!!
Your videos are so amazing and I love the drone shots. You have motivated me to put Longyearbyen at the top of my bucket list to travel! Oh, and I LOVE Grim! Happiest dog on top of the world!
Yeeeey! Thank you for watching 😃💙
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Very nice video
I only found your videos yesterday for the very first time on Easter Sunday 2022. And I am so jealous Is an understatement. I love It there so calm and serene, not like the crappy place I live
Lovely location!
It would also be very interesting to hear about when the polar bears come up to the houses. And what life is like in the Winter, when the Sun doesn't rise above the horizon.
Thanks for another beautiful film. I can see why your filming talents are in demand just from the shots of Grim in the snow at the beginning. Loved the tour of town as well, there can't be many places in the world with a high security kintergarten!
Every time I watch your videos - "damn I should buy a drone".
Love seeing an insight into your very different life! All the best from NZ ❤️
Drones are so much fun!! :)
Spectacular cinematography! Really happy to have found your channel, Cecelia.
Thank you so so much! 🙏🙏🙏
I loved the line “i just went shopping.. well i just went to the pharmacy “ 😂 #adultlife
hahaha 😂😂
I thought she said "fartmacy" but that could be my middle school humor filter which hears what it wants.
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Oh gosh, you just answered some of the questions that I asked from the last video. So different from the states! Thanks!
Grim is a superstar! So natural 😁
I have only found your channel a few weeks ago and this is now my new favourite. I am of Norwegian heritage living in Australia and though I have visited Norway I did not get far enough north to experience the temperatures and beauty of Svalbard ......and now wish I had ☺ ...... I am slowly working my way through all previous videos and am captivated by it all .....I particularly love Grim and he makes me smile every time I see him ..... e.g. rolling in the snow in this video ..... please keep uploading as this makes my day ......
That is one beautiful township & Irish cultural dance!
So many years ago my horses would trot (tails held high) snorting and rolling in the snow. Winter is wonderful! Stunning the Irish dancers. My husband works remotely wish we could spend 5 months a year there.
I’m always so excited when you upload!
Yay! Thank you! 🤩
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Thank you so much for posting this video! I love, love, love watching these. I especially love your drone skills. You get excellent shots. Thanks again for sharing❤️
It's so interesting to me how, a few times across your channel, you've said something about it being "super warm today" and there will still be snow on the ground. In another video I just watched, you said that about it being 6 degrees C (42.8 degrees F). Our bodies can adapt to such wide ranges of what is acceptable and manageable temperature. If it was that cold out, I would be bundled up. But maybe it's because my concept of cold means bundling up, when you are already bundled up all of the time to where it becomes normal. If the temp goes below freezing, I genuinely suffer in my joints and mentality both. No matter how much I try to become strong and overcome it. Perhaps it's because our infrastructure isn't built for freezing weather either, and it makes it feel like a near apocalyptic event. I would be so interested in visiting an extremely cold place like yours one day.
Where have you travelled to before? I am curious how someone such as yourself and other people living in Svalbard would fare in weather that my area has. Today will be 39.4 degrees C (103 degrees F). I have become so accustomed to the heat that I can stay out for 5-10 minutes before I even begin breaking a sweat (it depends on if I am moving or sitting still). It used to be unbearable to me for a long time. I genuinely don't feel comfortable with the temperature until it's 15.5 degrees C (60 degrees F) outside, but between 21-27 degrees C where I would thrive and feel genuinely ideal and comfortable and secure and like "the weather is perfect". Houses are generally kept at 21 to 23 degrees C, somehow it feels hotter in a 27 *C house than 27 *C outside.
What temperature do you try to maintain your home at?
Do you have saunas there, and are they popular?
Loving the show and tell! Was fun watching you driving past places and saying to Ann if we recognised them or not. Feels all so familiar. Beautiful day for it too. Thank you for sharing as ever.
Really nice overview of where you live. One question: what does your city/island notice of global warming? Have the seasons changed? What can you show of that change in climate, please?
Love watching all your videos they’re relaxing. You took a screenshot that you had 95,000 and now look at you now❤❤❤
The beauty is more than the heart can consume
I'm very curious why the town is so sprawling. I'd think particularly in such an isolated, cold place row houses or flats would be more heat and material efficient, plus I'd imagine the cost of petrol and car maintenance add up
The footage of Grim at the beginning is absolutely delightful! Such a beautiful dog! No wonder you love him so much 🤗 Your entire video is beautiful, as always! Number 1 in my bucket list: Go to Svalbard! xx
Thank you soo much! 💙 Yeah he is the cuuuutest!
You are most welcome, Cecilia 😘 Thank you for sharing your life with us xx
Have you ever watched Northern Exposure? It was a very popular tv series a few decades ago. Your tour reminded me of it & it’s very similar! I’m surprised everybody doesn’t wave & greet each other.
The title is very misleading….how exactly do you make a living?
TH-cam ofc....
One way she makes money is to film the towns festivities. That's what her meeting was about today.
I have been fascinated by the blue ice for years . You seem like such a happy person .
"Let's build a village inside a refrigerator!"
"No, I know somewhere much colder than that."
The snippets of your May 17th work from the previous year was BREATHTAKING!!! Can't wait to see what this year will look like!
Here in British Columbia we have many roads in the Interior that run through mountain passes. In order to reduce avalanche risks the government fires charges into the snow banks and have small non-destructive avalanches instead of letting them build into something too large. Does Longyearbyen do any avalanche mitigation work.
Ok, where has this lady been my whole life ? what a life, amazing.
Loved this one - I went to Irish dancing lessons from the age of 7 until I was twelve (Irish parents but living in the England). We even went to Germany to perform at a Picasso festival (yeah I know a strange mix). I love my heritage but did not realise it spread so far as Longyearbyen as far as dancing is concerned
Btw - this all happened 40 years ago...😀
Just found your channel and love it.
Also got a ZV-1, you seem to like it.
Nice to see and hear a fellow country man speaking as good English as you do. One could almost think your Swedish born in the mid-west.
You got a new subscriber from half Falköping, half North Carolina.
Congrats on being asked to film for the town again. I can tell you're excited! Thanks for taking us around town...it was fun to see everything. When people are evacuated due to the avalanche risk, where do they go? Does the town find a place for them or does everyone just stay with friends?
You should meet my sister.
Yes this was going to be my question
Ive been watching you for about 1 year and just looking through older vids. And I see irish dancing on Svalbard suddenly! and you did irish dancing. Cool, great to year that eventially 😊. Ive Bee irish dancing myself for more than 10 years, and Im teaching beginners now. I live in Russia, small world of irish dancing😂.
Anybody else living got theses daily up loads! 😍😍.
Good video! I enjoy seeing the shops, the school, the streets in the village and the things that you do in your daily life.
A girl from Brazil and I (United States) have fallen in lov and want to move to Svalbard to start our life a new : ) However it appears very difficult to accomplish such unless you are financially endowed to do so or can find a job there (which seems very difficult for non-natives). We appreciate your videos, it let’s us live vicariously the life we dream of, thank you : )
don't stop dreaming and looking for a way to get your dream accomplished!
Any update?
very well put.. when I watch these videos in wintertime, I feel less cold because of all of the snow in svalbard.. but, at the same time, I am fascinated by the place.. also, the dark period for 3 months.. thank you for sharing Cecillia..
@@NorceCodine no update, there was no girl from brazil, and he didn't move to svalbard
Wow, amazing video ! I really love it, especialy because i’ll be on Svalbard next year, from 27/02 to 06/03/2022 ! I really can’t wait !!!!!! Thank you very much for this very informative and beautiful video !
Thank you for amazing content, Cecilia! You prove the idea that opportunities can be found everywhere!
Absolutely! 🤩💕
Love love love the way you put your video together. The music is absolutely beautiful and goes so well with your beautiful snowy oasis. Love how you take us everywhere with you, love to see what people are wearing, inside the shops and restaurants. Would love to visit your beautiful place so it’s nice to have a tour before thinking about a family trip there.🥰🥰🥰
Thank you so much! 🧡
So beautiful village 😍. Everything seems so well organized there. Enjoyed as always! Also your music choices are excellent in every video.
Kisses to Grim!
Thank youuu! 😃
@@CeciliaBlomdahl is it true they closed the bank their so you'll have to get on a plane and go to make a deposit cause I'm thinking about living there
First time watching your videos, and to my surprise, I've never expected to see people walking about in the middle of the snow... Amazing!!! Thanks for sharing.