American Couple Reacts: Norway: Lofoten Islands Roadtrip! INCREDIBLE BEAUTY! FIRST TIME REACTION!
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- American Couple Reacts: Norway: Lofoten Islands Roadtrip! INCREDIBLE BEAUTY! FIRST TIME REACTION! This is our final video on Norway for a while, as we continue on next week with Worldwide Wednesday's to Sweden! The Lofoten Islands! WOW! We said that word A LOT in this episode! What an incredible glimpse into such amazing beautiful places! Untouched in so much of the areas and some of the most incredible views on the planet! The Lofoten Islands are exceptional in many ways & this is just a short look at them. A roadtrip on the coolest roads over epic bridges and through mountains and villages! What more could you want? Let us know your thoughts on this one & we definitely want to hear from anyone that lives here! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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This is our final video on Norway for a while, as we continue on next week with Worldwide Wednesday's to Sweden! The Lofoten Islands! WOW! We said that word A LOT in this episode! What an incredible glimpse into such amazing beautiful places! Untouched in so much of the areas and some of the most incredible views on the planet! The Lofoten Islands are exceptional in many ways & this is just a short look at them. A roadtrip on the coolest roads over epic bridges and through mountains and villages! What more could you want? Let us know your thoughts on this one & we definitely want to hear from anyone that lives here! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
next time you do a video on Norway. Please do Senja, the same dilligence you did Lofoten
Yes, the kids celebrate Halloween in Norway with “trick or treat” and everything.
I you are planning a trip to our beautiful country, let us know! We are big fans of your channel and would love to help you!
It was so lovely to hear Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite at 16:04. You can see how the countryside can bring out music like that.
Yes, Grieg made alot of BEAUTIFUL music. Inspireared by the norwegian nature and way of living. Listen to his " Spring"
Looking at the majesty of Norway, you can see where the incredible stories of Odin and Thor come from. How else do you wrap your head around such beauty and grandeur.
Just to remind EVERYONE. Thor/Tor in norwegian and Odin are NOT real. It s just fairytales and mythology the vikings MADE UP!!!
They dont exist and never have just as much as Trolls DONT excist for real either. Just like St .Claus DOES NOT excist either. REMEMBER 😉😅😉😅I am norwegian and know none of those are real , ok ?
Seems like younger generation thinks they are for real. 😅but they have NEVER lived or been real.
Fantasy , ok.
Greetings from a REAL norwegian 😊🙋♀️🌍
So just want to get the facts real.
I just sat at the computer saying wow! Wow! ... Norway looks gorgeous, some of the mountain landscape reminds me of New Zealand. Especially the mountains with the low clouds. Just fantastic footage and yet again another brilliant reaction video! Thank you so much, this made me smile after a very long day looking after 22 children! Love to you both❤
Wow, thank you!
Yes, there are some clear similarities in the landscapes, especially the fjords and mountains. I'm Norwegian, and I have been watching some videos from NZ. I think I'd feel quite at home there!
Hello from Norway! We love New Zealand, you are our fellow extreme sports maniacs! 🫡
That was awesome, the scenery was so epic. I'm going down the Norwegian seafood cuisine rabbit hole now for the rest of the afternoon. Something I never thought I'd be interested in so thanks!
Sounds great! Let us know what you learn!
Stunningly beautiful yet again Norway. This place blew me away . Thanks for finding theses fantastic films to react to , can’t wait to take a look at Sweden with you .❤️👍
Many thanks Mandy! We are really enjoying these too!
So glad you got to see a piece of Norway. I hope you'll come back to Norway soon :)
We certainly will!!
I’ve visited the Lofoten Islands, albeit briefly, sailing up the coast on the Hurtigruten Post Boats en route from Bergen to Tromso. It looks rather unworldly as it appears on the horizon as you sail towards it. We arrived about ten at night but it didn’t matter as it never got dark. Well past midnight our captain took the ship down the steep, rocky Trollfjord and pirouetted the ship with its thrusters at the end of the fjord with mountains towering over us with the midnight sun glinting on the snow capped tops. Breathtaking. And nerve wracking as spinning the ship in its own length - it wasn’t that big of a vessel either, not half the size of a typical cruise ship - was the only way to turn it round in the narrow confines of the fjord.
And yes, people do hike/climb in the Lofoten Islands. My friends drove their camper van across Europe to Norway this year, spending three months up there, including the Lofoten Islands, from where I’d get WhatsApp pics on an almost daily basis of them up something high and pointy! And yes, they are beasts, even though are well past the accepted age for such extreme exploring. A deck chair on a beach just isn’t for them!
I love fishing and the sort i can come of is common Are Salmon , Cod , Coalfish, Red fish, Bream, Catfish , Herring AS the most common and maybe Mackerel . Love fish!
Fantastic filming of my beautiful country Norway. I often forget how beautiful nature is, but I am reminded of it by watching the reaction video. As a Norwegian who has lived here all my life, I have not been to Lofoten myself, because it is far from where I live. But we have mountains and lakes mostly throughout Norway and every town is different. You show how interested you are in my country and so fun to see what you like. Hope you will come back soon with more reaction videos of Norway
I went to Tromso, Norway in 2008 in winter and loved it, the people, architecture and Northern lights were just amazing.
We went to Norway for the summer solstice, videos cannot give you a full experience, smelling the cods heads is an experience itself!!
Beautiful scenery, I want to go now
Come on girls , blow our minds again with another out of this world video love you two ❤
Consider yourself blown! Wait...🤔🙄
Well, Natasha: For a tourist it's usually 10 minutes drive and 5minutes stop to look, even as a lokal it happens to me as well😀
You should come over to norway!! I bet norwegians following you on this channel will give all the help you need!!
Fantastic video, as a motorcyclist, I've followed Lea's channel for a while she is an amazing videographer and this is ne of my favourites and has made me put it on my bucket list for motorcycle touring.
This place can make you feel insignificant or an integral part of The Cosmos. A joy of being English, British, European , is the incredible diversity of language, culture, history and landscape on my doorstep. My motto is to ‘celebrate diversity’ and all the richness it brings to life.
They don't have to worry about getting anywhere "before dark". The sun never sets in northern Norway during summer. If the weather is overcast, it's like overcast daytime all night through. And if it's blue skies and sunny, it's like that all night. Midsummer, it doesn't really get dark at night anywhere in Norway. I live not that far north of Oslo, and I have been weeding and mowing my lawn well past midnight several times this summer. Not as bright daylight as it is up north, but not dark by any means either.
your naboer must love you!
@@Drack-eu7xm I should have mentioned that I live in a farming area, a brisk five to eight minute walk away from my nearest neighbors on all sides! 😁
@@Kari.F. ahh you live in my dream place then, i am cramped in a apartmen were i get complaints from my nabo when i fart 😂
@@Drack-eu7xm I grew up like that. In an appointment in Oslo. I have to say, I prefer my current living situation!
I used to love im Lofoten. 12 years. When you have lived there for a while, the scenery isn't as jaw dropping. It just home.
When exploring, I like to change things up. Just imagine riding through Norway on a bike, your senses would go wild. Great video 😉
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you
Dangit missed it :) but yes this is one of the prettiest parts of my country. And halloween is massive in Norway, I have relatives that have big parties every year.We even have trick or treat now which is just annoying.
Another wonderful video to brighten our lives. Thanks ladies that's absolutely beautiful. I never thought about it but you are right. It's better if not necessary to get away from the cities and tourist spots to appreciate a country
Halloween began in Ireland. Derry City (aka Londonderry) has one of the worlds biggest Halloween festivals every year, it’s worth check out the videos from it
Well Debbie...motorcycles with sidecars do excist..yeah yeah...and you get to enjoy/photograph the view all the time.😉😉
Just remember that the the lady here pronounces Norwegian about as good as she does English words, she is probably from Germany. Think "loo", yes bathroom, and add a slow "fot'n" at the end. It translates into the lynx foot, look at a map and imagine a paw.
Wow Norway 🇳🇴 is beautiful ❤great ideo
I’ve really enjoyed all the Norwegian videos an Absolutely stunning country.
and the coastel toad to å is one of my favorits, especially in sunshine🤩
This looks like it’s going to be another beautiful place l am going to want to visit
"...before dark, I hope"
It doesn't ever get dark in Lofoten in the summer, so that's not a problem. I was there this summer, and I arrived with the ferry around midnight. No problem, because the sun was still up 😊🌞
Ladies its Ange
the scenery in this episode is insanely beautiful Absolutely stunning to quote u Natasha
They hike, but the terreng is rough . Even the Queen of Norway has there hiking-path and she actually loves to hike😃
Absolutely stunning. ❤
It really is!
This is home :) Lived here for 60 years now.
Definitely a country I would love to visit before I’m too old to move!…lol. I thinking the States first though 😉
You and me both!
Yes, you can go hiking in Lofoten. Bring your tent and enjoy nature.
You should check out the far south of Norway too, it's very different but it's also very beautiful in its own unique way 😁👌 💚
Wow that's beautiful
That skinny 2 way 1 lane road is our highway btw.
Loved watching this video, I work onboard a ship that travels a lot in this area.
So lucky!!
Lofoten is amazing,i spend much time there during summertime..just a 3-4hours drive away
I was a girl on a bike many, many years ago. This bring back great memories.
i remember when i stayed with my uncle in north wales when i woke up stepped out side i was higher then the clouds :)
I live in Svolvær and i can confirm that during the summer it can get quite overwhelming with tourists
After a hard days graft there is nothing more relaxing than watching my favourite reaction Girls doing their World Wide Wednesday. You always make me smile Girls and also laugh out loud. So keep up the good work, love, hugs and prayers from Sussex, UK
Welcome to my country next week. I hope ypu´ll like it! I´m lokking forward to see the video.
Stunning places. For your rest of the world shows can I suggest you look at Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland, my favourite place
22:00 "Before dark i hope" - If they traveled in the summer, there is no dark :)
Hi beautiful women :D
As a norwegian, I wanted to answer some of the questions you ask about.
To start of, Halloween IS celebrated here, but not as seriously as in America. Many places they have started to hold celebrations called "Hallovenn", which translates to hallo-friend (mostly for kids). Adults dress up and use Halloween as and excuse to party throughout the night. Costumes are put on, and a few places the kids get to go trick or treating, but as said, not as big/common as you would hold the celebrations.
Lofoten is pronounced with emphasis on the first o, and fonetically you say the o as you would say book, look and the end vocal-sound in ground (if that helps), and make a full o with your mouth as you say them.
You didn't ask, but "Å" is the last letter in our alfabet (we have three extra letters in the end: Æ, Ø, Å). So as the last letter, it is kind of fitting the they named the end of the road "Å" :P
Hiking, it's done wherever one can get to, so YES to that. As far as camping goes, it is correct what she says, BUT many take small tents and camp out up in the mountains nonetheless!
What she doesn't mention in the video, is that residents of small and remote villages kind of loves new people (cuz we love to show of our country). And often if one has problem with find a sleeping place, you would easily find places off the typical travelling road, that would help with sleeping under a roof. If you one day decide to travel there, make sure you go to the next biggest island north of Lofoten as well. (The biggest island is called "Hinnøya", and is a part of the Lofoten region).
Love to watch your videos, found you guys recently here on youtube, and looking forward to every video :D
You're beautiful too! Thank YOU for all of this! We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to answer all of these! We would love to have you join us on our FB
Great reaction. Im from Norway and so used to this nature.I forget how beautiful my country is and should appreciate moore i think❤🇧🇻
All hallows eve - or Halloween is actuelly an europeen thing that irish people brought to Amerika. It startet with the celtic people that brought it to Ireland. Around 1850 there was a great famine in Ireland. and many Irish families came to Amerika.
Was nice to watch the Video on Norway, nice to see someone not using Camera Filters, looks a lot more real!
In the Lofotens a couple of times usually in winter beutiful place but expensive and lots of Royal Marines and Dutch marines
We are lucky enough to live on such a beautiful planet. We should look after it better.
About those places to pull over you referenced, if you look at the roads out there, they are really narrow a lot of places. So those pockets on the side of the road are often "meeting places" you turn out on to let meeting traffic pass. If a roadside "pocket" has a blue sign with a white M on it, DON'T park there.
About Halloween- Though Im not norwegian but danish but in both Denmark and Norway we have adopted the celebration of Halloween but we probably dont go just as crazy as you do over the pond. I love Halloween, cause any time for celebration is a good time :) but some people here resent the fact that American holidays are coming over here because we already have a similar holiday where we dress up as something scary and go ringing doorbells for candy, and some people are scared that Halloween will replace this holiday.
Our Holiday is called Fastelavn, which means -The night before the faste. We celebrate this in febuary both in Norway and Denmark. As mentioned we dress up scary, ring doorbells for candy, but another fun thing we do is hang up a barrel with a black cat inside and beat the barrel with a bat until it breaks and the cat "hopefully" runs away unscathed... okay, we used to do that back in the day.. today ,thankfully, there is just a picture of a cat on the barrel and usually oranges and candy inside that falls out when the barrel breaks :) But back in the day, when there was a real black cat inside, it was supposed to be a symbol of the evil spirits of the winter months that was finally being chased away ..(poor cats.. but fun history)
Looking at your shirt, Natasha, I won't forget because I still have some of each of those!!! 😀 I've nothing to play the floppy disks or the videos on but I still have a cassette player. 🤫
We don't celebrate Halloween in the same sense you do in the US, but we have slowly imported aspects of it. Like some kids do trick or treat now. We do have an older tradition called "julebukk"/"nyttårsbukk" that is very similar only at Christmas/New Years where kids dress up and sing carols at peoples door to get treats (I personally never did as a kid, because I only ever heard old people talking about it, but after I moved to Bergen I learned that here the tradition was still very much alive when suddenly I had neighbourhood kids show up at my door, lol). Spooky decorations are sold and some places organize Halloween parties. But it isn't a massive thing here. I get only a handful of kids trick or treating, as usually kids mostly go to people they know or their very immediate neighbourhood. And there have been years where no one showed up as well.
Many Norwegians think the Gulf stream reaches their west coast, but that is just bonkers. It goes along the east coast of the US. It is the North Atlantic drift that keeps the sea ice free around Lofoten.
Wow wow, wow, did I say Wow, that was a great video girlies so beautiful, would love to go on a motorbike ride. 👏👏👏👏❤ well done girlies xx
Glad you enjoyed it!
I went in October. No tourists. One hotel still open. Walked through the town at midnight, across to a pebble beach, and sat watching the aurora for an hour with not a soul stirring. Magical (cold, but magical). The Lofotens are one of the four most beautiful places I've ever visited (others, if you're curious: Angel Falls, Grand Canyon, Iguazu Falls).
My family is from Lofoten, it's a truly special place, i love being there and lived there a year myself. I love watching up upon the very same mountains my ancestors have lived under for millennias, it was a rough place to survive some islands had no drinking water so parents would send their kids rowing to the mainland (closest bigger island) for drinking water. Back in the day people had maybe 1 cow for milk and a few chickens for eggs but the true wealth and the reason as for why people settled out here in the first place is the gifts of the merciless sea the fish from Lofoten built the nation and the income from the taxes of the fishing in Lofoten is what funded the construction on Nidarosdomen in Trondheim.
But the seas also took as easy as it gave.
Hiking is weary big In lofoten !!
We sweds go hiking there often and we have amazing hiking sites everywhere in Sweden 🇸🇪 but nothing like lofoten 🇳🇴
Lofoten 😀
Lofoten is a beauty, great skiing in the winter 🙂
When you start looking into Sweden, please consider the content of the Swedish youuber Jonna Jinton, I think you'll like that.
Thank you!
If you are thinking of looking at Sweden I can recommend Jonna Jinton. She lives in the north of Sweden and makes some fabulous films about her life there.
😂 I swear that weather joke has to be universal! First heard a version of it when I visited Nova Scotia for the first time. A guy working a gas station I stopped at remarked upon hearing it was my first time in the province. "Welcome to Nova Scotia! If you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes and it will change!" Beautiful scenery and amazing use of drone footage in the video. Thanks for sharing it with us ladies!
What a beautiful place. I follow family who live off grid in a forest in Northern Sweden, channel called, Talasbuan, There are a couple of other biker girls who travel to other countries one from Holland called Itchy Boots ad one from UK called saffy sprocket.
This looks stunning its a million miles away from what we all see day to day, photograthy was fantastic just to be there while the rest of the world goes by ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
We do celebrate halloween in Norway ☺️ dressing up, trick or treat, parties and so on
What a beautiful place loved all of Norway videos thank you for a great video ladies
As this is yor last Norway Video for now ,the real topper is to visit the city of Bergen at the Extreme north end in Winter and you cannot switch them off the, Northern lLghts display most days Only downsdie is at tha Latitude depending on the time of the Year the Days are very short on light (about 9am to 5pm) so at best the Sun is on the Horizon many days and the Stars are very visble due to almost zero air pollution
Breath taking scenery.
That was great and great use of the drone and cameras on the bikes too
Halloween was originally celebrated by the Irish and Scottish and went to North America in the 17th century xx
Oh, by the way: also chek out swedish ut. Jonna Jinton "Living whit the dark swedish winters - polarnight and the midtnightsun" BEUTYFUL! 🇸🇪
If you're going to Sweden next then you'd probably find the Norse Magic and Beliefs channel really interesting, if only to see the different kind of Vikings there were (are?). He does have a 'share' button so hopefully he wouldn't mind.
Therefor the title of the original😃 Lakols can drive with and though this beauty, usually tourists can not. The police on Lofoten has their char of stories 😄 B TW : The humbrule is that the left side called Lofoten and the right side called Vesterålen., coming by car from Lødingen. And Vesteråålen is worth a long visit as well 😀😃
I think phonetically I would suggest saying:Lo as in J-Lo+ foot + end - the D. The norm for Halloween in Norway is the trick or treat night. The sub 30ish people do have more decorations and such troughout the month as I believe you do in the US. Ofc we dont do thanksgiving and 4th of July buut strangely enough many people use those dates to have a bit biggsr parties than a normal "weekend" party. No fireworks though.
Hi from Lofoten 😊
*We do cellebrate halloween for sure! Also this year I have my droving test ocotber 31st!! 🤞🏻 I am getting it and not failing!❤ I have also been in lofoten before I used to live close by when I was a small child❤. I lived in Stø (in Vesterålen) -Katarina*
Btw Norway in 4K with only drone footage is insane
Awwwww you are leaving Norway already ????? Saaaad.. I have never been that far north myself tho..... maybe on my bucket list. love you girls ❤❤❤
"Å" is the last letter of the Norwegian alphabet, and the last town on the tip of the Lofoten islands. Never thought of that 😂
That place was stunning.
Halloween has come to Norway too.Halloween stuff at the stores and kids going trick or treating. Not as big as US of course😂😊 What is funny is that at a store we call Europris (almost like dollar stores) they have Halloween and Christmas right next to each other. So by few steps you go from one season to the next
😅😅😅😅
They showed on the map the Lo-Ve Islands.... so the LOfoten and VEsteraalen Islands.
So much more to see, and such a different field and topography of the two groups of Islands. I live in VEsterålen, so 1.5 hrs north of Svolvær, if you take the ferry.
And actually, Vesterålen has some of the oldest mountain range in Europe. Lofoten is much much newer. just sayin'
In fact, Lofoten is more steep, rugged and "male", while Vesterålen is more rounded "female"... and also more family friendly - and less tourists. ;)
Don't know why, but when I'm visiting those "fjordy" areas, the mountains seem even taller when their peaks are hidden in the clouds. I think maybe it's because my brain gets confused by the steep inclines and therefore thinks that they must stretch upwards forever, even though I know they do not. Almost like an illusion.
yeah, we celebrate Halloween, dress up, get drunk, tick or treat, eat candy. so yeah in Norway we do celebrate Halloween
Lofoten is suffering from the same problem as Iceland is. Small land area, small resident population, and out of control tourism. It's a double edged sword. They jobs and income is welcomed to be sure, but the overcrowding of tourists flooding these islands in the tourist season is causing a lot of wear and tear and littering.
A tip from a local (meaning Norwegian - not from Lofoten - but have been there!); just visit some of the places just south or north of Lofoten, and you will have it almost to your self. And just skip Lofoten. And it`s equally stunning!
Which is why we want a tourist tax so that we can actually fund the infrastructure needed. It's not a new thing for Lofoten to take in a lot of people for a while.
Really ? Have you been ? Didn't notice that when I went. The people were very welcoming.
@@mikecross5170 I have family up there. If you visited outside of the tourist season, the overcrowding an littering won't have been a problem. In that case, you wouldn't notice because it won't have been overcrowded. I was talking about the wear and tear of the increased tourism during the peak tourist season. People there are very nice, but nice people can have problems, too. When the nature and weather is at it's most beautiful and outdoorsy, and the locals can't go for their regular, peaceful nature walks with their dogs like they're used to, and tourists are partying loudly a stone's throw from their homes all night long they can't can't sit on their porches and enjoy their summer evenings, it doesn't ad quality to their lives. Tourism was much easier for the locals to handle before Instagram, as mentioned in the video.
I'm Norwegian and I learned some stuff. I have never been to Lofoten. I thought it was funny she said the town "Å" was at the end of the road, because it is also the last letter of the Norwegian alphabet. I had no idea there was a Norwegian town whose name was only one letter. :P
Sometimes if you tell elderly people that they have a nice wiew from their housee you'll get the answer "what view".
Gotta say one thing tho, if a door of a house is open don't just walk in expecting its a museum, people live here, and don't put up your tent in people's yards or at a graveyard as yes we have episodes of this happening yearly
You should check out the Norwegian Kings speach: Norway is one
It will nice to see what you will watch in sweden. Stockholm and gamla stan (old town) or will you watch something related to your herritage
I love Værøy in Lofoten.
I think the girl on the bike, is German, based on her accent. I enjoyed this video!
Suggestions for Norwegian things to look at when you come back to it:
11 essential driving tips for tourists traveling to Norway
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Norway's $113 million world's longest road tunnel (Lærdalstunnelen)
Norway's $47 billion coastal highway
Norway's cruise ship tunnel
Alt for Norge Russ by Kine Sætereng (have captions on)
Norwegian police funniest arrest ever
Prisions in Norway
It's actually kind of funny as far as the fishing village of *Å* is concerned. Because it is located at the very end of the road (Europavei 10). And as much as the name *Å* itself is derived directly from the norse word *á* meaning river because of *Åelva* (the river Å), that runs directly through the village/area. *Å* is also the final (end) letter in the Norwegian alphabet. So I think that it's kind of fitting that it's located at the very end of the road and it just so happens to have that name 😄👌