Narsaq, Greenland: Life, Language, and Tiny Homes! | #43 | DrakeParagon Sailing Season 5
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Need a place to write the next great novel? Check out Paul's tiny house that is available to rent. He takes us on a tour of the town and gives insight into the Greenlandic language before taking us on a tour of his home, office, and tiny rental house. The view alone will inspire you!
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What an amazing dude no lack of intellect there!!!!!✨
Ahoy and thanks so much to Drake, Monique and Éanna for
posting this video of Narsaq (and the previous video, too). You did a fabulous
job putting it all together. Your research on everything from the subsidies
from Denmark, to the Greenlandic language to the US military bases looked
spot-on to me! It was really wild to see myself and the gorgeous place where we
live on the screen. And my wife and I are touched to see Trotsky the Flying
Wonder Dog immortalized on the Web. You're more than welcome to come back
anytime. In fact, next time perhaps you can do a video on the melting ice cap
and perhaps another one on the abandoned Greenlandic villages in South
Greenland (the wild places that are getting even more wild). It's all here in
our beautiful Greenlandic "backyard."
Paul Cohen Thank you Sir.
*_Paul, or is it 'Ball'..... Thank you for a brilliant insight into the strange and wonderful part of the world you live in. Living in Cape Town South Africa I would never have bothered to wonder how people live etc in 'Just an icy spot on the globe'. Now it's all so clear and I must add.... AMAZING! _*
Your on-the-fly explaination of Greenlandic language and the importance of word endings, and the compounding of many words to create one meaning was fascinating, enjoyable and broadening - thanks very much.
Wir waren schon zwei mal bei Monika und Paul. Mehr als wundervoll!
I would like to thank you extra much for this video. I was in bed, watching this, and at the 49:30 mark I realized that I had forgotten to roll my trash can out for collection in the morning. 🙄
So I got up and got decent, and took the trash can to it's designated pickup position.
It was rather late.. 😑
This could be a stand alone documentary series
*_ Drake, this has to be one of your Best videos by far, I mean the educational value is absolutely Brilliant! So much to know about Greenland in such a short video (Yeah, I know...1 hour but it could have been 3 and I would still sit through it with wonder and awe) As for Paul (Ball)... what a great host!! Lucky be you! _*
This channel is criminally under-subscribed.
At first, I thought this was going to be too long, but it was wonderful. Your video quality and storytelling skill is getting better all the time. very professional yet engaging and warm at the same time. Thumbs up!
This just keeps getting better, the interviews are outstanding and give a great insight to life there 👏👏👏👍⛵
Excellent, just excellent.
Absolutely outstanding. That was a long one but it went by so quickly!
Next time I shop for groceries I won't complain. So interesting info from Paul, thank you. The last time I heard quiet was when I was parasailing in Clearwater Beach , Florida.
Great video - I look forward to each episode every week and you never disappoint. So fascinating to see how people in other countries live day to day (I'm in Australia). It was awesome of Paul to give us all a glimpse into the Greenlandic way of life and I love that Paul is taking the time to comment and answer questions here as well. What a down to earth guy.
Guys you guys are special! My dream is to sail Greenland, I've been saying that for 2oyrs.... I've just sold my boat and looking at a new one ready for this trip.
You make your videos so full of interesting stuff, keep it up guys
What an interesting, and articulate interviewee. On outsider's view of the language, especially someone who has been there for so long, it's very, very interesting. Thank you.
I want to see this same interview in February. Paul was a great find. Very articulate and no language barrier 👍🏼
Great stuff. Thank you Paul.
Great video!! I lived in the green house right next to your house for two years back in 1998. Absolutely loved the beautiful town of Narsaq, and still miss it to this day.
Drake you had me inthralled that was so good all that information Thank you that was amazing😀
Just gets better guys, that was fascinating, what a great guy Paul is to take you to see his home and office, beautiful. I hope he gets plenty of bookings now. Thanks as always for sharing. Andy UK
I'm lost for words... So wonderful!
Excellent video on all fronts. Well done.
Excellent series! Thank you!
So fascinating !! I might have to take up writing! ( Except for la toilette) And the music is always spot on. Thank you for another super video.
Yeah, the toilet. We've ditched the bucket toilet in favor of a British-made composting "Simploo" toilet that was invented by a couple that lives on a houseboat on the Thames. So nobody has to come and pick up the bag from the bucket anymore and we're making compost out of human waste (but just to fertilize trees and shrubs, not for the vegetables in the garden). This toilet uses no chemicals and doesn't smell at all. Composting toilets are great!
As always, very interesting!
Thank you for yet a great video on Greenland. I so look foreward to the next one and the next one .... Just for the record I would like to make a correction regarding the danish education system and the support the youngsters receive: only a small part of the support is a gift, most of it has to be payed back and is in fact payed back. Denmark has very few natural resources and therefore consider brains as a very important resource. It is one of the country's big export items: know-how. The danish population is one of the highest educated in the world and lots of effort is put into streamlining the system, so it won't be preyed upon. We have students from all over EU who come and benefit from it as well. It makes it possible for students who come from less fortunate families to raise above their station and in DK that is considered fair and most danes pay their taxes willingly as it is less costly to pay in bulk than every single person having to pay their own little share privately. Unfortunately this system is under pressure now and is being starved from the inside and will probably not last much longer - the way things are going. I hope not.
Thank you for an hour of wonderful experience and thank you Paul being there and shining with knowledge. ⚓️
+++ Fantastic, I learned a lot, thank you very much
Thank you. Glad to hear that!
This was a very enjoyable episode. Paul was super nice and interesting. I wonder if it is hard to meet and make new friends then leave them not knowing if you'll ever see them in person again? It's hard for me when I just watch you do it. I couldn't help but notice Paul's pants, they are really cool looking, with maybe leather trim and accents. I'd really like to know where to find them for sale. If you have a clue please let me know...Steady on mateys!
Hi, Mark. The pants are traditional German carpenter's pants. They are excellent work pants made of corduroy, very comfy and durable ... and made in Germany, not in some sweat shop in Ethiopia or Bangladesh. They are also known as journeyman's pants. I've never seen them for sale outside of Germany, though.
@@paulcohen8266 Hi Paul, I am so surprised to hear directly from you! You made a great video with Drake and Eanna, I thoroughly enjoyed it! You're a very nice and interesting fellow with some cool pants! Thanks for the info on them, maybe with it, I'll be able to find a pair for myself. Thanks so much Paul!
@@markmahan6768 I found them. Guild trousers
www.engelbert-strauss.co.uk/guild-trousers/
hmmm, Ajungilak (@34:51) used to be the go to sleeping bag brand for sub sub zero survival in Norway,,, now it's re-branded by a Swiss company called Mammut --- I dont know noooothing :)
12:45 kneel before our new insect overlord
Ha, so true! ⊂(◉‿◉)つ
Other sailing channels just show stuff. You guys get people's stories :)
My home!🥰
I'm know why google has no translation for the language, but I'm thinking if your Welsh or Indian (american) you might pick the language up easier. So much info this man has it's great. : ) peace
What a great learning experience, do these small villages have a bank? How do they handle money.
Good question. There is a bank in Qaqortoq, but there aren't bank branches in any of the smaller places that we visited, including Narsaq. But there are ATMs, and people can also pay for everything in stores using credit or debit cards.
- Drake
Nat Geo has nothing on DrakeParagon. Thx folks.
Kinda funny as he says not much crime as he walks by tagged building. lol Thx you guys
Great video how cold does it get?
It can get down to minus 20 degrees Celsius in winter. But it's a dry cold.
It can go way lower.
@@paulcohen8266 Wow I wonder what it's like to experience that
@@mikemichaeld2259 Well, Greenland is a big place and we live in the south, euphemistically referred to down here as the 'banana coast'... so it's not nearly as cold as up in northern Greenland.😉
@@paulcohen8266 I have been marvelling at the videos and how beautiful the environment is being able to handle and live through such extreme weather must be exciting I am not sure but are there polar bears there as well. Hahaha exciting polar bears and extreme cold and I am in my front room watching tv but I hope you know what I mean
"The Chocolate Factory" haha
Wery interesting - at least for me....
Ok, Greenland enough with your sewage waste. Like most countries who have treatment plants that are not running all goes into the water. He says it doesn't make a difference, but yet he says dont 'eat the fish. That is sad. : ) peace
Is Narsarsuaq a hamlet or is it just an airport? Do regular people live there (people who don't work in the airport I mean).
As of 2020 there are 1,346 people living in Narsaq. Fishing is the biggest industry, but there's also sheep and reindeer farming, and tourism.
Everything poops. Low population... the earth can manage that. Tree-huggers :: get over yourselves. The trees grow back too. Great vid!
Aluminum requires massive amounts of electricity to smelt ,,
Question, they don't have any trees????
My understanding is there are some very small trees (more like bushes) that are surviving in the most southern part of Greenland, but just barely because the ground freezes in winter, and the summer doesn't get warm enough to stimulate more growth. North of that it's just too cold for trees grow at all.
So, what does the B sound like?
It seems like Islandic is much like the Navaho language.
Traditionally, Greenlandic doesn't have a "B" in the alphabet. Kids used to learn their "A C D's" ... but a foreign word with a "B" sounds like a "B". ;-)
@@paulcohen8266 It's all very interesting, but I can't even master my own language. Thank the programmers for spellchecker! ;)
@@nasanction Our ABC when I was a kid in Greenland was ABD - it is the C that is missing. For some strange reason greenlanders swap B & P, T & D, G & K and it is quite confusing. I was used to it when I lived there, but after 45 years in Denmark it just sound really strange. I think that, since they know when to say the wrong letter, I just can't wrap my head around, why they just can't say the proper sound. This is when I speak with my cousins in danish and they do that thing. It's funny. It was a german who put the greenlandic language into script. I guess we can blame him. :)
Samuel Kleinschmidt 1814 - 86.
Their toilet situation is disgusting. Why not use composting toilet?
I think that would be great too.
:)
Hahaha,,. I've. picked. shit. in. the. 609's. and. 70'sl
:)