Hi Steve - I came across your channel about a week ago and I’ve been binge watching ever since I find your travels Absolutely brilliant - I suffer with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and I live in a rehabilitation centre. I’m either wheelchair bound or bedbound - your channel and your travels. I can only dream about. So thank you very much for making me smile - sending love and hugs ~ Xxx Xxx
@@steve-marsh The First Mall in World The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II - was first designed in 1861. It took 12 years to complete and was finished in 1877. It's a four-story double arcade named for the first Monarch of Italy. The Galleria Vittorio's vast stores, cafés, and restaurants complement its magnificent architecture.
Just a correction. It's not a river or a lake, it's the baltic sea. A secluded bay of it. Technically you could walk all the way over to Finland if it wasn't for the fact that they keep a few shipping lanes open further out in the sea.
It is the end of the Luleå river though, let's be honest =) It's where the Luleå river meets the baltic and Gråsjälören is technically in the inner fjärd.
Resident of Luleå here. If you had come here about a month later you could have watched the yearly ice skating competitions and the half-marathon run around the ice road. The ice skating competition is ran by the Dutch ice skating league in cooperation with Luleå City as the dutch canals where the ice skating competitions use to be held won't freeze over due to climate change, so they decided to move the competitions up here instead of cancelling them.
Oh, not sure someone else has commented: The building at the end is heated with “left over” heating from the district heating. After heating houses (and by the way the pavements in the city centre outside your hotel as well), they try different things to use all of the remaining heat.
I love the Swedish skies - in summer/winter the colours are immense and I never see anything like it in the UK - must be something to do with their (relatively) cleaner atmosphere or something.
Brilliant. As an Aussie in Sweden for 7 years now I’ll say that feeling of surreal walking to an island doesn’t fade away. And I’d say Swedes love the ice as much as anyone. It’s an energy kick in the gloom of winter. Clarion hotels never let me down, definitely a tiny room but does the job.
Hi Steve I came accross your video and had to watch it as I live in Luleå. The island you went on is very busy at the weekends and the cafe is open then. You can get a hot drink and hot dog usually. You were very lucky as you missed the cold spell we had just after you left it got down to -40°. I loved the video that you did its always nice to see a visitors view of Luleå it reminds me of when we first moved here. Really nice film - going to pass it on to a few friends and rellies!
lucky? or unlucky? For a tourist who never experienced those artic temperatures, -40 might be an adventure, especially because you can retreat in a safe warm hotel and don;t have to worry about the things you locals have to deal with . He would need to buy a complete set of gear to go outside though
Iv found your channel with this film and I’m living on Luleå and it’s really amazing that everyone can go out and walk on the ice roads, every Saturday in the winter when the ice road are open there are a group of older people that makes hotdogs and such and you can buy some coffee/ tea/ chocolate and I usually go at least 2-3 times every winter and have one or two hotdogs and coffee and just sit and enjoy myself with my dogs
@kes251 Thinking back I enjoyed it too while we lived up North. Walking in the forest in the fall, when it was really cold walking in winter. Living in Florida (for 43 years) we shiver at 63 degrees but it is a nice remembrance.
...gorgeous, Steve, there is a magic about white landscapes and crossing large bodies of water on foot... brings up the time when I lived in Berlin... sometimes in Winter, when we had ongoing wind from the north-east, temperatures would drop down to between -10 and -20 C, and after just a few days you could walk across canals, rivers and the lakes around the city... my flat was only heated by coal ovens, which were hard to get going through the night... well, I was young and robust then, and the rent was cheap... good memories... 😸
In the Northern U.S. state of Maine and this year we can't catch a break with warm temps...but usually frozen lakes are the norm, ice fishing is a big deal...nice to see your enthusiasm...reminds me how amazing it really is.
Those looked like tomatoes in that little house at the end. Thank you to the commenter who explained they were being grown with leftover heat from keeping the sidewalks cleared.
Hi Steve, like a previous respondent, I too have been binge watching your videos, but this one is one of your best. A very different experience for us here in the UK. The variety of your content is really engaging and your channel is now one of the ones I look for each week. Keep ‘em coming and happy travels!
You think it's a different experience for you, I'm watching from Australia! We complain if the daytime temperature drops below 15C - what a bunch of wusses we are 😆
Steve.. it gives a whole new meaning to walking on water! And your comment about -8C being relatively mild made me chuckle! You must go back in the summer!!
Yes, please, Steve, go back in the summer so that we can all marvel at the contrasting beauty. It looks to be a wonderful place to live when all the problems of the world have been corrected😊
Thanks Steve for the "extra" vlog. Well worth it. That walk on the snow and ice to the island and back was great. Wouldn't fancy it in the dark! Glad you got back to the hotel ok . Room was fine for the price. A pretty big town for being so far north. Would be great to revisit in the summer! 😊 👍
This was fun to watch, being swedish :-) the green house sign said "here we grow on recycled heat". Quite a long walk to the island, wasn't it? If you've had a chat with the locals there I'm sure they've given you a snowmobile ride back.
Wow. All of these shots are spectacular ... the crane and the ice road with the sun going down behind it, and then turning around to pan the Luleå shore bathing in the sweet light. Love it. Cheers!
Hi Steve 😊 two videos a week. You're amazing and I appreciate your hard work in sharing your trips. You remain my favourite RUclipsr and when your good lady joins you my favourite RUclipsrs. Take care and thank you
From Las Vegas, NV, USA ....My husband and I are loving your videos, and we both marvel at your bravery in taking on these challenges so often. Thank you very much for allowing us to be with you, as you learn about these faraway places, and what it takes to get there and then return. You are enabling us to become familiar with places we would never get to see otherwise! Because you do spend so much time walking through these locations, in a way, it makes us feel as though we have been there. Thank you sooo much, and please stay safe!!
Ice roads are great fun. When I was younger, so much younger than today, me and my friends used to drive cars on the ice (much further south in Sweden to where you were). Extremely fun. Nowadays I settle with skating and skiing. Once again a great video.
I’ve been binging your videos for a couple of days. This ones amazing. I live in Australia so this is right off the beaten track for me. Somewhere I guess I’ll never go. Thanks for showing me 🌻
I'm watching this video because its so wonderful! And I do believe that even I could walk in that snow! I'll get me sled! And that sjopping Mall,! Woohoo! Yeah! Overdraft here we come! 😃🙋👍🇨🇮🏴🙏
I loved the mid-week bonus. The sound of the snow “squeak-crunching” was oddly comforting. Looks like a beautiful day there. I think your winter adventures are so great! Cheers and ATB!
Steve, thanks for another interesting video. I visit Sweden fairly regularly and for the past couple of years I have found that I now have to set the network manually rather than allowing automatic selection whilst roaming on my UK network based mobile phone sim. I just try the networks on offer until one works and then keep that for the duration of my stay. Hopefully this helps for when you return. Stockholm really is an absolute must, particularly in the Summer. One of my favourite cities in the world. Summer Night City as a certain pop group called it is 100% accurate !!
Great video Steve. The ice road was cool but scary and when you returned to Lulea the picture of the town was stunning. Had to smile at the Lions club on the island, probably the strangest place to have one. Thanks Steve
Great video Steve if you have never watched a lady that lives in Sweden called Jonna Jinton who puts her videos on here are well worth watching, she records the sound of the frozen ice it’s amazing also takes dips in that frozen water .
Wow what a fantastic place to visit. The crane was really impressive, absolutely massive. It looked bigger than the Titan crane in Clydebank. When you were walking over the ice and then heard what sounded like cracking I started to cringe. Really cool to be able to get to the island on foot. I knew you couldn't resist having a go on the kicks led. Decent room for the money with breakfast was good value, especially there. Look forward to the next one mate.
Well Luleå both historically (especially) but even today is a pretty major port for the shipping of iron ore from Kiruna so large cranes are kind of to be expected :) There's also a steel mill in Luleå using the iron ore from Kiruna so, yeah the port is quite important, to put it mildly. The iron ore mines of Kiruna and its environs is the whole reason for why there is even a railway or ports this far north, tbh
That was neat! All of this is so unique to say the least! Very fun Steve, It's fun is not knowing what's coming. Thanks for a brilliant destination! Merry Ann from Minnesota
That giant crane - first thing I thought of was HG Wells' War of the Worlds. Not the dumb TC movie, the Orson Welles radio broadcast. The scenery and light is amazing. Thanks for sharing your travels with us.
I must say a bit of a nail biter when I saw you on that body of water. Brave is all I can say. Awesome sunset and some sunlight is always appreciated. You are missing a tea kettle in your room, glasses, cups, etc. time for my cup of ☕looking forward to your next adventure Cheers
Oh my giddy aunt.was cringing when you walked over the ice.you are right.we would not do this confidently in scotland although lake of menteith used to hold the curling competitions..look forward to next video steve.👍
Oh the sound of real crackling snow, how I miss that in Ireland.. Growing up in The Netherlands I have seen my fair share of fresh snow and icy ponds and rivers.. Lovely wee video Steve and nice walk up to that smal island.. ❤️
1445 BC- Moses walks across the Red Sea (then just a small river btw). 2024 AD- Steve walks across a Swedish Sea. He's in good company in history books and I'll bet that Moses didn't spend 14 hours on a sleeper train first. I for one would really be interested to see a return visit in the summer. PS I've just had a great idea- see if Scott could walk across the bay- IN SUMMER. With his luck, he'd probably manage it.
I love this video..this is a country I have always wanted to visit and thanks to you I have. It is beautiful and I can only imagine how beautiful Spring and summer would be. You have guts walking across the frozen lake or river. Thank you 🤗❤️
@@charinajohansson3890 No shit... You didn't understand what i was saying!! It's a answer to @lauraautry6992 "You have guts walking across the frozen lake".
Hi Steve. Oh my, having been brought up in Southern England any idea of walking on ice has always been a big no no. So to see you trudge across the ice kind of freaked me out. I did however feel your joy. 👏👏👍🥶
I understand that. Even up here far in the north you still want to check beforehand to make sure it's safe, even if during winter you can expect that barring some unusual circumstance it will be. The point being, not even Swedes (unless they're pretty daft) walk onto the ice without checking it first, or without someone that knows their stuff telling them it's thick enough
Whar a lovley place and that sunset.and walking on the iced river that would be great.but i too would have to keep on the snow part.i don't think these old bones would stay upright ha ha. Thank you Steve another film .❄️🌨☀️
This is common in the Northern Europe and the middle of USA like Minnesota and further in Canada. In the video a small tractor goes across the ice. In Minnesota people drive cars across the lakes.
Nice video! There are two things he does not comment in the video that for a northern Swede is worth noticing! When he steps out from the hotel, there is a pathway that is completely free of snow! How is that possible? Well nowadays most cities in the cost of northern Sweden has heated (by hot water) pathways and squares. How is it possible to drive a car to the little island he walks to? The answer is that the thickness of the ice must be at least 30 cm (12") as the snow-blowing tractor is doing just fine. The minimum thickness of ice for a person to safely walk on is 5cm (2"). Always when you are on ice, you should wear "isdubbar" that is two wooden handles with sharp metal spikes, so that, in case of breaking ice, you can drag yourself out from the water using the isdubbar. Its also recommended to have a 20m line so that you can assist another person that have gone through the ice. By the way, did you notice the nice chirping sound from his boots when walking? That signals that the temperature must be below -15 C.
Really nice to see you take an ice walk Steve, that is actually the baltic sea you´re walking on :). I live a bit more south then Luleå and in finland, but this winter has been a proper winter also for us wit the opportunity to have plowed ice roads on the more shielded bays and lakes. Enough thickness for the local youth to go ice racing with whatever old RWD cars they can get hold of, just as i did in my late teens with my Ford sierra.. oh the good old times :)
Hi Steve, well that certainly was something different. Great video, everything looked cold but very lovely. Looking forward to your trip further north. Thanks again. Take care.
Nice video. The lakes in the inland have even thicker ice. Right next to where I grew up, there's a ferry but the channel through the ice would freeze over, so the road administration pumped extra water on top to make it thick enough that logging trucks could safely drive across! The ice in the film looks at least a foot thick, possibly two. Those cars we see on the ice and on the island will not have caused any problems. Re-watch "Grumpy old men" for some more winter imagery.
The first winter I spent in Denmark, I went for a walk by the beach. It took me some time to realize that in fact, I was walking on the sea. There were deep narrow cracks at the bottom of which you couldseethe water sloshing below. Such a weird experience. . Some years of intense cold, I wastold that it was possible to drive to Sweden over the sea!
Table tennis by the dock and open water it must be very windy, maybe with a heavy rubber ball?, love the crunch under the boots then you know it's fresh and dry winter weather.
Originally from the coast a bit south of Luleå, but still with proper winter. Now living in Gothenburg I miss things like using a kicksled to get around. You can use the seat for loading stuff and get quite far and get good speed if it's not too many hills and not much sand/gravel on the road.
Hi Steve - I came across your channel about a week ago and I’ve been binge watching ever since I find your travels Absolutely brilliant - I suffer with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis and I live in a rehabilitation centre. I’m either wheelchair bound or bedbound - your channel and your travels. I can only dream about. So thank you very much for making me smile - sending love and hugs ~ Xxx Xxx
Thank you so much Louise!
That’s a beautiful comment to Steve ❤
Another brilliant video Steve, thank you for taking us along on another very interesting journey.
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First Mall in World The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II - was first designed in 1861. It took 12 years to complete and was finished in 1877. It's a four-story double arcade named for the first Monarch of Italy. The Galleria Vittorio's vast stores, cafés, and restaurants complement its magnificent architecture.
I think I'm bad when my arthritis flyers up. My thoughts are with you and our minds follow these wonderful travels 👍
Just a correction. It's not a river or a lake, it's the baltic sea. A secluded bay of it. Technically you could walk all the way over to Finland if it wasn't for the fact that they keep a few shipping lanes open further out in the sea.
It is the end of the Luleå river though, let's be honest =) It's where the Luleå river meets the baltic and Gråsjälören is technically in the inner fjärd.
Resident of Luleå here. If you had come here about a month later you could have watched the yearly ice skating competitions and the half-marathon run around the ice road. The ice skating competition is ran by the Dutch ice skating league in cooperation with Luleå City as the dutch canals where the ice skating competitions use to be held won't freeze over due to climate change, so they decided to move the competitions up here instead of cancelling them.
And lo! Steve Marsh did walk on water! Fantastic! 😃🙏🏴🇮🇪🥶
Now Steve, don't think you are the reincarnation of Jesus just because you walked on (frozen) water.
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Hej Steve. Im from Stockholm Sweden, 84 year old, but glad I founnd jour site. Will be walking with you for a long time now
Welcome to the channel, thanks for watching!
Oh, not sure someone else has commented: The building at the end is heated with “left over” heating from the district heating. After heating houses (and by the way the pavements in the city centre outside your hotel as well), they try different things to use all of the remaining heat.
The red writing says "Here we grow on return heat"
Thank you, I noticed the pavements were free from snow, but didn’t realise that they were heated!
@@barrybrown6923 it does, but in English that needs explanation
The light through this entire video is just awesome.
I love the Swedish skies - in summer/winter the colours are immense and I never see anything like it in the UK - must be something to do with their (relatively) cleaner atmosphere or something.
Brilliant. As an Aussie in Sweden for 7 years now I’ll say that feeling of surreal walking to an island doesn’t fade away. And I’d say Swedes love the ice as much as anyone. It’s an energy kick in the gloom of winter.
Clarion hotels never let me down, definitely a tiny room but does the job.
Hi Steve I came accross your video and had to watch it as I live in Luleå. The island you went on is very busy at the weekends and the cafe is open then. You can get a hot drink and hot dog usually. You were very lucky as you missed the cold spell we had just after you left it got down to -40°. I loved the video that you did its always nice to see a visitors view of Luleå it reminds me of when we first moved here. Really nice film - going to pass it on to a few friends and rellies!
Thanks so much! Sorry if I got any info wrong :) oh I would have loved a hot drink and snack over on the island!
"Missed the cold spell"...My goodness, it looked pretty cold anyway, but minus 40! That must just about freeze the (well, you know what I mean 😉)
lucky? or unlucky? For a tourist who never experienced those artic temperatures, -40 might be an adventure, especially because you can retreat in a safe warm hotel and don;t have to worry about the things you locals have to deal with . He would need to buy a complete set of gear to go outside though
@Nostalgia-That was uncalled for. I’m sure Sweden has refugees and poor people who find the climate challenging.
Iv found your channel with this film and I’m living on Luleå and it’s really amazing that everyone can go out and walk on the ice roads, every Saturday in the winter when the ice road are open there are a group of older people that makes hotdogs and such and you can buy some coffee/ tea/ chocolate and I usually go at least 2-3 times every winter and have one or two hotdogs and coffee and just sit and enjoy myself with my dogs
Thanks for this! Fantastic. I live in the Caribbean, so this is like another planet for me! Beautiful.
I love the sound of walking on snow as much as some people love the sound of crunching leaves.
I loved that sound through out the video.
@kes251 Thinking back I enjoyed it too while we lived up North. Walking in the forest in the fall, when it was really cold walking in winter. Living in Florida (for 43 years) we shiver at 63 degrees but it is a nice remembrance.
Just add a bass riff to it and you're dancing!
That’s what we call in Canada squeaky snow.
ASMR Is the new thing.
The sound of the snow tells me just how cold it is...
The water you are walking on is the Gulf of Bothnia and is actually a part of the Baltic Sea. :)
"don't eat yellow snow" is a song by Frank Zappa. I must go to Sweden.Good vid
...gorgeous, Steve, there is a magic about white landscapes and crossing large bodies of water on foot... brings up the time when I lived in Berlin... sometimes in Winter, when we had ongoing wind from the north-east, temperatures would drop down to between -10 and -20 C, and after just a few days you could walk across canals, rivers and the lakes around the city... my flat was only heated by coal ovens, which were hard to get going through the night... well, I was young and robust then, and the rent was cheap... good memories... 😸
In the Northern U.S. state of Maine and this year we can't catch a break with warm temps...but usually frozen lakes are the norm, ice fishing is a big deal...nice to see your enthusiasm...reminds me how amazing it really is.
Those looked like tomatoes in that little house at the end. Thank you to the commenter who explained they were being grown with leftover heat from keeping the sidewalks cleared.
Another day, another fascinating adventure. Thanks for taking us along Steve.
Love the bit of “Scot’s” closed doon
Haha yeah I caught that too. The 'phone' voice got turned off for a sec there 😂😂😂
The Swedish tourist board should pay you, Steve! I’m sold! That looked like great fun!
i could totally live there happily.
Hi Steve, like a previous respondent, I too have been binge watching your videos, but this one is one of your best. A very different experience for us here in the UK. The variety of your content is really engaging and your channel is now one of the ones I look for each week. Keep ‘em coming and happy travels!
You think it's a different experience for you, I'm watching from Australia! We complain if the daytime temperature drops below 15C - what a bunch of wusses we are 😆
Steve.. it gives a whole new meaning to walking on water! And your comment about -8C being relatively mild made me chuckle! You must go back in the summer!!
Yes, please, Steve, go back in the summer so that we can all marvel at the contrasting beauty. It looks to be a wonderful place to live when all the problems of the world have been corrected😊
Even though it's 65 degrees Fahrenheit right now where I am in Mexico, I had to go put on a jacket while watching this video.
Thanks Steve for the "extra" vlog. Well worth it. That walk on the snow and ice to the island and back was great. Wouldn't fancy it in the dark! Glad you got back to the hotel ok . Room was fine for the price. A pretty big town for being so far north. Would be great to revisit in the summer! 😊 👍
locals didn't seem to mind the dark, when he returned some still started their walk the other way
@@Blackadder75 Yeah, some with dogs and some with a stroller 😅
This was fun to watch, being swedish :-) the green house sign said "here we grow on recycled heat". Quite a long walk to the island, wasn't it? If you've had a chat with the locals there I'm sure they've given you a snowmobile ride back.
You're great at finding such interesting places, Steve.
This reminds me of ice road truckers with Lisa pulling those heavy loads over the ice.
Steve Marsh, Lets Make a trip, Planes trains and everything. 3 must watch channels.
Wow. All of these shots are spectacular ... the crane and the ice road with the sun going down behind it, and then turning around to pan the Luleå shore bathing in the sweet light. Love it. Cheers!
Hearing that crunch crunch crunch reminds me of the cold winter weather I grew up with as a child gives me shivers.
Squeak squeak, crunch crunch...Wow! Amazing, Steve - and such beautiful light. Thank you. Enjoyed every minute of that!
Absolutely amazing place Steve. Thanks for taking us.
Thanks Steve! Really nice video and journey. So cool to follow you and I love your enthusiasm! 🙋♀️☀️❄️
Hi Steve 😊 two videos a week. You're amazing and I appreciate your hard work in sharing your trips. You remain my favourite RUclipsr and when your good lady joins you my favourite RUclipsrs. Take care and thank you
Thanks so much mate!
I held my breath the whole time you were on the ice, you sure were brave
From Las Vegas, NV, USA ....My husband and I are loving your videos, and we both marvel at your bravery in taking on these challenges so often. Thank you very much for allowing us to be with you, as you learn about these faraway places, and what it takes to get there and then return. You are enabling us to become familiar with places we would never get to see otherwise! Because you do spend so much time walking through these locations, in a way, it makes us feel as though we have been there. Thank you sooo much, and please stay safe!!
Fun and nice seeing someone from vacation mecka Las Vegas watching a Luleå video 😃
Ice roads are great fun. When I was younger, so much younger than today, me and my friends used to drive cars on the ice (much further south in Sweden to where you were). Extremely fun. Nowadays I settle with skating and skiing. Once again a great video.
I’ve been binging your videos for a couple of days. This ones amazing. I live in Australia so this is right off the beaten track for me. Somewhere I guess I’ll never go. Thanks for showing me 🌻
This was awesome experience. Thank you for putting a smile on my face😊
Crunch crunch crunch. Wow! What a great video Steve! You are so spoiling us. Thank you.
I'm watching this video because its so wonderful! And I do believe that even I could walk in that snow! I'll get me sled! And that sjopping Mall,! Woohoo! Yeah! Overdraft here we come! 😃🙋👍🇨🇮🏴🙏
And like Alicja your community, Steven, says: "be careful out there!" ❤
I loved the mid-week bonus. The sound of the snow “squeak-crunching” was oddly comforting. Looks like a beautiful day there. I think your winter adventures are so great! Cheers and ATB!
I love that the snow and ice has remained pristine and clean. None of that dirt and soot on the snow you would find in an urban setting.
Steve, thanks for another interesting video. I visit Sweden fairly regularly and for the past couple of years I have found that I now have to set the network manually rather than allowing automatic selection whilst roaming on my UK network based mobile phone sim. I just try the networks on offer until one works and then keep that for the duration of my stay. Hopefully this helps for when you return. Stockholm really is an absolute must, particularly in the Summer. One of my favourite cities in the world. Summer Night City as a certain pop group called it is 100% accurate !!
Cool video Steve. "Watch out where the huskies go, don't you touch the yellow snow. " Frank Zappa
You’re spoiling us Steve! 👏
Great video Steve. The ice road was cool but scary and when you returned to Lulea the picture of the town was stunning. Had to smile at the Lions club on the island, probably the strangest place to have one. Thanks Steve
There is no Lions Club on the island, but a local Lion's Club chapter aids the up keep and buildings and cafe on the island.....
@@peroldenThank you.
Thank you for the information. I bet it is just as beautiful in summer@@perolden
Great video Steve if you have never watched a lady that lives in Sweden called Jonna Jinton who puts her videos on here are well worth watching, she records the sound of the frozen ice it’s amazing also takes dips in that frozen water .
Fantastic, it's another place that's on my list this year. Then on to Rovaniemi and back across to Narvic. Thanks for great video Steve.
I like the noise of knispering snow under your feet, specially in the evening 😊
Wow what a fantastic place to visit.
The crane was really impressive, absolutely massive.
It looked bigger than the Titan crane in Clydebank.
When you were walking over the ice and then heard what sounded like cracking I started to cringe.
Really cool to be able to get to the island on foot.
I knew you couldn't resist having a go on the kicks led.
Decent room for the money with breakfast was good value, especially there.
Look forward to the next one mate.
Well Luleå both historically (especially) but even today is a pretty major port for the shipping of iron ore from Kiruna so large cranes are kind of to be expected :) There's also a steel mill in Luleå using the iron ore from Kiruna so, yeah the port is quite important, to put it mildly. The iron ore mines of Kiruna and its environs is the whole reason for why there is even a railway or ports this far north, tbh
That was neat! All of this is so unique to say the least! Very fun Steve, It's fun is not knowing what's coming. Thanks for a brilliant destination! Merry Ann from Minnesota
Oh wow Steve I really envy you. It looks absolutely beautiful
I’m going there in February I can’t wait
Mind if i ask what are you gonna do when you get there?
@@kingboss1279 going to do a few excursions like husky sledging and going to go to kiruna for the day on the train
@@adamcolins5410 Okay that sounds lovely, If im not mistaken you can go on a snowmobile safari lead by a tour guide aswell!
I would be to afraid 😨 to walk on the ice just incase it cracked 😮
That giant crane - first thing I thought of was HG Wells' War of the Worlds. Not the dumb TC movie, the Orson Welles radio broadcast. The scenery and light is amazing. Thanks for sharing your travels with us.
Great update Steve , me and my wife Pat loved this one , like you say it was a bit different but very enjoyable, keep up the good work 👍
I must say a bit of a nail biter when I saw you on that body of water. Brave is all I can say. Awesome sunset and some sunlight is always appreciated. You are missing a tea kettle in your room, glasses, cups, etc. time for my cup of ☕looking forward to your next adventure Cheers
OMG Steve! 😦 There's no way I could walk on those clear icy bits, I actually felt ill & had to look away! Brilliant video but freaked me out a bit 🤣
Oh my giddy aunt.was cringing when you walked over the ice.you are right.we would not do this confidently in scotland although lake of menteith used to hold the curling competitions..look forward to next video steve.👍
It´s thick enough to carry a lorry and a bus. Probably safer there then on land.
Loch Lee Glenesk,had a bonspeil last, in 1979 i think
Oh the sound of real crackling snow, how I miss that in Ireland.. Growing up in The Netherlands I have seen my fair share of fresh snow and icy ponds and rivers.. Lovely wee video Steve and nice walk up to that smal island.. ❤️
Ireland? It rarely snows here tbh
I was on about The Netherlands, where I was born.. In Ireland I have seen 3 flakes of snow in 8 years 😂
Watching you since the start mate...but got to comment, that was magic 🎉
Love a bit of Midweek Marsh!
Incredible - quite a journey and expense to get there but what an experience. What a bonus video that was
Thanks for this! Everybody else is doing some beach destinations which I find extremely boring. Thumbs up
That was beautiful Steve thank you❤
It's not a lake nor a river - it's the Botnian sea.Enjoy mate - it's magic!
That's amazing! The squeak of footsteps on ice was travel asmr!
That’s good advice Steve, yellow snow ❄️ is always sketchy 😂
Excellent Steve, I love the crunching sound of the snow when you’re walking
🎶Watch out where the huskies go🎶🐺 Great video Steve
1445 BC- Moses walks across the Red Sea (then just a small river btw).
2024 AD- Steve walks across a Swedish Sea.
He's in good company in history books and I'll bet that Moses didn't spend 14 hours on a sleeper train first. I for one would really be interested to see a return visit in the summer.
PS I've just had a great idea- see if Scott could walk across the bay- IN SUMMER. With his luck, he'd probably manage it.
Well Steve another excellent video😂. Have been waiting patiently for your next video Be careful walking on ice.
If you take the train west into Norway, you can take the boat to Svalbard next!
Oh I wish!
I love this video..this is a country I have always wanted to visit and thanks to you I have. It is beautiful and I can only imagine how beautiful Spring and summer would be. You have guts walking across the frozen lake or river. Thank you 🤗❤️
10cm hard ice like that there you can see through it is all you need to walk on it really safely.
@@charinajohansson3890 yes , it;s far thicker here, but 10cm is already enough for walking or skating. (not for motor vehicles)
@@charinajohansson3890 No shit... You didn't understand what i was saying!! It's a answer to @lauraautry6992 "You have guts walking across the frozen lake".
Wow! Fab video. I always knew you could walk on water!!! Thanks very much ❤❤❤
The crunchy snow sounds so cold 🥶
Hi Steve. Oh my, having been brought up in Southern England any idea of walking on ice has always been a big no no. So to see you trudge across the ice kind of freaked me out. I did however feel your joy. 👏👏👍🥶
I understand that. Even up here far in the north you still want to check beforehand to make sure it's safe, even if during winter you can expect that barring some unusual circumstance it will be. The point being, not even Swedes (unless they're pretty daft) walk onto the ice without checking it first, or without someone that knows their stuff telling them it's thick enough
Absolutely brillant thank you Steve spoiling us again the sunset just can't the words to describe it
Whar a lovley place and that sunset.and walking on the iced river that would be great.but i too would have to keep on the snow part.i don't think these old bones would stay upright ha ha. Thank you Steve another film .❄️🌨☀️
That was so cool, Steve! I would love to go out there with a pair of skates ⛸️. I have to plan that trip next winter.
This is common in the Northern Europe and the middle of USA like Minnesota and further in Canada.
In the video a small tractor goes across the ice. In Minnesota people drive cars across the lakes.
What a great wee video Steve 👌 Thanks for the bonus video this week. 💙🏴
Nice video! There are two things he does not comment in the video that for a northern Swede is worth noticing!
When he steps out from the hotel, there is a pathway that is completely free of snow! How is that possible? Well
nowadays most cities in the cost of northern Sweden has heated (by hot water) pathways and squares.
How is it possible to drive a car to the little island he walks to? The answer is that the thickness of the ice must be
at least 30 cm (12") as the snow-blowing tractor is doing just fine. The minimum thickness of ice for a person
to safely walk on is 5cm (2"). Always when you are on ice, you should wear "isdubbar" that is two wooden handles
with sharp metal spikes, so that, in case of breaking ice, you can drag yourself out from the water using the isdubbar.
Its also recommended to have a 20m line so that you can assist another person that have gone through the ice.
By the way, did you notice the nice chirping sound from his boots when walking? That signals that the temperature
must be below -15 C.
My Home. Miss it! Not the cold though.
Stuck in concrete jungle in Stockholm for 15 years, but at least we get an early spring here down south.
Really nice to see you take an ice walk Steve, that is actually the baltic sea you´re walking on :). I live a bit more south then Luleå and in finland, but this winter has been a proper winter also for us wit the opportunity to have plowed ice roads on the more shielded bays and lakes. Enough thickness for the local youth to go ice racing with whatever old RWD cars they can get hold of, just as i did in my late teens with my Ford sierra.. oh the good old times :)
Cool!
Hi Steve, well that certainly was something different. Great video, everything looked cold but very lovely. Looking forward to your trip further north. Thanks again. Take care.
So nice! I was there on 27.02.2024 and I walked on the ice sea by the sunrise.
Nice video.
The lakes in the inland have even thicker ice. Right next to where I grew up, there's a ferry but the channel through the ice would freeze over, so the road administration pumped extra water on top to make it thick enough that logging trucks could safely drive across!
The ice in the film looks at least a foot thick, possibly two. Those cars we see on the ice and on the island will not have caused any problems. Re-watch "Grumpy old men" for some more winter imagery.
What a beautiful place. And what a time o day to capture it
Stive love this video looks incredible with all the snow😁😁
The first winter I spent in Denmark, I went for a walk by the beach. It took me some time to realize that in fact, I was walking on the sea. There were deep narrow cracks at the bottom of which you couldseethe water sloshing below. Such a weird experience. . Some years of intense cold, I wastold that it was possible to drive to Sweden over the sea!
I live in southern Sweden and we might get walkable lake ice for a month or so, it is very special.
Hi again Steve, rather you than me.
Thanks for that, it looks very cold. You do well taking us to all these places.
Bye for now from bme in Irvine 😊😊
That is such a cool place. Looking forward to next video😀
Table tennis by the dock and open water it must be very windy, maybe with a heavy rubber ball?, love the crunch under the boots then you know it's fresh and dry winter weather.
I wish we had enough snow to make use of those kicksleds. They look fun and practical. This was really a fun video!
They are amazing eh!
Originally from the coast a bit south of Luleå, but still with proper winter. Now living in Gothenburg I miss things like using a kicksled to get around. You can use the seat for loading stuff and get quite far and get good speed if it's not too many hills and not much sand/gravel on the road.