SVALBARD CABIN TOUR | How much did it cost? We burn our poop!? | Off grid arctic living

welcome back to my channel thank you so much for checking in again and today I am doing a cabin tour so I'm gonna show you where I live which is right behind me so I live on Svalbard which is an island close to the North Pole so we are in the Arctic right now everything you can see behind here is pretty much glaciers and mountains which is pretty cool so we bought my boyfriend and I we bought this cabin last year for 2.4 million Norwegian kroner which is quite a lot considering that this cabin doesn't have any running water so we don't have a proper bathroom we don't have a shower we do our dishes in a different kind of way we have everything kind of Svalbard cabin style I'm going to show you today how that works. We have lived here permanently for a year now but I've lived on Svalbard for about four and a half years so I've been here for quite a while my boyfriend has been here for I think eight years so yeah it's safe to say that we're gonna stay here for a while we're also planning to build an extension on our cabin so we're gonna make this twice the size and we're gonna start this winter so that's exciting because you will see that it's not very big it's not super small but I mean on Svalbard you kind of accumulated a lot of things because you have the snowmobile season and then you have the boat season then you have the in between seasons so there's a lot of jackets you need. But also please like and subscribe I would love any support so I can keep making videos and just know that you like watching them and also if you have any ideas of what you want me to make just write them below in the comments and I will do my best. I recently just made a video about Longyearbyen so if you're kind of new to Svalbard and what this is all about you can check out that video and get more of an understanding about where I live. So our cabin is located 10 minutes outside of the village Longyearbyen so we are kind of in the polar bear area because on Svalbard we have polar bears. Wild living breathing polar bears and they can be anywhere so when I go for a walk out here I have to bring my rifle with me and we always kind of have to be wary of you know that they can show up at any time which is also things that we think about in our home so we try to not have anything you know outside that could be attractive like food or you know things like that but I'm gonna show you more so let's go inside. So this right here is our hallway it is not very big but it does the job we put a lot of kind of railings up so we can hang all of our jackets because we have seriously so many. So this is where you go in the entrance and then you have the bathroom right here and you have a storage room here and then you come into the cabin here. So in here pretty much we have a lot of stuff it's like a utility hall everything's in here So this right here is the teeny tiny bathroom and the fan you're hearing is this toilet because it is an incinerating toilet so it burns your business so that's why the fan is on otherwise it is pretty darn small but it works fine considering you don't have any water any shower we don't even need more space so this is a pee toilet. What you do is you lift this lid and then you do your business you pull this one out before and then all the pee goes in this part and then we go and we empty that outside just into the ocean also not too difficult. It's just you have to do it, there's no way around it. Here is me I think it's gonna be the only way for me to film this room is to take my camera and just hold it. So here since we don't have any running water this not very beautiful thing is electric and when you push this button you get water because it is connected down here to a water container. Then the water runs into this bucket and we do the same thing you take it outside and you dump it in the ocean We also have a third system in here for just kind of if you ever need to wash your body which I have a couple of times just outside on the deck. We have this porta shower, this is a super good thing it's also very good when I need to clean grim so you just pump and then you have like your shower head you get water so it's like a like a shower it works actually very well. So this is our teeny tiny bathroom but it does the job. Straight from the kitchen and the hallway is our bedroom It is pretty small because we put a massive bed in here which is 180 it we kind of felt like it's important to have a good bed so we get a good night sleep As you can see there's mostly my stuff in here, thank you Christoffer and these super cute lights also my stuff because I like designer stuff more stuff does mine, he gets other parts of the cabin just not this part. I need my things in here so yeah this is our bedroom. I love our view as well it goes straight out into this beautiful view of the ocean and glaciers and often whales and birds and everything it's beautiful so we wake up in the morning we have a coffee and we look out of this gorgeous window to the beautiful view very peaceful This right here is our kitchen, it didn't really look like this when we moved in and it looked a little bit different because the people who had this before kind of only used it as a cabin so they had a super small fridge and this was over here but so we put in this massive fridge, which is very necessary because you need to be able to keep a lot of food of course, and otherwise it's yeah we just changed a little bit around. It's quite messy because we just don't really have that much space so since it's just months away really from building our extension we're just going to keep it this way and try to keep it as tidy as we can but it's a little bit difficult at times. We have a gas stove and oven which works really well and then we have our washing up right here so what we do is we bring water in in these containers right here so we fill five or ten liter canisters or containers and we carry them down to the cabin so that can be quite heavy sometimes we have like 50 liters of water we need to carry down so we need to go a couple of times and then we fill them in here which is the 17 liter water heater and yeah that is pretty much it It keeps the water at 30 degrees we can choose on the side and then we can do our dishes and everything from her. You become quite mindful not to use too much water because you know that you're gonna have to carry everything down here So yeah we don't use that much water and then this just runs down into a bucket in this bucket we take out and we throw it in the ocean We also make sure to use environmentally friendly things like dishwashing liquid so this one is from Klar because you do want to think about stuff like that when you're actually throwing it straight into the ocean, which is legal so you don't need to worry about it that way but we want to make sure to not like do anything bad to the environment but yeah so this is our kitchen This right here is our gorgeous living room This is where we spend all of her time pretty much because this is like 90% of the house so where I work is right here where I chill is right here where I sit and watch whales and just watch the amazing view is right here. So we have a projector right up here doesn't work now in the summer because it's way too light because we have Midnight Sun 24/7 well no we have Sun 24/7 so we have Midnight sun which means that a projector is not the best way of watching anything and we don't have anything else so we kind of just we haven't watched TV at all we just sit outside or read books or we you know going walks you kind of do different things during the summer than you would during the polar night so yeah this is our gorgeous little cabin. I'm gonna take you on a closer inspection of everything because I can't really show you everything from here. So this is where I sit and work all the time and I can't wait for us to actually build an extension because this is not the best place to work you can see how much light there is coming here and you just get a little bit tired so my computer this poor baby I killed the other day by accidentally dropping water so I'm gonna have to have a funeral for her and then all of my stuff is right here I just got the mavic air 2 which is very exciting I love my Mavic 2 Pro and my charging stations and then I have my Nintendo and lenses and this is just full of all the stuff for like cameras and everything. My amazing fstop bag who I love, I'm a champion for the brand love fstop so that is pretty much my little work area This right here is I think my favorite place in the entire cabin Like sitting here and just watching this view especially in like February when it's super pink and blue outside or just now in the summer we had the other day like 60 belugas just swimming by, I'll put in the footage, it's pretty incredible to be able to live like this. We have glaciers on the entire other side, glaciers and mountains and so much beauty to watch. It's very bright right now. Yeah it's just incredible It's such a nice day today now I'm gonna murder Grim because he's barking. We have two ways of heating this cabin up it's either by making a fire or by our air conditioner or heating unit. The air condition unit costs quite a lot of money because it needs a lot of electricity so now in the summer it can actually be better to just leave the air conditioning unit off and just make one fire maybe two a day to just get it a little bit warmer. Today it is quite a nice day so it's like seven degrees outside but in the winter we have the air conditioning on all the time but it's on heating so it's on 24/7 and then on top of that we make a fire or two maybe a couple of times a week because it gets very cold but now the summer it's perfect to just making one fire Our deck, barbecue and this is amazing. It goes all the way around. This was pretty much the whole tour of our cabin and where we live so I would love it if you subscribed and I'm gonna make more videos and just thank you so much for watching see you soon

Channel: Cecilia Blomdahl

Views: 368,816

Keywords: svalbard, northern, norway, polar bears, climate change, arctic, longyearbyen, scandinavia, mountains, glaciers, north pole, winter, cold, barentsburg, spitsbergen

Id: VZ5aHnFdkgw

Length: 15min 43sec (943 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 10 2020