Luleå In Northern Sweden Is Home To Some Incredible ICE ROADS, Join Me On A Walk To An Island!
I arrived here with only 2 hours of daylight left and ended up doing one of the coolest things I've EVER done. Join me for a walk with a difference in Luleå.
Filmed on Thursday 12th January 2024
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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
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.
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.
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!
The water you are walking on is the Gulf of Bothnia and is actually a part of the Baltic Sea. :)
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.
Very good. You did well to stay upright with all that ice - I would have probably ended up on my backside 😂
Great adventure. Love the hat. Tomorrow’s max temperature in Mornington is 37 Celsius! 👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️ from 🇦🇺
Gee whiz I feel the cold coming through the video. You did get good value in your hotel £75 with breakfast really good. Weird it has no window but. I would feel trapped
And lo! Steve Marsh did walk on water! Fantastic! 😃🙏🏴🇮🇪🥶
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.
The light through this entire video is just awesome.
I love the sound of walking on snow as much as some people love the sound of crunching leaves.
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.
Thanks for this! Fantastic. I live in the Caribbean, so this is like another planet for me! Beautiful.
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!
Love the bit of “Scot’s” closed doon
This reminds me of ice road truckers with Lisa pulling those heavy loads over the ice.
Hi Steve 😊 two videos a week. You're amazing and I appreciate your hard work in sharing your trips. You remain my favourite KZreadr and when your good lady joins you my favourite KZreadrs. Take care and thank you
You're great at finding such interesting places, Steve.