VAN LIFE IN ICELAND with My 4 Month Old Baby!

Yo, yo, yo Karla Frieta! My name is Arnold Løren, I'm a photographer and a video creator from Iceland. So, I'm currently driving around the southeastern and the eastern part of Iceland. It's winter at the moment, but as you can see it's pretty mild. I can't remember, you know, having this mild winter ever, but it still gets down to a minus degree, so I'm wearing a thick jacket. Anyways, it's a road trip and I'm living in a van, this van behind me. I'm not alone, I'm with my girlfriend and our four-month-old child. So, with other words, this is a great adventure and guess what? You guys are coming with me. So, one of the reasons I'm in Eastfjords is there are a few photos I've wanted to, like, photograph here for quite some time and also, like, this place is just magnificent. I, like, fun little fact, I used to live in Høp, which is just right over there, for three years, from 10 to 13. So, being in this area is very, you know, nostalgic to me, because I was used to, you know, be here when I was a kid. Anyways, let's see if I manage to take this photo and also, you know, how will it go living with the baby and all that in a van. Okay, so when you forget the coffee press, you need to improvise somehow if you want to get the coffee. So, this, what I'm about to show you now, is what we call the poor man's, you know, camper's coffee. Okay, so once it's boiling, we just turn it off and then we do it like this here and we take a little bit of the coffee and then you just pour a little bit in. We call it, like, hendadassa, you see, but just a little bit in. I don't know how much, just like so. It's like salting the water to work with coffee. Then, I think it's also good to take a little spoon and just, like, do a little bit of this here and then the most important thing is to make the coffee grog. That is probably not English, but, you know, the coffee sink to the bottom, because you don't have any filter. So, we let it sink and then we try to pour over just the good coffee and this, my friends, is the poor man's coffee. Okay, so now what we do, I have the cups here and the coffee and another crucial step when making the poor man's camper's coffee is to hold the lid so it catches, you know, the coffee. So, we just get pure coffee. I mean, this is, we're saving ourselves, you know. Okay, so what do you think of the poor man's camper's coffee? Nice. It's okay. It could have been stronger. It could have been stronger. It was stronger yesterday. Yes. Best poor man's camper's coffee. One, two, and now. Okay, so since we saw each other last time, I managed to bump my head, so please don't mind my little Harry Potter scarf. Anyways, how do you think, you know, it has, you know, been going? That's not good English. I think it's okay. For me, it's good English. How do you think it's, like, been... How do you think it has gone, you know, living in a van now and with a four months old? This question is for me. This question is for you and us and just, like, everybody who's watching. I think it has been going above my expectations. Okay, okay. Because I was a bit concerned before we left. I was really excited to go and we went on a similar trip this summer, but I was pregnant. Yes, last summer we went on a, like, very similar trip. We lived in Karolink, that video up here or here. Then we were just me and you. Yeah, it was different, but that was before her. Like, being pregnant, that's also a challenge. You know, being, like, in a van and being pregnant and you can't sleep and everything hurts and yada, yada, yada. And this time it was nothing hurts except maybe one's ears. Sometimes the, like, she's four months old and she started to get teeth, so sometimes she can be in Swedish you could say kinky. It's like cranky. She can get very cranky. She's been, like, the most beautiful little baby, beautiful baby. Maybe not that, but she's been, like, the apple of our eyes and the most wonderful person. And now she's been, like, full-on monster the last, maybe, one and a half weeks. It's the teeth. Yeah, it is the teeth and it's, like, one understands, like, it is a bit of a shit time for her in a sense. But that also, I think, heightened my worry about how it was gonna go, like, being away like this and also being, like, living in a car. I think it, and it's winter in Iceland, but... Yeah, winter time also. There was a lot of things that was a bit, that could go either way, I think. Definitely, but one thing that I think definitely has, like, been going in our way is that it's been very mild winter, so it hasn't been that cold. Like, now it's above zero degrees. I think it's, like, two degrees now, which it... Yeah, I'm gonna say right now maybe not. It may be zero degrees, but there isn't snow everywhere. Exactly, it's not snow everywhere. And I was a little bit concerned myself when we went on this trip that it would be snow everywhere and then we were just living in the car and having the little one and all that stuff. Anyways, I think, you know, that we have two more nights to go. Yes, and I really, like, I feel it's been going so well, I don't want to go home. No, me neither. No, I could definitely go for another week. And I think it is, like, being a new parent is challenging and having a baby is challenging at times, but I don't think it's much more challenging because you're in a van. Maybe when she poops. Yeah, but that's easy still. That's simple, that's simple. Yeah, but otherwise it's, like, you have the same challenges while in a van, while you're not in a van. You got a better view, usually, in a van. Much better view and it's much more easier for me to take photos and we're always, like, on these awesome places, so, like, photography has been going great. Anyways, let's keep, you know, this going and yeah, let's keep the video going. So, I'm currently behind a waterfall. Isn't Iceland just the most epic place ever? Anyways, the camper one is from a company called Go Campers. This is by no means a sponsored video. I'm not paid to say any of this. I just really like the owner, Benny, and he was kind enough to lend me the car in exchange for some photos. So, for those of you who are interested, I'll leave links in the description down below to Go Campers and yeah, let's continue the adventure. Okay, so we are starting to get close to Reykjavik, which means that the end of this adventure is, like, getting to the end. It's also starting to become dark, so I think it's, like, a perfect opportunity for me to end this video right here. Now, thank you so much for watching. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask and comment down below. This was, like, this was just so fun and you know, you know that feeling when you have when the, like, the end of a trip or the end of an adventure is getting close. That's, you know, that's what I have now. It's, like, mixed feelings. Like, one part of me wants to be, like, why shouldn't I? I should just buy my own and live forever. Then, another part of me is, like, I still like the city life too, but I'm definitely going to do this again. Anyways, if you could, you know, smack that like button for me. It always helps me out. Consider, you know, subscribing because I create a bunch, a bunch, a bunch of and I'll catch you guys in the next video. I'm out. Peace!