Greenland Cruise -- So Funny - Visit Before Everyone Else
we're going to tell you why you need to get to Greenland before anybody else does stay tuned where are we we are in Kirkland Washington outside of Seattle at a house sit and we're so excited to tell you about our trip to Greenland and a cruise so tell us why did we go to Greenland why did we go to Greenland well first I'm Chris this is Steve we're with eat walk learn we travel the world full time with our two carry-ons in a suitcase or two carry-ons as a suitcase glad you're here thank you for joining us so um I read a New York Times article back earlier this year I know New York Times love them or hate him but they had a really great article about Greenland and how it's the next upcoming upcoming tourist destination but what I really liked about it is not that we necessarily want to be where everybody else hasn't been yet but we like the idea that Greenland has a goal of making their tourism footprint greener than not having a tourism footprint so their goal is to grow their infrastructure to create Green Space and a green ecosystem and improve on the climate change issues that are happening there via tourism rather than have tourism make it worse yeah and that's important for us and important in our travels and going to Greenland is really not easy to do it's tough to get to yeah so for Americans to get to Greenland you've got to go first to Denmark because Greenland is a it's an autonomous region but it's associated with Denmark so you have to fly all the way to Denmark and then you have to fly to Greenland not very convenient for North Americans to get to Greenland right or yes or you can take a cruise and that's what we did out of New York City we went to Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Greenland and it was a total of a 13 day uh trip right 14 or 15. in the end of August 16th which was the perfect time of year to go yeah weather was perfect the weather was about the temperature was about 50 degrees every single day uh sometimes it was sunny sometimes it was rainy sometimes it was cloudy sometimes it's foggy but it was always right around 50 to 55 degrees so it was actually really Pleasant to get out of the heat from that was going on in the us at the time um we need to give a little shout out to our friends Rob and Dave Dave thank you over at 10 degrees warmer they do a little video series about snacks everywhere they went so we took their their lead and actually we're going to do something a little bit different on this video uh we're gonna splice in some some snacking that we tried that we did I'm doing Greenland so you'll see that as we come along thanks to Dave and Rob for that idea um all right so first we hopped on the ship in in uh New York and it was a great Sail Away out of New York wasn't that gorgeous going past the Statue of Liberty was fantastic and the fire boat and all that I mean it was really probably number one for a sail away from a cruise we were on Princess Cruises and we did stop through Nova Scotia we had three ports of Nova Scotia on the way to Greenland so what do you so what about Nova Scotia all right Nova Scotia was was great I was it was beautiful our first stop was in Halifax right I didn't realize that they have an important relationship to the Titanic in that they were really the First Responders for not the rescue but more of the recovery and so a lot of Titanic passengers are buried in uh in Nova Scotia so we went to the cemetery there um but I think what it's one of the things that so we like to say that we Cruise Nomad style so what does nomad Style mean actually so if you've ever cruised uh the cruise industry really likes to sell you excursions and really high dollar excursions that's not our style we like to figure out you know we're not scared of transportation and Transit and locals and you know negotiating with tab cab dealers and so on so we try to do it on our own so when we started seeing that all these excursions through these Nova Scotia towns were really expensive like 250 dollars we thought well how can we do this alone so tip number one if you're on a cruise here's your tip join the what's it called the con The Continuous trivia yeah it was the everyday trivia The Continuous trivia so you every day there's a c day you get together with the same group of people and you play trivia and at the end of the cruise you get a prize if your team wins this is a great way to get to know people because you meet with them every day you talk trivia you get to know each other so that really paid off when we got to these different um Nova Scotia reports because our friend our friends who we made making trivia also wanted to do The Nomad style way of cruising and um we and at Several of these ports we what did we do we got together and did what yeah you know we could just uh hire a taxi in a taxi that's at six people you know a large one like a large like a van Minivan and share the cost of the taxi and have the driver who knows the area and know 100 of the you know of what we're paying is going to the local community right instead of to the Excursion desk on the on the the and the only other portion of that's going to the local operator the money goes right to the local operators yeah and particularly with it uh Nova Scotia or was it in Sydney no it was I'm sorry it was in California right we got we hired the local guy and he took us around and we went up to Peggy's Cove and we went to um uh he took us all around these picturesque places you're seeing all the pictures here and then the next day we stopped and Sydney did the same thing hired a local guy he took us out to the Alexander Graham Bell Museum right got to dial our phone number from when we were kids that was a lot of fun who knew Alexander Graham Bell was Canadian right the Canadians did but we certainly did I you know I remember him from kindergarten being that uh someone that I thought was an American so did you go to kindergarten I I I actually I I got to do a little speech about Alexander Graham Bell when I was in kindergarten and I thought he was an American anyway and then our last stop was in Newfoundland and again beautiful very picturesque um just an ugly little town there we um jumped on a free walking tour and ran into some people that knew it was for me from our YouTube channel and and um we jumped on the the freedom walking tour with them they were actually touring their RVs through town and their RV through uh 10 weeks through Nova Scotia or something and we just ran into them and they said hey Chris and Steve so we we got together and got a picture and got to do it it's great it's great meeting people and finding people that you know and right so anyway but you guys are interested in Greenland that's why we're here and so that's what we're going to tell you so go ahead good Please Subscribe but before we so uh thanks again thanks to Rob and Dave for the suggestion we're gonna cut right away here to our first taste test snacks of snacks and hey the light's going to be weirdly different because we were on the cruise ship and it was at Sunset and it was a straight strange situation where we were sampling our snacks yeah so here is licorice from Greenland all right test number one so first of all we don't know if these words are in uh greenlandic or um from Denmark we don't know because we don't have a translator that works on greenlandic so anyway these days this is a classic mix classic mix of licorice they like their licorice here it's kind of like when you were in um Iceland they like licorice there too yeah there is going as even in a convenience store there's a huge section of all different kinds of licorice and all different flavors and all different package sizes like that's a really good big thing I don't think you'll be able to rip that you just need to like got manhandled um let's try it yeah what flavor is that this is licorice it's like I think there's chocolate on the inside like chocolate licorice on the outside and chocolate on the inside chocolate on the inside that's ridiculous all right I'm not a fan of that one okay now we're gonna try just the can I just bite off a piece yeah there's some black licorice that's good that's good black licorice and I feel like I'm a True Green Lantern yeah you get my licorice oh okay I love it it's too it's too lickery That's a classic that's that's for you babe all right next up we have to try more of that yeah we got three more flavors no I think I think this is pintar red licorice with yellow stuff inside I'm still trying to swallowed right all right that's peanut butter like peanut butter and jelly peanut butter and jelly licorice it's like Twizzler with peanut butter and it's horrible see I like that all right we have two more flavors of liquorice to try definitely get that one okay I'm gonna give you one and then I'm gonna do the other one so you have to do that one over the last one this is like a like a root beer flavor it's colored I call it I don't know what flavor it is yet okay go ahead and let you know in a second um I still have no idea what flavor that is but it's good and this is this is yellow with a black Center it out oh here you have to have this one okay I have no idea what that is but a winner licorice from Greenland I love it Okay so yeah not big not a big fan you're like the licorice but I was not a big fan so anyway all right so we're going to do a little quiz here quiz question number one what is the population of Greenland what do you think it is is it yeah well what there's 300 million people in the United States so it's got to be about you know half of that right so here's your question sixty thousand a half a million or a million and the answer is 60 000 people live in Greenland that's it isn't that crazy an entire country and only 60 000 people that's crazy yeah so the first place we stopped was nuke nuke is the capital of Greenland and they have about 30 000 35 000 people in news and what a great place it was a cool uh cool little town and it really really enjoyed loved the colorful scenery of the houses and uh the tundra the rocks and we went for a great hike and you know these are just another you know Nomad again uh tip is instead of taking an expensive taxi or an Excursion we go for the local bus right and I think it was round trip was three dogs yeah yeah rather than 150 they were charging to go hiking we paid three or four bucks a piece to go to the trailhead which was actually on the other side of the airport and it was on the um their ski their their wintertime ski lift which is the summertime hiking trail and we we met another lady and the three of us hiked up to the high point and got to look out over the the coastline from nuke yeah and beautiful the rocks and the and the ocean in the background and the uh the flowers we'll show you some pictures of some of the wildflowers yeah and the Cottons the cotton plant or cotton flower or something with flying in the yeah I don't know yeah yeah you'll see here anyway so that was a real fun time in Nuke of course uh it's it's now time for another you know when you hike you need a drink so uh we here's our next taste test of uh the local soft drink so what do we have now Chris [Laughter] foxy candy I think that's that's uh foxy candy faxy candy I think it's maybe like bag resident antal paste you and your friends so is it some sort of soda oh it smells like is it grapefruit you know what I can't it smells like before but I don't know foreign I don't know what that is oh it's like a citrusy but like that definitely Citrus like it's like citrus cream a little grapefruit flavor yeah um like cream like citrus cream yeah this is good that's really refreshing it's actually really kind of nice I'm not I don't drink soda and I'm not a big soda fan at all but that's that's kind of nice [Laughter] so how is that that yeah I want more of that yeah that was good that was it was a good one yeah yeah so candy candy anyway so then the next day uh we cruise on over to the next little town called so here is your next Quiz question um what is bigger what is the biggest island is it Iceland uh Greenland or Great Britain yeah well Great Britain's pretty big yeah the Sun never sets on the Empire of Great Britain but no Greenland is the biggest island in the world how about that yeah yeah and it is it is really massive of course you know when you look at Maps the way they flattened out you know the globe and Greenland is always just this giant thing because it's it's really it's not as big as they make it look on 2D Maps yeah so what do we do in pork attack we just played disc golf and it's something you're learning to as no man's we actually have a couple of a couple of discs to play disc golf and there's a the only disc golf course in Greenland yeah and we played in the rain and it was great Mountain the beautiful scenery and walking but yeah we walked right out of town like maybe a mile out of town and was on the side so there was this hike that you could go around the lake and that had been canceled because the weather we ended up going to the same place where the lake was but then we played disc golf instead in the rain and walked all through the tundra wow was that crazy like Tundra is like this super thick Lush Mossy green flowery wiry branchy sponge that you walk along so like if you when you hear about climate change and you hear about in Greenland the ice sheet is melting and it's exposing the biomass that's this Tundra and um I kind of felt like a bad naturalist walking on the tundra because I think if we were in a national park you wouldn't have done that in the summer time in this area the summer times it's exposed so this is um you know so the 80 percent of Greenland is covered yeah with snow and ice but the portions that we were along the coast in this house it melts in the summer and it it there's more snow and ice obviously in the winter yeah yeah okay so that was for pork attack so now up is our next um food taste test um and it was uh okay I apologize that I burp in this one but it is we try a hariboo candy called um Sally soft watch this so uh next up is a classic brand again super popular in Greenland all over the shelves they must have had like 30 different flavors of a hair Boot and they were all licorice they are this is uh Sally's Valley I can't wait to taste salad okay and there's a diamond shape and round shapes let me see there's the diamond shape yeah it's kind of mushy like a marshmallow oh you're gonna love this he hates marshmallow stuff this is like squishy like a pencil erase it looks like a pencil eraser oh even worse oh that's just oh my gosh that's unboxing candy okay laughs [Music] subscribe now um that was not my prettiest video ever have it have that have that taste in my mouth of whatever that was yeah not not something we recommend we actually gave those away to somebody on the ship they loved it oh these are so these are so good right yourself okay last quiz question um why why uh Greenland was called Greenland as a marketing tool Greenland was called Greenland because it's not green so true air thread came named it Greenland because he wanted to attract settlers to come to Greenland so uh Iceland he I think he was sent there as like a prisoner like it he was like yeah he was being sentenced there as yeah first crimes anyway he named it Greenland so settlers would come and it's much icier than Iceland is so there you go so our last city was nanortalik which was even smaller it had a population of about 1500 as opposed to the 3000 in corporate duck tiny tiny little fishing Village what's interesting about Greenland is that there's really no rows there's roads within the towns but there's no Roads connecting any town so you have to fly your helicopter or bus here's this little teeny tiny Town other than southern coast um you know it's dark half of the year the 1500 people live there it was just a place that we just kind of walked around and kind of lived our life a little bit we went for a walk um we went to the grocery store what did we what do we see in the grocery store that was really cool uh well so there's a lot of native people indigenous people that are Inuits that live there and they still have their traditional hunting practices so there were things like you know like whale blubber that you could buy whale meat and seal slippers and yeah that they still hunt in the traditional way and this is part of their and you go to the grocery store and you buy it you know so that was you know it took us a little bit to get used to that of course we didn't buy any of that we bought these snacks instead yeah we did enjoy we went for a walk on the little tiny Beach and found a ton of sea glass I really enjoyed all the icebergs floating in the bay and just the beauty of this Tiny Town with these houses painted all these different colors it was really fabulous yeah yeah another little tip is that we try to learn some of the local language wherever we go and I've already forgotten it is these um cork attack that was the name of the city thank you thank you there we go yeah we learned five other words we had them on a piece of paper every time we went somewhere we would cheat because it's not an easy language because they speak Greenland greenlandic in Greenland and Google translate does not have green landic in it so we were trying to ask people how to say things and they wrote wrote it down for us on pieces the locals really appreciate when you try to speak the language yeah uh okay last up is our favorite cookie that we tried Steve was in love with this cookie he says I'm never leaving Greenland again because of these cookies so watch this this is a cookie it seems like we have to get these because that looks like my perfect cookie and we tried these before we even left the store yeah and we ate them all through before so this is not a this is not a real honest first taste because we love these I know that's good they're really good they have like a Victorian lace sort of cookie on them and then the cream is like a vanilla cream but it's double the Oreo size so it's like a double stuff very crunchy on the other side and sweet on the inside that's like that's like the perfect cookie right there those are good so thumbs up for our cookie what are those cookies called again Turpin half Red Room pretty sure if you know Danish you know exactly what that is I think maybe one of that one one's greenlandic and one's Danish this was the same thing except for them because the you get the the o with the dash the slash through it and the o with the dots on top and I'm sure I would not know how to pronounce it are we even saying the right okay so we got our favorite cookie in the world it was yeah so good and another reason to go back to Greenland to get it so we hope you enjoyed our video about Greenland ask us questions below we had a wonderful time on Princess Cruises uh really enjoyed our time I would love to go back to Greenland I think Greenland's tourism is definitely still being developed infrastructure and development is going on all over nuke I mean cranes and construction everywhere they're definitely coming through on that that momentum to develop their infrastructure I think the next time I would come back there would be a lot more natural opportunities like to go up and see the glaciers and go into the fjords and go hiking I mean imagine Greenland will be like the tourism in Iceland that's going on now as they develop that in Greenland because so many beautiful natural places to go see that just really aren't accessible to tourism right now but definitely get to Greenland we loved it we feel very special that we got to go and we get to share this video with you so anything else yeah all right thank you for subscribing yeah thank you we'll see you next time
2023-09-18 06:01
