LIFE ON A FARAWAY ISLAND: Story of the Loneliest Store in the Baltic

[@nowherech]

We want to thank Saara, Raino, Jari, Ismo and all the others we met on the island for showing us their point of view to Haapasaari! We will be missing this island 🫶

[@johndewey6358]

Thank you for a very nice video.

[@nowherech]

@@johndewey6358 thank you for watching ✨🤗

[@atticuskilby515]

Keep on telling the stories. This is valuable and gives a voice to places that we will never see, yet we connect through your work.

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much for your support! ❤

[@ConscienceofChrist]

Thank you from Quebec, Canada. My ancestors on both sides are from the Lofoton Islands of Norway. I feel an urge to go home. My grandmother was my hero in life and she missed home. She came to Canada with her family in 1910. My mothers family came from Oslo.

[@nowherech]

Wow interesting story! Thank you so much for watching! In our channel you can find also a video about Lofoten Island ✨🤩

[@julie.1081]

Trust me. Find a way to go before you get too old. I always thought I'd go back to see where my family came from once I retired. But I was diagnosed with MS @ 41 & now that I'm 62, traveling is really difficult for me(& painful). So don't put it off. Please!

[@nowherech]

@@julie.1081 🙏🏻❤️

[@meandmybuddy964]

Sux when we get old kinda so much we can not do anymore I’m bed bound now so thanks for the amazing video I love taking field trips on here ❤I’m from Oklahoma hills

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much for watching and supporting us ✨🙌🏻🤗

[@meandmybuddy964]

I really enjoyed it and I’m back to watch again

[@nowherech]

@@meandmybuddy964 Thanks again! We are working in the next video 💪🏻✨

[@cliffordparmeter6940]

Very interesting love the island and the people. Kinburn Ontario Canada.

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much for watching 🤗

[@benweeks9557]

I am writing from Halifax, Canada. My Grandfather, Emil Zilliacus owned and lived on an Island called Hapenensaari in the Vyborg Sound which is now part of Russia. In the golden pre war years I am sure he would have sailed to your lovely outpost. Thank you for sharing it. The names are so close. Saari is of course island in English but would you know what Hapenen might mean? It was never translated to me. Keep up your fine videos, Ben Weeks

[@nowherech]

Hey!! It’s so great to heard your story! We are really happy to know that our video somehow is connected with people in other parts of the world 😮About Hapenen, me as a native Finnish speaker, I don’t know that it would mean anything. It sounds a bit like a name, but unfamiliar for me.

[@josephfloresmartizano1770]

God bless from the Philippines 😍😇🙏🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@PB-bt9eu]

This video is so valuable!!! Couldn’t find this kind of information in any other channel

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much! 😇

[@ttos3093]

What a great piece of documentation, thanks! That resilience that Saara describes is called “Sisu”.

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much! It was a great experience 🙌🏻

[@Lawman212]

Very interesting! Vibrant island communities always make for good stories.

[@nowherech]

Thanks! Islands kind of protect their communities ❤️

[@psc1939]

What a lovely adventure! Thank you for sharing!

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much for watching! 🙌🏻

[@pjkorhonen]

This is the longest episde of your’s. Have to admit it didn’t feel too long. Wanted to watch until the end. This is good! 😄

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much! We worked a lot for this episode! So good that it shows ✨

[@Michelle-g3b2x]

A beautiful island with a story, beautifully told. Thank you so much for sharing. Hello from Saskatchewan Canada. 🇨🇦

[@nowherech]

Thank you! We really appreciate your support from Canada! 🙌🏻☺️

[@lindabonomi7274]

GREAT video...thank you!

[@nowherech]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@jayarajjohnson9435]

What helps them cope with the isolation is the Love they have for each other... True Love.

[@joecontreras5068]

They’re better off than the rest of us !

[@giulianobonaldo2995]

It was an amazing experience. Recording on a fishing boat was crazy!

[@giulianoiv8572]

😮

[@gretchensmith3981]

Great video; I really enjoyed it

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much for watching ☺️

[@AMIRMORTAZAVI-mt3ul]

Many thanks for your feed back . I loved your video and am waiting for more to come ❤

[@nowherech]

We are working for new videos!! Be ready ☺️🤩

[@deeannh17]

Very interesting. I am so amazed at the beauty and preservation of old ways that are very practical.

[@nowherech]

Thank you for watching 🫶🏻

[@kristofferhellstrom]

Such a beautiful island!

[@riccardo700]

Crazy good episode right there, keep It up guys

[@nowherech]

thank you so much!!

[@ChuckyFon]

Very cool channel, keep up the great work!

[@nowherech]

@@ChuckyFon thank you a lot!! It’s really important for us to hear this ❤️

[@LilA-zl6tf]

Just found this video of yours. Greetings from Kotka. That is the place from where this coastal service vessel starts to Haapasaari, and some other islands in this region. Actually, long time ago, I have been working on that vessel Rosala II as an AB. Back in the days, when it was still at the Sea of Archipelago.

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much for watching and tell your story! It was a really nice experience to make this video ☺️

[@differentwave3693]

so much history and well told 🙂

[@nowherech]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@giulianoiv8572]

Really interesting stories!

[@nowherech]

thanks!

[@AMIRMORTAZAVI-mt3ul]

Greetings from Iran my son and his wife are living in finland. ❤

[@nowherech]

Thank you for watching ☺️

[@dkcorderoyximenez3382]

To some degree I envy the islanders...I've lived many different places in my life and I no longer have a rich sense of my ancestor's lives...they live an interesting, multi-generational life...

[@nowherech]

Seems like in modern days it’s more rare to live in the same area as the ancestors where as few hundred years ago it was the standard 🤔

[@sumangalrajkonwar2371]

Wonderful presentation! Watching from India. 🙏

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much for watching ✨

[@tomkingsfin]

Living in such a place is a great blessings nowadays...

[@janehodgetts6078]

Loved your video, thankyou so much.

[@nowherech]

Thanks a lot! ✨ We really appreciate it 🤗

[@saintbarky]

Such a nice adventure. Thank you (from Chicago) for sharing with us.

[@nowherech]

Thank you for watching 🫶🏻

[@rschahal9809]

U got a new subscriber….. keep up the good work …..

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much! We really appreciate it ❤️

[@simonecampobasso]

👏👏 good job guys! Support from Italy 🇮🇹

[@nowherech]

Heyyy!! Thank you so much 😍 we really appreciate it ❤️🙌🏻

[@paulitaermingpaulita6530]

Watching from Philippines!!!

[@nowherech]

🙏🏻😊

[@riccardo8978]

Interesting channel, new follower here

[@nowherech]

🙌🏻 Thank you 😊

[@nowherech]

🙌🏻 Thank you 😊

[@ambertyler5844]

Beautiful work

[@nowherech]

Thank you 😊

[@VINTERIUM..EXPLORIUM.1]

Nice Work & Video 👍

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much! We really appreciate it ☺️

[@kmkhare385]

Intresting video depicting life style of inhabitants of Iceland. Heavy snow around houses. There is one grocery run by old pair. Wonderful Life

[@nowherech]

Thank you so much! We are happy to hear that 🙏🏻🤗

[@lolapinay9210]

I love videos like this.greetings from Philippines we have many islands 7,700....

[@nowherech]

Ohh! Thank you so much! Would be interesting to do some documentary in Philippines 🤔🤩

[@csnymoodiesfan]

Always fascinating to see how people live in remote places around the world.

[@nowherech]

Yes, indeed! We try to keep on looking more fascinating places and people 😌

[@LLBP.]

Looks beautiful to me. Love from Michigan.

[@nowherech]

Thank you 😊🙏🏻

[@JOHNDOE-gp6cj]

sound like a wonderful place to live 😀

[@nowherech]

Yes, we were really surprised about it! Really peaceful 🤩

[@diane9247]

Such a beautiful and peaceful place - thank you! usa

[@louiseholberg492]

Thank you from Oslo.

[@outnabout57]

I wonder if they have heard about the Nikula Family who owned and lived on an Island in the Gulf of Finland.

[@nowherech]

Mmm 🤔

[@golfbravo191]

🔥🔥🔥

[@nowherech]

✨✨

[@julie.1081]

You could plop this entire village down somewhere in Northern MN & you'd swear it had always been there. Lots of Finns up there too.

[@nowherech]

Ohhh 😮 interesting!!

[@keiryeridanialopez5424]

😍😍😍

[@nowherech]

😍❤️🙌🏻

[@AppalachianHistoryDetectives]

So do the locals identify as Russian or Finns?

[@nowherech]

Finns 👌

[@outiahonen4126]

Haapasaari is not part of Russia and has never been in the past

[@nowherech]

It’s Suursaari which is now part of Russia. Many people from there moved to Haapasaari when it was lost.

[@moonliteX]

Haapasaari is not part of russia nore does it have "chew" inhabitants.

[@sandrakorhonen6929]

Thanks to Haapasaari for this experience 🫶🏻