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- Escaping Insane Snow Storm | Winter Vanlife Austria
In this winter van life travel vlog, we experience an insane snowstorm in Austria. Despite the heavy snowfall, we are able to tick off some bucket list experiences from a balloon ride over the Alps in Filzmoos to staying in a cozy cabin in the woods. We love our cabin life as we enjoyed the things that we don't usually get from living in a van. It was the perfect way to see out the snowstorm with movies, a fire, and an oven. We feel rested and recharged ready for more vanlife Europe content.
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Wild horses could not drag me on to a hot air balloon. I found myself shutting my eyes just watching your video. Holy Dooley.
No lie… Adam and I are currently boiling snow cause we’ve ran out of water 😂 We’re using it to make our tea so we can enjoy it with out weekly dose of our favourite beans! 😘 😂 💕 Hands down the best part of a Monday!! 🙌🏼✨ xx T
Haha love it! Miss you guys ❤️
Jits - Thanks for turning me on to Beans. Loving their stuff.
@@LoneTraveler-nc6rf Aww yay!! This makes us so happy 😁 We love introducing our friends to our friends 😘 xx T
Hope to see this in your next update soon. Also loving the Beans 👌👍🥶🥶
@@JitsIntoTheSunset I found you via the beans so its 1:1 :)
6:43 looks like a rabbit hopping to me the marks are deep and right next to one another (SAS Tracking Cse) two types of sign ground sign Ankle and below and top sign ankle and above 👆
OUTLANDER!! I LOVE BINGING ON OUTLANDER!! I love the historical, drama, romance story! I am OBSESSED! ❤❤
We bought Loni's Mom a hot air balloon ride like yours for her 80th birthday (in warmer weather). Now, as we approach our mid 70's we hope our grown children will do the same. Yes, we would do it !!!!
Yes, these stoves are very traditional in the Alpine region. Typical for farmhouses, but were surely widespread back in the days. They are called "Kachel-ofen", refering to the heat-storing tiles on the outside. Sometimes they even have wooden benches along the sides and a simple bed on top for resting in the cosy warmth of the oven.
They are, but you rarely see them cover multiple rooms anymore.
@@GuntherSchmidl It is modern: first is to build kachel stoves im the middle of the house and second is building of the walls. Sometimes stoves has part in second floor.
They can actually be found in many regions, even in the north. They take some time to warm up, but stay warm pretty long.
Eddie and the Cruisers 1 & 2....Classic rock and roll
Alex and Emma , You are braver than Harriet and I for going up in that Hot Air Balloon in the Wintertime. I don't think we could do it. However, that cozy cabin looked so inviting. Just Chilling.
Watching your favorite series on Netflix after a wonderful dinner by the fireplace radiator. Now, that's Heaven for Harriet and I. Hope you were able to dig out of the snow. Safe travels Guys.
Sending you lots of love.💖💖 Jim and Harriet. Richmond, Va.
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You should go to the Dolomites in Italy. You'll be blown by the views! I recommend the areas around Cortina, Passo Pordoi, Ortisei. Have fun 🙂
Two, really really, spot on people , so much love your way, really enjoying the travel beans. They has yet to be an episode in which i haven't laughed. Great work guys.
I lived my second grade year in Western New York.not far from Buffalo. That winter we had four foot deep snow. As a seven-year old it was heaven.
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Kachelofen, very traditional.. 😉
There is much more to discover in Austria and through your clips I can see a bit of my home country and it makes me proud, don't know why, that you had such a great time.
Take care... 😉
Thanks for yet another amusing episode. Those animal tracks is probably done by rabbits. Stay warm, stay safe. Mike in a dreary grey Cider City Kopparberg, Sweden.
As one of those people who did say last time that it wasn't much snow.... Yes this is officially a lot of snow. I think you made the right call to get the cabin.
The smaller the balloon basket, the more special it is. I used to crew and was an observer at the world championships in Cheshire so I got to fly with the Belgium champion while observing and recording where he threw markers to the ground.
How fun to be stuck in the snow storm. Binge movies, Star Wars, Star Trek, Bourne series, Poirot series (BBC), James Bond, John Wick, Mission Impossible,anything with UFOs.... geez....so many more. D. WILSON, Tacoma, Washington. Love all you videos!!!!!
Be careful with the diesel heater and snow blocking any exhaust areas 👍🏻
What a unique fireplace.
Love love love the snow. I live IN Florida, USA.
I....Love....THE BEANS! Thank you for sharing your adventures. Well, Mr Sammich fella may not be thankful 🤔, but I most certainly am. Take care and safe travels from Colorado, USA. That said, don't know if the USA was needed as it may upset Mr. Sammich.
Those would be the tracks of a hare, I think you call them in english. Like big rabbits. Growing up in Sweden, in winter those tracks were everyware. 😊
Please go back to Italy and finish the series that you had started! It was a top series, possibly the best the Beans had ever had (so far)! There is still so much more to explore there!
Awesome trip, when the blowers stop on the Balloon and its just silence is awesome, I did it over Shropshire a few years ago. Loved it.
No. But happy you were able to experience it and thankful you made a video for us to enjoy! Thank you!
You certainly found a keeper Adam, you were born for each other👍.
Well guys your fire is called a Kachelofen ( tiled oven) and the are quite common in Germany and Austria. Enjoy the rest of your holiday, look forward to more adventures.
Hi to you both . I am currently living in Ireland in County Kerry with my mother. I found your channel about a month ago. And I almost fell over with excitement My father is Austrian born and currently my sister is living in Austria not too far away from where you were she's not far from Innsbruck.
I recognised some of the mountains in the background I was skiing up near the mountains in the 80s and 90s..
You asked about the stove in the cabin they are known as kachelofen and well known in Austria long before my father was even born and that was in around the time before the Titanic was built. My mother put two kachelofen into our house the end of the 80s I am currently nice and snug and warm from the heat from the kachelofen .they are brilliant stoves. Your videos are epic I get so excited seeing the snow and countryside I recognise thank you for sharing and hope that you have a successful time. Yours sincerely here from Ireland thank you.
It's a rabbit - the footprints you asked for... and the fireplace is a so called "Kachelofen", a tiled stove. In mountainous regions, they are widely used by homeowners who can afford it, as they are quite expensive. But there's nothing better like a tiled stove when it's cold outside.
The Heater is called a Kachelofen popular in Austria, Bavaria etc.
Yes, the balloon ride looked heavenly, what about Italian alps next-compare and contrast the two ski experiences!
Hey Emma & Alex...a.k.a. 'The Travel Beans'...what a fab trip and vlog of your Austrian Adventures!!! I would recommend travelling North West from your current location, to the German Alps and then, via several of the large lakes on to Castles and the Romantic Road. Enjoy and we will equally enjoy your journey!!! All the best guys !!!
Beautiful!!!! I missed out on a balloon ride for my 40th due to weather in U.K. I have always wanted to do one in Egypt over the Valley of the Kings. I’m not well now but I’d still love to see the clouds beneath me. Getting in the basket may prove challenging!!
I would be very anxious about it falling. Mmmmmm……
Just love your enthusiasm in these videos.
I had to retire in order to finally sit down and watch all 3 LOTR movies consecutively. As a Canadian, I would say that is definitely a good amount of snow.
I've never seen so much joy over a snowstorm 😁. As a Canadian who's husband has had to snow blow 4 times in the last 3 days to get us in and out of our 100 meter driveway, I think you have earned the badge Alex! Well done! 👍 I can understand getting excited about it to be honest. It is quite beautiful. It just gets tiring when there is so much snow, and it keeps coming. It has been one of those winters in Manitoba. I would absolutely take a balloon ride, and that one looked fabulous. I still would love to see you guys do a tour of France, small towns, along the coast. Of course, it's a little selfish of me, because we are planning a short, one week driving trip primarily in the Brittany area for 2023, along with Ireland, Scotland, and some relax time in Croatia. CANNOT wait! I can't wait to travel again! Hoping to get some tips from you for France. Loved the VLOG! - Coreen
Agree 100%
Waves hello from NB with my Manitoba Husband. You are going to love France. Have fun.
Excellent decision to stay in the cabin! Yes, you're right about us Canadians and hearing us chortle at your snow adventures. "Kachelofen" is a pan-European thing (Kachel=tile and ofen=stove) stretching from Scandinavia down to the Italian alps, and over into Hungary. Healthy heat, albeit dry - we used to put trays of water on the flatter surfaces (eg. on top). Recommend Slovenia and Slovakia for more great skiing.
Yes we would have 100% done the balloon ride. We once did microlight flights over Victoria falls. Our pilots were a mine of information and there was no better way to experience the scenery below. We will look forward to forward to see where you end up next.
Another great episode! 🤗 Next travel destination suggestion - Ireland 🇮🇪 West coast from Cork to Galway and beyond, taking in The Ring of Kerry & The Dingle Peninsula along the way 🙂
Terrified of heights, so no way I'd get a hot air balloon. I can barely tolerate a gondola! As a Canadian, you definitely get snow points! We had 14" over Christmas (we live in a mild climate on the west coast) and it was TOO MUCH! Places I'd love to see... I'm dying to see Italy and France. My auntie and I did a mediterranean cruise pre-covid, with a 3 day stop in Venice, and I'm dying to go back one day. I'm also addicted to French Chateau vlogs, and would love to see more of the country.
Oh YES, I’d DEFINITELY take the hot air balloon ride! A bucket list item of mine. 👍
Honorary Canadians!! Congratulations!!
Well that was what I can only describe as Wow I don’t have a head for heights but the balloon ride looked spectacular…. Maybe try Madeira it has everything mountains by the bucket loads, botanical gardens, cable cars, Lavada walks, toboggan rides ( without snow) stunning views. ❤️
Most tracks in the mountains through snow are foxes in Austria. You tend to find lots of tracks underneath skilifts, as people drop food there. Fox holes are generally near the pillars, and they walk their usual route scavenging food directly under the lift track, then fanning out through inhabited forest areas.
You have the badge of Honour , for Sure
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Finally real snow! I'm in Central NY, USA and we average 120" per year Dec-Mar so the previous snow was not impressive...this is real snow.
Wow! I envy you the balloon flight! I'd love to do that (have done it here in the UK). The footprints you asked about are rabbit prints. The 'fireplace' you fired up in the cabin is traditional in Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, maybe other countries too, that I don't know about. It's called "Kachelofen", (Kachel: tiles, Ofen: oven, stove). I've enjoyed your Austria vlogs tremendously - it's my home country, and I grew up not far from where you've been 'frolicking in the snow'.
Fantastic video. Really enjoying watching your blogs In Australia we take the wiper blades off the glass during snow so the rubber doesn’t stick to the glass
Thank you two so much for truly great videos
Absolutely, positively epic!! I would JUMP at the chance to do it 😃
You're a brave soul. Van Life in that much snow is like my worst fear lol.
I THINK YOU ALL DESERVE A PLACE THAT IS A LITTLE WARMER FOR YOUR NEXT LOCATION
This would be a Dream come true for me to go the Air ballooning in the Austrian alps. So jealous.
You two should definitely do Poland next, Zakopane in the winter/snow is amazing! Great food and cheap beer is plentiful there too! Maybe even go via Slovakia to get there.
Totally agree, I hope to do this myself, and try a `Skki Trikke`.
... and don't forget the "targ", the legendary market on Zakopane Main Street, where they sell those traditional leather shoes, the toys, and all the other stuff directly imported from China, and the smoked cheese Oszipka, which is the only thing which is really traditional there... Sorry guys, but Zakopane is only beautiful when you travel there outside the main tourist season or you turn the time back to the 1990-ies where I had been there the first time!!!
Anyway, if you find a spot there which is not full of tourists it is still beautiful there
Just remembered they’ve already been to Zakopane haha. Still worth another trip to Poland to do the places you haven’t been!
I was thinking of what might be good, but your idea beats mine! Poland is somewhere that's not often covered in travel vlogs. Not in the same way as more Western European countries.
How about Gdansk to Athens!
Krakow has the salt mines
I really can recommend city camping with the newborn in Vienna & surrounding locations! In Austria (as you might know), it's legal to "camp" everywhere, as long as you don't have anything standing outside and the car is ready to drive - because then it's parking by law, and you can "park for a rest until you drive on, because you're tired" for at least 24h everywhere you want - Just have no shoes or even litle things outside.
My GF and me were doing this, with little trips to the countryside inbetween, for 2 years, and it was amazing! You can sleep directly at the sidewalk of where you wanna go the next morning, or on a supermarket parking lot and have good breakfast, or along the Danube, where there are plenty wonderful spots around vienna (Greifenstein, Klosterneuburg, Kahlenberg, aso, aso), where you pack up and need 15min to the city center. I can also recommend you hundrets of extremely beautiful places within a 1 hour drive from vienna, where obvious camping isn't a problem at all and the police is looking away. There would be Rax, Erlauftal, Ötscher, Semmering, Helental, Höllental, Wachau, and many many more nr1 spots!
Very nice guys & videos, btw❤ Andreas from Austria✌
Ooooh man, I just moved from Villach Austria in 2020 and you brought me to tears missing it. I love your happiness seeing it there and yeah, that is no real snow storm. Ha ha. I’ve walked out of work and had to climb in the hatch just to back my car out of the snow which was feet higher that the roof of the car. Love the vlog!
I might have done the hot air balloon ride, but I would have been terrified and instantly regretted it. Love your videos.
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What a fun video! I'm glad you got that cozy cabin.
Another great vid guys, we would both do the hot air balloons even though we are slightly older, looks like so much fun. One thought that did cross our minds though, why is it always Emma doing the crazy stuff !?!?! The stay in that cabin must have been magical 🙂
Oh my god! Thought I was the only one! Left my side door open like that a few weeks ago, woke up thinking "Why is it so cold in here?!" Tossed and turned, cussed for hours about the shoddy insulation job I did, how I'll have to beef up the window covers, thicker curtain! Was so embarassed when I got out of bed in the morning and realised! Rookie error lol!
Also, love how I always end up in a low signal spot on a Monday and have to watch your episodes over a 2 hour period whilst it loads! Always happens!
Good to see your still having fun and keep the dreamy snowy vids coming!
Epic snow! Hot air YES!!!!!!!
You're a beautiful couple may you guys be safe and all your adventures
Canadian here. That’s a fair amount of snow! Good choice to get the cabin. ❤️
I have hot air ballooned over Cappadocia and that was amazing, but I think not as amazing as the Alps. Incredible sight.
In Canada, when you open the front door and all you see its a wall of snow and you have to get out through a second floor window, then that's enough snow😂😂😂.
Not sure about going up in balloon but more than once was woken up by that roar as balloons touched down in pasture below our house decades ago. We streaked through Austria a number of times going south and north into and from Italy. Magic, mystery and so much history including prehistory. I’d prefer just some Champaign preflight.
Yup. This is enough snow lol. Good idea to keep car cleared off as much as you can and also the driveway
Canadian here.. yeah.. ok.. that might be enough snow now :-D Once, when I was in uni, the snow drifted 1/2 way up the windows of our 1st floor lecture hall . :-)
Wow beautiful video! Loved shots from the air balloon ❤️🎈❤️
Okay Beans, as a Canadian I willingly admit that was a worthy snow fall. Now imagine that every other day for a month. Keep in mind that last week the Toronto area received 55cm in one storm. Although that is very unusual for the area, they got a month’s worth of snow overnight. I’d love to do the hot air ballon but I’m less sure about that crazy glass bridge. My favourite movie binge is James Bond. I’d love to see you find the sun, once again though that’s from a winter bound Canadian who is traveling vicariously through you! Where ever you go, I’m happy to be along for the ride. Thanks.
I just found your channel but you've got a sub here. I love the energy between the two of you. You're lovely. Stay safe and take care you guys. Big hug. Stay safe and take care you guys. Much love from Sylvia,Oslo
Great video. You two crack me up! The balloon trip looked absolutely amazing.
Enjoyed your video immensely mainly because I’ve flown in a hot air balloon many years ago and found it most exhilarating especially when you fly over people and frighten the living daylights out of them when the burner fires up overhead and, the only problem I have at the moment is when Alex films you walking away from the camera, I think you should be entered for “ rear of the year” and I’m sure in my honest opinion you would win it hands down, now I’ve embarrassed myself completely 🤭🤠 just carry on giving us so much fabulous content it is the first subscription I go for each time 👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
DOBBY! and balloon ride just made my stomach go YOINK! :)
I would absolutely do that. At 70 yrs, I am up for almost anything.
Well as far as Saskatchewan Canada goes “Welcome to Winter Snow Alex” that is definitely a Saskatchewan winter snow storm…as for binge watching how about Pirates of the Caribbean, you look like you ar having so much fun would love to be there with you but enjoy it for us.
Props to the editing department, pro level episode today.
A movie you should both check out, since you're in the Alps, is The Alpinist, should be on Netflix.
That is an AMAZING fireplace!!!!!
Nice one guys. Great to see you enjoying your "vanlife" ;)). Only kidding, you don't have to make excuses to us, we're your fans and love you. :)) xx
Just binged watched all 7 potter films having just been to the Warner Bros studios at Watford. Awesome as always. Fantastic beasts this evening
Really enjoy following your travels. I've lived in a few cold places, including Montana USA, and I can say you've definitely now qualified for surviving a proper snow storm :-) I know you asked the Canadians, but I thought northern Montana was close enough to Canada to chime in 😊
Got to say as a Cannuck living in the UK don't miss the snow. Digging out the driveto go to work then digging out the drive to get back home isn't as much fun as people on holiday think.
I loved your vlog 🥰. It´s so cool. You've ridden in the balloon of Austria's most famos beer - Puntigamer 🍺🍻. I have been working for Puntigamer for 31 years. The hair burning thing with the champagne is a ceremony. This is from the time of the first balloonists. They were raised to the nobility. So you both must be Lady and Lord now 😁.
Brilliant! Oh that balloon ride scary but thrilling.
Everyone south of the Arctic Circle has to admit you've had a proper snow storm now. Thanks for explaining the real life aspects of van life and the pros and cons. Most channels just stick to the glamour.
The key when you have to shovel is to park as close to the street as possible so you won't have to shovel the whole driveway.
That heater system is a typical Austrian way of heating. Very effective. It reminds me of the first time I visited Austria looking at cuckoo clock houses and then staying in a cuckoo hotel. That stove did the whole hotel!
The masonry heater was a traditional way of heating houses back in the day, (all over the colder parts of Europe, I guess, you can find them in castles), people would also cook on it in the cottages (the Uk would have a range cooker, we would have a tiled stove) I’m sure they still have them in some of the big old houses in the UK as well. People have started using them more again, at least in the central European region because they look good and are very efficient.
I can well remember the old black cast iron Edwardian range in the kitchen, kept the whole house above freezing, came home from school one day to be greeted by a shiny bright red Aga, that actually kept the house at a reasonable temperature. Great bread and roasties/Yorkshires from it.
Game of Thrones to binge! Loving all your videos, the snow, the cabin ah!
So glad you mentioned "lady items" because I always wonder how my favorite female travelers do it.
Yes! Harry Potter 100%
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Watching Emma stomp out into 3 foot of snow armed with a can of de-icer was a bit like seeing Steve McQueen approaching the Towering Inferno with a water pistol. 🤣🤣.
(Been in a hot air balloon, fab scenery but after a while I got a tad bored having to keep still.) If you haven't decided where to go, try the Italian lakes. I would love to see the villages around Lake Garda at this time of year. Nice feel-good vlog - anything that puts a smile on my face for 20 minutes is most welcome.
Thanks for the video 🧡🧡🧡 Was a bit behind but played catch up this weekend. The frozen shoe 🤣 that fire I needs one in my life 😍
OK, Now you've had some snow. Loved that hot air balloon ride but I'm not sure I'd be brave enough!
That would be a big NO to the hot air balloon but I enjoyed watching you two!!
I have done it twice, first time in the desert of UAE which was beautiful and we also ended up landing on our side and being dragged, was so fun (sounds scary but it does happen alot!) The second was in India and was so serine and lovely and lots of children ran and followed us to were we landed and it was a great welcome back to earth. I would LOVE to do it over the alps, it looks utterly breathtaking!!!
Have u been over here in Canada yet? Having travelled much of it and being a proud 8th generation Canadian, I can only say it's pretty hard to beat for outstanding natural beauty. It is definitely beauty overload. We are second only to Russia in size so it is a huge undertaking to travel it-- from the pink beaches of Anne of Green Gables Prince Edward Island to Niagara Falls to the Banff National Park to the Rocky Mountains and the far far north, you will indeed have your socks blown off- and you will see amazing Northern Lights all year round.... Ontario alone, where I live, has 250,000 charted lakes aside from the Great Lakes and Hudson's and James Bay. We also have the world's longest skating rink here in Ottawa. I highly recommend it but you'll need to plan for quite a lengthy stay : ).
Oh wow what a great experience you made! Thanks for sharing. 🥰
What a GREAT video! I loved the hot air balloon ride (and yes, I would most certainly do that) and that snow storm! The last little "storm" you had on the roadside was nothing. THIS was a snow storm. I'm in Chicago. I KNOW snowstorms! LOL
Thats a Canadian approuved snow storm!! Congrats you guys 🤣❤️
I would for sure do the hot air balloon , I did one in Turkey and Africa and love it . As one of your Canadian viewers that's more than enough snow its fun at first but gets old quick !
LOVE the snowstorm. Looks like a proper snow event… and yes, I am Canadian!!