American Reacts to Sortland (Norway's Blue Town)
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As an American I have never heard of the Norwegian town of Sortland. Today I am very interested in learning about Sortland and seeing it for the very first time. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I’m from Southern Mexico and was an exchange student in Sortland!! It’s such a charming little town, my school was in a different island (Stokmarknes in Hadsel) which was even smaller but the whole experience was so unique and incredible. So random to see a video about the “blue city” but it definitely brought back so many nice memories :)
I live there ..Sortland .. "Blackland". Sort is black on Norwegian so it should be painted black..lol . and in some villages all houses are painted white like in Son and Drøbak
Remember that people used fewer colour words in the past.
Blue was considered a shade of black for instance instead of a separate colour.
To begin with humans only had 2 distinct colours, bright and dark, then three and so one.
All of our current colours where considered shades of those colours.
And different languages still have different colours that are named, with various colours only being colours in some languages while they're shades of other colours in other languages.
same i live in sortland😃
@@ThatTreytenYT :)
@@LuredreierVet du foresten hvorfor vi tradisjonelt har så mange hus og låver i fargene rød, svart, og gul? Burde kanskje vite det for gikk tegning form og farge på Vgs for 15+ år siden, men lærte ingenting om det. Noen sa det var fordi de ikke hadde råd til murstein så de som var fattigere malte derfor husene rødt for å få det til å se ut som «mur»? Halve slekta er bønder, men tror ikke de vet heller. I f.eks Gudbrandsdalen er det veldig vanlig med svarte hus og låver, også sett gule, tillegg til det stereotypiske røde.
Service announcement. Norway will not face rising ocean because Norway is rising faster then the ocean is. Norway is actually growing, not shrinking like most other coastal nations.
Well this was unexpected and quite random to see an American YT'er react to the city where I've lived in or close by for most of my life.😄👍👍
I'm one of those that'd LOVE the bridge to be painted blue... Imagine THAT photo of the Hurtigruten (the ship) passing under the bridge, either in winterlight or during midnight🌞!?
I wish that the municipality govern would be ballsy enough to demand that at least all new buildings exterior in the city core, should be in the palette of blue, any shade.
FUN FACT, did you know that the last color you see before it becomes dark, is blue? It's the last color to fade to grey/black.
Sortland is the "trading centre" of Vesterålen, in the area of Lofoten and Vesterålen (Lo-Ve). Lofoten is known for a lot of things, but mostly TOURISM.
This was the first proper spring day in Oslo. I am a 65-year-old man and took a ride in the forest with my e-bike until the snow stopped me. The feeling of spring, after a long hard winter is delicious. The sun warmed for the first time. Although the forest roads were a bit bumpy, it was a great spring day. 😎
Yeah! Mr. Walker should totally do some reactions to the Hurtigruten, as well...
As a Sortland'er who's been watching u for a long time i was gobsmacked to see this
My husband was born in Sortland, the blue city. Not all bulidings in Sortland are painted blue, mostly those in the center of the little town.
«Buildings»
I live close to here in Myre! 😁😊 Also I am American and from Florida. It is gorgeous up here. Sortland and Nyksund are both a nice drive away. The ship is hurtigruten. Many for tourism for fjord day cruises. 🚢😁
Do you enjoy it? Must be very different from warm Florida😊
You should check out Sørlandet (the south part of Norway) where many cities are painted white (at least facades towards the sea)
Hurtigruten had its first route in 2. july 1893 and it was a means to ensure faster travel between Trondheim and Hammerfest to carry people, mail and goods faster, because at that time it could take 3 weeks during summertime and 5 months during winter, and with Hurtigruten those times would be shortened to just 7 days both summer and winter.
If you haven’t mentioned Hurtigruten before or made a video about it you should make one. Lots of tourists take it every year, also local Norwegians.
I have lived there for four years. Love Vesterålen.
Many of the towns along the southern coast of Norway have a lot of wooden houses painted white. That's a sort of signature of southern towns like Risør, Tvedestrand, Arendal, Grimstad, Lillesand, parts of Kristiansand, Mandal and Flekkefjord.
By the way, Sortland was where I did my last two years in high school, so I have a close connection with the town (being from the neighbouring town of Lødingen).
In Larvik and Stavern it’s very popular with «stavernsgul» color. Which is a dark yellow/mustard-ish color.
It’s cool when people have certain colors they use more in certain cities.
Greetings from Narvik ( who also have an own movie) about WWII
Hi from the far South of norway. I live in arendal in agder.almost dansih😂
It's not really that isolated.
Especially in summer.
The whole of the Lofoten archipelago Is a huge tourist destination and is being overrun each summer these days.
They're also connected to land by road, using bridges, and perhaps tunnels.
I would recommend u Norwegian music, we even have a song with 2 000 000 000 views on CZcams called Take on me- by aha. I prefer their rock music more than their symph pop
Ayyy congrats on 19k tyler
Norway has more than 22000 bridges!
13:36
Not exactly.
It's a ferry going along the majority of the Norwegian coast bringing locals, caego, cars and tourists to lots of tiny places along said coastline.
13:45 remember the ferries / the ferry ?
As someone from the area I feel like Sortland dropped the ball a bit on the whole blue town, take a look at Chefchaouen. They really went for it. And it is BLUE!
Sortland looked better before the blue thing, now its a mess with to many shades of blue. I dont live there myself but been up there almost every summer growing up, and have 95+ % of my family in the near areas of Sortland incl. my parents (My father used to work at Nyksund back when it was a fishing town, hard as heck work). Hurtigruten is a cruise ship company, originated as a transport company along the cost from Trondheim to Kirkenes. at 14:00 you can see some of the military ship stationed there, like the navy version of the coast guard, keeping a close eye on all boat and plane activity in the "Norwegian sea".
Nice enough town even in winter, not cold at all due to being a coastal town and the Gulf stream (the North Atlantic Drift), and is far from isolated. Sortland in situated on the largest island in Norway with easy access for vehicles, boats, plane (im not sure if the airfield is still operating though, one of the richest countries in the world can afford to keep things like that open).
my friend lives here ❄
Heeey, that's my town. 😁
I'm from Sortland, AMA.
Yes, alot of bridges ! haha :D
Your Norwegian pronunciation is so good compared to other Americans!
3:35: translation error...
"the Island of Lang"
or
"the island Langøya"
SORTLAND LETS GOOOO
You should react to "Svolvær, Lofoten"
sort translates to black, so blackland would be the direct translation?
Take a closer look at "Hurtigruta" The Backbone of norway since 1893. . I don't want to tell anymore and be a spoiler, but i'm shure you're like it when you see the consept. Enjoy:)
I live 50 minutes from Sortland cool
Nice
Tyler seems to think that the US doesn't have coasts or mountains...
Take a look at Hardanger
Calls itself Blackland, paints itself blue... Yeah makes sense.. 😅 Anyways, theres a few colourful towns and villages around the world. Spain has had this Smuf town for a long time now..
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They should change name to Blåland (Blueland) sort means black in Norwegian
Can you take melbu pls😢 on melbu there is an amaising history
Ever seen a video about Russia? There's always something blue to be seen. Houses, fences, you name it. I think Russians get anxious if they don't see anything blue.
....yeah ....let us paint a town named Sortland (Black land) blue....
Fuice
Must be extremely boring to sell paint there 😂😂
And thousands And thousands of americans have visited the island ,mostly soldiers.
When .....and what "....thousands and thousands of Americans .....mostly soldiers" has visited the island.....
....what....???
That must be a story only you know about ....so I'm curious....
@@Dan-fo9dk antallet soldater fra USA som har vært på besøk kommer av at Norge har vært medlem av NTO i 75 år og det avholdes store militære øvelser hovedsakelig i nord Norge for alle våpen grener.
@@Dan-fo9dk vel når jeg avtjente vernetjeneste på andre halvdel av 80tallet på Andøya, lå amerikanske skip i land sammen k/v Andenes en kystvakt som hørte til Sortland. Jeg kan fortsette, men kanskje noen seniorer og unge mennesker fra Sortland kan fortelle deg. Når jeg hadde permisjon på Sortland, døpte jeg det til verdens vakreste øy, og mente det. Men, jeg har ikke vært overalt kan du si. Så.
@@leif-kareeikeland5209 Nope.....Sortland/Langøya has not been a part of the area with "big military exercises" from NATO.
The NATO exercises are taking place in Indre Troms .....not in Vesterålen in Nordland. Indre Troms is the centre for the military defence force in northern Norway located at places like Bardufoss, Setermoen and Skjold.
Just to inform you is the driving distance by road from Sortland to Bardufoss 246 km.....taking 3 hours 45 minutes....
Your username indicate that you're Norwegian.....but as so often ....being a Norwegian is not synonymous with knowing their own country .....like for example it's geography. It's not a bad thing to know what you're talking about before commenting.
Uansett møtte jeg folk fra Amerikanske militære skip på Sortland når jeg var på permisjon fra Andøya andre halvdel av 80tallet, k/v Andenes var stasjonert på Sortland så vidt jeg husker og siden den andre verdenskrig har det vært mange amerikanere i hvertfall i området. Harstad er nær og en sentral plass for NATO. Tror det er plass i området til 26.000 NATO tropper i området.
We allso have the opposite. Down south you have all white towns.
Hey Can you com to sortland Plis?❤
I live around there, and it's so freaking ugly. Hope they change it.
I don't' think Tyler realizes how many towns and cities in *AMERICA* are on islands.
According to World population review number of islands in the US are 18,617. Meanwhile, Norway have the most islands in the world with 239,057.
I think generally the measurements favour Sweden as having the most islands in the world closely followed by Norway, then Finland with a significant lower number.
USA actually has a good number of cities on islands but it's probably indistinguishable due to the way they build their cities. They also have very few islands in _total_ they just have built on half of them
He needs to travel within (or at least watch videos on) America more 👍
@@SebHaarfagre Sweden is number two on the list with 221.831, and Finland number four after Canada. It all depends on method and what is counted or included.
Well he also says they dont really care for nature and do the camping and so on.
Meanwhile all Americans i have known use the nature a lot and camp and go to all these amazing places all the time. They're very into that stuff in certain states.. They fish a lot too.. But he diesnt seem to know America as such..
Reminds me of the song..
Here's the story
About a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue
Like him, inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue Corvette and everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen .
I have a blue house with a blue window
Blue is the colour of all that I wear
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue
Blue are the people here that walk around
Blue like my Corvette, it's in and outside
Blue are the words I say and what I think
Blue are the feelings that live inside me
Inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window
And a blue Corvette and everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen
I'M BLUE DABA DIBA DABA DABARADIBA!
😂 I was humming that all way though the video
Tyler has a couple of blue (very small) things....
😂😂😂 ooh he does does he🤔🤨
Hmmmm, Sortland, Norway vs, e.g., Key West, Florida. I wonder which has more fame and foreign visitors....
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@user-kq5ke5yb6k
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- I truly feel bad for you...
You seem to have a very stressful existence.
I get the whole thing about national pride and all that, but not everything is not supposed to be a competition, you know.
One thing though...
This is not what they meant when they coined the phrase, "Finding a creative outlet for your frustrations.".
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I was there with mye blues band once. We felt home in "blacktown"
The german voice in the second video should practise more english 😂 I had a hard time understand it.
Ir was awful just awful..
Even the Smurfs would disavow Tyler.
INTERESTING? The word sort means black.
And yet again, Tyler remains ignorant about America. Evansville, Indiana may not be coastal and have mountains, nut thankfully Evansville, Indiana is NOT the entirety of America.
Yeah i find America is nature on a whole nother level. And they hunt and fish like mad.. To have a deer in your fridge seems quite normal over there..
poo poo tyler
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