slow living on a volcanic island

We are currently in the Canary Islands. So we flew at 5 a.m. from Stockholm down to Germany and then we changed and flew from Germany to Tenerife. And it's actually, it's me and Jesper that are here and it's our first time. I think we both have been like to the Canary Islands when we were like maybe six or seven with our families but we don't really remember anything. So technically it's our second time but I would say it's our first time. So the plan is to be here for 10 days and we're just gonna explore around a bit and see. We're gonna go, like now we are on Tenerife for three nights and then we're gonna go to Puerto Ventura for I think seven nights. And maybe drive over with the car, with the ferry to Lanzarote. But we will see. The plan is to, we have a bunch of different jobs that we're gonna shoot and then we're also gonna do, this will probably be an ad for my own brand, Solitude. But we're gonna shoot our next collection, our next drop here on Tenerife and a little bit on Puerto Ventura. So the plan is just to shoot a bunch of photos. We want to do some trail running. I really want to visit the Tayden National Park while we're here because it looks absolutely amazing. I have, I've never really thought of the Canary Islands as a place to go to. I don't know why. It's just been in my mind a place that families go to when you were young and not really maybe a destination I wanted to go to myself. But then I saw a lot of people go here and I did some research and I just saw the nature here is just incredible. Like when we drove from the airport, we drove from, we flew to Tenerife South and then we drove along the coast through like the more mountainy area called Masca, which was just so, so, so beautiful. I will show you some footage. Yeah, and then we live like on the other side of Masca sort of in this little valley, like very local. And we rented this Airbnb that you've seen. Yeah, so the plan is to, we're going to go to Masca. It's just like maybe 10 kilometers from where we're staying. And then we're going to do some hiking and yeah, just have a look around sort of, and then maybe find some place to eat lunch. And then I think we will drive to Tayden, the national park, the big volcano. Yeah, and it just looks insane. I'm, I couldn't be more excited to be honest. And it feels so fun to explore something completely new for both of us. Like I do a lot of research and usually me and Jesper, we end up going to the same places that we know we love just because we love them and it's sort of easy and you know what you get and you always enjoy it. But yeah, I felt like this time it was nice to go someplace new and yeah, enjoy a different place. So you'll get to join three days in Tenerife and then we will go to Fuerteventura and yeah, I hope you enjoy. Welcome to the local supermercado or super diplo. We're gonna buy some dinner. Our first dinner and we were thinking maybe make some pasta with red pesto or something like that. I wonder if they have red pesto here to be honest. We don't know what they have. It looks very small. Should I film you? No, you can go. I'm actually really excited to see all the food. No, but I love visiting supermarkets in new countries because there's always so many new fun stuff to try. We found the pasta treasure. What? What a freaking book. Pretty cute. Look at these guys. They look really fun. Look, there's some small little macaronis. I think we should go with the pluma. Our incredible dinner. Unfortunately, the sun disappeared but we are having the most cozy dinner. Hello puppy. Oh, I miss dogs so much. What's your name darling? Hello, hello cutie. Paws, look at your paws. They're beautiful. So are you. Might as well do, I mean, you've seen a lot of the footage from the house but I thought it would be nice to do maybe a bit more of a Airbnb tour. Let's go up here and you can see the house from above. It lies in this really beautiful valley. So let's see if I turn this around. Okay, so this is the house we're staying in and it's just, I call it Casa Mexico cause it's, I don't know, it feels like a Mexican Sicilian vibe. And we have this beautiful mountains and then this is a separate Airbnb but no one is staying there at the moment. So it's just us. Then we have a little dining area. We have a little outdoor kitchen. I mean, we arrived yesterday so we haven't tried it but it would be nice to cook something here. Very cute kitchen. Yesterday we saw the little dog here cause the owner of the Airbnb is staying in there. Yeah, but it's just so, so beautiful. And these mountains, like when we drove here, we came from that direction and drove around and then down into this valley. And I think today we're gonna drive up over back to Masca. And yeah, I've saved some really nice hikes that I want to do. And if we have time, we might do a little train run this afternoon. I'm just so excited to be out traveling, exploring, being in a new place. I feel like I've been home for quite some time. Like we were in Salem and then we went to our apartment in Stockholm and I've just been craving some sun and yeah, just some change of scenery, I guess. So I'm very excited. I also wanted to say that the plan is to actually do this YouTube thing for real this time. It will be once a week. It will be in English. I will try my very best and then yeah, I will just take you along most of my trips and some days at home. And yeah, just hopefully it will be nice to watch. And I think it will be fun for me also to do a different kind of format because I love filming more maybe, you know, like in between moments, but also show more maybe behind the scenes and you know, daily life. So thank you so much for being here and I hope you will enjoy it. And if there's anything specific that you like thought about that you want me to show or anything, then please send me a comment and I will make sure to do it. Okay friends, we're getting ready to rumble. Always takes so much longer to, ah, it was open. Let me open the cage for my darling. Vroom, vroom. I really need to pee already. I do not dare to say anything, so you will lose it. It always takes so much longer to get ready than you expect. This is tight. Goodbye. We're off. Let's see if I have hiking time. We don't know really where we are or anything. We just found this little trail that looked nice. And then we're gonna go up to a little ridge and then hopefully get the view of the ocean. Feeling good? Welcome to the vlog. Thank you. What's up? What's up vlog? We, what are we doing? We just wrapped up our shooting session. Shooting session one, done. Now we're gonna maybe go look at a different spot or we're heading to town, have some lunch. I know there's a cafe that lays like in this valley that looks very nice, but I'm not sure if they're open or, otherwise I saw a Pokeball place that we might go to. That would be nice. I'm actually really excited for some Pokeball. Okay, but now we're gonna hike back down. So let's go. I thought we would do a hiking outfit. What do you call it? Get ready with me, but we're already ready. I'm wearing a Montbell bag. My Montbell bag. You're wearing one? Is that the only thing you're wearing? Go through the whole thing. Okay, so I have Montbell bag. Don't know how big it is. Legendary bag. Really good bag. I have an even more legendary shirt. I wear our Solitude coming very soon. Solitude mountain goods. Marina wool, long sleeve. So nice in like this black gray, really cool wash. Then I'm wearing, I'm wearing very nice leggings from Rua hiking. Super nice. I love that they're long. They are all the way down to the knee. Then we have boots. Also Rua and socks are satisfying. And my golden ticket are these nineties vintage Oakley. Okay, your turn. Montbell bag. Montbell cap. Big boy. Montbell cap. Montbell bag. Oakley eye jacket. Shoes. Solitude. Yeah, we're wearing the same. Rua hiking, Rua socks and leaky boots. So this is the fit, you guys. Is there. Thank you for watching. See ya. Oh, let's see if I can get some. Hello, puppy. I'm coming. Hola, senor. Welcome a casa Mexico. We need to go and say hi to our little neighbor. Our furry neighbor. I missed you. You're a bit sleepy. We are finally on our way. Took a little longer than expected as always. But now we're going to drive. I think it's like an hour or something. Takes, it's not so far, but it takes a long time to drive. Because it's like zigzag roads. But now we are on our way. Hello, darling. Hello. You ready? Yes, I am. Did you think it was her shoe? The gum? I thought in the beginning, but then I saw it was Orbit. Orbit, the chewing gum. Okay, now we're off to the national park. Should we buy some bread? The driest bread. This is not from today. We made a midway stop at Supermercado to get some lunch things. And this is what we're getting. Should we check if they have a different bread? Did he say dry? Ah, no. Let's do it. Okay, let's break it. And I bought some banana chips. Vamos. We have been driving for three hours. The scenery is crazy. Apparently, they filmed some of the Star Wars scenes over here. I didn't know that. And a cool, a cool formation. Is that Jesper's aunt, is it? Has been part of Star Wars. As an actor? Yeah, but what, who? No, the bikers. Ah, but maybe it's just. Are you ******* joking? Yeah, I was about to say that it's taking us. Seriously, it's the competition. No, it's taken us three hours to drive here. It was one hour in the beginning. But then, apparently, it was a cycling race on the island that we didn't know and we couldn't drive anywhere. So we have been trying to take three different routes to get to the national park. And now we're almost there, but now the bikes are back. But you see, now they drive. Only that way, I think. But aren't we going that way? Okay, but back to Star Wars. Jesper's aunt has been part of Star Wars. As an actor, she was playing, who? She was playing Princess Leia, maybe. Luke Skywalker's mom or something, I think. Yes. Yes, that's pretty cool. Some information for you. Let's see where we're going. I think the loop I was looking at is those rocky things. So cool. So either if we do the loop there or if we try one of the trails that I got a permit for. I can show you. Let's do the loop over there. The loop? Yes. That's the rocky things we were talking about. There they are, those little bastards. Blocking the road. Sup? Sup, vlog? We're out hiking in Teide National Park. I don't know if you can hear me. Scenery's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy because you got the lava rocks and the more volcano landscape. But then if you go the other way, if you turn it around that way, then you have the pine trees, the rocks. It's kind of crazy, actually. It's a hell of a vibe, huh? It's a hell of a vibe out here, huh? Exactly, really, really cool. But we will see if the bikers are finished, then maybe we can go into the actual natural park. And do a trail run. Yeah, we have been looking at a loop that we want to run and I hope we can, because it looks really nice. See you on the trail run. We got Teide. We started down there, made our way up. We have like 200 meters left. We made it back. It was probably the toughest 10K in both our lives. 11. 11 even. Yeah, I don't know what I expected, but I thought it was gonna be a lot easier than it was. But we made it and now it feels so, so, so nice. We were gonna buy an ice cream at the end, but the cafeteria closed. So I think we will take the car and go someplace and buy an ice cream. And then drive home, cook some dinner, take a long shower. Yeah, it was the toughest 10K in my life, but it was also one of the most beautiful runs that I've ever done. I hope, like I filmed a little bit, but I didn't bring this camera, but I'm gonna show you where we ran. So we started behind this house. And then let's see if I can zoom. We started behind the house, then we went up, let me see, like this way, up there. And then all the way along this sort of edge, up in between, on the other side, back down. And then we came out like behind this thing and then ran all the way back. And it took us quite some time to be honest. But yeah, I think this will be the end of our first vlog. Tomorrow we will go to Puerto Ventura and then it will be a new vlog. Okay, thank you for watching and see you in Puerto Ventura.