24hrs on the island with ONLY DAYLIGHT (I'm exhausted) ︱ Near the North Pole

Svalbard has now experienced 100 days of uninterrupted daylight! It is one of the places in the World with the longest Polar Day season, keeping the island in constant daylight for FOUR months! As a local of 9 years, it is always at this time of year that I start to go a little bit crazy. My circadian rhythm is shot and I am just very very tired from the constant daylight. Today I take you on a full day our gorgeous island, so you can see for yourself if 24hr daylight is something you would like to experience first hand! I hope you enjoy this video and thank you so much for being here! I love y'all! ✨

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About Cecilia:
Cecilia Blomdahl is originally from Sweden and moved to Svalbard 8 years ago. She works as a photographer and videographer in Longyearbyen, and with her social media channels. Check her out on tiktok and instagram under her handle @sejsejlija! Here on youtube she posts videos about her daily life in her cabin with her boyfriend Christoffer and her dog Grim, living just outside of Longyearbyen. Subscribe for videos about her daily life as well as adventures on an island close to the North Pole. They have polar bears there!

0:00 Longyearbyen
00:33 Svalbard Extremes
01:16 Midnight sun timelapse
01:33 9am
02:02 10am
03:47 Midnight sun explained
05:45 12pm
06:01 1pm
07:13 2pm
07:29 3pm
09:12 4pm
10:27 5pm
10:42 7pm
10:52 9pm
18:31 10pm
19:01 11pm
19:51 Midnight sun timelapse

[JeffAlderman]

Love the channell. Last week I was sat in my local pub's beer garden with my dog talking to a family of Danish tourists (who also had a dog). I told them I subscribe to a youtube channel by a Swedish lady who has a Danish boyfriend who lives on Svalbard. One of the daughters instantly said Cecilia? We spent the next 10 minutes talking about Grim. Keep up the great work of international relations 😂.

[annemrd]

Hi Cecilia! I'm an interior designer and, when I design hotels or Airbnb without what we call in Spain "persianas", what I do is to put curtains from wall to wall, to blocked also the light that is reflected on the wall. That makes the room way darker than just covering the window :)

[aksileb]

The person who starts shipping the roller shutters to Svalbard will make a fortune! I can’t believe no one has come up with this idea yet. They are easy to install by non-professionals. You just take the measurements of your windows and they will make you a custom roller shutter and send it to you. You just mount it on your window. There are countless tutorials on youtube. Just to get them from the mainland somehow. They are also insulated so they would also be useful in winter and during storms.

[thisishima]

I got to meet Grim on my recent trip to Svalbard. What an adorable dog.

[olivierdalancon]

Hi Cecilia! I live in Tromsø and as a French man, it was hard at the beginning but we bought some blinds that totally block the light in the living room and the bedroom. We close them around 21:30 and turn on the lights! And it works like magic!!! I highly recommend you to invest in good shades, it’ll change your life in the summer!!! Lykke til ❤

[jeffraines]

Ask Santa Claus to drop off some blackout shades and curtains. I heard he lives close by😂

[margietucker]

I don't understand the black out curtain situation. I live in Texas where the sun is very intense. The blackout curtains I have in my bedroom are nothing fancy or expensive. I bought them at Walmart! Years ago. When they are closed....my bedroom is as dark as a tomb.

[artisticromance]

I'm in Ireland and I find the really long summer twilight to be difficult at times. Recently I got up to see the stars at 2am and it was still bright in the area where the sun had set (in Galway region so not the top of Ireland). I can only imagine the struggle of 24 hours daylight. Adore your videos and Grim!

[crystalpowers]

Cecilia, I know I have written this each time you talk about the daylight but you need to invest in blackout shades. You can purchase some really beautiful ones but they are a must. Lower them when it would normally be dusk and nighttime so your body can adjust. Put them in you living room area🙏🏻😊

[prema]

Grim is still like a puppy he is so cute, and I love Polar Night the best.

[Cameron]

Im always in a quandary about Svalbard. The polar day would drive me mad in white linen! I love the idea of polar night!
But I'd almost take the 24-hour sun for the temperature!
50° !?!?
Omg. This week, we hit 108° F with humidity in the 80% - 90%!
That's 42.2°C!!!
I watch your videos right now to say sane until autumn and winter!
Love ya, Grimm!

[amstergal]

I can feel how exhausting this season is but never get over the beauty of Svalbard and how lucky you are to live there. I hope you all stay for a long, long time as the thought of you not being there makes me so sad. Thank you Cecelia, Christoffer and Grim for all I've learned and come to love through your beautiful channel.

[Gringa_L]

Your struggle with the constant light makes me realize that falling asleep (in most of the world) happens gradually, beginning when the sun starts to set. We're not programmed to suddenly put a cover over our eyes and boop! fall asleep. I experienced midnight sun in Sweden as a teenager. At first you think it's cool and interesting but that quickly wears off. 😁

[dawndawn]

Cecilia, get 2 or 4 more curtain panels and extend your rod to accommodate them. It will block out the light coming in from the sides.❤ Gorgeous day! Love to Grim🐶😘

[mrsdls]

17:39 try to see if you can find a thermal insulating curtains that can go behind your curtains. We use those in my son’s room and it definitely helps make everything darker behind his black curtains. It also helps with regulating temperature and noise reduction, but I don’t think you have a noise problem, but we use it for fireworks here.

[crisa]

Put magnetic strips down the window frame and down the sides of the curtains! It’ll shut that light right out!

[michellericci]

Measure the windows in your kitchen, living room, and bedroom. The next time you are in the US, bring your windows measurements and buy black out curtains. As someone who was a shift worker for many years and slept during the day, black out curtains were a life saver.

[theowletblog]

Tip for shutting more light out: Put velcro on the edges of the curtain (the side that faces the window) and the other half of the velcro on the wall next to the window. When you stick the curtains to the velcro on the wall it holds it closer to the wall which blocks more light from coming through. We have an oddly shaped window and I get really bad migraines, and this worked really well for us!

[sandrineldumas]

Hi Cecilia ! You could also try "old school" wooden sun screens to put on the ouside side of the cabin? It's fairly easy to make from wooden planks. That's what we use in the south of Europe : blocks the sun and the heat + you can leave the window open to let some air enters the room

[janaculbreth]

Have you all thought about the fact that Cecilia’s views are never average!!!! She lives in like an Arctic fairytale and then her mom and dad live in the dreamiest most stunning white mansion with the pool and all the things!!!! How great is that!!! 🙋🏻‍♀️