The Nomads Family

Name: The Nomads Family
Address: Åre, 9019, SE
Telephone: +32492129897
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Val and Tim | Backcountry guiding, writing, coaching, photography

Val & Tim | Fenna & Ziggy
Moved to the mountains
Skitown life in Åre, Sweden
Photography ° Guiding ° Writing
Het boek 'Leven zonder een plan B' ligt in Februari 2023 in de winkel!

17/10/2026

My favourite people in the whole wide world 🥰

05/10/2026

A surf holiday with entertainment for the kids? If that’s what you’re after, save this post 😁 because guess what, we found it!

04/10/2026

A mattress strapped on top of the rooftop tent. A borrowed trailer rattling behind the Jeep. Trip number I’ve-lost-count, just 20 minutes down the road.

Apparently moving house is number 8 on the list of life’s most stressful things. That list doesn’t mention doing two houses at once. The Nomads House and our own home, every drawer a little decision. Keep, donate, tip. Repeat. Work didn’t stop. Fruit still had to go in the snack boxes, and the kids still had to get to every training and hobby on the calendar. Life just kept going around the boxes.

We moved everything ourselves to save money. That was only possible because friends lent us their trailer without a second thought. You know who you are. Thank you ❤️

And somewhere in the middle of it, we learned to stop. Walk into the forest. Lie down on a bridge for ten minutes and listen to the water. Breathe before carrying the next box.

Because a move is messy, but it’s also a door opening. I call it unlocking new land, like in a video game. A road with little red houses you’ve never driven. A forest you didn’t know was there. A river crossing that slowly becomes yours.

We’re settled now. The camera’s charged again. And there’s a whole new piece of northern Sweden waiting for us to explore. I can’t wait to take you with us.

P.S. Those slippers? The new Ridgeloft Slip-On by VOITED . As comfy on a cold floor in a new house as they are on the boardwalk outside.

02/10/2026

A bit more than three years ago I watched Book Club, a romcom about four women who meet once a month to talk about a book, and have done it for 30 years. I love books, but what stuck with me was the circle of women who stay through everything: job changes, kids, relationships, grief. I wanted that, so I made it a mission.

I asked around, and my criteria were a love of books, kids (I knew we’d talk about them a lot), and something international, whether that’s a partner, a background, or just really good English. Four women said yes, which made five of us, and three more joined over time. Now we’re eight.

We meet once a month, always at someone’s house, with snacks and drinks. Sometimes 70% of the evening is about the book, more often 30%. We’re all very different, and that’s the best part. There are discussions, tears and a lot of laughing.

Last spring we hiked out to a couple of cabins for one night. We’d planned it all in advance and everyone had a job: sauna master, breakfast wrangler, mood master, and so on. No men, so you can guess how smooth it went 😉

No electricity, so it was candles in the window and a fire going most of the time. Dinner on the gas stove, breakfast over the open fire, w**e in hand, beanies on whether the sun was out or not. After three years of living rooms, it was the first time we had a whole evening and a morning with nowhere else to be.

We’re making it a yearly tradition. Next time, maybe more than one night.

If you’ve been thinking about starting a book club, do it. Do it your way 📚🙌❤️

18/09/2026

Är du i Åre för Höstmarknaden i år? Gör ett stopp i Duved också – vi kör utförsäljning i showroomet och har extra många taktält uppställda. Välkommen att klättra upp, klämma och känna.

📅 Lör 26 sep, 10–16 – vi rensar ut våra prov- och demotält till riktigt bra priser. Först till kvarn.

Vi har en lista på de tält som säljs – de finns på plats, men står inte uppfällda. Vill du testa ett taktält går det bra på våra ordinarie utställningsmodeller.

Kaffe på kannan, aktiviteter för barnen, ställ dina frågor och vinn priser.

Hämtas i Duved – vi skickar inte rea-tälten.

📍 Karolinervägen 10B, Duved

Villkor gäller och kan variera beroende på vilket tält det handlar om – vi har både nya, begagnade och demotält på plats, så fråga oss om du är intresserad av ett specifikt tält.

Välkommen!

14/09/2026

Chase life 🙌⛺️

29/08/2026

Tim and I were driving to Ånn the other day, meandering the way we do in the car, and ended up talking about presence. He does the could, would, should thing, replaying decisions like there’s a version of the past he could still fix. Mine looks different. My brain just doesn’t switch off, running through everything that still needs to get done, next week, next month, the move.

Different flavors of the same problem, really. Neither of us is actually here.

I’m training for it, actually, every single day. Not touching my phone in the first hours of the morning has helped more than almost anything else I’ve tried since I started in June.

But some places make it easier than others.

Four days of hike, sleep, eat, repeat with the kids does something the daily grind can’t. You notice things again. A small hand finding yours on the trail. Waking up in the tent and looking around at three people still asleep, so peaceful you almost don’t want to move. The last steps of a long day, tired in the exact same way, which somehow makes it feel like a team win instead of just being tired.

We have these moments at home too. They just move faster there. You have to actually pay attention or they slip by. Out there, they don’t. Out there it’s less like catching moments and more like standing in them.

We’re three days from actually living in Ånn full time. Curious what that does to the daily version of this.

28/08/2026

Not proud of this: for two summers we ran our car engine for hours, just to charge a laptop 🫣

That’s what happens when you try to combine two months of rooftop tenting with actually needing to work. Rooftop tenting for as many weeks as possible, preferably on one big roadtrip, has been our way of spending the summer holidays as a family. But being gone that long means the work doesn’t stop. Laptops, cameras, phones, string lights at night. It adds up.

The first two summers we ran on a 12V car charger and a 12V to 220W adaptor, and just winged it. Charging at campsites, during coffee stops, whenever we could. Some evenings, if we had a deadline and empty batteries, we’d let the engine run for a while just to keep the car battery from dying.

This year we upgraded to an Aqiila solar panel and battery, and it’s changed the trip completely. The battery charges while we drive and while we sit still, and the panel just goes wherever the sun is. No more running the engine for a laptop charge.

You’ll find both on the Taktältarna website. If long roadtrips have felt out of reach because you couldn’t picture combining work and travel, this is genuinely the fix. Worth it 😆🙌

17/08/2026

We left the temptation of a 9-to-5 in the real world for a longboard and a thumb on the highway, hitchhiking our way through a life with no schedule at all, our dog with us from day one, on every ride, every border, every random floor we slept on.

We left the ease of moving fast for a pilgrimage on foot, Pamplona to Lisbon, because walking for weeks straight felt like the right kind of hard.

We left that stretch of freedom that only Europe gives you, no borders to cross, farms to volunteer on, hitchhiking with no plan, living on the beach when we felt like it, backpacks always on our backs, for a whole life in Central America together.

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We landed in Åre. And this year we left that first home for a new one twenty minutes further in, closer to the quiet, closer to the big peaks, trading nomadic freelance chaos for work that challenges us in a whole new kind of way.

New chapter again, and we head in not knowing much of what it will bring. We only know it feels right, and that feeling is something we’ve learned to cherish. When that gut feeling vibrates, one step is enough, and it will be a step in the right direction. The right direction, I don’t think that exists. Life is a windy path, the most beautiful views right next to the hardest obstacles. But it’s an incredible life. One worth following your gut for.

Thanks Tim, for always being right there beside me whenever we dare to take that step together. One thing I know for sure: even as we settle down more and more, this will always be one big adventure.

12/08/2026

I keep saying the mountains are my thing, and they still are, but this summer broke something open in me. Warm ocean every single day ☀️ Sunsets we didn’t rush home from. Bikinis instead of five layers. It was the hottest summer I’ve had in Europe, hot enough that even our camera gave up on us at one point mid-shoot.

But it’s these moments, good food, a little w**e, all four of us just existing together on the sand, that I’ll actually remember 🤍

If you’re building your own version of beach-picnic-sunset life, here’s what’s been living in our bag all summer: the VOITED Sandfree Beach Sheet underneath us and the VOITED Beach Towel wrapped around us after. Save this if you need the upgrade.

What’s been your favorite kind of “best life” this year, the mountains, the ocean, or somewhere in between?

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