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!

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.

There’s more to this one. Swipe →

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 wine, 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?

11/08/2026

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

Surf Tribe, right on the beach in Soulac-sur-Mer, France. One week, and enough going on that nobody had to sit anything out.

For us: sunrise yoga, actual surfing, a proper date night, dinner cooked for us a few nights during the week, bootcamp on the ambitious mornings, a silent disco, a singer-songwriter set under the stars, a cozy bar to land in most nights.

For the kids: pool, surfing, new friends, games, entertainment, skateboarding, beach volleyball, a whole program running all week long.

And plenty we did together too, like the market morning where we ended up with a plate of oysters and the kids some too.

We went in wondering if we’d actually get any time to ourselves. We left already checking next summer’s dates.

Which one would you sign up for first, the silent disco or the sunrise yoga? 🌊

📍France // Surf Tribe by Tribe Life Surf Tribe Family Travelbase Nederland & België

01/08/2026

It’s rare we get time without the kids. We dropped them at Tim’s parents before we left, headed to Madrid for a wedding, and when that was done we had a few days left, just the two of us.

So we grabbed hand luggage, some VOITED essentials—the neck pillow that turns into a blanket is real—rented a Fiat Panda, and decided to skip the city we’d already seen. We headed to the mountains instead.

Found a refuge, booked three nights, hiked two hours from a parking lot in the middle of nowhere. Bunkbeds. French toilets. Food was actually pretty good. And you were basically kicked out during the days, so we just explored—climbed rocky peaks with barely a trail, swam in lakes and rivers and waterfalls, tried to find shade (the VOITED blanket saved us there too, see picture 11 🫣😅)

Four days without reception. You know you should be less on your phone, but living it is different. When there’s no signal, there’s no choice, and that’s almost easier somehow. Just the two of us moving through the mountains, remembering why we wanted this in the first place.

Best thing we’ve done in ages.

31/07/2026

4 dagen. 3 nachten. Oneindig veel avontuur. 🏕️

Met hike tribe naar Mullerthal — slapen onder canvas in een tipi, samen hiken met andere gezinnen, kloven en grotten ontdekken, tot in de kruinen van bomen klimmen, en afkoelen in de rivier na een hete hikedag.

Spelletjes ‘s avonds, een lekker ontbijt elke ochtend, nieuwe vriendjes voor de kids — en voor ons als ouders misschien wel net zoveel avontuur als voor hen.

Dit was zonder twijfel een van onze mooiste families-tochten tot nu toe. Swipe door 👉

Thuis voor 3 nachten: een tipi ⛺️

Door de kloven van Mullerthal

Grotten vol verwondering

Hoger, hoger, hoger 🌳

Afkoelen in de river

Nieuwe vriendjes, oude traditions

Even still, samen

Little Zwitserland op z’n mooist

26/07/2026

Just a trail and the four of us.

📍Hike Tribe, Mullerthal by

23/07/2026

No signal for four days. A refuge at 1950m, bunkbeds, a two hour hike to the nearest parking lot.

Packed light, so the blanket did everything: towel by the river, shade on the peaks, pillow on the flight, something to lie on wherever we stopped. Turns out the hardest part of disconnecting is booking it. 🌲

21/07/2026

Kloven, grotten, rivieren, ijsjes. Vier dagen wandelen in het Mullerthal met andere gezinnen, en slapen in tipitenten.

De kinderen liepen verder dan we hadden durven plannen. Niet omdat ze moesten, maar omdat er steeds iets was om naartoe te lopen.

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Åre
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+32492129897

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