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A TINY fishing village where the sun doesn’t set for 69 days is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
Home to just 300 people, the island’s residents have chosen not to live by strict time conventions and instead “do what they want—when they want”.
Traditional wooden huts on Sommaroy Island[/caption]
The Midnight Sun in Sommoroy[/caption]
It is a great place to see the Northern Lights[/caption]
Sommarøy meaning summer island has constant sunlight between May 18 to July 26 every year.
You can walk across the gorgeous wind sandy beaches at 2am, and stroll amongst the gorgeous Arctic mountains whilst others are sleeping.
Due to its northern location, it hardly ever gets warm in Sommarøy, with average temperatures between seven and 15 degrees.
And in the winter, the midnight sun is replaced by constant darkness, which occurs between November and January.
The long polar nights are perfect for seeing the Aurora Borealis, which can light up the sky at any time during the “day” or “night”.
The island’s economy depends on fishing and tourism and there’s so much to do for visitors, including hiking, swimming and kayaking.
Due to it’s unusual daylight hours, Sommarøy exists without the normal time constraints placed on society.
In fact, the iconic Sommarøy Bridge, which is used as a way to access the island is covered in watches from visitors, who want to ditch the concept of time whilst on the island.
In 2019, the inhabitants launched a campaign to make Sommarøy “time free”.
“In many cases this can be linked to the feeling of being trapped by the clock”, ” Kjell Ove Hveding, the leader of the campaign said.
“We will be a time-free zone where everyone can live their lives to the fullest … Our goal is to provide full flexibility, 24/7.
“If you want to cut the lawn at 4am, then you can do it.”
The campaign called for opening hours to be abolished, and for people do be allowed to do whatever they liked at any time of day.
Residents of the island said: “Here we enjoy every minute of the midnight sun, and yes, a coffee with friends on the beach at 2am is a normal thing.”
It was later revealed that the campaign was partly a marketing ploy by Visit Norway, to boost tourism to the island.
However, the island’s residents did have a meeting to sign a petition to become the word’s first time-free zone, and their unique attitude to time is real.
“We apologize as we should have been [clearer] from the start about the role of the agency”, Marianne Mork, former head of business communications for Visit Norway, told CNN.
“However, the initiative is real and came from the islanders themselves, and their time-free way of living is real.”
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Wooden cabins on the waters edge at Sommaroy[/caption]
Aerial view of Sommaroy islands[/caption]
Sommarøy bridge[/caption]
A MAN has revealed that he will likely never return to the UK, after upping sticks and moving to Australia.
In February, Lewy and his partner made the bold decision to relocate to Adelaide, after becoming sick of the “miserable weather and negative people”.
Lewy ditched the UK for sunny Australia[/caption]
He now lives a three minute walk from the beach[/caption]
The couple describe themselves as “normal people” without much money, said they were able to move to a “stunning” neighbourhood, that “wasn’t expensive”.
Lewy said that it had been their dream for 10 years to live in Aus, and added that his and his partner’s life has greatly improved since ditching the British Isles.
“It’s highly likely that we will never live in the UK again because it cannot offer us the life we’ve got now”, he said in a video posted to his TiKTok channel @lewyp23.
Lewy revealed that he is no longer “overworked” and “stressed” and is paid more for his job in Australia than he was in the UK.
He added that the cost of living in Adelaide is much cheaper than it was for him back home, and that the people seem so much happier and fulfilled.
The TikToker claims that he would have to earn a whopping £150,000 a year to have the same quality of life in the UK as he does in Adelaide on his “average” wage, and added that he wouldn’t even move back to the UK if someone gave him £50,000.
Lewy now lives just three minutes walks from the beach, and as soon as they finish work, he and his partner take their dog out for sunny seaside walks.
He has even spotted pods of dolphins during his beach walks, which he said always leave him in “disbelief”.
Even in winter, the weather in Adelaide is warm and sunny, meaning that Lewy and his partner can have year round fun, without spending a penny.
“You don’t realise how much the weather affects you until you move to a nice place”, he said.
“We’re happier, it’s just fantastic.”
Another thing that Lewy loves about his life in Adelaide is the lack of crime.
“It’s safer her in Australia, you see a lot less nastiness.”
He added that he and his partner now do lots more on the weekends, and are able to be so much more social, as they are no longer stressed.
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He described the supermarkets, which are packed full of fresh fruit and veg as being “incredible” and said that older people look much more youthful and full of life.
Lewy is urging others to follow in his footsteps and ditch the “miserable” UK.
He said that anyone under 35 can easily get a working holiday visa, and added that the country is especially looking for tradesmen.
He said: “Why are you waiting to get out of that horrible place when you’ve got this waiting for you?
“The people are really lovely and you’ve got a life waiting for you with way less stress.”
“You get one go at life, you have to take risks”
WHEN a grizzly video of her father being brutally beheaded by IS terrorists was broadcast to the world, Bethany Haines made it her life’s mission to get answers.
Brave Bethany, whose aid worker dad David was publicly murdered in 2013, dedicated her life to confronting the monsters who played a part in his torture, captivity and death.
In an exclusive interview she reveals how she has travelled the world to confront ISIS’s most evil men and women.
Bethany tells how she had a two-and-a-half-hour showdown with one of her dad’s evil torturers, gave the middle finger to one of IS’s most dangerous men in Paris after he glared at her throughout a six-week trial and even travelled to Syria to meet IS brides who acted as recruiters for the terror group.
She became obsessed with getting answers about her dad’s final months and gained a unique insight into each evil members’ psyche.
Speaking to The Sun for our Meeting a Monster series, mum-of-one Bethany, 27, said: “I have met some of the most evil people imaginable. I’ve been to France, Syria and the US on numerous occasions to understand why they did what they did to my dad.
“Every meeting takes a piece of me away but I can’t stop trying to find out answers as to why they did that to my father.
“After every meeting I have had to rebuild, and it takes me months.
“But I know that if my dad was here he would be doing the same, going to every court case, taking up every opportunity to meet anyone connected to the murder and showing them but they’re not going to get away with that evil.”
Today Bethany recalls the chilling meetings with two of her father’s IS captors.
Bethany reveals how Brit terrorist Alexander Kotey tried to goad her as she pressed him for answers in a terrifying one-on-one meeting while fellow IS member El Shafee Elsheikh snarled at her as she called out his abhorrent treatment of her father.
But she says one terror attack mastermind “was the worst kind of monster that you can imagine hiding under your bed,” and left her haunted by “the deadest eyes I’ve ever seen”.
David, 44, from Perth, was abducted while working at a refugee camp in Syria in 2013.
He was held hostage by West London-raised quartet Elsheikh, Kotey, Mohammed Emwazi and Aine Davis – nicknamed The Beatles.
In 2014, a video of gaunt and pale David, wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling next to knife-wielding British-born Emwazi – dubbed Jihadi John – horrified the world.
It ended with his beheading – one of 27 the group are believed to have carried out.
I was very nervous. I was about to sit opposite and look into the eyes of the man who had done so much harm to my dad
Bethany Haines
Emwazi died in a drone strike in Syria in 2015 while Davis, 38, was captured in Turkey in 2017 and sentenced to seven and a half years for being a member of a terrorist organisation.
In 2022, Elsheikh was found guilty of hostage taking and conspiring to murder after a two-week trial in the US, while Kotey pleaded guilty to terror charges and was sentenced to life in prison.
One of the conditions of Kotey’s sentence was that he had to meet the loved ones of those he tormented.
Aine Davis was the fourth ‘Beatle’[/caption]
Bethany, who is from Perthshire, flew back to the US for the showdown with Kotey, who was being held at a super-max jail and was transported to a high-security Virginia justice building for the meeting.
Bethany said: “I was very nervous. I was about to sit opposite and look into the eyes of the man who had done so much harm to my dad. I needed answers. I needed an apology but what I got was a game from Kotey.
“When I got in the room, he was so relaxed, like nothing had happened. It was like chatting with someone in a café not someone who had tormented your dad. He doodled and drew spirals with a pen as I talked to him.
“He acted like it was a game. He told me things I didn’t know. He said my dad was abducted after he spotted him outside a kebab house.
“He said they took dad to hospital dressed as an IS fighter as he had become very ill and he blamed the other terrorists for driving the violence and torture. I took it all with a pinch of salt.
“He told me that before his beheading my dad accepted his fate and smiled. He wanted a reaction from me. He said my dad said to Mohammed Emwazi, the terrorist who beheaded him, ‘make it quick’.
“I could see that he was trying to make me uncomfortable and get a rise out of me. I asked him if he felt any remorse. He just came back and said, ‘you can’t inherit an apology’.
“I asked Kotey four times if he was sorry for abducting and torturing my dad and he just skirted around the answer. It was like getting blood out of a stone. He eventually said, ‘ok, I’m sorry for kidnapping and hurting your dad’.
“That was all I needed. I told him to ‘rot in hell’, slammed my notes and folders down in front of him and walked out the room. I didn’t want to give him another second. I wanted those words to be the last he heard from me.”
That same year, she flew over to the US to see fellow ‘Beatle’ – El Shafee Elsheikh – jailed for torturing and holding hostages, including her father, captive. She sat through every day of his trial.
She said: “I made a point of looking at him when speaking to him across the courtroom in my victim impact statement. He had the look of a little boy – someone who had done something naughty rather than being involved in the most evil of beheadings.
“When I read my statement, he looked broken to start with, but I told him that there is nothing in the Quran that justifies the violence meted out to my father. I even quoted a passage back to him. I vividly remember that he just looked at me and snarled.”
But in February this year, she met the most evil of her father’s foes.
Bethany had been tormented by the knowledge that other unknown men who had horrifically tortured and enslaved her dad had never been brought to justice.
One of them was Mehdi Nemmouche, who had already been convicted of the Brussels Jewish Museum terror attack which killed four in 2014.
For six weeks, she sat through every day of his Paris trial in which he was eventually found guilty of kidnapping, acts of torture, and barbarism of seven hostages – including her father – in Syria.
She said: “He was by far the most evil man I’ve ever met. His dark, dead eyes glared at me across the courtroom. He wanted to intimidate me.
“It was the first time I felt fear. He used the courtroom as a stage. You could tell that if he had a chance he would kill everyone in that courtroom.
“He gave off an awful vibe, let any remorse, and smirked and rolled his eyes after every comment that I made to him.
“I sat through every second of his six-week trial. I read a statement to him and was very forceful. He looked into my eyes with his dark pools of deadness and kept smirking. He kept rolling his eyes and glaring over me.
He was by far the most evil man I’ve ever met. His dark, dead eyes glared at me across the courtroom. He wanted to intimidate me
Bethany Haines
“It was so intense that I constantly wanted to leave the room but didn’t want to give him the satisfaction. When he was sentenced to life, I hugged the person next to me, looked him in the eye and laughed. As he was taken down, I gave him the middle finger.
“I’d met lots of evil people that did terrible things to my dad but he haunted my dreams for months after seeing him. I would dream about being at Disneyland with my son and he would just be there.
“I would wake up in cold sweats. Being in his presence, took months to get over. I hated him.”
Nemmouche has since appealed his conviction – a decision Bethany says is “insulting”.
And it wasn’t just the men of ISIS that Bethany has met – she also travelled to Syria in the wake of the fall of IS in 2019.
She went to a camp where she met some of the terror group’s brides – some of whom had come from the UK.
She said: “It was a real eye-opener. I met a number of IS brides. One was from Tunisia, one was from Belgium and the other British. One felt like she’d been groomed but I later found out that she’d also been a recruiter to try to get other women over there.
“She seemed completely indoctrinated, dead behind the eyes. IS had fallen but she was still defending them. It got me so angry. In some ways I felt a tiny bit of sympathy for some but others I really didn’t.
I’d met lots of evil people that did terrible things to my dad but he haunted my dreams for months after seeing him
Bethany Haines
“Some stood by IS despite them being eradicated in that area at the time and they couldn’t really understand the pain and evil they were bringing to the world.”
Bethany added: “I have really seen close up every facet of the evil that IS has within its groups. It has been truly harrowing.”
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