Blogs from Norway, Europe - page 163

Sometimes a story or a travel is best told in pictures. This is that kind of a story. This is the story of a place where I often travel for visiting friends and relatives. This place is a small community that lives mostly of agriculture as live stock and fishing. A place were you can find peace just by enjoying the beauty of your surroundings. A place were you can find beauty in every kind of weather and time of year. The place is Bø i Vesterålen. Its a small place 1 hour and 30 min drive from the city Harstad and 30 min drive from the city Sortland. This is the perfect place to travel if you enjoy being out in the nature in all its glory by: trekking the mountainsides, boating, cycling from one ... read more

Monday 8th September One thing about camping is that you end up in bed fairly early and also wake fairly early - so you do maximise your daylight. Walking back from my pizza last night the sky was as clear as and the temperature plummeting accordingly. Not sure what it fell to in the small hours but it was only 6° at 7 am this morning. Autumn was galloping in and I suspect after the autumn solstice winter isn't far behind. Anyway in the wee hours I had to put my hat on in my sleeping bag and the bag was well and truly zipped up, containing me inside a cotton liner and a t-shirt. After that I was warm enough - save having a nose like a labrador that'd been nosing in the freezer for ... read more

Sunday 7th September True to form I missed a 3 pm ferry from Geiranger by about 15-20 mins so now have a about an hour and a half's wait till the 5 pm one - the last one of the day, so could be worse. So I thought I would start the update for today early. I'm cutting it a bit fine to get across the fjord, find somewhere to camp and get pitched up by dark, but as tempting as it is to camp this side I need to press on. I keep staying extra in places and now that I have booked my ferry to Denmark for Wednesday I have to start working my way south. Hence whilst kicking my heels I am writing blog material for the second time today - although at ... read more

Zamieszczam troche fotek, zeby lepiej zobrazowac jak mi sie tu zyje. Nadmienie tylko, ze nie narzekam:-) Enjoy:-)... read more

Well, it's been a while since my last entry, but days are getting busier and busier...and also getting shorter and shorter. There's so much that I have done in the last two weeks, but here I'll just concentrate on a few... I started my volunteer placement two weeks ago. I am a teaching assistant at Svarttjern Skole, and other than a few minor hang-ups everything went relatively smoothly. The school is in the neighborhood, Romsås, where there are no vehicles, and all of the paths are for walking. I am working with the 2 trinn classes (second grade). Every Wednesday the class has excursions to various places to get a comprehensive education. Most of the outings are to the local woods where they are encouraged to explore and learn about nature. I was a little ill ... read more