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Friday, July 20, 2012

Ørnes: Hiking

Last Sunday we hiked up a mountain over 800m high.

I can't recall the name of the mountain but but it's in Neverdal;

4hours up and down on a multiple different grounds,

some very very steep parts,

warm hike up, very cold stop up on the top of the mountain, cold lunch break but finally warm again when hiking down,

running around and talking with sheep (that were running free on the first out of two tops of the mountain!),

leaving the top of the mountain just as fog attacked,

being able to see an amazing view of beautiful nature

and

...I'm so glad I took Ingar's grandfather's hat from the hat shelf to keep my ears warm! ;-)

CONQUERED!

The Norwegian traditional hiking food includes Kvikklunsj chocolate and fruit (typically oranges). We had just the first - and it is yummy.

Up till Wednesday my legs were still suffering from stiffness and paaain. Stretching didn't help what so ever. But now all cured, ha! ;-)

Feels good to find those unused muscles again.

Tough but very successful and fun hike!

Am I getting old - I wasn't a fan of this kind of fishing/hiking/nature stuff ever when I was younger and my parents suggested something haha!

Linda

Thursday, July 19, 2012

OH MY COD!

Ørnes: Fishing!

Watch out world, I'm coming to catch your big and little sea monsters!

In Ørnes we went out fishing three times. Once from land, twice from the boat. I even got to drive - fun fun fun!

I had never been out on the sea fishing. I had never caught a big fish with a fishing rod.

The only fish I had caught were small Baltic herrings and perches with a worm based rod, and that's in lakes.

Ever so excited to head off to sea. Fishin some lil fishiessss, yeaaah!

Dressed up as a proper fisherwoman, too. Check out that cap - cool, in'nit!

10min and THEN THE MIRACLE HAPPENED!

O-OU, it is big. It is heavy. It is fighting against me. It is just going deeper, deeper, deeper. I need to It is killing my muscles. I can do it. I can do it!

It's a freakin' SEA MONSTER! 1kilo sea monster!

Or maybe this was the sea monster! ;-)

We got a 7kilo cod. It was work to get it up from the water. My muscles were really doing a weeks workout there. But boy was it fun. The excitement when you are pulling the fish up without knowing what you are getting - other than it is massive. Then actually seeing the fish and being aware that yes, it is massive, it is a sea monster.

Words coming out of my mouth were a mixture of English, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish nonsense. Words after an other, no meaning other than the expression of amazement.

Who wants to go on a sea monster hunt with me? I think I'm hooked on fishing. ;-)

Linda

ps: our total fishing amount was

fishing on land: zero

1st boat fishing try 1.5hours: 7kilo cod and two 1kilo something fish?

2nd boat fishing try 2hours: a little cod that we threw away and an eagle (!!!) ate it later as apparently it didn't survive and four something fishies, probably a kilo each

I thought it was a lot! But apparently it wasn't that much..at least so I was told. :-D

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Bolga

Bolga: An island with a rocking rock

One of our weekend's activities up North of Norway.

A 45min ferry ride in sunshine and out on the beautiful waters of the North.

What a landscape!

Perfect weather to visit Bolga, a populated island outside of Ørnes.

A little over 100 people live on this island. They even have their own little school.

We walked through the diverse nature of the island to a famous rocking rock and gave it a push.

Yes, we got the rock to rock! Rocking rock rocked. Too much rock?

The cutest thing I saw, aside of some cute ginger haired kids, was a mid-aged lady coming to pick up the mail from the ferry with a tractor. The whole environment was very Little House On The Prairie -like, even though it can't be seen from the pictures I took. Idyllic.

As we were done with eating our pølsegrateng, it started to rain. Luckily the ferry came soon enough to take us back to the mainland where the rain had already turned into sunshine again. :-)

Linda

Monday, July 16, 2012

Way up North: Ørnes

Ørnes: More North than I've ever been

This weekend was spent up, up North of Norway in Ørnes. A 2 hour drive from Bodø, where we flew to.

Keywords of the trip were:

- nature: snow coated mountains

- fishing

- hiking

- eating

- sleeping

...and a longboarding trip, too. Though there should have been more of that. ;-)

Well, at least now I have a good (golf)bag in which to carry my board/s when traveling. Can't wait to hit the hills in my hometown and cottage area in a couple of weeks!

Will have to divide the posts a bit, so you won't drown in the amount of pictures I have waiting for you!

11PM view from car on the way from Bodø to Ørnes: 24h of sunlight. perfection.

i thought i had come back to fresh, clean air as i got back home to eastern finland from london five months ago. i was wrong.

when stepping out of the car in ørnes i realized i hadn't breathed fresh air since... visiting my grandparents cottage up north of finland when i was what - 5years old?

it felt, smelt and tasted so good. fuel from the nature.

and how about that clear sea water?!? if only it were 15°C warmer, though..