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Four weeks without sun
Posted: 2013-02-12 03:26:36, Categories: Travel, Norway, 546 words (permalink)Sandra and I spent the Christmas and New Year on the small 8 km² island of Karlsøya, Norway, 400 km north from the polar circle. That's north enough that in the winter sun remains under the horizon for two months, and in the summer it shines all around… more »
Traveling north for Christmas
Posted: 2012-12-17 02:14:02, Categories: Travel, Finland, Norway, Germany, Sweden, 376 words (permalink)I'm traveling with Sandra to Northern Norway for the last two weeks of the year to join a gathering of other likeminded people. It will surely be a different Christmas than we've ever had before - non-commercial and without rush. We will celebrate the… more »
My new travel companion
Posted: 2009-11-30 23:03:37, Categories: Travel, General, Finland, Norway, Hospitality exchange, Germany, 487 words (permalink)In the picture you can see me and Sandra on the way to Mt. Roan in Norway. She is my new companion on my travels — and in life. We met in Helsinki in March 2009 at a Hospitality Club sauna party and ended up cooking together in the middle of the night.… more »
Inside the midnight clouds
Posted: 2007-07-23 16:11:07, Categories: Travel, Norway, Cycling, 717 words (permalink)My second trip this summer brought me again to latitudes above the arctic circle, actually several hundred kilometers further north than the midsummer camp at Tuntsa. At Kinnarodden, the northernmost point of mainland Europe, the sun never sets for more… more »
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