We are really enjoying our trip through Norway. We have been very lucky with the weather for the last week and until today every day has been warm or hot with clear blue skies and very light winds. The scenery is a non stop source of breath taking ‘oohs and aahs’.
Something that has impressed itself upon us the most is the quality and duration of daylight. After more than a week in ‘near 24 hour daylight’ we still find it a complete novelty to go to bed late in the evening yet with bright daylight outside! Tonight (Saturday 31st May) in Bodø the sun does not set until 01:20 and then rises at 01:40, so of course it doesn’t really set at all! It’s weird! The colour of the sky is also very different to what we are used to in the UK. There is a certain ‘purity’ to the depth and colour that is difficult to describe.
The position of the sun in the sky also feels very strange. Instead of rising and reaching a high point at local noon as it does in the UK, the sun appears to slide across the horizon all day, never really getting very high but staying there all the time. The shadows at noon are quite long and the light changed little in intensity between mid afternoon and ‘late evening’.
All this of course is playing havoc with our time perception!
Fishing! ………ah yes, fishing. This is becoming a new obsession for us. We have been moderately successful over the last week and have enjoyed a few tasty meals of Cod and Saith (Coalfish). In fact we are now a little too choosy and release any fish that is ‘not big enough to fill two dinner plates’ back in the water (get us!). So now the first thing we do when arriving in a new area is check out the best place to fish before we get on with the more serious matter of sight seeing!
Another little surprise, well perhaps I should say BIG SHOCK is the price of food. Apart from a few things most food is two to four times the price of food in the UK. Milk for example…..£1.50 per litre, bananas £2.30 per Kilo, a loaf of bread about £3 or so, a standard bar of chocolate £3.50, a 150g bag of crisps £3 to £4………………you get the idea!
It is a good job we stocked up in Sweden with as much stuff we could store and keep fresh for a month! We are also becoming expert bakers of bread and cakes…….ooh yummy!
I hope that this blog does get to you before we get back as internet on out phone is slow and intermittent and wifi appears to be as rare as cheap milk over here!
Tomorrow (1st June) we are taking the ferry across to the Lofoten Islands. I am hoping that in the morning I might be able to ‘send’ all the past weeks blog updates to Blogger.
Let’s hope so, bye for now
G
No comments:
Post a Comment