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home is here:



and if you look closely, you can even see my flat.

i had to leave this place once, i might have to leave again, but i will be back.

long distance relationship joys

solar storm + satellite phone = lots of frustration. and northern lights.

tough choice

thoughts while cutting some bread for dinner:
ooooh, how i miss german bread! full of seeds and yumminess!
but at least norwegian bread is quite decent.
and in germany, i couldn't lie in the snow and watch the northern lights dancing over the sky!
(can you guess what i've been doing this evening??)

so, here's the choice:

incredibly good bread in all sorts of varieties, and throw in some amazing breakfast rolls for good measure, but a boring night sky

or

decent (but not great) bread and the view of northern lights outside your window

i think i know what i go for.

(if you want to see the awesomeness of the northern lights up here, check out hanneke's blog!)

happy new year

finally, finally, fit enough again to get out on the water, i used the good weather yesterday for a short new year's eve paddle in the beautiful mørketid's light:

unfortunately, a kayak is not a very stable platform for photos in low light conditions...

the evening was spent most pleasurably with raclette and watching quite impressive fireworks - seems like norwegians are more enthusiastic about blowing up stuff with bangs and sparks than germans!

and then the joy of poor satellite phone connections, while it's great to be able to speak at all to a person camped somewhere on an antarctic ice shelf at the moment, it's incredibly frustrating if the conversations consists mainly of broken up signal. oh well.