Day 120. Mehamn rest and weather day
Posted by: James on April 30, 2009Distance 0km | Time 0hrs | Ascent 0m | Descent 0m
I had a very long lie until 1000 until I was woken by a journalist from Finnmarks newspaper. He wanted a photo and interview. We agreed he would return in an hour.
I got up had a breakfast of bacon and eggs and just managed to finish it before the Finnmarks newspaper journalist returned. He took some photos and explained that another journalist would phone later.
I started on the blog as I had 2 big days to write up and photos to sort and label and that would probably take 4 hours.
The phone went and I expected it was the journalist. It was a journalist but a different one. She was from Fjell og Vidda, the prestigious magazine of the DNT, the Norwegian trekking association. It had some 200,000 members who received the magazine. We arranged a potential interview later in the summer as I paddled past Trondheim.
Then the Finnmarks newspaper journal rung and I gave a telephone interview. All this excitement was eating into my blog writing time and I didn’t get one day out of the way until mid afternoon.
I then put my skis together and went to enquire about posting them back to Oslo. It was easy enough but I had to go to the airport to get a plastic bag for them. This was fair enough as parts of them were covered in sticky wax.
I then went to pick up the bicycle from Vidar. He had a few to rent out. It was nearly new and looked the part with 24 gears. But it was Chinese and there were a few bits on it which were wobbly already. It would do the distance but I won’t be speeding down any hills in case the front forks shear.
In the evening I wrote up the last days skiing and today. I had wanted to leave tomorrow but there were still too many things to sort out and emails to send.
The cycle to. Kirkenes I reckoned would take some 5 days. It was 350 km. However the roads I would be going over were still very wintery and would go through mountainous regions. I would have to take a tent still if I got caught out. All this would have to go in my rucksack as there were no panniers. It could be a painful experience.
It was a dull day really. The weather was likewise dull with occasional drizzle which made it easier to do the office work.