Ski and Paddle Norway 2009

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I overslept in the dark room and did not get up until 0900. It did not really matter as I had the whole weekend to do a small list of things. Breakfast was adequate and the coffee was good.

The first thing I wanted to do was just to amble around Kirkenes and see what the shops had and find out where I could get some equipment. I also wanted to get some ideas for food which would do me for a two week stretch. The equipment included a petrol stove, foam mattress, some maps, AA batteries, and if possible a smoke flare or two.

It was a lovely warm day as I set off. The hotel was pretty much in the centre of Kirkenes so everything was very easy and convenient. I ambled around with the relaxed air of someone on holiday, which I suppose I was for a couple of days. I pretty much located everything I wanted and got some ideas for food by the time the shops started to close for the weekend around mid afternoon.

The next thing I had to do was to get to grips with the website. I had pretty much forgotten a lot of the procedures to upload photos and also to publish stuff onto the blog. For most of the skiing trip I had written everything on my phone and sent the text and some photos to Richard who dealt with it.

I started on this in the late afternoon and slowly managed to work out what to do. I took a pause for a cheap pizza meal and then returned to the mini laptop in the evening. Slowly I started to put on some higher quality photos from the second half of the ski tour and the cycle. These photos came from my compact camera rather than mobile phone camera.

I should have remembered my law about computing which is that everything takes five times as long as you had hoped. However I worked out an efficient workflow and managed to process and publish some 100 new photos and arrange and label them. The trouble was it was 0200 by the time I had finished. Still it was a good job done.

It had been an easy relaxed interesting day which just got a bit problematic when I started computing. However these problems soon sorted themselves out and I managed to achieve what I wanted in the end.

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