Ski and Paddle Norway 2009

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Again I overslept partly due to the dark room and partly due to the fact that I did not get to bed until 0230 last night. There were a few other guests at breakfast including two men from Bodo who would be here a couple of days doing a construction job.

One of the Bodo men was a keen sailor and had a share of a very traditional 42 foot Nordlands boat. These boats have a large square sail, and this one also had a rare topsail. It is an iconic boat and quite reminiscent of the Viking boats. He showed a 10 minute film of the boat on his laptop from a trip to Brest in Brittany last year for a traditional boat gathering. It was a beautiful craft.

After that I returned to the mini laptop to try and resolve some other problems with the website. After two hours I failed so I gave up. I also had a vast amount of emails to write and pretty much spent the rest of the day doing that.

By the time evening came I felt the whole day had been frittered away in front of the screen. Tedious and uninteresting but I felt I had a grasp on pretty much everything now and should be able to update the website from the laptop using the phone as a modem. If that failed or I ran out of batteries then I could always revert to plan B which was to use the phone again to type and send updates on.

I went out for anther pizza in the evening and the returned to write the blogs for the last two days which had got swept under the carpet. Tomorrow I would purchase most of the missing equipment and then go through everything I had to make sure I had packed tent pegs with the larger tent for example. I would also purchase most of the food for the next fortnight which should see me back to Mehamn again. Finally I would start packing all the equipment and food into the assortment of some 15 dry bags I had and try and establish a system.

Packing the boat and doing some last minute outfitting would hopefully happen on Tuesday. I would then be ready to have the boat moved the 60 km to Grense Jakobselv, which is Norway’s border with Russia, on Wednesday. I myself would have to walk or cycle to the border on Wednesday. It all seemed to be going according to plan so far which I view with nervous satisfaction.

It had been a boring but useful day. It had rained heavily most of the day which made my digital marathon slightly easier to accept. I was now pretty much up to date with all the paperwork.

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