day number 2 has come to an end. things went pretty well until now!
of course people have loads of questions i can't always answer to immediately, but i think i am forgiven most of the time hehe ,)
the group is BIG (again, 39 people) and very diverse, there's a birdwatcher, a map-fanatic (sits behind me with a map on his legs), an almost deaf woman etc.... and of course the oldest person in the group (84 year old, with broken wrist!) seems to be one of the fittest among the elderly AND has been a travelguide herself haha!
all in all everyone's lovely, especially to me :D i've heard ' sarah can i just ask you this...', 'sarah what is that?' 50 times today, but i don't mind at all.
yesterday was mostly a travelling day, introduced myself to some people at schiphol already, later at the gate and in the plane and then at rovaniemi airport of course.
bus with finnish driver ilka polo (' please just call me ilka') was waiting at the airport when we arrived, counted the group around 3 times until i was sure we were complete.
turned out ilka had done this trip a couple of times last year and also 2 weeks ago already...he can dream the whole route and points out things to me i'm missing...couldn't be better!
today we travelled north from rovaniemi, through sodankylä (chaotic lunch as there was a film festival going on and the restaurant i booked was totally overcrowded, after that a lovely visit to a wooden sami church from the 17th C though) to ivalo. we also saw our first reindeers!!!
the hotel i'm writing this from now is lovely, apart from that, and maybe the ivalo river, there's not much to see here. good because we're heading for norway tomorrow at 8:45 (local time)!
we're going to karasjok, just on the other side over the norwegian border first tomorrow and will head to honningsvåg after that. a total of 400 km's...let's see if the group will still be as nice and lovely tomorrow night haha! well tomorrow night we're going to visit the north cape, 30 km's from honningsvåg, so they will probably love it!!!
gotta go now, prepare some last things for tomorrow before i head to my hotelbed.
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That's sounds very intrestig. I am happy, that you with your job have so a lot of fun! :o) Sure I think is not always easy, but I hear from your words, that you really love that and that is the important thing. :o) It's really great!
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day honey!
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