message from sørkjos

2, 4, 6, 8...39!

fjords, fjords, fjords
reindeer, reindeer, reindeer
and 1 elk today as well!

this is what i did (the counting) / saw most these last two days.

after my last blog from ivalo finland, we crossed the norwegian border near karasjok yesterday where we saw the sami parliament building and visited the sapmi museum, partly an open air museum about the way of living of the sami.
we then continued to honningsvåg...almost at the north cape!
unfortunately weather changed during the day and when we arrived at our hotel it was totally foggy and it even rained 2 hours later when we were picked up by our driver for the night...to go to the north cape! north cape is indeed less fun when there's no midnight sun to see and you're almost freezing taking pictures...but still it's impressive enough to stand at the edge of northern europe!

since yesterday the group-proces is complete i think, this results in not only a LOT of noice in the bus sometimes (who says schoolkids are the only ones making noice on a trip?!) but also people keeping track of me whenever they feel like it (' sarah, it's cold outside, why don't you put on your jacket?, ' here let me just pull your shirt down properly, don't get cold!'), even heard a ' sarah we looove you' when returning from the hotel reception with all the keys to hand out again...

anyway, as you can see in the title of this blog i'm in sørkjos right now...in between alta (we visited the famous carving there today!) and tromsø (tomorrow!). last year they stayed in a hotel in a village next to this one on this trip, would have been fun to stay there just because of the name... storslett, if you are dutch and know that stor means big this IS funny! but it's just lovely here...we're right in the middle of another fjord, so took some lovely picture after dinner tonight!!!

ok, gotta go...have a bath in my hotelroom today, so it better be used! :D