Abisko time coming to an end...

A year goes very fast and now it is time for me to pack up my things and move to new exciting places. On friday we had a combined Abisko village party and my leaving party at the train station. The party was a big success we had bbq outside on the trainstation and the weather was reasonable, around 5 plus and only a couple of showers of rain he he he. It was a great turn out and lots of the students from the CIRC spring course came along and took part in the games that Camilla (the fountain of knowledge) came up with. So one of the games, if you wanna try it yourselves, involves 5 people, 10 tools and 5 apples. First you get 5 volunteers and then you show them ten tools and tell them to pick two each. After that you introduce the apples and tell them to use the tools they have picked to peel the apple and the one that succeeds quickest wins. The second game we had, had everyone in stitches with laughter. Again pick 5 people and what they have to do is put a marshmallow in their mouth and say "funny bunny" and you keep giving them marshmallows to place in their mouth and they are not allowed to swallow them and each time they get a new marshmallow they have to say "funny bunny". Janne won the game with 14 marshmallows in his mouth, impressive indeed.
I have more or less packed up everything, sent a few boxes down to my mums place already (including my piano, man that bloody thing has been all over the place... hopefully it can stay at my mums for indefinate now!). I worked my last day on friday and it feels kind of weird leaving, Abisko has grown on me and I have met some incredible people here. I will miss them all but I will be back when the snow is laying white in the hills that is for sure.






bbq set up outside the trainstation











Apple peeling by the students
















Janne with a mouth full of marshamallows











....funny bunny........








marshmallow "removal" unit = camilla and I















Dancing crew inside the trainstation

View from Ramnan, hilltop near Andenes




Andenes beach - midnightsun






Hole in the mountain!













Puffin in flight















Puffin take off












Puffin running on water











Puffin digestion


















Happy spectator of puffins














So is this in Thailand or Norway??












Bleik island - puffin island














On the boat out to bleik island












Bleik Island













Swim in a lake 69 degrees north, pretty cold!


























Bridge in the background goes to Sortland













Climbing up high
















Andenes view from up and above


































Little fishing hut

Vesterålen-Andenes

Yesterday I came back from a weekend in Norway. I went to Vesterålen to visit a friend of mine Harald who works in Andenes. Andenes is the town at the tip of the island furthest north, the town is actually bigger than Abisko and has 4 supermarkets shock horror!!! Apparently they normally have real bad weather there. Rain and wind is the norm however when I was there it was glorious sunshine which we made the most of by being out hiking and checking out a bird island (bleikoya). On this island there were thousands of puffins nesting and puffins are one of my fav birds so it was amazing to see them. They are amazingly quiet birds and they run on the water to take off. However they seem to be a bit back heavy and sometimes they don't actually make the take off and have to settle back on the water. Bad design I think. The fell (mountains) in Norway look rather different to the ones around Abisko as they are more pointy than in Abisko. Actually when we went out to Bleikoya it looked so much like in Thailand that I for a minute or two thought I was much further south than 69degrees north! Anyhow I hope you will enjoy the beautiful photos from our amazing neighbouring country Norway.