Onze reis naar het Noorderlicht

Looking through the window with heavensteardrops I see the lake. Yesterday it would have been too windy to cross with the boat, today too rainy. Which is fine, for we did our exercise for a day or two. Yesterday we, also with our best friend in Norway who is also staying two nights here (some hosts/people are just so heartwarming), we did a route that with it's length of 3.2 kilometers would seem short in the Netherlands. But do know we climbed about 200 meters up, over small rocks and massive ones. My daughter and I find it harder because we're not used to it yet and our breathing is clearly not up to it yet. But we made it! The view was worthy of our effort and we treated ourselves a swim back at the small beach at the lake which was way more crowded this time then it was the first. I've said it before. I'm rather on a stage than in a bikini. I try to not think about it and focus on the freshness of the water and of course my daughter.  She is pure happiness in the wa...

My daughter is still asleep. Making coffee. Starting the day.  I am still tired from the traveling. I drove about nine hours the first day and nine hours the next day. Both days were different tough. First day around 27 degrees. In a black car without airco: it's a sauna. I am very bad with temperatures that passes the twenty degrees. The noise of the windows open bothered me less than I thought. Still listening to music isn't what I do then. Anyway not listening much anymore. The first long travel, more than two years ago, we listened almost non-stop to music. Got tired of it I guess. The second day we had a lot of rain accompanying us. Which made driving in a different way difficult and extra exhausting. We would drive about seven hours, but we decided to drive two more, to get a day earlier to our first host in Norway. --- DAY 1 (Wrote the same day in the car, while my daughter was reading along and laughing a lot about it. Sometimes she thinks I'm cool...) ... a big fil...