Right. Set the ipod to a listener friendly song and lets begin. My journey to Norway began long before I arrived, since it was such a puzzle for me to find the most effective way of transport there from the central Swedish countryside. Two weeks before I arrived here I was draming about the impossibilities of it all; one week to go and it had become the next hardest thing to a Rubik cube. One day of travelling it was officially passed as the most challenging thing Ive ever had to accomplish in my life...

It was great to get a lift to the ferry port (since other wise this would have been a physical impossibility) but too bad I didnt think of the arrival side and became stranded at the desterted ferry port in Vaasa, Finland, three km from the train station and little less than hour to catch my train.

Now I am seriously considering hitch hiking, if only there was some traffic! Intead I resorted to asking God to delay the train, or better still, make a taxi drive past. It was such a hot day and I am sweating and smelling not so nice. Even the taxi driver (yay!), who as far as I know has saved my day, commented on the smell.

Safely at the train station with ten minutes to spare. But the ten minutes turns in to 30 and the train has still not departed. (Well, God seems to be handing out favours all round today, having answered both of my prayers!) But now my train is late and I spend the rest of the journey stressing that I will once again, miss my connection. So more praying, this time I include that Norway had better be worth all this hassle.

But amazingly, all my travels worked as I planned and now I am safely in Nesseby, with nothing much to write about because I am staying in a one-man hut five metres from a sea fjord on one side, and the road on the other, and no lights, running water or bicycle. Its awful quiet here, if you take away the wind and traffic most days I make crafts and eat food and sleep. Last week I went to Ekkeroy with a couple of Finnish girls travelling through. Its a bird haven there they said, but all I saw were gulls and a hawk and I think that pair of envrionemntal students were disapointed.

Fortunately there is a friendly neighbour who stops by twice a week on the way to the supermarket to offer a lift if our food stocks are low. So this a very uneventful place and there is nothing else to say that wont bore you further!