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Kay and Larsarnes place Lensvik
26th July- 7th August
We finally arrived late at Kay and Larsarnes place they had two huge bowls of strawberries waiting for us (we ate them all) yum!!!!!!! The next day we had a relaxed day no one else did though, Kenneth was delivering strawberries at 4 o'clock in the morning and they were picking at 7 o'clock mum and I helped load some strawberries into the van while Vanessa went with Kay to the market. The strawberries picked in the morning go to the market and the ones in the afternoon go to shops. The strawberries are picked by workers from eastern Europe and they all spoke Russian and a little English. I help out with jobs like loading strawberries, taking down the huge tunnel houses which made the strawberries a bit earlier ripping the irrigation hoses out of the strawberry plants which was very hard work and even shifting sheep. In his spare time Kenneth was trying to fix his boat one day we took it down to the fjord to test it was on a home made boat trailer which was towed by the tractor it started off well but soon came to an end and was stranded out in the harbour with no oars we took it out another time but got the same result. Dad and I spent one day climbing the hill behind there farm there were great views there were small lakes al the way up but we didn't swim probably because one had snow beside it there was a big cairn on the top and we saw some sheep on the way back we found wild blueberries and picked a few for dessert later we found out that Kay has special tools for picking them so we went up the next day to try them out it was much easier we went another time into the forest to pick mushrooms the ones thhey picked were called chanterals they were yellow and frilly but tasted delicous. One day Larsarne organised us a holiday on holiday it was in a small fishing village on the island of Freya to get there we had to go through two tunnels under the sea. the place was all kitted out for fishing so that's what we did before tea the first day we went out on the rocks and Larsarne and Kenneth caught two fish (bait for tomorrow) the next day we got a surprise to find Juliet rune and the dog Rafa had arrived Juliet had been working in Iran and has driven back they had arrived in the middle of the night we took out the boat provided with the house and caught 18 fish I caught 8 and larsarne caught 8 too the fish were called sai except for one which was yellow and sliimy I got to drive the boat We cooked them on the barbeque for yum tea me and a German boy tried catching crabs off the wharf we caught quite a few. When we were back at the farm there were less strawberries so not as busy one night we went canoeing on a lake near there place it was really nice the water was cristal clear and so flat that even Vanessa didn't get sea sick we went swimming too it was cold. It was very sad when we had to leave. I had a great time.
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