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By now, everythings goes well, the sea dosen´t want to be bad with us , back winds, or no wind, but nothing too strong for us. there is a lot of possibilities that we can discover, but we hope that the big water will stay nice with the two lander that we still are ...
when there is no wind, we row. and our hands are not made for..The François´s nice fine writters hand begin to be ok, but adaptation is not over now... when a muscle know is work, an other discover that he also should work and so on... .
Rowing allowed the mind to escape, to forget the bad situation we are, François can then imagine a bit more the story of is book around the IXth century, and after the row, the wind should be from the back, to allowed him to write down what he plans earlier...
For me, even when rowing, i just enjoy the peace of those moments, while on sea, no one to say anything, just peace... .
this morning, it was 01h in the morning when we reached the harbour, the sunset´s colors mixed into sunrise´s, but no stars yet, even we passed the artic circle a few days before.
The music was very well, just the salvation army, throwing us away with noisy drums... we was close to use our swords and cut some heads, but they were more than us....
Some nice encounters, A viking amators, who ask François to play 3 minutes for some South-Africans rappers; a boat builder,who tell us that going to Shetland is a bit too dangerous(a cargo will be safer...) and who give us some leather to protect our oars; a french man, who lives up here with his wife, members of a Fembøring ( same type of ship than our, but bigger)and a journalist.
This one, Mr.Horn, not like his collegues who say a lot of things before the interviews and then disapears, came back later as he said to take us for a little sightseeing tour, drive us to the Hat mountain, and to a farm, between the viking period to the 19th century, by a cactus plantation... the owner´s wife knoes a lot about medicinal plants and they are running a restaurant using their own production.
they also have a reconstitution of a 10000 years old house, with big stones at the bottom, round , with a wooden roof cover by grass, with a sper whale jaw for the door...
Thorbjørn, the house master, is a very interesting man,speaking German,English and Norwegian, we manage to understand. That is someone who knows a lot of his own History and some more.
A great pleasure.
JUst befor leaving, Mr.Horn propose us to play a little bit of music for the guests, we agree, but we was surprised to see our salvation army, having a party! so we played for them...
We forgot everything while eating at the master´s table(for those who knows Radagast...)