Home again home again jiggitty jig 25 7 28
After spending another 6 weeks in Finnish and Norwegian Lapland, the arctic north without a single night fall 7th June to 19th July... Every day a challenge only more so than in 2024 when one has to concede not so much success as earlier, but still miraculously meeting the challenges! That, despite sticking to my work-out regimen of walking 10 000 steps a day and scaling perhaps on average 100 m of ascent!? It started out well enough but for the fact I had a couple of weeks before lost my car's near-side wing mirror, when the usual lack of spares in Hanko for old Saab cars meant I couldn't get a replacement in time for my vacation. Instead, as one journied north from Kolari, the termnius of my car-train of 14 hours duration, driving my car northwards, and pulling in at Muonio to a familiar restaurant, as I backed my car into a narrow space on the end of several other parked cars, I grazed the adjacent car. Not to add insult to injury, at which point I stopped the car to exam...