Safe Return Doubtful

My plan was to leave this morning and drive a couple of hours north. But the exhilaration of awakening in such a place made me unsure. The Danes have an expression, solvitur ambulado, meaning, it is solved by walking. It’s so true, and for much more important problems than deciding should I stay or should I go.

Anyway, I stayed.

Rain was forecast for most of the day, so I postponed my reading session and got out early with Roja. We walked up a track on the opposite side of the river to the one we had done on Friday, passing an eco-tourism venture that a farm is operating, with fruit farming and a type of glamping, in large transparent dome tents. They call it glamping on their website, but the domes have no electricity and though there is a pit toilet, the bathrooms are a hundred metres away. They farm Arctic raspberries, that grow on a metre high bramble that belongs to the rose family, and on a commercial basis. They can survive temperatures down as low as -35C.

We were back for coffee just as the rain arrived at 11 am, and from then on it was the occasional mini-wander between heavy bursts of rain every couple of hours, and watching sport.. rugby sevens from Monaco, and cricket from St Lucia and Canterbury..

The changing weather gave some incredible views of Sunkjhatten National Park across the fjord. This is amongst the best places I have stayed in the van.