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Continue reading →: ÄkäslompoloÄkäslompolo has less than 500 permanent residents but is an almost all year round destination for outdoor enthusiasts. It is most popular as a ski resort, the nearby Ylläs ski area has a total of 330 km of cross-country ski tracks, and 61 Alpine ski slopes with 29 ski lifts. For…
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Continue reading →: A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young
translated from the Korean by Sophie Bowman – published August 2026 This is the fourth in the very entertaining Lovecraft Reanimated series published by Honford Star which features leading Korean writers of speculative fiction reimagining the works of horror great. This is a retelling of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Muyoung,…
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Continue reading →: Pallas-Yllästunturi National ParkI’ve visited the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park twice before, two and four years ago, spending time at the two most popular destinations, Pallastunturi, and Pallastunturi is an area of seven mountains at the foot of which is a hotel that dates back to 1938, one of the first luxury mountain hotels…
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Continue reading →: The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong
Irish Literature – published July 2026 In early spring at an Irish bog a man watched while his lurcher digs. He even joins in, and returns to the bog with tools over the next days to eventually unearth an ancient elk antler. In the same bog in a different timeline,…
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Continue reading →: Leaving the Ocean CoastAfter 46 days in Norway I left for Finland this morning. All of those days were on the North Atlantic, so it’s a reluctant farewell to the ocean also. It’s been a 46 days of mixed weather, beginning with 32C at 10 am in the morning passing through Oslo to…
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Continue reading →: Bedlam by Jennifer Higgie
Australian Literature though about Britain – Historic Fiction – published first in 2006 and a reissue in 2026 Robert Dadd’s murder was announced in the Kentish Independent in the summer of 1843 along with two portraits, one of the victim and one of the killer, his son Richard. Both portraits…
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Continue reading →: A few days on the Måsøy peninsulaHavøysund on the Måsøy peninsula is missed by many visitors to Finnmark, the large majority of which are headed to North Cape. Some may take the 75 kilometre detour to Hammerfest, but the additional 85 kilometres to Havøysund deters most. I was in North Cape way back in 1987, and…
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Continue reading →: Boudoir by Sigrún Pálsdóttir
Translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith – published April 2026 Set in 1962, at a time of great change in the world, teenager Teddý lives with her parents on a remote farm in the Icelandic wilderness. Her life is dominated by lava fields, mountains and her approaching womanhood. An…
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Continue reading →: Hammerfest PeninsulaI spent three days at Forsøl, which is a small community on the northeast side of the Hammerfest peninsula. I was here before, but just for one night, two years ago, but it’s a great place for exploring the coastline on foot, and it deserves more time. In my last…
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SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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