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Continue reading →: Farewell to the Midnight SunTonight the sunset returns. There will be 30 minutes before it rises again. Within 4 days the difference, the darkness will be 2 hours. With it the temperature changes and there cooler nights will be more of a feature. There have been 80 days of midnight sun, and I’m actually…
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Continue reading →: The Devil’s Bath or Des Teufels Bad
Austria / Germany 2024 Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, German and Austrian respectively, have collaborated again, (after Goodnight Mommy) and this time to produce their best effort yet. Set in the forests of Austria in the 18th century the story centres around a young newly married woman who is frustrated…
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Continue reading →: It’s good on the ridge..Yesterday I entered Norway’s northernmost and easternmost county, that of Finnmark, the second largest in the country, but bigger than Denmark, and with a population of about 75,000. Whereas almost all the tourist visitors will head to North Cape, the north most point of mainland Europe, I will spend the…
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Continue reading →: Op Oloop by Juan Filloy
translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Lisa Dillman Optimus ‘Op’ Oloop is a man bound by routine. Locked into patterns that dictate his every movement his life is carefully timed with a detailed schedule for each day. This is set in Buenos Aires in between the wars, in the 1930s,…
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Continue reading →: The Vourdalak
France 2024 This is a very watchable adaptation of one of the earliest vampire novels, The Family of the Vourdalak, written by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, cousin of Leo; a gothic novella written in French. Stoker’s Dracula was first published in 1897. Polidori’s The Vampyre, acknowledged by many as the first…
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Continue reading →: The Lyngen AlpsThe temperature dropped 19 degrees from the morning I hiked Kjølen mountain to the following day. I took advantage of a lapse in the heavy rain to let Roja have some exercise, though I was less enthusiastic myself. This is one of the advantages of having a dog. I’m sure…
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Continue reading →: I Wake Up Screaming by Steve Fisher
Though a major success for Fisher on its initial publication in 1941, this dark piece of crime fiction has lapsed to be out of print for many years. Quite inexplicably also that a publisher hasn’t stepped in for a reissue, as it has something of a cult status. It has…
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Continue reading →: Kjølen and associated DumplingsIt was the last day of this particular, hopefully last, heatwave. The forecast was for today to be the warmest day, up at 29C in Tromso town, but up at Sørskaret, 200 metres above sea level, it felt a bit cooler, maybe because in the morning there was a strong…
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Continue reading →: Higher ground to get out of the heatAfter a week on the island of Vannøy I left this afternoon to get a bit higher up and sit out the end of this particular heatwave. Temperatures and humidity this afternoon are very high for this part of the world, 27C, and forecast to be at their height tomorrow,…
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Continue reading →: One for the annals..In pictures, with a short documentary. A superb day. Susannabakk-kolen and Laneskollen from the south of Vannøy and across a few kilometres.. with a short movie from the highest point..
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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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