OK so global warming has made the Scottish winters grey, wet and depressing - spare a thought for our poor Nordic cousins the other side of the North Sea - they have less daylight hours than us for longer during the winters - and the only thing preventing them from copying their cute rodent friends, the lemmings and finding a large cliff to jump off, is the presence of snow - makes everything so much lighter and truly uplifting. Also good to ski on.
So I was over in Oslo last weekend for the first time in 2 years - supposedly selling Walkabout trips to the norskies by wandering around the reiseliv2007 trade fair dressed in a kilt - which made the commute from Lier to Lillestrom through grey, rainy, miserable Oslo slightly odd. However when I came out of the hall a few hours later, 10cms of snow had fallen...
So a slighty madcap scheme was hatched which involved paying a visit to Steinar up in Hallingdal and persuading Rune (who looked like he needed sunshine, snow, exercise anyway) to drive. Of course, by managing to visit Erik and Stine in Asker and Line in Lier all in the space of a few days, it did turn out to be quite a mad trip. I dont think Rune was quite impressed with my "oh its only a few hours" speech when in fact it took us nearly 5 - but then we did stop for "polse" - norwegian hot dogs on the way
It was ace - and I managed to make film too....
