November

While a silent and dark war between autumn and winter is going on outside, I’m baking sjokoladekake and finally dropping some blog-lines. I must admit that it’s quite easy to be lazy when the evening starts at four o’clock, after the sun’s unconvincing short journey along the horizon line ;)



Two weeks ago, I went to Røros, far into the country, close to the Swedish border. Røros is a former mining town (copper mining), on the UNESCO world heritage list, with small black wooden houses, a huge wooden church and a mining museum. It’s a very cold place in winter, my car got a strong taste of ice and snow on the way there, we had the chance to walk in white frozen surroundings and envy the owners of a spark (some kind of bike-sledge). We got to see traditional Norwegian bunads (cloths) in the church and the miniature miners working in the Røros museum’s undergrounds.

Last weekend it was time for another koia trip, that turned out to be more extreme than expected. It started snowing on Thursday and by Saturday even Trondheim’s streets were all white and icy. But our great motivated international troop (the seven nation army) was ready to get onto the Tydal bus at 9 a.m. and head towards the Holmsåkoia. On our way there, it kept on snowing happily and I kept on congratulating myself for having left Wü home. All in all, we had a very cosy weekend in a four stars koia, after a two and a half hour long struggle with knee-high snow (we didn’t have skis :( ), during which some received the graceful title of path-makers. The four star koia was worth its fame: We had the best crepes ever on Saturday (the cooks spend three hours ín the kitchen), got to enjoy the French cuisine under an Italian cover (Sunday was pasta day), some had the chance to taste the Finnish sauna and we all enjoyed quality piano music all trough the weekend. We all bravely survived our way back (the path was already covered with fresh snow on Sunday), but we were very disappointed to arrive in a melting Trondheim in the evening… Hopefully new snow is on the way, I'm a faithfull supporter of team winter and my skates are very anxious to get out there :)