" ...though we travel the world to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us, or we find it not "
Emerson (1803-1882)

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Empty roads and geese on my mind




After months of 'not very much work at all' since Christmas, I have - finally - recently been working around the clock (or so it felt at times!) - surveying greylag geese in Finnmark and Troms counties. The round trip from Tromsø is about 2000 km. So, this means hour of driving on near-empty roads (I swear one day I saw only 2 cars in 2 hours of driving...) with an agitated dog in the back of the vehicule.

It also means outstanding northern landscape to admire, and very nice places to camp out. It's been work the time and effort.

.... and surveying on empty roads is just as well, considering I have only just now found out the all-important road regulation to "give way to the right" here in Norway. Ah well! Not bad to learn the highway code here after a mere three years of driving here....

(crikey)