Surviving the Norwegian winter

Snowshoe walking
Snowshoe walking

I settle down the place where the sun sets at three in the afternoon, merely an hour later it gets completely dark. And so it is until nine in the morning. It's hard to get used to the long shadows cast already early in the afternoon. The early December's temperature of minus 20ºC promises a good start of upcoming winter season. This is a welcome gesture of central Norway, a region commonly linked with Jotunheimen national park and the Olympic village of Lillehammer. Some seventy or eighty kilometers up north there is a hidden and surrounded by snow-clad landscape enchanting village called Gålå.

Taste for adventure

Caye Caulker
Caye Caulker, Belize

Traveling to Central America resulted in new inspirations. Fabulous Caye Caulker island in Belize is a place where time is irrelevant and the only problem is to open a coconut. A hitch-hike ride on a truck full of pineapples and limes is by far better than riding limo. Every experience has its accompanying emotions which cause the discovering desire to increase uncontrollably.

Not always. Sometimes the only wish is to stop the time. Laguna Lachua is a beautiful lake of meteorite origin in Guatemala. The crystal clear water is close to thirty degrees warm. Plenty of submerged crater rocks are phenomenally blended into the overall landscape. It is an unforgettable feeling to be here at five in the morning to enjoy the view highlighted by subtle wildlife sounds coming from surrounding jungle. Natural wonders and unique coincidences. The hope in the eyes of a Honduran girl who just has earned a dollar selling a doll made by her mother. A warm tropical rain on coffee plantation. Fantastic people met in the colonial towns and hot salsa rhythms lasting all night long.

After a long period of silence ...

Riding beach cruiser...
Riding beach cruiser ...

Events of recent months have gained staggering momentum. All the time things keep happening. A new situations are positively shocking and unforgettable, yet some not very desirable also inevitably happen. Both things I have been expecting for a long time and those which I would never expect to happen. Almost every day is different and at the very thought of what would happen next I can't wait for the following morning. I feel that it is the best time of my life. The decisions I have taken have never been of so much satisfaction for me. The first and the key one was to take a year off my university and move for six months to England.