Monday, August 17, 2009

Greenland Permanent Residency

Rovaniemi - NORDKAPP


Sorry for the delay! `Well yes, we have come a destinazione! Il 9 agosto il trio delle meraviglie ha raggiunto il tetto d`Europa!
Lasciata Rovaniemi siamo entrati nella selvaggia e desolata Lapponia, dove citta` con supermercati e homines sapiens erano assai rari. Qui regna sovrana la renna! Centinaia sono stati gli incontri con questo animale a noi terroni sconosciuto!
In quattro giorni siamo giunti alla frontiera norvegese. Molti ci hanno parlato di questo nuovo stato come un paradiso terrestre, con paesaggi mozzafiato e tramonti indimenticabili...ma che prezzi!!! Altro che i 9€ per colazione, pranzo e cena nella lontana Polonia! Qui si sganciano 20 sberle a pasto!
Entrando in Norge abbiamo abbandonato la tipica foresta finlandese per addentrarci in una bassa e arbustosa tundra, tra strade piu` montagnose e temperature piu` basse.
In questa parte finale si sono moltiplicati gli incontri con cicloturisti: dal tatuato francese Laurent, al crucco Peter, al basso basco Gonzal, ai due trevigiani con i quali abbiamo gareggiato nelle ultime tre tappe, fino agli svizzeri dalle narici abnormi, passando per i Polacchi gia` incontrati a Rovaniemi e altri cicloturisti tedeschi e scozzesi di passaggio a Capo Nord.
Le ultime due tappe sono state condizionat e dalla pioggia, che e` tornata ad inzuppare i nostri piedi, e da una fitta nebbia che limitava la visibilita` a 5 metri.
Cosi` il 9 mattina ci siamo svegliati nel campegio di Repvåg, abbiamo fatto colazione e siamo partiti per l`ultima tappa, sotto una pioggerellina end. Down the road along the coast, following each fjord, we arrived at the entrance of the famous tunnel of the North Cape: 7 km, 4 down and 3 up to 10% slope, reaching 212 meters below sea level, connecting the mainland to the island of Magerøja. After the fast, cool down in this sort of dark cave we have faced rising boldly and without too much effort we are back to light. Here we took the first rides, after passing the salt that bicycles do not pay toll, in this new territory, characterized by low tundra and cold, always fought the cold north wind. Once in a Hønnisvåg 16km we stopped for lunch. But on Sunday everything is closed! D `oh! We however, to remedy the need for our sandwiches and we share all shivering. After a few kilometers from Treviso meet the two, before we left that morning, who decided to stop at a camp 30km from Nordkapp. In fact, the time `on top is even less forgiving!
We will not give up and decide to continue, but after we wrapped up a few meters from the typical "cloud" who likes to cover the area of \u200b\u200bNordkapp. Plunged in this gloomy atmosphere we get to the coveted sign NORDKAPP! Picture taken and we continue to the inbox, just in time 'where the odometer was taking the 5000 km! Swiss!
decide to pay the entry of salt 140 NOK (all cyclists In fact, scoff at the toll going just wide in the fog) and despite not see a chip only managed to find the mysterious globe, a symbol of Nordkapp, to which nearly two months we aim our bikes.
After the historic self-timer, `what will be framed and placed on the desktop, catapult us into the Hall of the North Cape to sacaldare our buttocks!
After being refreshed with canned spaghetti, around midnight we're going to plant the tents in place for cyclists sgam suggeritoci by Germans.
The night goes smooth, although it is very cold, windy and wet. D `On the other hand we are about more North Europe` s!
oohh! Again, this is it!
Seriously, we came to goal! To our Ithaca! Not a glorious arrival (there once was a soul alive to greet us) but triumphant!
But fear not! It is not the end! ... Is only the beginning! A

soon!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Small Maxillary Sinus Polyps In Brain

Lappeenranta - Napapiiri


Oh Finland, Finland endless!
's been 11 days away from Lappeenranta, we went through about two thirds of the northern state. From the south covered with thousands of lakes we went to long stretches of pristine forests of the north. The thing that probably has piu'colpite the days are endless, the sky lit by the sun until one o'clock at night. Another thing that struck us, brutally struck, and 'speed' with which our portfolios are empty! Here the cost of living! To make you understand better, if the first € 15 includes breakfast, lunch and dinner for all three, we now spend around 20 € per meal! Not to mention the night: you do not understand why 'plant here two tents in the camping costs as a warm and comfortable cottage!
meetings are not missed: most important are those with Juhanni, which made us stay for free in its camp in which there was an ongoing camp for kids, offering local sausages cooked over the fire together, the other meeting 'took place in Tervola out supermarket, with "Nino", a gentleman a little 'touched with which you and' entertained Pella which the blast from the few words translated Routard in finlandese (salmone, latte, fiume, renna affumicata), mentre Nino non faceva altro che ripetere "joo" (sí in finlandese). Ultimo incontro importante e´ avvenuto oggi, a Rovaniemi, con Babbo Natale, insieme al quale abbiamo scattato una foto pagata a peso d´oro.
Un´altra esperienza interessante e´ stata la notte passata in un campeggio completamente abbandonato, forzando la serratura di uno dei cottage.
Domani, dopo esserci concessi questa sosta, ripartiremo verso il vero e proprio nord. A pochi chilometri da qui oltrepasseremo infatti il Circolo Polare Artico e se tutto va bene in una decina di giorni dovremmo raggiungere la meta.
Per ora e´ tutto poiche´ ci stanno cacciando a calci dalla library!

you soon!

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