http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/article3195636.ece

http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/article3195636.ece

everybody lets my Iceland down
except Eva Joly. i like her!

Kongsfjorden

what more can one want? marvelous scenery, mountains, glaciers, snow, fresh air and no people...

pictures from the fieldwork

finally i put some pictures from my cruise/field work on the web. we had a very nice trip with way to much food at the boat and then digging and walking all day, trying to figure out the geology of the area. we have been on a large number of places on the west coast of svalbard. the weather was 50/50, with sun, rain, clouds and ok weather. this is svalbard.

no we are writing a huge article from the work we did. it's a group work so that we can benefit from each other and the different experiences we may have achieved during our life time...

back in Longyearbyen after 9 days of field work...

Group 1, me Sasha (russia), Bryan (ireland/holland) and Ewa (sweden)

first days

first day at school started with shooting and swimming in the fjord in survival suit... my kind school...

for the last two days we have been having lectures by the teachers and also we have held our own presentations. wich was a lot of work but good to do and i learned a lot from that.

today it was raining a lot, i hope it will stop before we leave???

tomorrow we will leave on a expediton/field work with the old coast guard ship Kongsøy, which is a rolling boat...sea sickness!

there are some more pictures out there and here is the route;

svalbard...

this is of the svalbard landscape on my way north! I put out more pictures out there...

yeasterday i walked down to school and town, meeting people i havn't seen for a long time everywhere, and fixing all the administrative things, like getting bed linnens, key cards and password for the internet...
after expensive shopping and a huge lunch i went back home, all alone in the barack ( people will show up soon) and did some reading.

back where i belong...

tonight i'm flying back to Svalbard. first i fly to Tromsø in northern norway (1000km up north), then i have to stay there for almost 5 hours and then fly the last bit to Longyearbyen (1000km more).
i'm going to take a field course in quaternary geology together with 12 other students. the course will start on the 23 with shooting and zodiac boat...
then we are off for 8-9 days of sailing in the fjords, going on land every day and digging and describing what we see. it all ends with a huge report...

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