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Main entrance hotel Kilpisj\u00e4rvi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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My sleeping lodge with common kitchen and tv-room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Only wifi-place, the lobby of the hotel, where I spent much time.<\/p>\n

Last night, while I was eating two types of pasta, which I found in the common kitchen of my hallway, along with thick sausages with ketchup, which I still found in the refrigerator, a lady a few years younger than <\/span>I am showed up. <\/span>My name is Mirja, of Miriam. <\/span>I’m baptized Henricus, but my better friends may call me Harry. <\/span>Finnish Mirja had got the room next to mine. <\/span>I eat my slef prepared diner, take care of Tosca, try to get some pictures from my handy in my blog, in vain. <\/span>At 11.30 pm <\/span>Finnish time (in my experience only 10.30am.), I knocked on Mirja’s door, which was open. <\/span>Mirja, there is a music band starting at 11.30 i<\/span>n the main building bar. <\/span>I’ll have a drink for 45 minutes or so and then for me, “old chap”, it’s time to go to bed. Want to join<\/span>? <\/span>She had told me that she was cello musician and gave music lessons to the disabled, among others, <\/span>Somewhat doubtful she joined me to the band. <\/span>Obviously deafening noise. <\/span>You could not discuss one word. <\/span>Now she had to be used to those pupils with a speech disorder. <\/span>But I was not enthusiastic about an evening sign language with someone I do not know. I did not like that much. <\/span>There were some crocked chicks sitting together at a table, some big, pastey, rough Finnish doods at another table. <\/span>Within 10 min, we were back in our own building without drinking one beer. <\/span>We installed in our barack’s common sitting room, she took a bottle of Italian Pinot Grigio out of the car and we talked for a couple hours, fascilitated by the vino. <\/span>I understood her poor English badly, or was it my ears? All kind of topics<\/span>: music, children, mountain hiking, etc. etc. I often just nodded, as if understanding, which sometimes was not the case, according to a follow-up remark or question from her. <\/span>Like most of the guests here, she plans to walk for a few days and then go home again. <\/span>She complained about arthrosis in the feet, carrying food for 10 days. <\/span>With her heavy overweight, she was not going to make it, I think. <\/span>That insight enabled her to leave me part of her food supply. <\/span>Not bad. <\/span>After having breakfasted together this morning in the restaurant (at the hostel price), she started packing and left.
\n <\/span>I did some shopping, like buying food, found a new rain cover for my backpack in an outdoor shop, which I am very pleased with.<\/p>\n
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I re-enter the main building lobby to further detail my route. <\/span>Several times the electricity of the building broke. <\/span>That’s pretty difficult, because it will take 10 minutes before Wi-Fi is available again.
\n <\/span>A friendly looking man, with long hair, brown eyes and a stubble beard above his little white board, speaks to me. <\/span>Have a seat, I invited him. <\/span>He was a reverent, he said. <\/span> I had already noticed it by his collar, I answered. <\/span>We talked for an hour or so about hiking, viewing hiking maps, pilgrims and pilgrimage routes. <\/span>Again the electricity power breaks down a second time. <\/span>The girl at the front desk, for whom I had been the perhaps fascinating view (or not) since a few days, had to smile. <\/span>Yes, life is o.k. here.
\n <\/span>I look forward to the next discoveries in the weeks to come. <\/span>But I have my doubts about the long mountain routes of sometimes more than 30 km, with a heavy backpack the first days. <\/span>Only after 8 or 9 days will I reach a place with provisions and electricity. <\/span>So that means I’ll have to drag a lot of weight again. <\/span>It also stays cold, windy and wet with very low cloudy clouds. <\/span>The coldest summer since many years. <\/span>“Other years the weather in summer in Laponia” is always nice”. <\/span>Yeah sure.
\n <\/span>From Jan, who accompanied me in Spain and his Hanni I received an email about someone’s blog who had been to Cape North years ago from Friesland (Netherlands). <\/span>In these areas, he had had the same experiences I have: Bad weather, cold, wet, deadly and deadly tired, sometimes eating too little, while that person on average walked shorter distances. <\/span>Often only a few kilometers a day. <\/span>That makes me somewhat less anxious about my own body. <\/span>Many people here experience their limits. <\/span>And that is also what I wanted. <\/span>So this won’t be a trip that has an easy finish. <\/span>It continues to be hot.
\n <\/span>Now, I am used to this because of my former work. <\/span>We often worked for very long days and weeks with a minimum of sleep, under high tension and there was no time for coffee breaks and cozy cuddles with grandmothers, like people seem to imagine about a general practicionar’s job. <\/span>Especially when the companion at work or colleagues were on vacation. <\/span>Childbirths added to my work, road accidents, suicides and a vast rayon, which ranged from Simpelveld to Cadier and Keer, an area of \u200b\u200b15-20 km. c<\/span>ross-section over inland roads, without handy or gps. <\/span>Actually very inconvenient when I was in a hurry. <\/span>Morality of this story? Don’t complain <\/span>too much about stress and just keep going on. <\/span>Just carry on. Former collegues <\/span>Jan M. and Paul H. of my sports club can acknowledge this.
\n <\/span>Meanwhile it is 3 pm and <\/span>I believe I got the pictures of July 28th and July 29th on the blog after a few hours of trying and delayed by electricity break downs. <\/span>I finished a pasta, with thick saucages still in the refrigerator, supplemented with Mirjam’s tomatoes and sausages.<\/span><\/span><\/\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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