Trusty Thursday

Am writing from my room, back in Tromsø. Got up this morning at about 8:00 and decided to just head back. I could have continued north, but long distance buses run basically once a day (or at least, that's the case with the routes i considered), so that coming back would have taken almost as long as getting there, and moreover along the same track... Besides, still have over 4 weeks here. Better take another trip later, perhaps south, by way of Kiruna, as Anni suggested (will get in touch with you!).

Apart from that, not much to tell, really. Counted the time from the first glimmer of daylight in the sky to the last, and it's around 7 hours. Not that extreme. In fact, i'm actually afraid that i'll never get to experience days on end of absolute darkness. Bummer. I really wanted to see how that felt; instead, i feel a bit swindled. Why do they call it mørketida if it never gets totally dark, huh?

Anyway, on the way here i noticed the sun never got above the horizon, but around noon the clouds in the south were really orange and sparkly, and the tops of some mountains were illuminated, too, all in a pinkish color. It's a conceptual shock to realize that sunlight here is actually coming from below. You see it in the way the higher clouds are lighted, but lower ones are black, opaque.