Norwegian Moments: Rock & Troll
‘You see those rocks? The ones sitting on top of the mountain?’ He points at the ridge line. ‘They’re not rocks, they’re trolls.’
‘You see those rocks? The ones sitting on top of the mountain?’ He points at the ridge line. ‘They’re not rocks, they’re trolls.’
I have this thing for birds sitting on top of poles. Telephone poles, lamp posts, ship masts. Plop a bird on top of a spindly peak and I will stop and stare. Why? I have no idea, have never really given it much thought before – until …
Summer is achingly sweet here in Bø. The sleepy months of winter are long, leaving little time for life to dilly-dally when the days begin to warm up.
I do not talk with most of the people I meet on the road about this blog. A small number find out about the sketching and painting, if we hang out long enough I am bound to pull out my journal and start doodling something. Some ask if I have an online space, I will chuckle and admit I have a blog, ‘Just like every other traveller these days.’ But the treading lightly bit? That part I am shy about.
I spent one night in Salerno. A stop meant as an in between moment, no expectations, it just happened to be where the next bed was after a day visiting Italy’s Amalfi coastline before continuing on to Rome.