Every year in the second week of February I pack my sleigh and set out for a weeklong journey over the mountains from Sweden to reach the openingday of Røros winter fair in Norway. In my company I usually have 10-15 horses and 30-40 men and women who travel together. It is amazing, truly magical in so many aspects. My only regret has been how few people that are able to share the experience with me. This blogg is an attempt to give you all a glipse of magic and perhaps one day some of you will feel the urge to set out on a journey of your own... (Anette was kind enough to keep the entries of 2012 when I could not join)


Sunday, February 20, 2011

Monday 14/2-2011

It’s such a Luxury to begin the day with a hotelbreakfast at Vauldalen this morning, the horses had their breakfast served at 5 and today our final destination today is a farm called Billehaugen. But our first stop is in the village Brekken where schoolchildren are singing for us and have made a mountain of waffles for us to enjoy. When the rest of us went to bed last night Ole-Peder went out to spend several hours making sure our roads were in order and thanks to him and a few others, they were perfect! Only a few years ago we had to follow the mainroad with lots of traffic from the Swedish boarder most of the way into Røros. Today we were able to travel along the old routes which is part of the extended worldheritage site of Røros. Fantastic thank you!

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Home is often, too often perhaps, defined by where my backpack last was unpacked and part of the year home is in a sleigh somewhere in the mountains between Norway and Sweden...