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)


Monday, February 22, 2010

Day 7: Wednesday morning... late breakfast today, it's hard work being a forbonde :-)... dinner last night was great with reports from the journeys of all sleighteams.Thank you to the market commitee for the invite!
Most exciting though was Jørn Holmes news. He is the leader of the Norwegian directorate of cultural heritage which has decided to protect several roads and routes lately. This also include part of the tradingroutes to Røros used by forbønder. It will hopefully be on Unesco's list of world heritage sites in the future. Amazing news! Just imagine if Jöns and the others that revived the forbonde-tradition in 1981 knew about this when they started out. And funny that the idea of doing this journey started when visiting a vegetable-market in Morocco. At this point it lies on Norwegian national level but his work and of course many others might have contributed to bring this tradingroute to the world heritage list. Quite spectaculare!
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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...