kragerø

I believe neighbors in Norway have had no lack of topics this year, a cold and rainy summer is indeed an go theme for a chat. Kraerø 2007 is different from last year but the things that make it different are quite intangible. I am happy here. We survive long workdays by all sorts of harassments and bad jokes, and I have discovered guests are nicer on rainy days. Tollboden sells a lot of pizza, rumors say that 70% of all we sell is pizza and there is one guy employed full time for only making the pizza dough.
Kragerø is a place where kids learn how to manage a boat before they even walk or speak and I think there might be more boats than people here. Not only do them kids know to drive boats, some of them also develop extremely odd culinary skills at early age. To mention some examples; the four year old boy drinking a double cappuccino and asking for brown (not white) sugar on the side and another kid around the same age eating a salad and wanting olive oil and freshly molded pepper on top.
On my free days it is usually raining, and since that is predictable I make sure the nights before free days are long since I know the weatrher gives me all excuses in the world to sleep away my days off. I live in a little red wooden house with limited capacity of energy. We can not keep the coffee pan heated at the same time that we shower, not have the lights on when the laundry machine is working and never listen to music hen we cook, etc. I could go along for ages naming all the possible combinations of electricity involving activities we can not perform simultaneously. But we have the sea right outside our doorstep and we probably have around 15 flavors of tea compensating for minor electricity errors. Right at this moment a dog called jack is putting his head on my lap giving me the "please take me for a walk" look. bye bye.