1. A Wandering Spirit


    Date: 12/12/2023, Categories: Lesbian Sex, Author: byJorunn 

    ... much, but where else can you be outdoors, doing something you love to do, and find someone willing to pay for it? OK! OK! Get your mind out of the gutter! Perhaps I should re-word that.

Toivo speaks perfect Norwegian, but responded to my email in Finnish, "I don't understand your language. Please write back to me in Suomi."

Norwegian is one of the Germanic languages, with similarities to languages in other European countries. Because of that, I am fluent in six languages and comfortable speaking four others. But Finnish, known as Suomi, is a language left behind by visiting aliens! The words themselves look and sound different and are full of double vowels. Suomi is a genderless language, a single pronoun is often used for both male and female. How can you tell which? You can't. And even after you learn the Finnish word for something, odd suffixes may appear depending on the usage within a sentence. I replied with a flurry of all the Finnish curse words I knew, then switched to Norwegian. Two years ago, I spent five months in northern Finland with Toivo, helping him with his sled dogs in Rovaniemi, and we fell in love. Even with daily exposure, my mastery of Finnish, and my relationship with Toivo, both failed.

Toivo gave in, this time, and told me in Norwegian he knew four ice climbers were waiting in Geiranger hoping the Seven Sisters waterfall would freeze solid. One of the tallest waterfalls in Norway, and perhaps the most beautiful, Seven Sisters rarely ...
    ... freezes due to the warm waters from the Gulf Stream. This year, intense Arctic cold settled over Scandinavia in early January. The last time the Seven Sisters waterfall completely froze was in February, fourteen years ago! Toivo was willing to pay me reasonable travel expenses for a story about winter kayaking in Norway, even more, if the waterfall had frozen, and quite a bit more if I could get photographs of the ice climbers. He provided me with their contact information.

The words 'reasonable expenses' and 'Norway' do not belong in the same sentence, and reaching the remote town of Geiranger, in the middle of winter, was not going to be easy, or cheap.

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Chapter 3 - Escape to Arendelle

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For my escape, I flew the next morning from Trondheim to Ålesund, a town with a rich art heritage, located on the Norwegian coast. There I met with my friend, Ellie, and together we drove to the town of Stranda in the interior of Norway. Ellie has a short-term lease on a one-bedroom flat and works as a ski instructor at the nearby Strandafjellet Skisenter. I met Ellie two years ago when we were both kayak instructors during the summer in Geiranger. Her flat was messy, which perfectly fits her personality, and I expected nothing else. She is a bit of a wandering spirit like me, and her flat had little furniture and scant decorations. There was an odd-looking circular drawing hanging on the wall, and Ellie told me it was a Viking calendar, often pictured as a ...
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