Hi, I am Ms. Paisie’s friend, Rachel. I live in Oklahoma, but I am currently half way through a trip to Norway. We are on a ship called the Regent Seven Seas Voyager. We started in Copenhagen Denmark and have sailed all the way above the Arctic circle to a place called Nordcapp, which is supposed to be the northernmost spot of land in Europe. But the guys who said that calculated a little wrong, so it is almost but not quite the northernmost spot. It is only a few feet off, and the real spot is a few miles away. It was very cold and windy in Nordcapp, even in July. The highest temperature ever in history there was something like 60. We wore lots of clothing.
Yesterday we went to Tromso, the northernmost city in Norway. We went to a museum about the Norwegian polar explorers. They were very tough guys.
Today we are headed south. We will be in Norway 5 more days then we will arrive back in Copenhagen and come home.
Did you know the reason so many houses are painted red in Norway? In the olden days, red paint was cheap because it was made locally, whereas white paint had to be imported from Germany. So if you wanted everyone to think you were rich, but you really weren’t, you would paint the front of the house white and the sides red.
