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Letter From Europe con’t.
ren dislike spinach I suggest they
send them to Norway as such is a
treat-at the equivalent of 900 U.S.
currency a serving for one at the
better hotels and restaurantsi
Above the Arctic Circle cabbage
plants have just been sfet and vary
from 3" to 6'* high. The growing
season is 3 months only but as the
sun-supposedly-for 2k hours per day,
such is equivalent to almost six
months. There is no darkness, no
dew or frost, May l5th to Aug. l?th
hence the farmers don’t have the
uncertaincold spells such as I’m
told you had in Highlands after
May 10th.
White potatoes are raised in all
possible places, even up and down
10 to 25 degree slopes. Although
it seems to rain most every day,
such are the slow and sooking kind;
never heavy showers, hence no
terracing is needed. A superficial
glance along the coast causes one
to believe that all the rocks in
Europe were deposited here, but
there are sunny, sloping hills be
hind the rugged coast. Along the
fijards one notices farm lands and
garden flats on the sunny side, but
barren hills and mountains on the
reverse side. That’s the only way
to express it as the sun doesn’t
travel overhead at all; somevrhat in
the shape of a rainbow. It doesn’t
set at all at Fammerfest, for in
stance, from May 17th to Aug. 1st
and one becomes confused when VJest
becomes East in a matter of 15
minutes at nidnight. Therefore,
for the uninitiated, it is diffi
cult to know directions.
Norway is a country of contrasts
with its 2^,000 islands and the
equivalent number of lakes, fijords
and waterfalls. It is not unusual
to see Bridal Veil Falls ranging
from 200’ to 2000’ high, and cas
cades and water falls on the order
of Dry Falls and Satulah cascade
on a scale 5 to 10 times as high,
English is taught in all schools in
Norway so we have been able to feel
at home. The state does better for
its school children than at home
as they furnish free meals and free
dental and medical treatment for
all children. In the interior their
school "buses” are ferries and
ships of all description which op
erate the year round 5 again, the
effect of the sea around Norway,
as the water in the fijords never
freezes as a general rule. This is
interesting when one considers that
Oslo, the capital, is about 1200
miles farther North than New York
or Boston.
I’ve made temperature readings
over the I300 mile coastal stretch
from Bergen to the top of Europe
and noted that there is never more
than 3 to 5 degrees difference in
mid-day and midnight readings.
While we wear spring clothing and
topcoats the Norwegians seem to
suffer in such weather and dress as
lightly as in mid-summer in the
U.S.A. It is interesting to see
the kids enjoying a swim in lakes
fed by melting snow while we are
bundled up heavy enough for freez
ing weather in Highlands. Even
up in reindeer land each village
has its own choice swimming placeJ
A word about breakfast in Nor
wegian hotels and on board their
cruise ships to the North Cape.
They have a big table on which one
finds 3 cold cereals, 7 types of
cold cuts, jam and marmalade, pigs
feet-onion mixture, mixed vege
table salad, 3 kinds of bread, 3
kinds of crackers, plenty of coffee
butter and cream, and for those
who are still hungry they serve
you a hot cereal, fried eggs and
bacon. It requires some active
training to get ready for break.-
fasti A "light" lunch and about
the same dinner as breakfast,
except they start out with a hot
plate of meat, fish or eggsi
Cordially yours,
Stacey Russell
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Gun Belt, starring the reduct-
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Theatre Saturday, July 10. Also
starring in this movie is Tab
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