24 Jun 2025 – Tromsø/Norway 1968-2023
Sat: tkx to RY for the reminder. Happy Summer Solstice – longest day of the year where my whole flock is having a reunion in the Land of the Midnight Sun. Tromsø/Norway pix credit to Linn with view from the churchyard with the tree blocking Tronsdaltinden which is probably still covered with snow on the top.
Jack will be running the full MidnightSunMarathon and Linn,Katy,Ellie,Sophie the Half-Marathon. My heart is there with them all and missing them reminds me how fortunate I am to have them. Pix credits to Linn and Ellie – 2019 vs 2025.
The Midnight Sun Marathon is a great trail that starts in the center and goes over the Tromsø bridge after approx. 2km. at the top of the bridge you will have a view towards Tromsdalstinden and the Arctic Cathedral. In Tromsdalen, the track goes south towards Solligården to Berg and on to the turn at Sandvika. The trail goes back the same way over the bridge, through the center of Tromsø, around the southern tip of Tromsøya to the turn at Vangberg, then back to the center and finish in Storgata by Kirkeparken. If we are lucky with the weather, marathon runners will see the midnight sun in the north and have a view of the beautiful snow-covered mountains outside Tromsø.
https://msm.no/en/events/midnight-sun-marathon/msm-info/
First time in Tromsø was Christmas 1968 and was there working summers from 1969-73. Lived in Lynseidet/TromsJan-Jun1976 for 6months and then to Tromsø1976-1980. The Land of the Midnight Sun brings back much fond memories where May was born, where the happier days were once upon a time despite of the harsh climate. Pix from Dec1976 and Mar1979. https://amylamsg.com/2010/01/16/tromsø/
Last visit there was 2023, idyllic as it is but not sure if my now even thinner blood(blood thinner meds) will survive the winters there? Do thoroughly enjoy every minute&revisits there during the summers. Tkx to the graciousness&hospitality of the HALD family and to ClaireA and EllenB who I have known since the time living there.
https://amylamsg.com/2023/07/26/till-we-meet-again/
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight ―
Dinner@Rochalie tkx to Ivy&Les and to Pat&David for their smoked lamb, both lamb dishes were excellent and was a happy camper in my element with durian all to myself for dessert – the others were in the enclosed AC-ManCave! After the last asthma attack, will keep away from enclosed smoking places.
Sun: thanks to Theresa&CJ for PekingDuck, other cantonese dishes and dessert @ImperialTreasureSuperPekingDuck/Paragon.
Always appreciative for such scrumptious food in good company of 5Medical doctors.
Mon&Tue: after last weekend of good food with leftovers no need to shop for grocery, now with food in fridge&freezer to last for the week. Where culinary delights are abundant, it’s no wonder that our taste buds often take us on journeys of pleasure. and sometimes troubling aspect of our relationship with food. Do enjoy good healthy food but must work to balance and eat with moderation so as not to overeat or let it be an addiction. A fabulous week ahead to all and be safe in this world’s volatile situation.
Food is the language of love that brings people together from all walks of life…