Also I absolutely understand why you spent more time outside the monastery, it is a place of deep emotion. The trees around there are very tall and very old, there is a special feeling you get when out there listening to the wind and smelling the sea. It is too bad you didn’t go up to the vard. If you don’t know what a ‘vard’ is, it’s a cylinder shaped stone-pile, carefully built. The vikings used it as their alarm system so they could prepare for battle or run away in time when enemy ships were spotted in the horizon. They would light a fire upon these cylinder shaped stone-things on the mountains around, and the people on the island would be alerted. Two of these are still standing, one on Mosterøy (called Mastravarden), and one on Rennesøy (where you would have ended up had you been crazy enough to bike through that 4.4km tunnel.

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Also I popped by your friend Carleen’s log and noticed she plays/played Everquest. Now that’s quite a coincidence since we are 5 people on Mosterøy who play that game (well only 2 left now, me being one), and I only know of one other person in Norway who plays it. Name is Audwon, 70th monk on the Drinal server. If you ever wanna say hi :]

Take care!

Oh and if you ever want to mail me, don’t use the hotmail address I entered. Find my real one on http://www.hodnefjell.no (I’m just trying to avoid ending up on some spam mail list)

[Just catching up on your blog by the way, after a while out of the loop]