My job takes me around. I can air my wings almost more than I care for. Sometimes it feels like I am home only to unpack and pack again my suitcase. Me, the lover of my home which is my nest. Me, the world traveller. The one, two or three day's travel for work can be exhausting. My way to survive and to love it is to make it all like travels for pleasure. I work, and I love my work, so I am lucky, but I also always make time to see the places I visit, to try to come under the skin of the places. To do some fun things which are not work.
Like last week. I was going up north in the diocese to a small costal town to give a course in the evening. Planes go there only twice a day, and I flew up in the morning to do some planning with a local lady. She met me at the airport and we drove home to her place where she had prepared lunch for me. Already a favorite travelling part - visiting the locals :-). We worked for a couple of hours and then she drove me to the hotel where I was to stay and where the course would be held.
I left my suitcase at the hotel and went out for a walk. A long walk in a low autumn sun. Small houses, bigger houses, the harbour, a mall where I visited the bookshop. Alot of houses totally without charm, but in between I found treasures. Old houses where the oldtime charm was still intact. I found the local library where I sat down for a while at the computer. Wrote a few emails, visited blogs around the world. But there was more I wanted to see, and my walk kept on.
On top of a hill was the local church. It was closed. I could have asked for the key, after all it was the church workers who would be coming to my course, but I didn't. My praise and my prayers were said outdoors.
After a while I walked down to the sea and the local museum. Inside was an exhibition about life near and in the sea through centuries. I walked through it, and then sat down with a cup of coffee and my diary. The only guest.
The next morning I flew back home, memories filling my traveller's chest.
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Photos from Rørvik in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.