Four days on Lindisfarne Island, living close to God and nature in prayers and silence. "Let the island speak to you" was Father Damian's words to us the first day.
The island, the nature, the tide, dawn and dusk, taking part in the life in St.Mary's church, friends; God used it all to speak to me.
Photo is a sketch from my travel sketchbook of St.Cuthbert Island.
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I am on my way to The Holy Island Lindisfarne for a few days. Will fly to Newcastle with the first flight tomorrow morning and have a day by myself there. Will meet some colleagues Friday night for dinner at the hotel, and Saturday morning we all go to Durham, and in the afternoon go on to Lindisfarne.
Will stay there till Wednesday morning, retreating and working. The others are going back to Norway then, while I have one day extra.
Hopefully I will meet up with Di and together we plan to visit The Biscuit Factory
I don't think I will be online during my trip, so my House in the Woods-blog will have a break till Friday. See you all then, and meanwhile I pray a celtic prayer in a Norwegian translation:
First photo is from outside a small mountain chapel near Røros. Second is from my Lindisfarne Travel Diary.
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I always put alot of work into the preparations of a travel. It gives me fun before I go, it gives me alot more during the travel, and it is alot of fun afterwards the gather the information I have and write about it in my travel diaries.
In October I am going to The Holy Island, Lindisfarne in UK for a week. I have already bought a few books on amazon to read before I go; The Lindisfarne Gospel by Janet Backhouse, Painted Labyrinth, The World of the Lindisfarne Gospel by Michelle P. Brown, and 100 Days on Holy Island, A Writer's Exile by Peter Mortimer.
I was up early yesterday morning, and had a couple of quiet hours while my nephew watched children's television (yes, when you are 4 1/2, sleep over at your aunt's and wake up at 6am Sunday morning Disney Channel is permitted - even for two hours [I do hope that my brother and sister in law don't read this.....]). I started to read about the Lindisfarne Gospel and soon got the inspiration to start my next travel diary. I am no artist, but have a travelbox with art supplies, and really enjoyed making the frontpage.
Reading about new places means that you learn things you didn't know. Today I have learned that Lindisfarne Castle has a walled Gertrude Jekyll garden. So now my diningroom table is filled, not only with travel books, but also British garden books. I am learning more about this legend in British Garden life, Gertrude Jekyll
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