Peek to the darkness

It's still coming light at the day time, but the beautiful full moon gave us a nice peek to the coming polar night. Earlier the coming time of total darkness was something unrealistic, something very distant. But having some walks with the dog out on the light of the full moon gave a feeling about the coming time. Now I'm almost waiting forward for the months in darkness.

Now it's time to get used to have daily walks in the town also in darkness. It's time to remember to have reflectors on again - both on us with two feet but also on those with four.

The most eager ones have already started their scooters and been happily driving around. For me this amount of snow isn't yet anything impressive, I prefer wait little bit more and enjoy then driving without getting worried about cooling problems or hitting stones.

Our dog isn't howling the moon. He knows that only thing which is worth to howl are bitches.

It's already getting light in the early morning, but the moon is still going around on it's orbit. I'm not any early bird, but when it's that beautiful morning, it's actually pretty nice to have a little walk with the dog. 

One more busy week in Svea

One more cargo-ship has just left Svea. We have got the first container of goods in the storage. Everything need to be unpacked, registered in the electronic inventory management system and placed in the right place in the storage.

When the one containerfull of goods is ready, the next one is coming. The work continues.

There is lot of work included before we can delivery a thing out of the storage.

At the lunch time the sun is still shining in Svea.

When we're going to have a dinner, the sun has set and beautiful pink is taking over.

The sun is still shining in early October

When I'm on call duty in Svea, I'm coming home in early morning day after when I'm normally coming. From the airplane it looks like town is still in sleep. I'm almost as well.

But some hours later the sun has reached the town. These are the last days when we can see sun shining in the town. When you know it, you just can't stay inside and let the town glide to the shadows again.

White world

So was our summer holiday over and Svalbard was welcoming us back. It was quite an experience to walk out of the airplane and meet the white world after really nice days in summerly Denmark.

Next morning I wasn't even got really woken when I was already sitting a small aircraft and was on the way to Svea. The first work week after a holiday was starting.

Actually autumn in Svalbard is quite nice. I really like that special pink colour in the sky.

It can be pretty painful to wake up early to work, but  beautiful view helps to wake up and gives a good start for a new day.

It was still summer

Even though it was already September, we were really lucky with weather and had a nice summer holiday in Denmark with warm days. We're usually splitting our summer holiday in two and have the second part little bit later in autumn before darkness is coming in Svalbard. It gives somehow the feeling that winter is shorter - it can't be that long when we just came from summer holiday!

Our well-known holiday place was welcoming us once more. I really love our holidays here in Denmark.

We were also travelling little bit in Denmark and had couple of nice days in Samsø, in a little island between peninsula of Jutland and Zealand (the island where Copenhagen is). You don't actually need to be travelling really far away for to find exciting holiday places.

I have to admit that I haven't seen earlier a pumpkin field. These pumpkins were quite a bit bigger than my own I was growing in Longyearbyen.

An essential part of a good holiday is good food. And that we're not lacking in Denmark. Even though, I wasn't really sure if I was happy to meet that red thing on my plate...

Of course our faithful black coated companion was following us everywhere we went. I'm sure he enjoyed our holiday as much as we did.