Kva ho Ragnhild Rostrup driv på med

OK I have not written for a while, but at the moment I am living in a place called Hamningberg without Internet connection and almost without mobile signal as well. It's quite relaxing that way. Last weekend was amazing, I travelled to the Skiippagurra Music Festival where I had the best weekend so far this year I think. I met up with some of the fantastic people I know here in Finnmark, put flowers in my hair and drank loads of beer. I played my flutes and taught the northern norway people good old Hardanger folk songs. I went skinnydipping in the Tana river with good friends, took a nap amongst the flowers in the forest and used my wooden drinking vessel to share red wine with the festival goers.

During the whole festival I was grinning from ear to ear apart from when a drunken man decided to lie down on my tent and he fucking broke it!!! BASTARD! Before we could catch him, he went to lie down on top of another tent and he broke that too! Jesus! well, I tried to fix it, but in my drunken state it was not a good result. Fortunately it did not rain.

The festival lasted from Friday to Saturday and the sun shone 24 hours. Here's a picture of the midnight sun from where I had a quiet moment to myself with my beer by the Tana river.

The great band Hedningarna was the highlight of the music. They rocked! One guy said that this festival beat the pants of Roskilde Festival in Denmark and I can really believe it. This is an intimate festival on the sand deposits of the Tana river and is only for 3000 people. absolutely bloody perfect. In a week I am going to the Riddu Riddu festival to enjoy myself just as much. There are more picture from the Skiippagurra festival here.

This is our camp the day after the night before.... Still happily boozing away. yeah.