Svalbard, the story. Arrival at Langyearbyen and midnight sun, 2009-07-05.

Oh, sun... It was the hottest day this summer when we arrived. 11 degrees Celsius..

Ingela and Ernst, Erik's parents.

Langyearbyen is situated on the 78-th latitude.

The whole lot, Hélène, Mikael, Erik, Ingela, Ernst and I, are having drinks in the sun and spotting raindeers in the meantime. Amazing!

Erik got his spare ribs just the way he likes them, big and a whole lot of them..

Midnight sun. If you take a close look in the middle of the picture you can se the watch pointing at midnight. It was crazy bright, just like daytime. A tad bit hard to go to sleep when it is like that..

Soaking up the midnight sun...

Summer, at its best!

I am so lucky that all this is just around my corner!

Some views from my walks.

Oh so zen..

Elder flowers!

This reminds me of my childhood when my siblings and I used to pick them and then, with moms help, make lemonade. Funny how certain smells can bring one back to specific events like that.

My morning walks.

This week I have been preparing for Svalbard and one part of the preparations are my morning walks to awaken my limbs before the cold hiking up north. I know that it's too late for me to get any real results, but at least I get a great start every morning!