"Bob" wrote in message
m...
Great photos, Roger.

After two years travelling across Africa and Asia, during which I
survived bullets, knives, unknown amoebas, hepititis, and crazy Arabs
trying to kill me in a dungeon in Cairo, I wanted to breathe some cool
air and drink clear water, but instead of going back to Canada, I went
to Scandanavia in the summer of 1970. Denmark was a good taste, but
Northern Sweden and Norway: I had forgotten the blue beauty of the
lands on the road from Sweden to Rana. When I saw your first photo, I
was sure I had camped near that place, taken there by two blond Lapp
girls,

She was a Swedish native! Trust me, there are no blond lapp girls......
Descendants form settlers, or hunters.

who fed me berries they called "eutrom?"

You must have one hell of a memory. It is not "eutrom" but "hjortron" aka
cloudberries.

Somewhere I have a
crude sketch of the place. The colors were the same in August when the
light was long and the night freezing.

Actually, the landscape on those pictures.......there is more of it up there
than the size of England.

The photo haunts me, a memory
of youth and granite and skygods wielding terrible hammers. A hard
beauty frosts the high land on the road to Rana, restoring men's souls
before grinding them to dust.

Cheers,

Bob

Well Bob, you and I share a feeling..........

/Roger