The carvings are made of ice,(extracted from a frozen lake) but it is so cold they feel dry like acrylic. The rooms are made from snow they make with a machine and then carve. The local snow is the wrong sort of snow. It doesn't stick together enough. The Sami people who are native to the area have 300 words to describe snow. All the snow bedrooms are different, 22 different ones. Some sleep two, others up to six, on proper beds, in sleeping bags. Can I bring the puppy home?
I take it none of those amazing bedrooms has an en-suite bathroom cos the steam would melt it all. Thanks for sharing those amazing pics. Have you talked to the puppy about the lack of snow at home? He might not like it but I can see why you're smitten.
Currently boggled over a jacket. Simple enough princess seam shape with a twiddle on the hip to make it different, reveres, collar and two piece sleeve. 17 pieces and that's just the jacket. Add all the interfacing and the lining and it'll be more like 50 by the time I'm done cutting out. Flipping heck!
OH has just taken the dogs out for walkies and the pussies are banished upstairs cos I don't need any help.
Busy - is your house sitter local?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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The bathroom is along a passageway in the permanent building, which is kept above freezing point. So if you want to go in the middle of the night, you have to get up, put your boots on and travel along the corridor. I am back on the boat with my small en suite, and heating, and a duvet each.
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Lovely photos, Fidget, thank you.
Home is OK. House sitter (he) is fed up with the rain. Thank you those who asked.
We will have to leave early tomorrow. Last time we were stuck on the A11. Good thing we had an hour for emergencies.
At the Snow Hotel Kirkenes.
The carvings are made of ice,(extracted from a frozen lake) but it is so cold they feel dry like acrylic. The rooms are made from snow they make with a machine and then carve. The local snow is the wrong sort of snow. It doesn't stick together enough. The Sami people who are native to the area have 300 words to describe snow. All the snow bedrooms are different, 22 different ones. Some sleep two, others up to six, on proper beds, in sleeping bags. Can I bring the puppy home?
Wow wow wow Fidget! What a lot if amazing things you are seeing
A A Milne
Lovely pics Fidget.
I was at an art exhibition today and one gallery was paintings by Ellis O'Connor done north of the Arctic Circle......very atmospheric.
Dove, there were a few paintings, in your style, focusing on part of a flower/plant
also a lithograph (immediately recognisable to me) of a class mates late uncle who was a poet and author.....Sorley McLean.
I take it none of those amazing bedrooms has an en-suite bathroom cos the steam would melt it all. Thanks for sharing those amazing pics. Have you talked to the puppy about the lack of snow at home? He might not like it but I can see why you're smitten.
Currently boggled over a jacket. Simple enough princess seam shape with a twiddle on the hip to make it different, reveres, collar and two piece sleeve. 17 pieces and that's just the jacket. Add all the interfacing and the lining and it'll be more like 50 by the time I'm done cutting out. Flipping heck!
OH has just taken the dogs out for walkies and the pussies are banished upstairs cos I don't need any help.
Busy - is your house sitter local?
The bathroom is along a passageway in the permanent building, which is kept above freezing point. So if you want to go in the middle of the night, you have to get up, put your boots on and travel along the corridor. I am back on the boat with my small en suite, and heating, and a duvet each.
Fidgetbones , great photos
Hear! Hear! thanks for sharing Fidget
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.