scandinavia

Martin wrote:
On Tue, 7 May 2013 13:11:23 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
wrote:

Just got back. 7 hours out of sync. Weather north of the Arctic circle was
a lot better for photography than further south, if pretty chilly 8-). It
started to snow as we got closer to Bergen and rained there, but it was
lovely and sunny in Copenhagen 8-)

23C here. Back to winter at the weekend.

I came back to an almost summery day in the Chicago area, but the forecast
isn't so good over in Michigan for the next few days, and that's where I
head today.

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

On 08/05/2013 7:06 AM, Erilar wrote:
Dave Smith wrote:
On 07/05/2013 9:11 AM, Erilar wrote:
Just got back. 7 hours out of sync. Weather north of the Arctic circle was
a lot better for photography than further south, if pretty chilly 8-). It
started to snow as we got closer to Bergen and rained there, but it was
lovely and sunny in Copenhagen 8-)




I had been to Denmark a couple times in early May and had wanted to go
back a little later in spring /summer to see it when it was a little more
lush. The last time we were there was in late June, after spending the
week leading up to Midsummer in Sweden. The weather was a major
disappointment. We arrived in time for a cold snap. The weather was
worse in late June than it had been in early May.
And forget about sleeping with the sun staying up 23-1/2 hours a day.

Dark curtains! I had them on the ship and in the hotels I stayed in 8-)



I wish. We had arrived at our niece's place in Tallinn around June 10.
The walls in the guest room were white and there were lace half curtains
on the big window. It got a little darker for about 5 minutes
after midnight but the sun was bright by 1:30 am. In Sweden we stayed at
a friend's summer house. Again... white walls and large windows, and
only partly covered by drapes. We spend Midsummer there and I remember
that the sun dropped below the horizon for a few minutes around 12:30
am. By 2 am there was blazing sunlight. Then we went to Copenhagen.
Being about 250 miles further south there was a slight difference in the
length of the day. Our hotel room had smaller windows and darker
curtains. After two weeks of almost no sleep and perhaps adjusting to
what had been a sudden change, we managed to get some sleep there.

On Thu, 09 May 2013 07:57:39 -0400, Dave Smith
wrote:

On 08/05/2013 7:06 AM, Erilar wrote:
Dave Smith wrote:
On 07/05/2013 9:11 AM, Erilar wrote:
Just got back. 7 hours out of sync. Weather north of the Arctic circle was
a lot better for photography than further south, if pretty chilly 8-). It
started to snow as we got closer to Bergen and rained there, but it was
lovely and sunny in Copenhagen 8-)




I had been to Denmark a couple times in early May and had wanted to go
back a little later in spring /summer to see it when it was a little more
lush. The last time we were there was in late June, after spending the
week leading up to Midsummer in Sweden. The weather was a major
disappointment. We arrived in time for a cold snap. The weather was
worse in late June than it had been in early May.
And forget about sleeping with the sun staying up 23-1/2 hours a day.

Dark curtains! I had them on the ship and in the hotels I stayed in 8-)



I wish. We had arrived at our niece's place in Tallinn around June 10.
The walls in the guest room were white and there were lace half curtains
on the big window. It got a little darker for about 5 minutes
after midnight but the sun was bright by 1:30 am. In Sweden we stayed at
a friend's summer house. Again... white walls and large windows, and
only partly covered by drapes. We spend Midsummer there and I remember
that the sun dropped below the horizon for a few minutes around 12:30
am. By 2 am there was blazing sunlight. Then we went to Copenhagen.
Being about 250 miles further south there was a slight difference in the
length of the day. Our hotel room had smaller windows and darker
curtains. After two weeks of almost no sleep and perhaps adjusting to
what had been a sudden change, we managed to get some sleep there.

Did you try a sleep mask?

Dave Hatunen, Tucson
Free Baja Arizona

Dave Smith wrote:

I wish. We had arrived at our niece's place in Tallinn around June 10.
The walls in the guest room were white and there were lace half curtains
on the big window. It got a little darker for about 5 minutes
after midnight but the sun was bright by 1:30 am. In Sweden we stayed at
a friend's summer house. Again... white walls and large windows, and
only partly covered by drapes. We spend Midsummer there and I remember
that the sun dropped below the horizon for a few minutes around 12:30
am. By 2 am there was blazing sunlight. Then we went to Copenhagen.
Being about 250 miles further south there was a slight difference in the
length of the day. Our hotel room had smaller windows and darker
curtains. After two weeks of almost no sleep and perhaps adjusting to
what had been a sudden change, we managed to get some sleep there.

There's a lot to be recommended about the felt eye-shields available in
catalogs from various travel need companies! I never needed them in my
travels, but my East-facing bedroom here in Arizona has vertical blinds
which the cats manage to disarrange every night. (True, we DO get a
reasonable number of hours of darkness, but I'm not a big fan of early
rising, and sunrise this time of year is around 6:15 A.M.)

On 5/9/2013 5:28 PM, Martin wrote:
David Hatunen

Did you try a sleep mask?

Hand out free on long distance flights.

It's years since I've been given a sleep mask on a long haul flight.

On 09/05/2013 6:23 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
On 5/9/2013 5:28 PM, Martin wrote:
David Hatunen

Did you try a sleep mask?

Hand out free on long distance flights.

It's years since I've been given a sleep mask on a long haul flight.

I have never been given a sleep mask on a flight, regardless of the time
of the flight.
It never occurred to me that I might need one. I had never been that far
north before.

On 5/9/2013 6:40 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
On 09/05/2013 6:23 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
On 5/9/2013 5:28 PM, Martin wrote:
David Hatunen

Did you try a sleep mask?

Hand out free on long distance flights.

It's years since I've been given a sleep mask on a long haul flight.

I have never been given a sleep mask on a flight, regardless of the time
of the flight.
It never occurred to me that I might need one. I had never been that far
north before.

I provide them for my summertime guests on the north coast of Scotland.
And flashlights/torches for my winter guests.

On 10/05/2013 3:53 AM, Martin wrote:


I've always been given them on flights from Europe to Australia.

It never occurred to me that I might need one. I had never been that far
north before.

Even as far south as The Netherlands the number of hours of darkness
is short in summer. There must be places in the USA that have a
similar lack of darkness in summer. In Fairbanks for example


Even the Netherlands is considerably further north that most of the US.
It is quite a bit further north than the most populous parts of Canada.
Stockholm is about the same latitude as the northern borders of the
prairie provinces. Here in southern Ontario, sunset on the summer
solstice is a few minutes after 9 pm. while int he Netherlands it will
be an hour later.

On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:40:15 -0400, Dave Smith
wrote:

On 09/05/2013 6:23 PM, S Viemeister wrote:
On 5/9/2013 5:28 PM, Martin wrote:
David Hatunen

Did you try a sleep mask?

Hand out free on long distance flights.

It's years since I've been given a sleep mask on a long haul flight.

I have never been given a sleep mask on a flight, regardless of the time
of the flight.
It never occurred to me that I might need one. I had never been that far
north before.

I believe British Airways gives us sleep masks for flights from San
Francisco (and now Phoenix) to London.

We usually fly in late May or June. It's an overnight flight following
a great circle path. The flight departs in early evening and as you
fly toward the northeast the sun is off the left wing (I try to get
seats n the right side). As you fly over Canada and approach Greenland
the sun remains off the left wing. It never ctually sets and as you
fly from Greenland down to England the sun remains off the left wing.
But when you land in the morning there it's the next day.

Dave Hatunen, Tucson
Free Baja Arizona

On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:23:30 -0400, S Viemeister
wrote:

On 5/9/2013 5:28 PM, Martin wrote:
David Hatunen

Did you try a sleep mask?

Hand out free on long distance flights.

It's years since I've been given a sleep mask on a long haul flight.

We get them given on every flight we make to the Far East.