It’s midnight again and I haven’t gone to bed because the sun is still shining! It’s so hard to drag yourself away from hot sun, turquoise waters, and snow-clad mountains on the horizon. Not to mention the laughing women and fine food!

I recently got back from teaching at the wonderful Arctic Women’s playground near Tromso in Norway. It’s my second time at the wonderful event where we stay in a lovely house right besides the water. The women here are tough – our first evening is spent doing rescue practice from 9-11pm! I taught classes on ‘Introduction to waves’ and ‘forward paddling’ and a fun day at a relatively fast tidal stream between 2 islands that is rarely visited by local people.

I also did some fantastic ski touring with my friend Monica before the event.