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15.August 1998

Iceland 1998 - Hanstholm I woke up early at morning, and my body felt a long way in bus. Today we had to transfer through Germany to Denmark. Our ferry was going from Hanstholm, in Denmark, at evening. I am not fun of long bus travels, and only with a lot effort I activated my body during breaks. I observed rest of bus passengers. I know that it will not be as good group as on my last year Norway travel, because there was more people, with more interests. 40 people sharing one bus for longer time, it can be a good test of their patience. But everything was good for the moment. Together with Hilda, Emil and Boris we drank Vodka as prevention of bad mood. Weather was OK, and I was dressed only in shorts. While we crossed Denmark we dreamt about living in one of the small, nice looking houses around. Only Boris qualified everything around kitscher and he also declined to live in system, where is everybody responsible for good looking neighborhood of his house. But nobody offered us accommodation there and our discussion was only on philosophic nature. We shortly changed our topic. We arrived to Hanstholm at evening. We had to choose things that we wanted to took with us, because we will not be able to go into bus wile shipping. Until we were waiting for ferry, we recognized many buses and cars from Czech republic. It looked like that ferry was all booked by people from Czech republic and Slovakia. We boarded in next hour. After short search we found our cabins. I was lodged together with Emil, Boris, Palo, Hynek and Franta. Hilda was lodged in other part of ferry. We didn't know how much are we resistant to seasickness. Be sure we took special boxes assigned for that problems. Many of us also used them later.

Iceland 1998 - Hanstholm We took leave to Europe continent from board. To ground that we will not see in next 3 weeks. We continued to Faroe Islands. Ship Norrona, our ferry was a big hotel on sea waves. Underground parking place, areas for small children, Viking club (there was also cinema, and bingo gambling house), that everything suggested me a big hotel. As prevention to seasickness we opened bottle of vodka in cabin. It helped only them, who didn't have problems with sickness before. After healing we checked areas of our ship. As best place for us we choosed Viking club. Here were mainly part from our bus. Here were also a big amount of info materials about Iceland. It was a good source for us, because we still had absence of good infos about this island. We also had there our first meeting. Local entertainer instructed us, what to do if ferry going to scuttle. It was really encouragement before our shipping. Later he presented a cultural program in that manner repeated every shipping. We were sorry for him, and we ignored him as rest of passengers. In time of our meeting there was also bingo and Viking club was engaged by old women. It looked like they go to Iceland, only because of Bingo game. After quarter of hour, and many furious glances rest of passengers, we left Viking club. Others started to applaud. We moved to lower board on place before entry to restaurant. It wasn't best place for session, but we remained there to end of our meeting. We received some papers and we were also informed about our next program on Faroe Islands. There we had to spend next 3 days. After meeting we played cards. When Bingo in Viking club finished I went to see movie about Faroe Islands. It was a good documentary about inhabitants of Faroe Islands and their habits. Especially the part about spinning of whales was unforgettable. Fischer yarded whales to bay, and there together with inhabitants kill them. Water in bay changed to red, from blood of whales. Then with iron hooks they move whales on shore and divided them between all inhabitants. This bloody habit is from times, when whales were important source of necessary food nutriments on island. But now are Faroe Islands part of Denmark, and they don't have problems with variety of food. But inhabitants of this island doesn't want to abandon this habit. After movie I continued in entertainment. I didn't resist a long time, and I decided to go sleep. I had no problems with seasickness yet. I had only a little headache, and I was curious what it will be, while sleeping. But it was interesting feeling to sleep swinging with sea waves.