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Who steers the reindeer?
Our modern, high-tech society is fantastic. We can eat bananas
all year round, regardless of season. There is always season
somewhere on the globe, and the fruit can be imported. Now
that I’ve had the opportunity to eat fruit where it
grows, I realise that some taste gets lost over all those
thousands of kilometres, before it ends up in the co-op
in Arvidsjaur. Today when we stopped to refuel, a lady came
and wanted to sell a bag of mangoes. Something special in
her manners tricked me into buying. It was the best fruit
I have eaten in my life. Bananas are also in a different
category, tastewise.
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We passed Mount Kenya today, a mighty view, to be in the tropics and
see snow as you’re standing on the equator.
Talking of the equator: Did you know that the water, when you drain
the bathtub, aways swirls against the clock, against the sun? This
is strange. When we compete in different disciplines in motorsports,
like speedway or iceracing, the races are also run in this direction.
Running or skating, same thing. If you have herded 3,000 reindeer
together, they will automatically start running in the corral, naturally
against the rotation of the sun. If you start thinking about it, you
will find innumerable examples of it.
But, there is another thing. If you pour water through a funnel a
few yards north of the equator, the water will swirl against the rotation
of the sun. If you do it on the equator, there is no swirl at all
and if you do it a few yards south it rotaters with the clock. My
deepest wish now is to load 1,000 reindeer in an Antonov aircraft,
unload them south of the equator and then bild a corral. The business
would be to take bets and have bookmakers all over the world calculate
the odds for the direction the reindeer would take. What do you think,
against or with the rotation of the sun?
The day ended with Indian food with some friends of Ian and Lukas
and finished with some clear fluid that was exactly like something
I have seen at home in the woods in big plastic canisters, but here
apparently was known as vodka.
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Performance Riding
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Per-Gunnar
Lundmark
Fjällbonäs 15
933 91 Arvidsjaur |
Per-Gunnar
Lundmark
Eva.PG.Lundmark@swipnet.se
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2006-01-30
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