#39 - To lie or not to lie

Long time ago I participated a conference in Tromsø, Norway. I was very excited; because that is the most northern part of the world I have ever visited. It was end of June and luckily the weather was extremely beautiful. I arrived at the hotel on Sunday before midday. The hotel room was not yet available for check-in and there were four hours before the conference started. I decided to dress short, t-shirt and running shoes and take a long run. There would have been a cable car taking people up to the level of 421 meters above the sea level, but I needed to run instead because I did not have any money with me. The route up to mountain was very complicated small path and it took me about two hours to get the upper station of the cable car. I continued climbing and I reached the snow level. The scenery was very beautiful. After climbing up three hours (almost 1000 meters height) I decided to return back because I was be really hungry. I was not sure if I could manage to run down two more hours because I was running out of energy. Because I did not have any money with me, I prepared myself to tell all kind of stories in order to get down to the hotel with the cable car. Luckily enough, the cable car ride down was free; at least nobody was checking tickets. After nearly four hours of running in the mountain I was back at the hotel, exhausted, but ready to check-in, take a shower and start the conference.

Tromsø city view from the mountains

The trip to north next to the Arctic Ocean was overall so beautiful that I decided to go back some day. Which I did summer 2011.

Lessons Learnt:

Problems tend to go away.

Nature in Tromsø