A place to sleep. Engholm Husky B&B, Karasjok

Our house tonight is a very fine house.

This is the house that Sven built.

Sven built the house and everything inside it.

He is a genius with wood.

Tree trunks, branches, burrs have a part to play.

A team of young folk help with the B&B and the husky dogs.

Kristel who cooks our meal came for two months twelve years ago and has never left.

A young woman has just arrived from Adelaide for a few weeks. Like a lot of young folk we have met in Europe she is working for her keep.

Similar to the way woofers do.

 

 

Who needs cupboards and a cutlery drawer?

 

Kristel prepared wonderful halibut stew for us. She told us that an 82 year old retired journalist supplies the fresh fish. She grows the salad greens in a shade house.

 

Table legs with character.

 

Breakfast and tea and coffee hanging at the ready.

 

 

Plates and napkins all have their place under the bench.

Reindeer skins, a dog sled and dainty chrysanthemums.

 

Our cabin with its timber slab table hoisted up

with strong chains.

Lampshades from found objects - moose antler and an animal skin.

 
Off to bed in a rustic log crib.

A bear skin hanging close.

Stubs of branches on a tree trunk make handy coat hooks.

Feathers fixed to drift wood for the lamp over the bed.