Summer misc.

Summer holidays are here, hence my absence from the blog sphere. It is well established that it is when being at your most busy you are most likely to find time to activities like blogging, which is, lets face it, an example of a somewhat superfluous activity. Only natural, then, that with more than one week of days filled with nothingness, blogging is not even within thinking distance.

So far I have been camping with family and slept two nights in tent, and I've spent one week in the house where I lived in my childhood days (and my adolescence days, for that matter). Both accompanied with extremely good weather, which made my summer holidays hitherto a success.

I've had a project going the week I spent in my hometown. See, I got myself a new cell phone, a Sony Ericsson with a step counter on it. Yes, I guess I did know that my activity level these last few years has not reached the desired level, but little did I know that having a step counter would be such a slap in the face. You are supposed to walk about 10 000 steps each day. My average number of steps has been something like 5000. So, to make up for this, I decided to reach 15 000 steps every day for this one week. Did I manage? Yes I did. Did I do this fair and square? Well, you be the judge of that.

I have (with mild force from my husband) been doing a lot of walking this week. But I have also discovered a lot of other ways to collect steps. Badminton is one. It is amazing how many steps an hour or so of intense badminton playing will give you. So far, so good, you can hardly call this cheating. But after a few days, and with other activities seeming somewhat more appealing than walking, I became worried that my project would end up a failure. Desperate means call for desperate measures, so when I felt that I was more in need of, say, sleep than walk, I started sending my cell phone with other family members when they were out walking. And when I was really desperate, I simply placed the cell phone on the phone holder in the car when driving, as I had discovered that this really got the steps running. So, my project was a great success, and with my newfound knowledge, I think I will even manage to keep my number of steps where they should be, namely around 10 000.

A few days in Bergen now, before I am heading for Turkey. Danish foreign ministry warns against traveling to Turkey because of recent terrorist attacks in Istanbul. I am more worried about the heat.