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Vinland

 

Keeping the pressing room clean

I love Husqvarna

My view for four days

Tying vines

My back hurts just looking at this picture - try doing that 4,000 times in a row

Well-worn Austrian surplus pants

Jan de-stemming grapes

Stems

De-stemmed grapes

Patiently waiting to become wine

We've been working at a vineyard south of Aalborg for the past week.  It was backbreaking at first, and I guess leg/knee-busting as well.  But now I am strong, like viking farmer.  The pruning was the worst - I started on my feet, moved to one knee, then both, and by the third day I was sitting on my ass and crawling on all fours between plants.  This week the harvesting has begun.  Good times.
  Riding mowers are the best.

Signs of Denmark

 

In Denmark, bros do not come before hos.

I'm back in jolly old Denmark, in what is bafflingly my third trip to this funny little country.  Working at a vineyard, more on that soon.

Peaks pub eats

Pub food is the besssssst.  After eating the steak pie, I couldn't really think or walk straight for a few hours, and my veins were full of gravy.  And the amount of cheese in that cheese plate thing was obscene.  Hmph.  They oughta be ashamed.  Then I ate all the cheese.

Signs o England o late

The lederhosen dance

 

After one has had a few camping drinks and tucked one's pants into one's socks, one must naturally do the lederhosen dance.  Flick through them, it'll animate.  Make it a .gif, sent it to friends, family, colleagues.

Peak district, Derbyshire

 

After the Lakes, we went to the Peaks for some camping, because fuck it, we're unemployed.  We stepped in a whole lot of cow shit.  And then a bird shit on me.

Lake district, Cumbria, last month

 

Almost a month ago, we returned from France, and went straight up to the Cumbrian lake district.  It's just south of Scotland, and it felt like it.  After a six-hour drive up from Amersham, we got to the former Bobbin Mill that was our home for the week.  It rained a whole lot, and we walked the hills a whole lot.  We stepped in a whole lot of sheep shit.

For my bird pics of the great wet north, France, and anywhere else I've travelled, go here: http://snowyowllost.blogspot.co.uk/

  I'm headed to Denmark on Sunday to hang with old friends, drink Tuborg Green, and volunteer at a vineyard.  I imagine that working at a vineyard has its perks.