Memorial to Tanya Burr, killed 15 September 2002

Overview of the Norwegian Segment of Tanya's trip

12-22 August 2002

On Sunday, 11 August, we tested Tanya's 'new' second-hand Pentax camera to make sure it worked, and developed the film the same day. As a result (and of lack of subjects!), the photo below shows her car on Sunday morning parked outside the shed where it was to live for the following month.

Other 'test shots' Tanya made to trial her camera (and especially its zoom!!) included the following. These show the tabby kitten Jasmine, daughter of Tanya's cat Phoebe, who Tanya made a Christmas present of (with her brother now called Oscar) when she ran out of potential homes for her kittens. Next is the tortoiseshell Mary, who Tanya managed to trap in the glasshouse for the photo. Mary had actively avoided Tanya for fifteen years, from a time when Tanya thought she was toy. And then me, as I struggled to wash the dishes with a camera jammed in my ear!

We were travelling to Wellington by bus on the morning of Monday, 12 August, as we were the last to leave for Norway and therefore there were a lack of potential 'taxi drivers' for the two-hour drive. After I, in mid panic, misplaced our passports in the bottom of my handbag for five minutes, the bus duly departed the Palmerston North terminus. The emails and clippings on the next page cover events that occurred about twenty minutes later after we reached the open road....