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Wednesday, April 03, 2002
Rostrup on Travel
Joergen Rostrup wrote some of his thoughts about travel on his home page. Instead of actually translating what he wrote, I'll just summarize some of his main points.
Rostrup does a lot of travel. He lives in Turku (on the west coast of Finland) and travels around Scandinavia for races and training camps. A lot of his travel is by boat. There are night ferries that go back and forth between Finland and Sweden. These can be convenient ways to travel because you can get a cabin and sleep while your making the trip. Rostrup doesn't ever take night ferries after being asleep on a ferry that caught fire. You can imagine it must have been a scary experience.
Rostrup thinks travel is draining. You can't do your normal training and a lot of the movement you do is just moving between uncomfortable places to sit.
Another problem Rostrup has with travel is that it is difficult to eat and drink right.
Finally, Rostrup thinks it is easy to get sick while you travel. You are exposed to a lot of different people and changing temperatures.
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