Cod & other useless info

Before we left yesterday we had a wander around the fish racks which are everywhere. Reine is a working village, the mainstay being cod fishing.... and tourism. Cod is sold fresh to receive the best price but a lot of it is dried. The fish is gutted, de headed and hung outside on racks from March to approx June. The air is so dry it preserves naturally. Surprisingly, the gulls don't scoff the lot, but they are hung skin side out and it's very tough. The heads are hung elsewhere and as a much less lucrative product its OK if the gulls have a go at the heads & they probably get the guts somewhere else. Mainly the heads are ground into a protein powder and sold to poor countries.
Yup it stinks.  Not as much as you'd think though. Sometimes you come outside & go pee-ew.  Other days you barely notice it.  We were told to be careful not to walk under the cod as you might get dripped on it and the stink is hard to get rid of. The fish racks are everywhere but probably only 5% are filled right now.

Woke to wind and rain at 5am, and it has snowed again. As I'm coming down with sore throat & cold, I decided to flag this mornings shoot and stay in bed.
It's snowing gently now but the wind has died off (where we are anyway). We are having a restful day until 2pm then it'll be full on again...afternoon shoot, quick dinner & then straight out again for a potential aurora shoot.

We walked to the restaurant last night and noted that the houses we passed had lit lamps in the windows... every window! Apparently its part of Norwegian culture stemming from the old days when a lamp lit window indicated you could receive help, food, accommodation and a warm welcome.