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What are you doing so far from home? The question made sense, we were the only Spanish people that samis ever seen, in winter.. Our Road trip in Norway purpose was to watch northern lights, or as we call them in Spain : Aurora Boreal. We didn't expected Norway people to be so friendly. The first norwegian we met was stunned because it was - 14 degrees and we were about to sleep in tents, you know, to see tje northern lights.. Maybe he did not want to find our corpses the next day so he decided to invite us to sleep in a wooden hut he owned, for free. When we arrived to the world smallest name town : A, we met Steiner, maybe he had a sixth sense because he started to speak us in Spanish, he was the owner of a former fishing factory in Lofoten Island, he was surprised because in that time of the year, is Norway people who travel to Spain... We were trying to spot whales, Steiner laughed and told us he couldnt help us with this, but he invited us to enter to his fishing building... and we got a present from him! Norwegian cod, both types dry one and fresh one... we decided to eat it later. We had been driving for at least 10 hours when we stoped beside the Sami Parlament in Kautokeino, we were hungry and we remembered the fish Steiner gave to us, so we took our caming gaz and... we boiled the fish with snow from Lapland, anything more norwegian? After that meal we kept on driving through Lapland, suddenly after thousand of miles we found a Sami Camp, so we stopped and tried to find some Samis, we just find reindeers and elks, and when we were about to leave one old Sami guy appeared riding a snow motorbike... we started speak each other, he did not know spanish or english, and we did not speak sami or norwegian but, with hand signs we could communicate a little, he took one little reindeer and he let us touch it, it was so soft!!! I almost cried when i saw the northern lights the first time, and i was very excited when we finally arrived to North cape, i was expecting that, but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that the norwegian from the north were very nice and warm people, also curious to speek with southern Europeans like us.