From Burkina Faso to Solvang

The temperatur in Burkina Faso was pluss 30 C this morning when we made a short visit to Solvang. The temperatur at our cottage was minus 2 C. I make this comparrison because another new visitor (flag no 161) arrived from Africa and this country close to the Equator.

Burkina Faso (formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta) is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest. Its size is 274,200 square kilometres (105,900 sq mi) with an estimated population of more than 15,757,000. Burkina Faso was populated early, between 14,000 and 5000 BC, by hunter-gatherers in the northwestern part of the country. Settlements with farmers appeared between 3600 and 2600 BC.

Earlier this winter I used my 4wheel drive suv to make tracks to the cottage. Today we walked in the tracks, but did not enter the lawn area due to "wrong" shoes.

The depth of snow at the ground is about 30-40 cm but the raspberry plants, individulaay attached to horisontal lines, have kept their right up position during the winter. Thus we can expect or at least hope for a good harvest later in the year.