A while back, I took it into my head to follow Erik the Red, Viking explorer, from Norway to Iceland and finally to Greenland, the country he discovered and colonised in about the year 1000.
My journey was beset with danger - though perhaps not as much as his was. I was travelling on my own across hundreds of miles of land and water, but I wasn't doing it in a wooden boat and I managed to avoid storms with 20m waves (a good thing as I was very seasick in one with just 5m waves.)
But I got back safe, and wrote a book about it... and there are lots of bits and pieces of stories that didn't make the book, so I thought I'd start to share some of them online.
Enjoy - and please do tell your friends
Alexandra
