Dry Cleaning Series No.7. Askoy, Norway
Abandoned coat,dry cleaned and returned to where it was originally found.
Year: 2018
An invite to visit the small village of Askoy - just west of Bergen, Norway, resulted in my being being free to walk uninterrupted for a few days in the surrounding woods with just my trusty dog as companion.
On the second day I was surprised to find a black jacket in what appeared to be good condition lying on the ground a few feet from the path. It wasn't in need of repair but was clearly in need of a clean. Wet coat in hand I decided to head back to the village to try and find a dry cleaners. Too small a place to have one I was led to drive to the nearest major town which just so happened to be the capital, Bergen. There I found a dry cleaner and even though both myself and the friendly proprietor did not speak each other's language we somehow worked out that I could come back and pick it up the following Monday.
Three days later, with the cleaned jacket now carefully protected in one of those distinctive plastic sleeves, I returned to the original discovery site in the forest and left it there, hanging on a hook, ready and waiting for someone to collect it.