The strawberry story
The first day of the tournament a farmer called to Laila Arvola: "Puhhh, the heat here in North of Norway bring too much of my strawberries ripening. Do you want to pick some of them you are welcome."

"Ok, I can come , but it will be late since I'm a member of the committee arranging a big chess tournament." So, in the evening she herself, her boyfriend Simen Agdestein and some of his pupils from NTG (The Norwegian College of Elite Sport), and even some from the South African team went to the farm.

One hour and 30 kilogram of beautiful strawberries later the group went even longer and visited the fantastic place Sommarøy. That is another story, and they came back to sleep one hour after midnight, just when the sun came up!

Here you can see the the story in pictures (taken by Sandra de Kock) of the group in the strawberry fields: