ABSTRACT
A Feminine Aesthetics of Travel In-between worlds Lavinia is a European working woman in her thirties, who lives and is travelling alone. Our conversation began naturally about the excursion to North Cape, which we had gone on the same morning. She said she had expected it to be a huge tourist machine. However, there were not too many people there when we arrived, as it was early in the day. Lavinia says it was like being on the edge of the world. The land was barren and she felt like she was walking at the end of the earth, or at least at the end of Europe. She tells me this in a more or less matter of fact way, as if it were obvious to everyone and the most natural experience in the world. It did not leave a big impression. I do not know whether she is being ironic or serious. It seems to me that Lavinia is expressing a particular feminine way of experiencing North Cape. I will come back to this later, but first I would like to go into Lavinina’s reasons for visiting the north, which did not have much to do with the North Cape in itself.
