Day 1
6. heinäkuuta 2023, Australia ⋅ 🌙 19 °CHoliday No 6 begins, flying from Brisbane international airport via Qatar to land in Stockholm, Sweden.
Holiday No 6 begins, flying from Brisbane international airport via Qatar to land in Stockholm, Sweden.
Following a 34 hour journey, we took our first, very quick, stroll around Stockholm. More tomorrow after some much-needed rest (even though the sun won't go down...)
What do you do when the sun is up before 3am and the sky is clear and blue?? You wander around Stockholm and visit the Town Hall to look at Gamla Stan. We've clicked up 6000 steps and the city isn'tLue lisää
We took our journey by rail today, leaving stunning Stockholm for Ostersund, smack bang in the middle of Sweden (or thereabouts). It's an easy way to travel and, with more than 96000 lakes around theLue lisää
Hello Lapland !! We drove from Ostrasund to Arjeplog today, into Swedish Lapland and about half an hours drive south of the Arctic circle. The weather is quite hot, even for us!! We met reindeer at aLue lisää
The Arctic Circle!!! Cruising into the Arctic circle today was a bit of a ceremony ... figuratively and literally. Due to the tilt of the earth, the position of the Arctic circle is moving about 15Lue lisää
Hello Norway!! We took a stroll around Lake Talvatissjon in Jokkmokk this morning (where Samara made more furry friends) before heading to the station to catch the train on the Ofoten Line. This isLue lisää
Narvik is truly spectacular!! Set on the Ofotfjorden in Nordland, north of the Norwegian Arctic Circle (but who would know it since it was 25° again today!), the views from Narvikfjellet (the famousLue lisää
We relax (Samara calls it bored) on a day of travel today, covering 812kms from Narvik to Stiklestad by road, ferry and train. We took a bus from Narvik to Fauske which included crossing the fjord byLue lisää
We got a great taste of Viking history today as we toured the battlefield of Stiklestad. Olaf Harroldson was the son of King Harrold, the guy who unified all the minor kingdoms of Norway into oneLue lisää