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- 6 de jul. de 2023 19:58
- 🌙 19 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
- Austrália State of Queensland Brisbane Fortitude Valley O’Reilly Hill -27.447009, 153.03287327°26’49” S 153°1’58” E
Dia 1
Day 1
6 de julho de 2023, Austrália ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Holiday No 6 begins, flying from Brisbane international airport via Qatar to land in Stockholm, Sweden.
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- 7 de jul. de 2023 17:07
- ☁️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- Suécia Stockholm Stockholms Kommun Gamla Stan Museum of Medieval Stockholm 59.327851, 18.07021359°19’40” N 18°4’13” E
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Day 2 Stockholm
7 de julho de 2023, Suécia ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
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...)
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- 8 de jul. de 2023 13:15
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 5 m
- Suécia Stockholm Danderyds Kommun Mörby 59.407572, 18.05068259°24’27” N 18°3’2” E
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Day in Stockholm
8 de julho de 2023, Suécia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
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't even awake! Now, we're off on a walking tour of the city.

What a huge day! The sun was shining, the weather was warm and Stockholm did her darndest to impress! She did very well!! We spent time at the Town Hall, the Royal Palace (including seeing the changing of the guard), Gamla Stan (the old town ... and 13th century is pretty old) and at the extremely impressive Vasa Museum (where a 400 year old ship was brought from the lake floor and is slowly being restored). Our legs hurt but our faces are happy!Leia mais
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- 9 de jul. de 2023 13:04
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Altitude: 344 m
- Suécia Jämtlands län Östersund 63.175587, 14.65741563°10’32” N 14°39’27” E
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Stockholm to Orestund
9 de julho de 2023, Suécia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
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 the country (yes! 96 thousand) there was no shortage of things to look at. Ostersund nestles on the banks of Lake Storsjon where a loch monster reportedly makes her home. Disappointing, we didn't meet her but we do think her home is beautiful. We also spent time at an open air, historical museum called Jamtli which was pretty cool. For those Aussies of my era, it's a bit like Old Sydney Town used to be, with people dressed in period costume, answering questions about the life and times and with replica buildings and lifestyles of the era. Then, with the sun still high in the sky, we had dinner and a stroll along the shoreline of Lake Storsjon. Another full day.Leia mais
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- 10 de jul. de 2023 12:37
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 419 m
- Suécia Norrbotten Arjeplog 66.050827, 17.90470266°3’3” N 17°54’17” E
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Ostersund to Arjeplog
10 de julho de 2023, Suécia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
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 a Sami village (Sami are the First Nations people of the Arctic band that takes in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia) and passed them on the side of the road too. Sami are the only people allowed to own and herd reindeer - there are no wild reindeer here ... all are owned by the Sami - but they protect them from predators such as brown bear, eagles, lynx and other big cats. We learned a lot about reindeer... then ate some with mushroom tea!!Leia mais
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- 11 de jul. de 2023 23:27
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 245 m
- Suécia Norrbotten Jokkmokk 66.607837, 19.82582566°36’28” N 19°49’33” E
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Arjeplog to Jokkmokk
11 de julho de 2023, Suécia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
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 15 metres north every year. No bother ... we found it!! There is a bit of hoo-ha when you get there, a little welcome from some of the Sami people, and a certificate to prove it. I thought it was quite the thing!! To top it off, it was 27° when we got there (it can get to 30°+) but the temp drops as low as minus 47° in the deep winter. That's almost an 80 degree difference!! We are now in Jokkmokk, have visited yet another museum (Samara is just loving that!), a church (she loves that even more) and are almost ready for a walk around another beautiful lake. Life is good!Leia mais
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- 12 de jul. de 2023 23:03
- 🌙 12 °C
- Altitude: 37 m
- Noruega Nordland Fylke Narvik Narvik Krigsmuseum 68.438593, 17.42688568°26’19” N 17°25’37” E
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Jokkmokk to Narvik via Ofoten railway
12 de julho de 2023, Noruega ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
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 is one of the world's most northern railway lines and transports us across the border from Sweden into Norway. It's a 5 hour journey from Jokkmokk to Narvik and takes 3 1/2 hours to get to the border. We slide into a tunnel at the border (there are a lot of tunnels), the Swedish side filled with conifers, lakes and gently sloping hills. We come out on the Norwegian side to dramatically steep fjords and mountains with snow (not much snow because it's still so freaking hot!). There are lots of WOW moments at every turn. It is truly spectacular scenery.Leia mais
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- 13 de jul. de 2023 22:09
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 57 m
- Noruega Nordland Fylke Narvik 68.437185, 17.42945268°26’14” N 17°25’46” E
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Day in Narvik
13 de julho de 2023, Noruega ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
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 famous ski mountain which we visited via gondola) left me speechless. Our pictures don't do it justice...
Narvik has a really interesting WW2 story with the Battle of Narvik taking place in the Ofotfjorden in May, 1940. Norway took a neutral stance during the second war but was attractive to both the Allies and the Germans for its proximity to the valuable Swedish iron ore. They would use this for weaponry if they could monopolise the waterways. While Norway tried to maintain their neutrality, ten battleships entered the Ofotfjorden, the deep fjord carved by an ancient glacier. Neutrality is a difficult thing to maintain, though, when facing fully armed battleships and within a couple of weeks, ships were sunk and lives were lost. The Allies were victorious in this battle but not in the long term ... German forces shortly occupied Narvik and stayed for 5 more years, trying to " improve the Aryan race". Why am I recounting all of this? Good question ... thanks for asking 😉 The thing that interested my nerdy brain most of all was the fact that the Germans hardly hit a target during the Battle of Narvik because they miscalculated the effect the magnetic north pole would have on their torpedo's, made of iron and steel. The magnetic pole simply pushed their torpedo's a degree off target. How interesting is that?!! Well, I thought so anyway ...Leia mais
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- 14 de jul. de 2023 21:52
- ☁️ 11 °C
- Altitude: 416 m
- Noruega Nord-Trøndelag Fylke Steinkjer Fisknestjørna 63.899291, 11.71954163°53’57” N 11°43’10” E
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Narvik to Stikelstad
14 de julho de 2023, Noruega ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
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 by vehicular ferry (somewhat larger than our one at Lawrence). Surprisingly, the weather starts to cool down the further we move away from the Arctic north. Go figure! The bulk of our trip today is on a special train, commonly referred to as The Polar Express, though it is officially known as the Arctic Express. Tom Hanks was nowhere to be seen. We travel posh class and are given sandwiches, cinnamon cake, choccies and hot chocolate along the way. It's lucky we have lots of space and leg room in posh class to fit it all in... We pass by 40 stations, cross 29 bridges and plunge into 150 tunnels on the way.
I have run out of words for spectacular, though breathtaking, strikingly gorgeous and amazeballs come close. We experience some patches of light rain on the journey and arrive in Stiklestad (near Verdal) to a cloudy 13°. We don a jumper for the very first time.Leia mais
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- 15 de jul. de 2023 02:26
- 🌙 12 °C
- Altitude: 13 m
- Noruega Sør-Trøndelag Fylke Trondheim Hospitalsløkkan Gunnerus Library 63.429371, 10.38496263°25’46” N 10°23’6” E
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Stikelstad to Trondheim
15 de julho de 2023, Noruega ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
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 one large kingdom under the Nordic gods. Later, Olaf became a pretty brutal king himself, pillaging and raiding his way to Russia and back again, increasing Norway's wealth and generally giving Vikings a bad name. But, as happens, he saw the light and converted to Christianity and thoughtfully gave the Norwegian people the choice of converting as well or ... dying. In the year 1030, it all came to a head at the Battle of Stiklestad where Olaf fought the "Farmers Army" and was slain in battle. He may have been murdered by his own judus, as his men turned allegiance. Or, he may have just been slain. Either way, there was no Valhalla for Olaf. It is said that his blood was inadvertently smeared in the eyes of a blind man after the battle and he could see. It is also said that his blood cured the battle wound of his judus. Queue the Monty Python reference ... "I was blind but now I can see. It's a miracle!!" Two miracles, in fact, so dead King Olaf was canonised and made a saint.
The replica Viking village here is excellent and we got to see some archery and a couple of guys practice sword fighting in preparation for the annual battle re-enactment at the end of the month. Thousands of people come from all over the country for the 5 day festival to commemorate Saint Olaf. I'd come for the sword fighting alone.Leia mais
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