Interrail Trip Europe 2023

Januari - Mac 2023

Pengembaraan 46hari oleh Paul Baca lagi

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Ikuti Kalendar Kongsi Senarai baldi

Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 16 Feb 2023, 6:09 PTG
- Altitud: 10 m
- Estonia Harjumaa Kesklinna linnaosa Sadama Tallinn Port 59.441227, 24.75723659°26’28” N 24°45’26” E
Hari 25
Tallin
16 Februari 2023, Estonia
Another amazing city. As is common, Tallin has a compact old town surrounded by the more modern areas and of course a large port complex. Ran 6k first thing along the seafront in light snow and icy underfoot.

Keeping up the modern history theme of the trip, we visited the Museum of Occupation which looks at Tallinn’s periods of Nazi and Soviet control, mainly through the eyes of video testimony of survivors. Later a walk around the old town and port area. We walked past several embassies which are mostly old buildings fronting small narrow streets on the old town.

Tallin is beautiful and definitively Baltic but with a Scandi influence. A few pics belowBaca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 17 Feb 2023, 8:53 PTG
- Altitud: 19 m
- Finland Uusimaa Helsinki Siltasaari Djurgårdsviken 60.179089, 24.94926160°10’45” N 24°56’57” E
Hari 26
Tallin to Helsinki
17 Februari 2023, Finland
We left Tallin late in the morning on one of the Viking Lines ferries to Helsinki. The breakfast brunch was mahoosive and ended up seeing us through the whole day. It was a bleak grey day with intermittent showers but a calm sea.

The ferry was a huge car ferry so the navigation through the channel between the islands off Helsinki was quite dramatic. It probably won’t show on video but I’ll attach it.

Helsinki obviously feels big and busy compared to Tallin. We found lots of the watery areas around the hotel are frozen when we went to reccie the local Parkrun course - hoping conditions are okay underfoot to run this in the morning.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 18 Feb 2023, 4:39 PTG
- Altitud: 19 m
- Finland Uusimaa Helsinki Siltasaari Djurgårdsviken 60.179066, 24.949260°10’45” N 24°56’57” E
Hari 27
Helsinki
18 Februari 2023, Finland
It snowed overnight so we wondered if Parkrun might be off… But of course not! A hardy crowd of friendly locals and tourists turned up. Ran a steady but so enjoyable run in lovely grippy snow, followed by Coffee and Cinnamon buns in a cafe with some of the runners.

The rest of the day was exploring Helsinki by walking. It was great looking at everything… standout was Helsinki’s stunningly modern ‘Oodi’ central library - the city’s living room. Workspace, massive reading areas, play areas, sewing machines, 3D printers, all the newspapers and magazines, cafes, meeting rooms… Such a great concept. Just nearby we came across a small ‘anti-vax’ demonstration.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 19 Feb 2023, 7:50 PTG
- Altitud: 4 m
- Finland Lappi Kemi 65.731903, 24.57315365°43’55” N 24°34’23” E
Hari 28
Helsinki to Kemi
19 Februari 2023, Finland
Well the trip up Finland to Kemi was today. Somehow we’d imagined small trains meandering through valleys, Alpine style. In fact it was state of the art intercity trains going at 200km/h packed full of people. It’s school holidays here, and it seems people from the south of the country head north.

It was a snow-covered landscape the whole way-
Mainly coniferous trees, weighed down with pure white snow - beautiful. Small wooden houses and occasional large farms with an even more occasional town scattered around.

We changed trains in Oulu and the second train had many young people in Finnish Army fatigues, maybe heading north for a National Service camp.

So, we arrived in Kemi at a hostel. Good, relaxed, quirky place with, thank goodness, opening windows (though -10 degrees outside) and no air-con so no chance of over-heating and waking up like a dry prune… yay!

Kemi is a stopover for us but we’ll have a look around tomorrow.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 20 Feb 2023
- Altitud: 3 m
- Finland Lappi Kemi 65.732002, 24.57320265°43’55” N 24°34’24” E
Hari 29
Kemi
20 Februari 2023, Finland
Kemi feels quite out of season as it largely seems to be a summer resort town; for us, a staging post on the journey towards Sweden. A few older buildings are surrounded by more modern buildings in a grid pattern a bit like small Canadian towns.

We stayed near the sea, the northern part of the Baltic called the Gulf of Bothnia, which here is completely frozen over and has the appearance of a completely flat field - see the photos. People walk over it and snowmobiles cross it.

It was -7 outside and felt colder due to a bit of a gusty wind.

Quite a lot of cloud means we’re very unlikely to get a chance to see any Aurora displays though we’ll see if any possibilities come in the next couple of days.

Tomorrow we have to take another bus to the border with Sweden as the single daily train is very early morning.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 21 Feb 2023, 8:56 PTG
- ⛅ -14 °C
- Altitud: 10 m
- Sweden Norrbotten Bodens Kommun Överluleå Boden C 65.828781, 21.70808265°49’44” N 21°42’29” E
Hari 30
Kemi to Boden
21 Februari 2023, Sweden ⋅ ⛅ -14 °C
An interesting day connecting a bit of the trip between Finland and Sweden where trains are very thin on the ground.

We left Kemi and caught a bus to the border town of Tornio (FIN) -Haparanda (SWE). The bus terminates just over the border at a bus station which, unusually on the continent, is 1.5k away from the train station. So we did the walk, only to find that the trains here were temporarily replaced with a bus service. Anyway, we waited in the historic Haparanda station-cum-museum (on a famous rail line connecting Norway with Russia) for the bus.

The bus took us over snowy roads to Boden. We killed a bit of time there and headed to the station to wait for the sleeper train to Stockholm. This originated in Narvik up on the Norwegian coast and I think problems up there delayed the train. So, getting sleepy waiting for the sleeper train…Baca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 22 Feb 2023, 5:26 PTG
- ☁️ -2 °C
- Altitud: 30 m
- Sweden Stockholm Stockholms Kommun Långholmen 59.320934, 18.02601859°19’15” N 18°1’34” E
Hari 31
Boden to Stockholm
22 Februari 2023, Sweden ⋅ ☁️ -2 °C
The night train eventually came having been delayed at the start of its journey in Norway. Great to get into our compartment and experience the travelling magic of sleeper trains again. You wonder if you’ll ever sleep with the train hooter, background rail noise and the train movement. Weirdly, it seems to be a perfect recipe for sleep.

The delayed arrival into Stockholm meant time for a lie in, a shower in the little shower room down the corridor and a leisurely breakfast.

We had a look around parts of Stockholm starting with the old narrow streets and alleyways around Ganla Stan. The Nobel Prize Museum was on our to do list and after that, some ‘Fika’ in the Nationalmuseum. We wandered more, randomly bumping into a Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Royal Palace. Soon it was time for Fika 2 and we met with Sam (the son of Caroline’s friend, Steph) and his partner Clara, who live here, in a waterfront bakery.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 23 Feb 2023, 7:10 PTG
- ☁️ -1 °C
- Altitud: 24 m
- Sweden Stockholm Stockholms Kommun Långholmen 59.320984, 18.02554359°19’16” N 18°1’32” E
Hari 32
Stockholm
23 Februari 2023, Sweden ⋅ ☁️ -1 °C
The Vasa was a Swedish warship which sank in 1628 on its first voyage. It lay less than 1km from the bank and was raised in 1961. So how do you make a whole museum out of the raised ship? Well this has been done to stunning effect and is such an impressive museum.

Just seeing a ship that is nearly 400 years old is amazing; the presentation and museum as a whole are just awesome. The building accommodates people so well with 7 levels packed artefacts and sections, brilliantly presented. The concise orientation film is superb. No wonder this is voted one of the top 10 museums globally.

Plus a few pictures of the wonderful Langholmen Hostel in the old prison.

A bit of a wander and a short run on paths which were a bit slushy in parts completed the day.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 24 Feb 2023
- ☁️ 2 °C
- Altitud: 122 m
- Norway Oslo Sinsen Muselunden 59.940934, 10.78782759°56’27” N 10°47’16” E
Hari 33
Stockholm to Oslo
24 Februari 2023, Norway ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C
Just a 5h40 train journey from Stockholm to Oslo. Nice modern Swedish Railways train; breathtaking snowy scenery through the window and just so relaxing. Changed at Oslo Central Station to go a couple of stops on a suburban commuter train to where we were staying.Baca lagi
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Pengembara Interrail Trip Europe 2023
- Tunjukkan perjalanan
- Tambah ke senarai baldiKeluarkan dari senarai baldi
- Kongsi
- 25 Feb 2023, 6:03 PTG
- 🌙 -1 °C
- Altitud: 124 m
- Norway Oslo Sinsen Muselunden 59.940876, 10.78768559°56’27” N 10°47’16” E
Hari 34
Oslo
25 Februari 2023, Norway ⋅ 🌙 -1 °C
Parkrun was on the agenda today so. With Caroline on the verge of her 100th, we were disappointed that the local Tøyen Parkrun was cancelled the night before due to ice. Anyway, Nansenparken Parkrun was nearby in a new area of Oslo where the old airport was.

Luckily the bus stop nearest us had a bus going right there, so on a bone chillingly cold day, we set off on the bus early. The wind was northerly and freezing so it was a tough run but fantastic to do and meet another super-friendly group of people doing Parkrun.

We spent the afternoon wandering and taking in Oslo.Baca lagi
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