Finally got the chance for a shower, sunshine and free wifi. Uploaded some of Stefan’s Kebnekaise photos:
The entire Kebnekaise set is here. Before that, there is a Kluntana set, the last taken with my camera before it broke.
I’m in Oslo for a few hours. Flying [...]
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
From Kiruna, we took one of Scandinavia’s prettiest train routes across northern Sweden and into Narvik, Norway. Narvik would actually be a cute town, bounded on one side by a fjord and on the others by snow-capped mountains, were it not for the fact that it has an industrial estate instead of a centre. We [...]
In which our heroes conquer Sweden’s highest peak and get rather cold.
After a shortish train ride to Kiruna, and a damp night of camping in the rain, we wandered into the tourist information centre to see what there was to actually do in the Arctic. Turns out we were only about 100km from the base [...]
I haven’t had an internet connection for a while, so there’s a bit to catch up on. From Lulea, we took the ferry across to Kluntana. After a painful barefoot stumble across the island’s stony interior, we found ourselves on a deserted beach, facing the slow sunset over the Gulf. The beach also came equipped [...]