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No photos for Thursday, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. We had booked a “scenic snowmobile tour” for the morning, with a (for us) fairly early pick-up of 9:30. As we hadn’t ridden a snowmobile before,…
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Weather forecast grim for guided photo excursion
We woke on Wednesday and the forecast on my phone and laptop (Google and Apple have slightly different views of these things: it’s worthwhile to check both) concurred that while the morning would be clear, a snow storm was coming…
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A bit cloudier, weaker aurora (pink!)
Tuesday we had a lazy morning, nearly missing breakfast. Probably a result of sleeping well after getting very cold down by the lake the night before. Sat around catching up on the internet and relaxing. It was pretty overcast, so…
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Blue sky day in Abisko
The first full day at Abisko the weather was lovely. After a leisurely breakfast (and the writing of the previous post) we rugged ourselves up to go for a walk down to the lake (about 15 minutes if you were…
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Getting to Abisko
Travel days have a similar character, but this one was more “fun” towards the end than the others have been. We started at a fairly leisurely pace: we had to check out of our room in Helsinki by 12:00, but…
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Helsinki wrap
On Wednesday 11th we set off to see some iconic Helsinki architecture. We caught the tram to “rock church”, a Lutheran church that had not only been carved out of a big exposed rock, but which had its circular roof…
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Helsinki starters
Just a quick one, because I spent the late afternoon writing the Trondheim post. The trip to Helsinki was uneventful, with one interesting wrinkle: having reached Helsinki airport I asked Google how to get to the hotel by public transport…
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Trondheim
We did make it to our restaurant booking, just. Caught a taxi from the airport to make up a bit of time. A jolly good thing too, because it turns out that Fagn is fully worth it’s Michelin-adjacent bistro status.…
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Bergen catch-up
We’ve had a lovely time in Bergen, for the most part. Having so much fun, in fact, that we haven’t stopped to blog the details for want of time. Right now though, I have plenty of time: shortly before boarding…
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Travel day: quick location update
No photos (to speak of) today, but today was a travel day: GOT –> BGO. Got off to a decent start, when the hotel (Draken) let us have a 12:00 check-out. We were having a slow start both because it…