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Our first night in Sweden
Today we arrived in Kiruna! Flying into the airport was very exciting as I could see that it was snowing from the plane window. We flew over what looked like a forest and all of the trees were covered in snow. It was the first time I had seen snow so I was very excited.
We got off the plane and entered Kiruna Airport which was very small. …
The Icehotel
After 4 hours of driving in pretty slippery conditions our cross country Volvo arrived at The Ice Hotel in Kiruna. We booked an Ice room, were given storage locker keys and were shown around. The stuff mostly young is not what you would expect from more than $500 per room hotel. Their unprofessional behavior is probably related to the hotel being …
Ice Hotel!!!!
Friday morn up at 06:35 but next door had party til 5am - 'Jolene' by Dolly Parton played 6 times at least - so pretty tired setting off, the usual rudeness by the commuters on the bus to the station & then got train to airport so 08:20 check in for 9:20 flight (as usual Sas delayed 10 mins). Arrive Stockholm 10:35 but due to some weird law we had …
White Winter Wonderland
We are awoken at 6.30am in the morning, so people don't miss their stop. Lucky for us we still had another 3 hours to go. The other people from our compartment got off, which allowed us to spread out and enjoy the rest of the ride. The sun was shining and there was snow everywhere. Unfortunately we didn’t get to see any wildlife on our …
We go fro cold to colder
After a hearty Swedish breakfast we leave part of our luggage behind and make our way to Kiruna, northern Sweden. Flight up on an old MD80 which obviously works well in this environment.
Land at Kiruna amid a vastness of white and grey. The occasional road is black and big water courses partly black.
Kiruna is a very small local …