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Two uploads for today!
So, our first stop today took us too Kirkenes....this is a frozen little town close to the Russian border. Boy it was cold....and frozen! It was so dangerous underfoot that it ceased to become fun quite fast!
Walking into town ...
Our lazy day in Kirkenes
Our flight to Kirkenes left at 9am this morning from Oslo. We took the train to the airport again, had a delicious breakfast of fresh buttery waffles with berry jam and whipped cream while we waited to board and then had an uneventful 2 hour flight North. The landscape here is much more barren than near Oslo. The trees are small and they are not as green. We took a us from the airport to our hotel which only took 10 minutes or so. Our hotel, The Arctic Rica Hotel, is ...
..on the ship, way, way up north
.This is the last ship blog. We spent yesterday visiting a husky farm, they breed and train huskies in this frozen north land.
We got a chance to meet come huskie puppies
Some areas are snow, some are frozen tundra being summer time. It depends where the gulfstream strikes.
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We made it!
... lined up to get to the hotel. I have to say that between the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud that gathers intermittently over Northeastern Europe, the Red Shirt disturbance in Bangkok, the Maoist disagreement with Parliament in Nepal, and now our loss of the train, I was about to just bag the whole thing. Without too much more trouble (a bummed out cycling partner, an overweight bag, and a churning anxious stomach things would ...
Lapland Trip - Day 3
Alvorada - 06:00
Trip to the Artic Ocean Day!
Ąs 7 da manhć jį estįvamos todos no autocarro prontos para mais umas horinhas de viagem pela frente.
Primeira paragem: Utsjoki
Uma aldeia apenas com uma igreja e umas cabanas, muito antigas, que o povo Sami (habitantes da Lapónia) construiu para se abrigar enquanto andava na sua perseguiēćo ąs Renas, hį muitos anos atrįs. Actualmente a aldeia encontra-se desabitada.
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