Back In Sweden
TweetHej! I’m now back in Sundsvall (Medelpad, Sweden), a 1300 Km drive from where I last posted: Tromsø (Troms, Norway). See map below. It’s been a few days since the last blog post as internet access was sporadic and when available, a bit slow. This update will be a bit shorter than I anticpated as [...]
Driving Through An Arctic Storm
TweetStrong winds, lots of snow, severely reduced visibility, sinuous roads perched on fjords’ tops and two ferries. This was the program for today’s drive on the E6 from Øksfjord (Finnmark county) to the city of Tromsø (Troms county) in Norway. I had never driven in such conditions before. At times, visibility went from about 1.5km [...]
New Year Wishes From The Arctic Circle
Tweet2008 ended “in the dark”. The darkness of the arctic that is. The Finnmark region of northern Norway gets very little light at this time of the year. Despite the darkness, there is a magic feeling here. Everything is bathed by a surreal blue light; the result of a distant sun which always hides below [...]