3-15 Jan 2025 Scandinavia adventure with friends
Happy Friday. It's been a week of travel.
We hoped the travel will not end so soon.
Breakfast started from 730am
The busy owners, Mr Alik and Mdm Teija, of the farmer house preparing breakfast for us.
Their oat porridge with cranberry sauce is really good.
Handing over the cute key after breakfast.
Mdm Teija asked if any lucky person ate an almond (one and only) in the oat porridge.
Departing at 9 am. We're gonna miss the cozy farm house.
On the way
Loving that moon
Crossing the border to Sweden.
It was 10.50 am Finnish time, 9.50 am Swedish time (1 hour behind Finland).
Why are traditional Swedish houses red?
It had been 2 hours since we drove off from Kierinki Village.
We soon arrived for our toilet break at petrol kiosk, OKQ8 in Pajala.
They bought!!
More red houses
Beautiful pink in the horizon
We see the sun again
It was 2.5 hours drive to Kiruna
Arriving at Coop supermarket ~1.15pm, where we will have lunch and shop a little.
We had until 3 pm to leave for the train station, where we will ride the train to Narvik, Norway.
Having lunch at the local burger store
117 SEK (around S$14.47) for a burger meal in Sweden.
Everyone had been buying ginger biscuits, which is the local favourite snack.
I even found and bought a new luggage
Beautiful sun setting as we arrived at Kiruna train station.
Waiting area
Train map
Train departing at 3.30 pm
It will be a 3-hours ride
After the beautiful sunset at 4 pm, it became pitched dark..
Drinks were free as the card machine was down.
all we could see was our reflections on the window
This was one of the several stops that the train made to board passengers.
Giap giap
hahahaha
This was all we can see outside
Seat numbers
More water.. as it was getting really heated in the train
Giap .. in the toilet .. again
Alighting soon
Arriving at Narvik, the final stop.
Our lovely driver was there to pick us
Checking-in to Scandic hotel, Norway
It was snowing.. so any chance of seeing aurora??
View from the room - the ski slope
We wanted to clear our cup food, so did not go out for dinner
Up 16th floors to the roof top at 930 pm, again to check if there will be aurora
The view was beautiful.. but it was too cloudy to see any lights
Not so cold in Narvik even though it was snowing.
Long route for the day, including the train ride, and cutting through the 3 countries.
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