Travel details

I recall some drinking with Swedish folk in the train’s buffet, then eventually rocking to sleep in my bunk, and awakening still moving through miles and miles of pine forest. First sight of Kiruna was some distance from the town, with the train very gradually slowing down to make a smooth stop.

The station had been moved, as a precursor to moving the whole town when the mine expands, so we took a bus to the centre of the town and then trudged up to our hotel. It was early afternoon, a few days before midsummer, and yet the sky was leaden, with occasional flurries of snow, and it was quite chilly. So this is the arctic circle!

11:01     at breakfast

11:19 still asleep

where we were

09:56

12:00     We had bought lots of provisions at the station supermarket the previous day.

12:57     Swedish tea and tofu sandwiches

12:34

12:35

12:38

12:52

13:53     I couldn’t go any further.

13:19    

13:20    

14:36     clearings by the side of the railway

14:37     mine-spoil near Kiruna

14:44     at Kiruna station

14:51     Kiruna also houses Sweden’s space effort.

15:11     On the way to our hotel

16:08     I like this.

21:32     In the Bishops Arms, discussing trigonometry

21:33     Drinking Staropramen in Sweden!

21:44     more trigonometry

21:44     and more

21:56     and still more

21:56     and yet more!

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