Travel details
| Activities | Morning & early afternoon | Evening |
| Sami visitor centre | Midnight sun trip | |
| Accommodation | Hotell Vinterpalatset, Järnvägsgatan 18, Kiruna, 981 34. | |
00:02 on the swings at midnight
09:37 Something climbing the wall
09:38 Woof!
We were collected in Kiruna and taken to the Sámi Siida centre in Jukkasjärvi.
10:28 Bruce with reindeer
11:13 How to keep your stuff safe.
11:13 more Sami structures
11:20 moulting reindeer
We then walked from the Sámi Siida centre to the site of the annual ice-hotel.
13:12 walking from Sámi Siida centre to ice hotel
13:15 Bruce has an obsession with neat woodpiles.
13:16 Wooden architecture
13:25 bus-shelter
LOTS OF ICE, READY TO BE MADE INTO A HOTEL
13:47 ice-store
13:47 explaining about the ice
14:48 explaining about the ice
14:39 dangerous clams!
14:41 ice-blocks
13:50 ice again
13:50 it’s very clear
13:50 it’s very clear
13:53 ice layers
13:55 trapped ice-fish
14:54 how to trap ice-fish
13:47 ice-flowers
15:07 ice-cutting machinery
13:56 The Ryan clan males
13:56 The Ryan clan males in close-up
14:13 former for the ice-hotel
14:22 how it’s built each year
14:25 The last block from last year
15:27 surface of the last ice-block
We had booked a mini-bus tour to the top of Luossavaara mountain. Unfortunately the sun didn’t come out to play. Our guide-driver, a Pole, drove all around Kiruna looking for interesting things to show us.
22:59 waiting to go to see the midnight sun. Would Che approve?
23:17 It’s not Hilary Clinton’s handwriting.
23:17 radio station at the top of Luossavaara
23:25 Bruce sun-worshipping
23:25 Ian sun-worshipping
23:25 Bruce and Ian, waiting for the sun
23:26 Bruce and Ian, still waiting for the sun
23:26 still no sun
23:26 ‘Look! There it is’
On the road
23:55 Pregnant Bruce needed two buffs to keep warm.
Digital evidence that Bruce might have a life 