MEL-DXB-ARN (-KRN)
The first real snow without skiing and without being a holiday. Missed the northern lights by a month and could go slightly crazy by the midnight sun.
Stockholm
No this is not Japan 2017 again, the cherry blossums of Stockholm!
Strandvagen
Nordik museum on Djurgården
Nordiska museum
Nobel Museum - don't go in, unless it's free
Old town
The royal palace under wraps
More royal palace
Looking towards Eric Ericsonhallen
The strandvagen (left), Djurgården (right)
The Vasa museum. Launched 1628.... immediately sank.
St Johns Church
35hours from door to door.
Kiruna Lappland
From the 30hour flight straight to the work site and beat the containers from Melbourne by 2 minutes.
Minus 10 and snowy
Luossavaara, (left - mined through the centre and now a ski hill) and town (right) and the subsidence zone (front)
Bishops Arms late night trivia
Church of Sweden, Kiruna Church. In 2001, Kiruna Church was voted the most popular pre-1950 building in Sweden, in a country-wide poll.
Payground covered in 1m snowpack. By the end of the trip, this was all grass.
Downtown Kiruna.
Live. Ski. Heal. Repeat.
Iced up alleyways
The visitor centre
The LKAB pizza, reindeer + 3 other meats
Church of Sweden Kiruna Church
Just after a blizzard had rolled by.
The firestation
Driving to Malmberget
A lot of old cars roam around at 30km/h. Kirrunalaps
Not quite the Sapporo snow festival, but the sun has taken it's toll
What? Another foul, what is this fancy bowling alley?
Looking up the mined Luossavaara
Not sure they are doing it right.
Midnight sunserise
Midnight sunset and sunrise
Walking up Luossavaara
Midnight sun trail
Owe quite a bit of FIKA
Kiruna municipality, home to ESA rocket research
Accommodation and wonderful food
Preparing to move the town clock
More late night trivia, and the Australians finally on week 5 manage to get to a very respectable 4th placing
Restaurant 1300m underground
What is this? The deathstar? All these trays are wet.
Town from Luossavaara
Walking down the slopes of Luossavaara
Stayed out partying from sunset to sunrise!
The underground team
The whole town came out to see the town moved.
Moving the town 2 miles East.
Midnight sun trail.
More midnight photography
Abisko / Narvik
Second largest suspension bridge (when completed) Hålogaland. 20 minute saving drive time to the airport sounds more beleieveable than the tulla widening for the same time saving.
Narvik Spire
Still 2400km from Santa
Narvik town centre
Fyords of Norway.
Abisko
Driving back to Sweden
Abisko cave ice waterfall thing and the iron ore
Sweden really is full of lakes. Hopefully with no mosquito larva. To be continued.
