...resten av världen. :)
Been there with two friends once. Flew from Stockholm to Kiruna, rented a comfortable VW Golf, assured the rental Lady we wouldn't leave the country, had to leave our passports there beacuse one of my friends promptly asked "How far to Norway?", drove straight up to Norway, camping somewhere along the way, noticed that the border was "patroled" by a solitary sleeping customs official, went up to Nordkap, drove through the deepest, longest (way coolest) tunnel ever (and we thought that was a ferry on the map), found out about that stupid amusement park, laughed at the stupid tourists being hereded through that in half an hour by the busload.
Then we went to a tiny fishing vilalge nearby, played pool and had some beers, went to the pier and watch as the sun failed to set at midnight, had a huge blunt, felt great, laughed at the tourists somemore, went back to Nordkap, put up the tent, cooked some weird meal of all the leftovers we had (including rice, milk, coffee powder and sugar), slept, had a good walk around Nordkap, went back to Kiruna, through Finland. On one stop at a gas station we insulted some German tourists in Swedish and had a good laugh, especially as two of us were from Germany :). Finnish is a strange language when you hear it spoken the first time. You keep thinking that you might just understand, but you never do. Back in Kiruna we filled up the car, gave it back, flew back to Stockholm.
And all for nearly nothing, because in Sweden a student can fly on any innercountry flight for 200 Kronor and the car wasn't that expensive.
And we took along a Samish (is that the word???) old grandma for a while to were she lived. Communication was interesting, she spoke Norwegian and almost no English. We spoke some English, some Swedish and had a great conversation. Bought a Ren-skin and slept divinley, laughing at my friends insulating mats. Those Rens sure have it warm.
It was truly great and we made it across the polar circle. That was one of the things we wanted to do. I mean you spend a year in Sweden and never went up *really* north? Never saw an elk though... |
