Sweden and Norway: (very sorry, still no photos. will get them scanned and digitalised at some point, I promise!) For my birthday, my lovely mother gave me a week in a timeshare in Sweden. Very exciting. We picked it because it was easy to get to without a car, being within walking distance of a train line. I flew into Trondheim, in northern Norway, from London where I’d spent a week catching up with friends. Trondheim at a glance was very pretty, but I had to catch my train to Storlien, where I’d be staying. Storlien is a tiny town perched [View Full Entry]

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Sweden Day Three Amanda Avar’s and Train Back to Stockholm I’m pretty sure the jet-lag hit. Michelle and I had planned on riding bikes to the train station to buy tickets to go back to Stockholm, but I was dead to the world when she tried to wake me in the morning. When she got there the place was closed, but luckily they had a machine where she could buy the tickets. Mom and Cathy needed tickets but we didn’t because we had our Eurorail passes. Sven-Eric took me to the store to find cardamom, and some sort of salt [View Full Entry]

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Sweden Day Two Amanda Dinner at Anki’s and Michelle’s Manual Adventure Today we got to Ostersund at 7:30 AM. I was joking with Michelle that I don’t think I remembered what 7:30 AM looked like. We had noticed on the train that it didn’t ever seem like it was night because it hadn’t gotten too dark. I had on an eye mask, but Michelle said it started to get light again around 3 AM. Mom and Sven-Eric (related to us in a way that is complicated) picked us up from the train station. Elsie is Mormor’s cousin and speaks perfect [View Full Entry]

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I know this mountain like the back of my hand as this was probably my 30:th visit to åre, or so. Anyway, new lifts have opened - cool! (Official web site: www.skistar.com/are/) This time I also got to experience how it is to steer a sleigh with sled dogs! A great adventure in the wild, but sweaty, especially when you have to get of the sleigh an run along side. The reason: it gets heavy on the doggies on the way up. The expedition leader cooked some great lunch on culinary specialties, too! (more info: http://www.hundspann.z.se/denturadogs/) [View Full Entry]

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