Sweden 2021 part VII - Norrbotten District

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July 14th 2021

Published: November 25th 2021

From the TV-shows Monty Python and Survivor to Swedish Cold War military heritage Draisine Last summer we spent half a day riding a draisine on Dellen Railway. We absolutely loved doing that. It was so much fun that we have decided to do this maybe once a year. There are about 30 places in Sweden where it is possible to ride draisine so we won't run out of options for this activity in the nea... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Sculpture

When the fish migrate up the river they are easy to catch. When they rest, all you need is a hand net to sweep them up.

Siknäs Fortress

The tour we wanted to join was full and we would've had to wait one hour for a tour that we could get a ticket for. That was not an option. We saw the little of the fortress that was visible from above

Siknäs Fortress

Siknäs Fortress is a disused military fort housed in tunnels inside a mountain

Boden train station

Boden Fortress

The entrance to Boden Fortress. It doesn't look like much from the outside. But inside it is huge

Hospital

Boden Fortress had a small hospital

Bunk beds

The soldiers who were stationed at Boden Fortress slept in rooms like this

Command centre

The headquarter and command centre

Gun turrets

The gun turrets on the roof of Boden Fortress

The grain storage

Havremagasinet, the grain storage or literally the oats storage, in Boden is a magnificent building that today houses an art gallery.

26th November 2021

Daniel Tingdahl
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Wow! The border was CLOSE!
I don't know if you were actually most further out at the jetty, but when looking and measuring att Google Earth, one might actually be right at the border to Finland when walking to the end of the jetty. It is not more than 154 meters across, and the jetty seems to end at 77 meters...

26th November 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Did I enter Finland?
What if the end if the jetty was 1 meter across the border? Does that mean that I actually entered Finland? Would that count as being abroad? If so, then it would be the first time I am since March 2020. /Ake

28th November 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

LOL

28th November 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Looks dangerous ;o)

28th November 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I think these rapids are quite safe
The rapids in Kukkolaforsen are quite safe I think. I know that whitewater rafting elsewhere is performed in much wilder waters. /Ake

28th November 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Looks yummy!

28th November 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Love the architecture ;o)

28th November 2021

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

I'd love doing that!!

28th November 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

It is great fun
I can assure you that it is just as fun as it looks. /Ake

2nd December 2021

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

I love this
I'm sorry they took it down but glad people can still see it.

3rd December 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

It's a pity
It's a pity they did that. Also, there were more of those humerous crosswalk signs. The others we didn't see. It would have been fun to walk oround in Haparanda and find them one by one. It would have been a great way to explore the town. /Ake

2nd December 2021

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Norrbotten
Dinner on the bridge sounds great. What a magnificent idea. Riding the draisine sounds great. We will have to give that a try.

3rd December 2021

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

They only have it for about two weeks
They only have that for about two weeks every summer and only one seating per day. We were lucky to be among the maybe 30 people who got to eat the dinner on the river last year. /Ake

16th January 2022

alex waring
Alexander Waring

North Sweden
Wow, the far north of Sweden - this is definitely somewhere I'd be interested in visiting, it looks amazing. I love the reindeer tunnel on the draisine ride, and your plan to go draisine riding every year! The meal on the river looks amazing too! Good old John Cleese - I agree, I think we also need to laugh more in life than we do. "Emma wasn't interested, and Ake can't see why" - lol, very funny! I would have firmly been in the Ake-camp here! ☺

16th January 2022

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

We try our best
We try our best to find places that make our trips interesting and if it is also interesting to read it's good. It seems like we managed this time. Thanks for reading our blog. /Ake

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