Hi Everyone!
It's Saturday night and we're at an Internet cafe in Oslo (capital of Norway), apparently going to Europe still leaves you uncool. Today we saw a vikingship museum and a Norweigan town that was put together from old Norweigan houses, it was actually pretty cool.
The last week was nothing short of crazy. After we left Kuopio, Finland, it took us two days to get to Kiruna, Sweden and involved us walking from Finland to Sweden. Upon arrival to Sweden, we were greeted with an IKEA. HAHA.
Kiruna was all right, the ice hotel freezer thing was neat, we got to hang out at the ice bar. Desperately wanting to get out of Kiruna, we naturally missed our bus, which left from the train station and not the bus station which caused a domino effect.
Missing this bus meant that we got to Narvik, Norway a lot later than intended and had to spend the night there, instead of hopping on a series of ferries. It was an all right town though and allowed us to reschedule the rest of trip accordingly. The next day (I have little idea what day things happened I can't give you any references) we finally got the ferry from Narvik to Svolvær and then this famous ferry line called Hurtigruten - fun to say - to Stamsund where we had to walk 1.5 km with our bags in order to reach the most amazing hostel ever.
Anyway, time is up.. but we leave for Fjord land tomorrow!
byee for now
Hana
hey guys! Look at me I'm stuck in this pretty bad town as we missed a bus connection ...and I'm contributing. the ice hotel town wasn't that great, the ice hotel is actually about 20 minutes away and in a freezer...with only one bus a day! It was pretty cool though. Sorry for the brief email, I realised I had about 3 minutes of internet left.
After Helsinki, we went to Kuopio, home to the world's largest word sauna, but we didn't go... there was a sauna at the hostel though. It was a pretty cool town though. From there we took the train as far as we could, hopped on a bus to the border with Sweden and then walked from the Finnish station to the Swedish one, to be greeted by an IKEA on the Swedish side..hahah!!! From there we went to this town called Lulea, which was pretty dead. The hostel was all right, we met 2 brits, 2 swiss-germans, and one whale hunting norweigan (the facts of the latter are yet to be confirmed). We spent the night there and then took off for Kiruna...
Kiruna ended up sucking, but we did run into this British guy we met in Lulea (where we were before Kiruna) and that was all right. The hostel in Kiruna was like a man convention, it was really weird. Turns out it's a base city for hikers. And now we're in beautiful Norway, the landscape changes literally after you cross the border.
After Helsinki, we went to Kuopio, home to the world's largest word sauna, but we didn't go... there was a sauna at the hostel though. It was a pretty cool town though. From there we took the train as far as we could, hopped on a bus to the border with Sweden and then walked from the Finnish station to the Swedish one, to be greeted by an IKEA on the Swedish side..hahah!!! From there we went to this town called Lulea, which was pretty dead. The hostel was all right, we met 2 brits, 2 swiss-germans, and one whale hunting norweigan (the facts of the latter are yet to be confirmed). We spent the night there and then took off for Kiruna...
Kiruna ended up sucking, but we did run into this British guy we met in Lulea (where we were before Kiruna) and that was all right. The hostel in Kiruna was like a man convention, it was really weird. Turns out it's a base city for hikers. And now we're in beautiful Norway, the landscape changes literally after you cross the border.
