Norway bit us farewell this morning (my first encounter with what I can only assume was a bed bug) followed by the realization that V has lost her snazzy new sunglasses and her earphones – that’s ‘2 all’ by my reckoning 🙂

[Update: by the end of the day V has also lost her beanie. That’s 3-2 to me – we’ll get our brains around this nonsense soon – hopefully before we get to Russia. We are also considering replacing V’s camera. It now has 3 large specs on the sensor]

We took a walk around the Ofoten Museum – one of the worst exhibitions we have ever experienced. Time to bail.

The skies started turning blue just after we crossed the border into Sweden. Spectacular train ride – better than Flåm in some parts.

We are only going to be one night in Sweden (Luleå) before a full day of travel to get to a friend in Vaasa (Finland).

Luleå is charming enough. Clean and very tidy. New currency, different food lables – took another few mins to work our which is full cream milk. Cheaper than Norway, but all we have seen is lots of trees and a blurry reindeer. Apparently was 26C here today. Put my toe in the gulf of Bothnia.

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We’re in Finland 🙂 Walked across the border from Haparandan (Sweden, not Mexico) to Tornio. Barely any indication that there is a border ! Turns out we could have taken a direct bus from Haparanda to Kemi, but was still fun to cross a border on foot. From Kemi we’ll take some trains to get to Nic in Vaasa.

[Update: looks like we have broken the ticket machine at Kemi train station. Hope we don’t end up paying twice for the tickets. V found her headphones – 2 all again]

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