The spectacular natural beauty of Norway’s coastline. The brochure for the Hurtigruten cruise touts itself as “The World’s Most Beautiful Sea Voyage”. Who could resist a sales pitch like that?! Not these 2 dedicated tourists, that’s for sure… So here we are, enjoying some of the best Norway […]
Exploring the historical sites of Trondheim First things first: Gratulerer med dagen Mor! That is: Happy Birthday Mum! Wish we could be there to celebrate it with you… We spent our morning walking the streets of Trondheim; this is without a doubt our favourite thing to do in any […]
A trip through Hell on the way from Östersund (Sweden) to Trondheim (Norway) Hell is a small town in Northern Norway. Our train from Östersund stopped there briefly today on its way to Trondheim. It was very sunny wand warm when we were there, but for those of […]
A walking tour around Östersund, Frösön Island & Lake Storsjön After our long travel day yesterday, and the excitement of losing then retrieving our jackets, we both slept like logs last night and enjoyed a bit of a sleep in this morning. Mind you, sleeping in ’til 7:00am is […]
Tracking North to Östersund We left Stockholm today (awww…), heading North for the lakeside town of Östersund (yaaay!). The train journey took us first from Stockholm to Sundsvall (on the East coast of Sweden) on an InterCity Express train (very schmick); in Sundsvall we then had to change to a […]