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 […]
Cruising Lake Malaren to visit Drottningholm Palace, oh and walking 5km to do some laundry! For our last day in Stockholm we decided to catch a ferry into Lake Malaren to see Drottningholm Palace and its gardens. Stockholm sits at the mouth of Lake Malaren, where it drains into […]
Cruising the Stockholm archipelago Evening blog fans and welcome one of the best days of our lives! We spent our Sunday cruising the Stockholm archipelago on the SS Waxholm III and it was AWESOME. We covered over 150km on our 12 hour cruise, stopping at a few of […]