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Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 10:34 am
by Blide
Hey gals and guys, ;D Last year I made a scandinavian roadtrip. I went to Finland on 16th of april and returned back home on 30th same month. I came to Helsinki from where I had about 5 hour drive to Lieksa/Timitra hostel where I stayed for a week. In that time I wisited few places like Kuopio, Jensuu and such. After a week I went from Lieksa up north to Rovaniemi and stayed at some log cottage inn on the way, I forgot the town what is called. So in Rovaniemi I went to see the real Santa! :p There was much snow still there because it's the polar circle there. So from Rovaniemi I kept getting up north on the endless streight road and tundra to the Finish-Norvegean border. I reach Nordkapp by noon the same day, after that I went to Alta in Finnmark where I stayede. The next day I went to Narvik and then again to the next border, this time to Sweden. I crossed the border and came trough Kiruna, which is Sweden's most northern town. From there I went to the town of Gällivare. Stayed there over the night again and in morning went to Umeå where I crossed the sea back to the town of Vaasa and went right to Tampere. And I really loved it. Went to Herald too, great food and ambient. Felt almost like on Pangaea. :P So the last day I went back to Helsinki and had time until next morning so I also took time to look around, almost got lost in the shops under the railway station. :P And then came back. I won't post pictures here because it's too many, instead, I am leaving links to my FB photo albums which are public so take a look. :)


Finland


Norway


Sweden

Re: Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 1:58 pm
by Ivan
You missed Oulu, but o'well there is not realy anything worth of seeing here anyhow. Glad that you enjoyed your trip to Finland.

Re: Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 2:57 pm
by Johnny Walac
GÄLLIVARE

Re: Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 10:35 pm
by Blide
I did around 3500 km in 6 days, so I was a bit tight on scedule. :D I wanted to meet up with Virpi but she was busy at work so she didn't have time. No ofense guys, I liked Finland and Sweden, but I fell in love with Norway. :D

Re: Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:10 pm
by Kira
you call that scandinavian? you missed one country! DENMARK!!!

Re: Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:37 pm
by yuusou
Realistically Finland and Iceland aren't Scandinavian, they're part of the "Northern" territories however.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia

Re: Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 7:16 pm
by Daren Priesten
Nice... Finland looks like I imagined.

Re: Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:21 pm
by Striker
Did you meet cpt. Sweden?:)

Re: Scandinavian roadtrip

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 6:52 pm
by Blide
No, I only met Santa Claus in Rovanemi. :D