Category: Sweden

The previous night gave us a stunning performance of Auroras going into the reds as well as greens. It turns out to be fortuitous timing as I head out in the middle of the night for a pee (outside toilet) and notice the show. André initially reluctant to awake but…

We have heard a lot about this place Icehotel and  as we are staying our last two nights in a rustic cabin on the Thorne river within 7km of the hotel , and which is also the source of all the ice they use to build the hotel, we go…

After settling  into our little cabin we decide to experiment with a new way of getting around for us, when there is so much snow around. Put on the snow shoes. It gives you a broader footprint and so you don’t sink under in deep snow, you don’t go fast…

We now head back to this far northern Lapland town of 20K,  it is unique in the sense that deep below the ground are huge deposits of iron ore and as they extract them the town has started subsiding. What would you do? Well you just move the town over…

We pick up our 4×4 Yeti Skoda and we are ready to head out west to Abisko. The conditions are amazing with a weather front which  has hit the north  bringing sunshine,no wind and a perfect -14C. We crunch away in our Sorel boots on the crispy frozen roads and…

The days have been perfect weather wise. We start with a 40cm dump of fresh , fluffy snow at -7C and finish off with three amazingly clear, sunny days down to -18C.André can’t wipe the grin off his face, he has a beautiful, strong team of dogs, Rohan and Robert…

We leave for Hemavan a small ski -centre in northern Sweden where we get picked up and driven to Umnas for the start of the dogsledding. We have to make the heart crushing decision that my knee will not stand up to 50-70km days on the sled and so I…

This is my first attempt at Blogging and of course we have essential IT and photography support from André. A little heads up on the nature of this trip , it is the 101 day Breakaway journey celebrating significant birthdays and the start to a new era. I have retired…