taking off to Kiruna

Tomorrow in the very morning we start our great journey to Kiruna/Lappland. We take the plain from Malmö to Stockholm and then further to Kiruna which is in the very north of Sweden, approximately 200km north of the polar circle. The time of traveling should be perfect because it is not as cold as it used to be during the arctic night but we still have a chance to see northern lights. The sun is shining for approximately 10-12h per day, which leaves place for outdoor activities. We will stay in Abisko, a small 150 person cottage that lies directly at a huge national park and a nice (frozen) lake called Tornetrask. We will try to do as many activities as possible like cross country skiing, snow-show tours, dog-sledding, snow scooter tours, and of course the visit to nice tourist attractions like the world-famous Icehotel. It's going to be awesome!!!

In other news will I try to keep the blog updated a bit more frequently as in the last time. We both were basically busy with university courses, gym and corridor socializing. Unfortunately is the weather not very pleasing at the moment, we did have more than a single day of sunshine in the last 3 weeks, spring is already on it's way to Sweden and as a result of this it started raining almost all day like it was in autumn :(. So the weather does not really allow so much outdoor activity as I would like to do which limits the weekend activities. But nevertheless the Swedes say that the spring is normally sunny and nice with mild weather so I am really looking forward to it although we are diving deep into the winter for the next week :)

I will write a report of our journey to the north at the end of next week when we are back :)

Do give you a better impression how far we are north I took a screen shot from Google-Earth and marked both Lund and Abisko.