Tärendö
It has taken two days to get here but the effort was worth it: Newcastle to Manchester to Stockholm to Kiruna, to Tärendö. Into the Arctic Circle again, we came in the winter for the darkness and the aurora and now we are back for the midnight sun, a chance to see some of the places in daylight that we only glimpsed in snow and the too short days of winter.
This feels like escape – endless forests, lakes and empty roads which for miles and miles are unmade, not because they are out-in-the-wild tracks but because the Swedes have a novel approach to resurfacing – dig everything up, start again but don’t close the ‘roads’.
These are a few images from our brief stay in this beautiful place, fittingly at the Forest Hotel. All of them taken in haste – stand still for more than a few seconds and both the camera and photographer are covered in midges 👿
Tomorrow we drive east into Finland.
northumbrian : light 
Beautiful series!
Many thanks, it is great to be here.
Such a beautiful setting…Cheers =)
It is – near perfect, except for the midges 😦
On the road again, my friend? Gorgeous shots. Send more.
You can depend on it Cate 🙂
What a fantastic area! You make me envious. Another blogging-friend of mine [http://irgendlink.de/] [https://twitter.com/irgendlink] is on his way up there, to the North Cape by bicycle. I hope he’ll enjoy such beautiful landscape and weather as so far he has been plagued by rain.
Enjoy your time there,
Pit
Many thanks Pit – I will check up on your friends progress. We are heading for North Cape as well but by car – the soft option 🙂 We arrive on Tuesday 21st July.
I wish you a great holiday and, most of all, a safe trip: enjoy.
P.S.: The North Cape is on our bucket list, too. By another “soft” 😉 option: by ship, on one of the Hurtig Routen ships.
Many thanks Pit – I recommend the coastal voyage in either summer or winter – two quite different experiences.
🙂
Looks like a quiet paradise. Congrats on making it back up that way again for the light. 🙂
Thanks Julie – we are heading for the far north again but this time by road. We end up coming down the Norwegian coast from North Cape, staying at some of the same places we called in at by ship over the winter. This time without the snow – I assume 😉
Fabulous colours! Haste ye onwards, Robin, but keep sending the photos 🙂
Will do Jo – Levi net in Finland – pronounced ‘Levy’ I think.
Beautiful photos. I hope you have a wonderful time 🙂
Many thanks Sue – the sun is shining brightly this morning and I can see from my webcam that it has been raining at home – that always makes me feel better 🙂
Oh Robin! Now this looks divine.
It is Jean, it is – except for the darn midges. I am very lumpy and itchy this morning – Pam says they like me best because I eat too many sweet things. Tosh I say 😀
I’d say it’s because they have good taste!
I have to stop and type the words: WOW! Gosh these are great photos.
Too kind – many thanks, much appreciated.
Beautiful colours…and who knew that they get midges in Norway. I thought it was only Scotland 🙂
Many thanks – perhaps they are on their holidays, you can understand the attraction 🙂