Kiruna & Narvik
Just a nice 22hour train ride up to Kiruna, luckily we were in a sleeping cabin, so it was quite nice, and fun to meet all of the other exchange students on the train up.
The mine at Kiruna
The incredible Ice Hotel
The embrace of life.
The Absolut Bar. These drinks came in an ice glass, at 100kr for one drink! the ones of peoples that I tried were delicious! As alcohol melts the ice, vodka does it the slowest so thats what they use, and you keep the same ice glass and the more you drink the bigger the glass gets, the lady told us the record was 22 drinks in one, then went on to add "Crazy Australian!".
WE SAW THE NORTHERN LIGHTS! not kidding!And this definately isn't a postcard...
Australian pride
Someone thought it would be fun to play rugby in over a metre deep snow. They were right!
Just a casual 1000ish or so metres under ground. Where I got service on my mobile! Yet Jindera fails to do so...
So cute, and so close!
Just some underground trainstation artwork.So a week ago around 60 other exchange students from around Sweden and myself, headed to the very top of Sweden. We were based in the town of Kiruna, which funnly enough is something like the biggest city in Europe... turns out when they say that they mean the total area around the actual town which is still called Kiruna. Also funnly enough almost the entire town has to be relocated because of the mining idustry there that continues to go further down into the ground so the crumble zone becomes more wide spread.
On the first day we went to the Ice Hotel which was so cool, such good architecture went into it all. It must be so sad but exciting to see it melt away each season. That night was also one I will never ever ever ever forget. I was luckily enough to witness the Northern Lights! The one thing people would always asking me before I came to Sweden was "what do you hope to do there" and my response was always "see the Northern Lights" And I am very content already with the rest of my year here as I've ticked off the top thing on my bucket list! I wish I could find words to describe what they were like but honestly it really is just something you'll have to experience first hand.
I think it was the next day that we went to Norway, all of the pictures of mountainy areas are the ones from Norway, the scenery was utterly breathtaking! The pictures really don't do the true beauty justice.
The day after that was so so much fun. We got to ride snow mobiles! They were so much fun. Maybe a bit to easy to use though, I like a bit more of a challenge, but they were amazing to ride around. We also did activites like starting a fire, the walking on planks thing. And running around the snow with drunk goggles on. It was so hard! I felt like such a lightweight I could barely stay off the ground.
I'm now off for a week to Skåne, then to Gothenborg for an ANZAC day ceremony. Så, har en bra påsk!
Ps:I also promise that this is the last lot of pictures with snow in them! At least till the end of the year anyway. Spring is here and it is beauty and warm and everyone is so happy, I love it!
On the first day we went to the Ice Hotel which was so cool, such good architecture went into it all. It must be so sad but exciting to see it melt away each season. That night was also one I will never ever ever ever forget. I was luckily enough to witness the Northern Lights! The one thing people would always asking me before I came to Sweden was "what do you hope to do there" and my response was always "see the Northern Lights" And I am very content already with the rest of my year here as I've ticked off the top thing on my bucket list! I wish I could find words to describe what they were like but honestly it really is just something you'll have to experience first hand.
I think it was the next day that we went to Norway, all of the pictures of mountainy areas are the ones from Norway, the scenery was utterly breathtaking! The pictures really don't do the true beauty justice.
The day after that was so so much fun. We got to ride snow mobiles! They were so much fun. Maybe a bit to easy to use though, I like a bit more of a challenge, but they were amazing to ride around. We also did activites like starting a fire, the walking on planks thing. And running around the snow with drunk goggles on. It was so hard! I felt like such a lightweight I could barely stay off the ground.
I'm now off for a week to Skåne, then to Gothenborg for an ANZAC day ceremony. Så, har en bra påsk!
Ps:I also promise that this is the last lot of pictures with snow in them! At least till the end of the year anyway. Spring is here and it is beauty and warm and everyone is so happy, I love it!
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