Scandinavia holiday ideas
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fluffymarkI’ve been mentioning my Norway idea for months now, so it’s about time I did something about it. At the same time ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isobell has been prodding me quite severely to try and get to Lumous goth festival in Finland. Hence, a quick and nasty plan has begun to form, and now I’m splatting down a few ideas before I lose track of everything. Don’t mind me.
30 June Fly to Helsinki, Finland. Late afternoon train to Tampere. Meetisobell and friends and do the goth thing.
1 July In Tampere with more of those dreadful goths. How will I cope?
2 July End of Lumous. Travel to Turku withisobell.
3 July Day in Turku.
4 July Ferry to Stockholm, Sweden. Hopefully a chance to seelivredor.
5 July Day in Stockholm. Train north to Kiruna.
6 July Train north to Narvik, Norway.
7 July Bus north to Tromsø.
7-9 July Hire a car and drive around the north. Maybe reach Nordkapp! Exciting!
9/10 July Fly to Oslo.
10 July Day in Oslo. Hopefully meetwunderbaum.
10/11 July Fly back to London.
Yes, it’s absurd. But that’s the point! Although any advice would be most welcome, as I don’t want to get stuck in the middle of nowhere!
And a few useful websites before I lose them:
Ryanair http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/
Scandinavian airlines http://www.scandinavian.net/
Blue1 airlines http://www.blue1.com/
Viking line http://www.vikingline.fi/index.asp?lang=en
Finnish trains http://www.vr.fi/heo/eng/
Swedish trains http://www.sj.se/
Norwegian buses http://www.nbe.no/nbeweb/index.jsp?lang=en
I’ll just let that simmer for a while in my head before I start throwing money at booking all that lot. It’s not going to be cheap, some of that. But it’s going to be fun. Anyone crazy enough to join me? No, I thought not.
isobell has been prodding me quite severely to try and get to Lumous goth festival in Finland. Hence, a quick and nasty plan has begun to form, and now I’m splatting down a few ideas before I lose track of everything. Don’t mind me.30 June Fly to Helsinki, Finland. Late afternoon train to Tampere. Meet
isobell and friends and do the goth thing.1 July In Tampere with more of those dreadful goths. How will I cope?
2 July End of Lumous. Travel to Turku with
isobell.3 July Day in Turku.
4 July Ferry to Stockholm, Sweden. Hopefully a chance to see
livredor.5 July Day in Stockholm. Train north to Kiruna.
6 July Train north to Narvik, Norway.
7 July Bus north to Tromsø.
7-9 July Hire a car and drive around the north. Maybe reach Nordkapp! Exciting!
9/10 July Fly to Oslo.
10 July Day in Oslo. Hopefully meet
wunderbaum.10/11 July Fly back to London.
Yes, it’s absurd. But that’s the point! Although any advice would be most welcome, as I don’t want to get stuck in the middle of nowhere!
And a few useful websites before I lose them:
Ryanair http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/
Scandinavian airlines http://www.scandinavian.net/
Blue1 airlines http://www.blue1.com/
Viking line http://www.vikingline.fi/index.asp?lang=en
Finnish trains http://www.vr.fi/heo/eng/
Swedish trains http://www.sj.se/
Norwegian buses http://www.nbe.no/nbeweb/index.jsp?lang=en
I’ll just let that simmer for a while in my head before I start throwing money at booking all that lot. It’s not going to be cheap, some of that. But it’s going to be fun. Anyone crazy enough to join me? No, I thought not.
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Date: 2006-05-25 08:10 pm (UTC)It' be lovely if you could, even if just for a part. Tromsø has an airport, (SAS fly there) so maybe you could zoom in and join me there? *wonders*
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Date: 2006-05-28 10:02 pm (UTC)Meeting you at Thomsthingy would work; it should be one of the weekends with a couple of days round it but not including 5 July as I am going to Hampton Corst Flower Show.
When are you making bookings? *grin*
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Date: 2006-05-25 06:53 pm (UTC)I do like the absurdity of that travel plan, I really do.
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Date: 2006-05-25 08:15 pm (UTC)I've been looking more at timings and the like, and current top plan is to take the day ferry from Turku to Stockholm on the 4th July, so I'll be arriving early evening. So we can have dinner, and I can sleep in a corner at yours, and then I've got most of the next day in Stockholm, catching the 5pm night train to Kiruna (which takes seemingly forever to get there, but Sweden is *huge*).
It is absurd. Oh my, it's really going to happen isn't it? I'm really going to do this!
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Date: 2006-05-25 08:17 pm (UTC)What are the chances of you being there around that time? Or will you have disappeared off to the Taiwan of your dreams by then?
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Date: 2006-05-27 01:59 pm (UTC)But! You have to see Lofoten (Vesterålen). Narvik etc isn't as interesting. Lofoten is the most.... Words fail me..... You must see it. *bouncebounce*!!
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Date: 2006-05-25 08:19 pm (UTC)It does make me wonder why most people don't do things like this. Maybe I'm just strange.
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Date: 2006-05-26 02:25 am (UTC)Fancy meeting up for curry at some point, incidentally?
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Date: 2006-05-26 07:10 pm (UTC)Hi Mark, cross referencing from your comment on my lj. Yes please, I would love to try it as I am looking for another Violin, at the minute. Where's Arkady based? If I have a play on it, I can soon tell if the violin and me are suited!
Please let me know!
Abigail.X :)
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Date: 2006-05-26 07:50 pm (UTC)Anyway, how are you, sweetie? We keep failing to meet up. This is bad! We must do something about this. Take care! :)
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Date: 2006-06-06 09:26 pm (UTC)So, who are you? *mystified*
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Date: 2006-06-07 05:07 pm (UTC)Hope this takes off for you! Seeing Arkady tomorrow afternoon, and we'll see if this Fiddle and I click. Thanks for putting me im touch and catch up with you soon.
Lol, Abigail.X :)
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Date: 2006-06-08 07:56 pm (UTC)