I have arrived in the Czech Republic with my friend Dan for a few days of travel. We met out at Stansted airport yesterday & had a pretty uneventful 1.5 hour flight over to Brno. We were picked up at the airport by Radim, one of Dans friends, who took us to our hotel. We checked in & rested up for an hour before meeting back up with Radim to head out & sample the local food & beer. We were taken to a Czech pub for a traditional feed and quite a fe...

We're on the flight back to good ol' Londontown after an awesome week. Last night we went to a traditional Swedish restaurant for our last dinner in Stockholm. Jac went with salmon but I went something different with a slab of elk. So that means I have tried reindeer, moose & elk on this trip and I can now officially add them to God's tasty animal list. Could definitely live on them if I converted to Scandinavianism. Today we were up reasonably early for us a...

What an amazing couple of days. We woke early after a great rest, had a feed, then waited for our guide to pick us up. He arrived about 9.20am and it was still dark (& snowing) as we climbed aboard the mini van. After a bit of driving around Kiruna and collecting more people, we made our way about 20 miles into the wilderness. There we helped to unload the huskies and tie them onto a dedicated wire. Then for the next 20 mins we got to play with the dogs who l...

So much for an early start. Had the alarm set for 7.30am. Woke up, turned it off and then diced with the dangerous "we will just lie her for 5 more minutes". Of course next thing it is 9.30am. So up we get for breakfast & then off to the starting point to continue our sightseeing bus tour. At least no rain to start with although the snow started. We caught our bus & got off half way along to head into Skansen. Now Skanton is an open air museum with buildi...

Quite a while since I've done a blog but here we go. I will get a catch up in the next week of our goings on for the last 3 months but in the meantime, we're in Sweden. We had an almighty trip to get here that began at 4pm yesterday, & we walked into our hotel room at 3am this morning. Now a trip to Sweden just should not take that long. Just one of those travel experiences that happen from time to time, and this time, it was our turn. Delayed flight, huge li...