We had a good early start this morning as we had a 6.5 hour drive ahead of us to get from Stockholm to Oslo. We had lunch comprising 2 minute noodles for Kate and Tim and packet Barszcz for Calvin on the side of the road opposite a lake.  After about 4 hours, we made it to the Norwegian Border. We expected to be checked by passport control on entering the country however it was just an easy drive through with no officials in sight. The toll system in No...

With Tim (and my favourite pair of runners) now safely in tow, we could now attack our road-trip with a renewed energy. I won't tell him this but I had missed him dearly (he doesn’t read the blog so I am safe). We started the day planning the next few weeks in Scandinavia. Airbnb is certainly not immune to the region’s extortionate pricing but I back my eye for value. We then headed into Stockholm central and walked through Gamla Stan once more. This ...

Our next destination in Sweden was Stockholm. Tim, Kate's brother, was going to be arriving into Stockholm Arlanda Airport today to join the travels. There were a few issues in getting to the airport in time to pick Tim up at 1:30 pm. The first one was running out of internet on our phones. We had forgotten to top up our phone credit and the plan had expired at midnight which meant we had no way of contacting Tim. The second was that our Airbnb in Bålsta had...

Today we drove from Copenhagen to a small town called Habo, in Sweden (a halfway point to get to Stockholm). It was about a 4 hour drive, with a little bit of rain on the way. The first introduction to Sweden was the expensive 16 km Øresund Bridge which cost around $75 to drive on. We drove through forest and past deep red timber houses to reach the Habo area. Our accommodation was pretty cool! It was a timber stuga (like a detached granny flat) with a wood ...

The sun came out this morning in preparation for our reunion with Sanne, one of the other volunteers from the Safisha school in Kenya. We drove about an hour to get to her place in Karrebaeksminde - a cute coastal town that is usually packed with tourists in summer! Sanne and her boyfriend, Nicklas, prepared a yummy lunch - Danish tartelleters, pasta salad, rye bread with cheese and cold meats and cinnamon buns. It was delicious and so nice to catch up! After say...