Lots of vans came in to
park last night and many of them were visiting the attraction today.
Especially the one parked next to us with two crying children.......
So a little later than
normal start, but no facilities here so onward north. The quickest
and easiest route to Nordkapp is straight up through Finland; we've
been advised it's quicker easier and cheaper than dodging back into
Sweden so that's the way we'll go. The roads are now very quiet
although we've seen quite a lot of motorhomes, including the
inevitable French convoy. Apart from that the odd car and truck every
now and again. Scenery is again much of the same but the temperature
is soaring – we saw one sign saying 27 deg and it felt like it too
in the summer sunshine. We're warmer here, above the Arctic Circle,
than we were in Morocco!
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| Lots of trees and empty roads |
Lunch on a supermarket
carpark (we needed bread, plus the inevitable few other things) at Sodankyla followed by another refuel, then north
watching out for the reindeer, who roam free around here.
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| First the sign |
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| Then Rudolph |
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| Then the rest of the team |
Late afternoon we
looked for a stopover between Ivalo and Inari (we noticed that place
names now appear to be in two languages – Finnish & Lappi?) and
found yet another lakeside place amongst the trees; idyllic but
unfortunately the mozzies were out in force so get the repellant out.
And for the first time in a long long while we switched the air
conditioning on – in the Arctic for heavens sake!
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