28 hours of sleepless transit got me from New York to Stockholm but left me tired and plague ridden. I got to break up my trip with a couple of hours in London, grabbed lunch with Maz and then hurried back to meet ChrisV at Heathrow.
After a brief and tearful reunion arrived in Stockholm and immediately began spending inordinate amounts of money. $20 on a 20 minute train ride, $20 total for 10 minutes in a taxi and $60 per night for a bunk in a 6 person dorm room.
I made the most of my bed emerging only twice in the next 48 hours to take advantage of the hostel's complimentary breakfast. Getting down to the basement rekindled traumatic memories from my last Europe trip, as I smashed my head on a door frame, a light fitting and a 5 foot ceiling all in the space of 5 minutes. Somewhat ironically it was Chris who suffered the first near-fatal head injury, impaling himself against the sharp wooden corner of his bed.
Our hiking plans commenced in Abisko, well inside the Arctic Circle and about 18 hours north of Stockholm by train. Alana and Lauren joined us a couple of hours into the trip and a significant amount of duty free alcohol, comfortable triple bunk beds and some interesting stories from Swedish swing dance camp made the journey pass quickly.
Next morning we gathered supplies, carefully removed the make-up and high-heels from Lauren's bag, donned matching "I <3 NY" tshirts and headed to the Kungsleden!
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Watching Wes bash his head into things will never get old. I just hope I'm still here at his home in Adelaide to watch him hit his head into the same light fitting that's been in the hallway of his house his entire life :)
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