Month: June 2022

Sorry about misspelling the name last post. I didn’t really know how to pronounce it, so that was the reason for the misspelling.

And, um, leaving off from the last post, the flight to Tromso went well, other than an accident of James’s backpack, and is having to get it the next day. That was fun.

So anyways, we left on a car and reached out Airbnb at ten PM. We just ended up eating spaghetti that night. Oh, if you didn’t know, Tromso is really north, and as a result the sun never set. You can see the issue of this if you have a window. So, word of advice, if you’re going somewhere north, bring something to keep the sun out of your eyes.

The next day, we checked out the a museum and were able to see bearded seals. Sorry about not being able to post those videos. We didn’t really do anything else.

The next day we checked a geology and biology museum. No pictures, so sorry. Later in the afternoon, Charlie ran a 2 1/2 mile race. He did it in 24 minutes and 59 seconds. His goal was under 25 minutes. We left in the morning for our plane flight to Bergen to stay with my Mom’s cousin Jorg.

We dropped off our bags in his car and explored around Bergen. We then just went to his house and just relaxed. The next day, Bergen has a great natural museum. It had so much different specimens. We spent a lot of time there. The next day it was a old ruin/museum that from the middle ages. I had a headache, so I sat out.

The next day we took a ferry to see some Fjords and go to our home for the night. We just walked around and visited the midsummer celebration there and hiked to see a waterfall. That was yesterday. We are currently just are on a 5-hour train to Oslo after one hour on one of the steepest rail only trains in the world.

We left off for Estonia by an overnight ferry over the Baltic sea. It was easily the biggest boat I have ever been on, and it had a LOT. And I mean it had a freaking shopping mall and a (small) arcade, not mentioning the breakfast buffet.

After reaching Estonia we dropped off our bags and walked around. If you didn’t know, Estonia and Finland are extreme Ukraine supporters. An example of this is some signs we saw looking around.

Estonia is also extremely introverted. When the lockdown happened, people were prepared because most Estonians had work-at-home jobs. Estonia also has their voting online. Before you ask, the only reason why they are doning that is because Estonia is the El Numero Uno in cyber-security. Not in only in Europe, but the ENTIRE WORLD!

Also, both Estonia and Finland were under Russian control for some time. Their languages are both similar and equally confusing to learn. The capital of Finland, Helsinki, is within radio distance of the capital of Estonia. This was during the time of the soviet occupation. So, a funny thing that happened was a erotic movie was going to be streamed on the the Helsinki radio. All of the adults put kids to bed early. Later, after 9 months, the birth rate skyrocketed for some reason.

Okay, so now onto to our trip, we took a free tour, which is where I found out all of those little facts, like how a tourist walked up to the current minister of foreign affairs and asked him if he could smoke there. We saw all of the landmarks. Afterwards we checked out dinner and went back to the hostel.

The next day, we went to a group of towers and just looked around. Overall it was a chill day. The next day, we had to get up early to catch our ferry to Helsinki. We did a free tour around the city, and saw all sorts of cool stuff.

Then today, we are flying over to Tromzone, Norway. We went on a short hour lone flight to a layover. It’s currently 1 PM over here, but the the next flight is taking off in 5:30, so we have nothing to do until then.

Traveling to Sweden

We left for Sweden at roughly 4:30 PM. The plane didn’t really set off until 5:30. That wasn’t an issue, as this was a plane with the built in back screens. The flight to a layover to Germany was 8 hours. James was the only one to get any sleep on that flight, and even then for only an hour. We layed over there for 3 hours, then took a 3 hour flight to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Me and Charlie just crashed almost immediately.

We then hiked over to our youth hostel:

Exploring Sweden

The next day we went the the Vasa Museum. We looked around and had fun. The Vasa is a ship who’s main body was almost perfectly intact from when it sank in the 17th century. It barely lasted 20 minutes before it sank. There was 13 recorded deaths, which could have been avoided if the ship was had even one more meter taller and one meter wider. Just that and it wouldn’t have sank when the FREAKING WIND pushed it over.

Afterwards, we went to the park nearby, and just explored. They had parks, a playground, and a zoo.

The next day is the where we took a ferry to one of the surrounding islands. We looked around the park located there. Then we took another ferry to an island 2 minutes away to check out the old military base nearby. We looked around there and went back to the hostel. Sorry, no photos.

The next day was the day we would leave, but we had some time until our overnight ferry to Estonia. So we went to the royal palace and looked around. They had gold leaf everywhere, so that was fun.

Afterwards, we went to the ferry and left for Estonia.