Another point to Sweden: the lovely light fresh bread I bought at lunchtime yesterday was still lovely and light and fresh at lunchtime today, which is more than I can say for the slice of bread I ended up borrowing from breakfast. I have double windows here, the inner one opens, the outer doesn't. It's a fridge for my cheese! And very nice the cheese was with my assorted breads. Two more points in Sweden's favour: 1) The town of Gällivare, the last big town be...

I got up early and had breakfast and finished packing.I went down to the town centre to get the Flybussen. It wasn't due for another half hour, so I went down to the harbour for a bit before coming back to the bus stop to find it populated by men who'd been fishing and sounded like they were from Somerset.I got to the airport, checked in with the machine, scanned my own passport and took my bag over to be handed in. The man behind the desk decided I was Norwegian...

Today I had my breakfast in the restaurant next door (because that's where this hotel serves its breakfasts), came back up to my bed for another hour or two and then went out into Tromso. It was very damp and quite cold. Last night I saw a Eurospar supermarket just down the road so today I went in there. They have cheddar cheese! Cathedral City cheddar cheese!I went down to the TIC where I was told that the last bus from the cable car definitely leaves at 00:15.I...

I sat with the bus timetable for quite a long time, debating what time to go up the mountain.I eventually settled on the 22.22 and went down to the main square to wait for it. Despite everthing I'd been told, the bus driver does not sell cable car tickets. We had a quick five minute hop over the bridge, then a quick trip around the houses on the other side and the driver stopped at the cable car and I jumped off.The first problem was figuring out how to get in. I...

Today I set my alarm for 7am, with the intention of finishing packing the little bits and having breakfast before being on the bus at 8.15. I packed. I read my book for a while. At 7.30 on the dot I went downstairs only to find the breakfast room locked. I looked at the signs and discovered that on Sunday, breakfast doesn't start until 8am. I can't eat, get my stuff and be outside on the bus in the space of fifteen minutes. No breakfast for me today :(I got the b...