Last night, I summarised Saturday in a short Facebook post from the hotel reception. The wifi doesn't reach as far as my room - I watch endless cycles of connected - obtaining IP address - disabled. Let's start from the beginning. I already knew there wasn't much to see or do in Kiruna. Town's built on a mine, not tourism. With a train in the afternoon, there wasn't going to be time for dogsledding or snowmobiling or meeting reindeer, even if those things were ...

I didn't really fancy getting up this morning, so the day started slowly. I put on the Yaktrax and instantly became a person who can walk on this lethal slippery stuff. I marched down to the main road and through the park right down to the big main road at the bottom of the hill, to the station. As I'd suspected, I'd fallen victim to the mine. Kiruna is a town built around a massive iron mine. Unfortunately, the mine is now eating the town and they're starting t...

I arrived at Gatwick at about midnight and was up for my flight at 4am. The back rows of the plane to Stockholm were empty so I had it to myself until people started to realise they could stretch out in the empty rows. At Stockholm, I checked that my luggage would sort itself out and then marched from Terminal 5 through to Terminal 4, went through security again, got food & drink in an unexpected WH Smith and went to my gate. Even though the flight was an ho...