Lets go back to the planning for this trip, Estonia wasn't on the radar at all. It was only when we started looking at 'things to do in Helsinki' that we worked out one of the most popular excursions from Helsinki is in fact Tallinn….and I can see why. Tallinn is only a 2 hour car ferry ride across the Gulf of Finland for the grand total of about 20 Aussie dollars each. A couple of Euro in a cab and you are in the heart of the old town. Being honest we co...

After almost 4 weeks on the road, understandably, a bit of travel fatigue is setting in so we are doing a few different things in Helsinki to recharge the batteries a bit. That's very easy as Finland is very different from where we have been. And you can start to understand why Finland is often excluded from the definition of 'Scandinavia'. The first obvious difference is language. Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are all, after some practice, understandable a...

Swedish trains strike again. We made an extra stop on the Oslo-Stockholm train to pick up passengers from a broken down service in front of us…..So with the train packed to the rafters, people sitting on bags in the aisles, we went twos stops and broke down ourselves……..2 hours of sitting in the middle of nowhere waiting for a third (and fourth) train to come through and get us. Makes us wish for the reliability of the Vietnamese train system from earlier...

Our arrival in Copenhagen was delayed by an hour due to a train fault with a bonus time in Malmo train station. Sadly as it was pouring we couldn't do any exploring. The rain kept coming as we arrived in Copenhagen but by the time we arrived at our apartment and went back out we were treated to a sunset, one we could see, even if it was 3:30pm…. We spent the afternoon walking around and getting our bearings and finding a supermarket for supplies for dinner ...

It may have waited until 9:13 but the sun rose this morning to a clear blue sky, just minutes before we crossed the border out of Norway into Sweden. Our first sunny day of the trip so far. We all put sun glasses on. Even the temperature is improving as we started at 0 degrees with a promise of 5 degrees, that's +5, today. To change things around we took a bus from Oslo to Gotenborg (Gothenburg) for a one night stop on the way to Copenhagen. This morning Nor...