After checking out from the hut, we headed over to the swimhall this morning as they have a heated indoor pool. The kids haven't been swimming in a while so we thought it would be nice. Unfortunately their definition of heated is not quite the same as mine - a bit chilly! Made me nostalgic for the good old virgin active pool. There was a big group of primary school children so we went in the diving pool which was, of course, a bit too deep to hold onto felix pro...

We packed up this morning - still takes a while - and were on the road by 10. First stop was Roros, an old copper mining town on the inner highlands. It was just under 2 hrs away. Completely different to anything we've seen so far but uniquely beautiful. The mine there ran from 1644 till 1977 when the company went bankrupt. The town itself is very utilitarian in appearance, prettily industrial in a very oldfashioned way. The houses are small and squat but painted...