Our day started with breakfast in Sean and Emily's trendy Oslonian apartment which involved using a cheese slicer - one of Norway's best inventions! We also had freshly brewed filter coffee Norwegian style thanks to Sean. Emily had to go to work so we said goodbyes to her and got packed and ready to go. Kate had booked a 9 am appointment at a podiatrist nearby so she was the next to leave while Calvin and Tim loaded up the car. Sean, Calvin and Tim walked the 15 ...

With Tim (and my favourite pair of runners) now safely in tow, we could now attack our road-trip with a renewed energy. I won't tell him this but I had missed him dearly (he doesn’t read the blog so I am safe). We started the day planning the next few weeks in Scandinavia. Airbnb is certainly not immune to the region’s extortionate pricing but I back my eye for value. We then headed into Stockholm central and walked through Gamla Stan once more. This ...

Our next destination in Sweden was Stockholm. Tim, Kate's brother, was going to be arriving into Stockholm Arlanda Airport today to join the travels. There were a few issues in getting to the airport in time to pick Tim up at 1:30 pm. The first one was running out of internet on our phones. We had forgotten to top up our phone credit and the plan had expired at midnight which meant we had no way of contacting Tim. The second was that our Airbnb in Bålsta had...

Today we drove from Copenhagen to a small town called Habo, in Sweden (a halfway point to get to Stockholm). It was about a 4 hour drive, with a little bit of rain on the way. The first introduction to Sweden was the expensive 16 km Øresund Bridge which cost around $75 to drive on. We drove through forest and past deep red timber houses to reach the Habo area. Our accommodation was pretty cool! It was a timber stuga (like a detached granny flat) with a wood ...