It is not often one gets the chance to have a 9 hour coach ride immediately followed by a 14 hour train journey and it be enjoyable! The day started at 6am, although the coach wasn’t scheduled to leave Tromsø till 7:30, after all, I needed my coffee and finding good coffee in Norway is problematic.
I would show a photo or two of the lakes and woods of Finland but we had rain, hail and thunder the entire 600 kilometres to Rovaniemi so there was not much to see really apart from rain-deer and the odd moose.
At Rovaniemi, after a ¾ hour break, I managed to get the sleeper to Turku in south west Finland that had a lovely old dinning car to compliment the modern sleepy carriages.
All in all a much better option than fighting the wind, rain, hills and mosquitoes on a bike. By the way, didn’t see a single cycle tourist on the way – except the two who also rode the coach south.
As for the weather, we’ve reached Oulu at the top of the Baltic and it still raining
Hopefully tomorrow will be different.
