To the North and then South

We left Ostersund in pouring rain and that was all there was to say about the next few days, rain and more rain and quite cold, to be expected though. What wasn't expected was some stupid football tournament at Pitea, after a 400 mile plus day there was no room at any of the Inns for us so we had to ride another 60 miles North to find a hotel. Expensive and also full of kids, somedays you can't get a break. By now we were in Lapland and we were lucky enough to see a herd of reindeer, luckily despite all the warnings nothing else of note.

At the Arctic Circle we had a cuppa and bumped into a Scotsman in a van going fishing up north.

Then the run South, we stayed that night in a posh cabin next to a Ice Museum which was cool, in fact we paid to get in to see how cold you can get! 

The rain eventually stopped as we rode South and it actually got warm, Finland was nice but not as spectacular as Norway and Sweden but very slightly less expensive.

Another two stays and eventually we caught the ferry from Helsinki to Tallin in Estonia. Helsinki felt strange to us, traffic lights every hundred yards for miles.

Today we had a day off in Tallinn, the old town is nice but full off tourists. I'm never Happy, either pissing of rain and quiet roads of Sunny and busy, I think we prefer the former.

It's been pretty full on hence the scant update,  I will put together a proper story when we get back, in the meantime some photos and back on the road tomorrow 😀 

Roadside eating

And again

reindeer 

Wondering where to go

time to head south now 

Nice Cabin on the Baltic

Ice display 

another meal stop

Finland, typical scene

funny

On the ferry

And again