Surprise Tromsø! There were reindeer to be raced, Emily's birthday to be celebrated, and annual leave carry-over to be used up, and that meant an unexpected third trip to the arctic before Emily was due to finish her year's contract out there. In addition to those flights, I also had Flight, a multi-sensory experience in a shipping container in Nottingham. On the 29 Feb I spend an evening with Samathy, Lex, and one of Samathy's friends at the board game café, which I think was the last time I met up with any friends or family.

( Tromsø 3: Weekend 1 (Reindeer racing) )
( Tromsø 3: the week (Trehørningen, reindeer, Åsfjellet, birthday cake) )
( Tromsø 3: Emily's arctic sea swim birthday )
( Tromsø 3: Weekend 2 (Aurorae at Nattmåls, and an escape room) )
( Darkfield's 'Flight' )

For a four-day weekend at the end of my trip to Norway, we left the country several times, in part thanks to running around Treriksrøysa several times, but also for a trip to Abisko and Kiruna in Sweden.

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( Friday - Treriksrøysa )
( Saturday - Rismålhøgda (Ringvassøya) and Trehørningen (Kvaløya) )
( Sunday - Abisko )
( Monday - Kiruna )

I spent ten days straddling January and February in one of Europe's most remote areas in northern Sweden, partly to attend Umeå University's Arctic Science course, which is a fantastic 6-week course with a 4-day in-situ component in the town of Kiruna. For the other six days I took the opportunity to have a short holiday!

( Staying in a condemned building )
( Abisko )
( The Ice Hotel )
( Feeding reindeer )
( We made an igloo! )
( I passed! )