Sweden 🇸🇪 to Finland 🇫🇮 2017 – Michael and Pam's Travels

Travelled: 336 kilometres from Lansjärv in Sweden to Oulu in Finland.

Visited: Driving the E10 and Kalix (Sweden)

Stayed: Stadium carpark in Oulu, free. No services but close to the city. N65.01891, E25.46275

Pam has a wander about the picnic area in the morning and finds this piece of local artwork.

Well the fishermen were right, it was a good spot for the night. There is also a service point so we do what’s necessary before we hit the road.

Looks like a little rain as we drive today.

30 minutes later we stop at the arctic circle sign and have a photo taken. So that’s it, we have done the arctic circle.

Boy there are a lot of speed cameras on this road. I don’t know if I have ever seen so many. Every change of speed limit seems to have a camera next to it.

Continuing south we stop at Kalix for a leg stretch and lunch. We parked on the marina near the church, which was closed unfortunately.

Pam meets an old friend in the park at Kalix.

As we walk up town the weather closes in and its starts to drizzle. So we do a quick shop and start our way back.

We find a little Thai pop-up as we do and decide to take the risk. At SEK115 (€12 or A$18) it was pretty good for a take-away.

As we continue south the weather only gets worse. Crossing the frontier from Sweden into Finland the rain is steady. We look at each other and have a chuckle, Finland a new country very exiting.

We drive on through the rain to Oulu. The ‘parking 4 night’ data-base shows a parking area near the sports stadium close to the centrum. Its a nice free parking spot, so we settle in for the night.

Michael and Pam

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