{"id":18143,"date":"2017-08-29T06:32:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=18143"},"modified":"2019-05-23T06:52:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T20:52:17","slug":"sweden-to-finland-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=18143","title":{"rendered":"Sweden \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea to Finland \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Travelled: 336 kilometres from Lansj\u00e4rv in Sweden to Oulu in Finland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited: Driving the E10 and Kalix (Sweden)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed: Stadium carpark in Oulu, free.  No services but close to the city. N65.01891, E25.46275<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pam has a wander about the picnic area in the morning and finds this piece of local artwork.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looks like a little rain as we drive today.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Continuing south we stop at Kalix for a leg stretch and lunch. We parked on the marina near the church, which was closed unfortunately.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pam meets an old friend in the park at Kalix.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We find a little Thai pop-up as we do and decide to take the risk. At SEK115 (\u20ac12 or A$18) it was pretty good for a take-away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael and Pam<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Travelled: 336 kilometres from Lansj\u00e4rv 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 We drive on through the rain to Oulu.  The ‘parking 4 night’ data-base shows a parking area near the sports stadium close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finland","8":"category-sweden","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18150,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions\/18150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}