{"id":20843,"date":"2018-04-03T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/?p=20843\/"},"modified":"2018-06-06T00:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T21:01:18","slug":"skynest-experience-northern-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tstories.gr\/en\/skynest-experience-northern-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyNest: My experience in Northern Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

If a trip to Lapland makes you think about a winter wonderland in the northern part of Finland, the hometown of Santa Claus,\u00a0 freezing cold and snow, you might not be entirely correct. There’s more than that actually. In reality, Lapland splits between four countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia \u2013 and offers a wide variety of experiences to its visitors.<\/p>\n

This year, I decided to visit the Scandinavian north, on a last-minute trip I combined with an exciting rail trip<\/a> <\/strong>to the Arctic. After doing some online research, I decided I would fly to Sweden, explore Stockholm and then, I would take the night train from Stockholm to Kiruna – the northern part of Sweden near the Arctic Circle. From there, I would take a flight back to Stockholm.<\/p>\n

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One of the reasons I decided to take this trip was in order to experience staying in one of those hotel rooms designed to look like capsules made entirely of glass!<\/p>\n

Kiruna<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

It was about noon when I arrived at the train station in Kiruna where a member of the SkyArk \u2013 SkyNest<\/strong><\/a> team, the innovative hotel I would spend the night at, was already there, waiting for my arrival. To begin with, he showed me around for a while to get an idea of the city \u2013 and a pretty good idea of the freezing cold, let me add.<\/p>\n

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The temperature was at \u201320 Celsius and the sun was shining when our walk began. “You’re lucky”, Cedric from France told me, “The sky is clear today so you will be able to see the Northern Lights tonight”. How could I be lucky when it was freezing cold and I couldn’t even bare taking off my gloves to take pictures, I thought to myself. At least it was sunny and that helped a lot.<\/p>\n

Kiruna is the northenmost town in Sweden where almost 90% of all iron in Europe is mined from. Being such a large mining town has its downsides though. In 2004, news broke that Kiruna’s city centre sitting atop of the largest iron ore mine was unstable, as cracks appeared around town. This meant that the city had to move! So, in 2014 the relocation of the city centre a few kilometers away, far from the mining site, finally began. Some of the town buildings were moved in their entity while others will be build again in the new location. For more info, check out this video<\/a><\/strong>. Awesome, right?<\/p>\n\n\t\t