This is the last post in this series about the trip to Norrbotten featuring a few more words about what I found out there.
Everybody has a sauna in the north
Nearby the cottage we used, right on the shore of a lake, there is a little sauna. It has two small rooms, one being a shower and the other the sauna itself. At this time is a bit decayed, but I was told it was really nice to go and bathe in the lake and then spend some time inside in the heat. Add a beer, take away the plunging into the lake and I’m in. In the sauna.
Wild life keeps quiet
I heard there are now much more bears than they used to be in these areas, but we saw none. I was also a bit disappointed for not seeing any moose as in the trip to Dalarna, but one took a crap right next to the cottage during one night, probably in disgust after he sniffed the surströmming leftovers.
I got however “satisfied” by a few reindeers on the road to the polar circle (this was not supposed to sound the way it did) and I found out that the name for the polar circle in Sami is Napapiiri.
Fika meets blueberries
A common way of spending time and chatting is by organizing a fika, which means coffee accompanied by cookies. Very often the cookies are chunks of blueberry pie and you can see everybody walking around with blue lips, due to high blueberries consumption.
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