The photo above is of Sorsele from summer 2019. Pictures below show the difference in winter.
FOOTBALL IN THE TIME OF CORONA
With all football coming to a halt on 13th March 2020 it was time to get away for a break before lockdown.
Below are the photos of a week in the North of Sweden. Spoiler alert - there is a lot of snow, there is not one decent photo of a football pitch. Many photos are taken from a bus or a train, so they are what they are, through cracked windscreens with additional reflections. Some of the squint ones may be straightened up later.
Maybe take one set at a time, particularly if the lockdown is getting you down. If you don't like snow photos, move on and look at something else, although you may enjoy the last set with photos of Dundee from the air. If you liked the Norway photos from last summer, I hope that you enjoy the Sweden photos from March.
FOOTBALL IN THE TIME OF CORONA
With all football coming to a halt on 13th March 2020 it was time to get away for a break before lockdown.
Below are the photos of a week in the North of Sweden. Spoiler alert - there is a lot of snow, there is not one decent photo of a football pitch. Many photos are taken from a bus or a train, so they are what they are, through cracked windscreens with additional reflections. Some of the squint ones may be straightened up later.
Maybe take one set at a time, particularly if the lockdown is getting you down. If you don't like snow photos, move on and look at something else, although you may enjoy the last set with photos of Dundee from the air. If you liked the Norway photos from last summer, I hope that you enjoy the Sweden photos from March.
Sunday 15th - Edinburgh to Arlanda, Stockholm Airport
Monday 16th - Umeå to Sorsele
Tuesday 17th - Sorsele and Storuman
Wednesday 18th 1st part - morning in Sorsele / early afternoon bus trip to Arvidsjaur and Gällivare (continued in 2nd part)
Wednesday 18th 2nd part - late afternoon on the bus from Kåbdalis to Jokkmokk and Gällivare
Thursday 19th 1st part - Gällivare then train trip to Björkliden (continued in 2nd part)
Thursday 19th 2nd part - train trip along the south shore of the Torneträsk to Björkliden
Friday 20th 1st part - Björkliden and the train trip back along the south shore of the Torneträsk (continued in 2nd part)
Friday 20th 2nd part - Torneträsk to Gällivare
Saturday 21st 1st part - Gällivare
Saturday 21st 2nd part - Train trip from Gällivare to Boden heading south
Sunday 22nd - From Uppsala to Arlanda (Stockholm Airport) and back to Edinburgh Includes flying over Dundee
Thanks to all the staff at River Hotel (Sorsele), Pensionat Augustin (Gällivare), Hotel Fjället (Björkliden), as well as the stores at Coop (Sorsele and Gällivare) and ICA (Storuman).
For travel thanks to SAS for flights, SJ (Swedish Railways) for trains, Ybuss and the Länstrafik of Västerbotten and Norrbotten for buses.
All bus information available on the railways site sj.se and also on tabussen.nu (Västerbotten) and ltnbd.se (Norrbotten).
PRONUNCIATION
How to say the Swedish towns mentioned :
Most of the Swedish towns in the slideshows are three syllables and have a "ONE two three" pattern similar to many in Scotland and England.
For example JEDburgh, LIVingston, STORNoway, ULLapool, BIRMingham, CHELTenham, EXeter, HUDDersfield all stress the first syllable,
(but there are many like AberDEEN, BlairGOWrie, DunFERMLine, GalaSHIELS. KilMARNock, BirkenHEAD, SouthAMPton where the stress is not on the first sound).
To get the " ø " sound below, say the word "the", take off the "th" to leave the sound of the "e" in the word to make the " ø " sound
So some of the British towns when spoken quickly could sound like JED bø rø, STORN ø way, ULL ø pool, EX ø tør.
The letter J in Swedish is pronounced as the "y" in our word "yoghurt" so the Swedish " jogurt " is almost the same. Another "y" sound happens when you get G + ä as in the word " gäll " which is pronounced like our word " yell ". The word " gäll " means "loud" so presumably it is linked with English as you don't get a quiet yell - all yells are loud.
In order of appearance :
Arlanda AR land a
Umeå OO may aw
Lycksele LIX ø lø
Sorsele SORSH ø lø
Storuman STOOR oo man
Arvidsjaur AR vids yowr
Jokkmokk YOK mok
Gällivare YELL ee var ø
Kiruna KEE roo na
Torneträsk TORN ø tresk
Björkliden Byørk LEED øn
OUT AND ABOUT WHEN THERE IS NO FOOTBALL :
Thanks to all the staff at River Hotel (Sorsele), Pensionat Augustin (Gällivare), Hotel Fjället (Björkliden), as well as the stores at Coop (Sorsele and Gällivare) and ICA (Storuman).
For travel thanks to SAS for flights, SJ (Swedish Railways) for trains, Ybuss and the Länstrafik of Västerbotten and Norrbotten for buses.
All bus information available on the railways site sj.se and also on tabussen.nu (Västerbotten) and ltnbd.se (Norrbotten).
PRONUNCIATION
How to say the Swedish towns mentioned :
Most of the Swedish towns in the slideshows are three syllables and have a "ONE two three" pattern similar to many in Scotland and England.
For example JEDburgh, LIVingston, STORNoway, ULLapool, BIRMingham, CHELTenham, EXeter, HUDDersfield all stress the first syllable,
(but there are many like AberDEEN, BlairGOWrie, DunFERMLine, GalaSHIELS. KilMARNock, BirkenHEAD, SouthAMPton where the stress is not on the first sound).
To get the " ø " sound below, say the word "the", take off the "th" to leave the sound of the "e" in the word to make the " ø " sound
So some of the British towns when spoken quickly could sound like JED bø rø, STORN ø way, ULL ø pool, EX ø tør.
The letter J in Swedish is pronounced as the "y" in our word "yoghurt" so the Swedish " jogurt " is almost the same. Another "y" sound happens when you get G + ä as in the word " gäll " which is pronounced like our word " yell ". The word " gäll " means "loud" so presumably it is linked with English as you don't get a quiet yell - all yells are loud.
In order of appearance :
Arlanda AR land a
Umeå OO may aw
Lycksele LIX ø lø
Sorsele SORSH ø lø
Storuman STOOR oo man
Arvidsjaur AR vids yowr
Jokkmokk YOK mok
Gällivare YELL ee var ø
Kiruna KEE roo na
Torneträsk TORN ø tresk
Björkliden Byørk LEED øn
OUT AND ABOUT WHEN THERE IS NO FOOTBALL :
Above : Near Auchterhouse
Above : Rosemill to Dronley (late afternoon in winter)
Above : Auchterhouse Moor and Hill
Above : Clatto sunset on the longest day
Above : Magdalen Green, City Centre, Riverside (February)
Above : Auchterhouse, near Newtyle, Lundie Craigs
Above : Dronley, West Mains
Above : Clatto at sunset
Above : Law Hill (December)
Above : Riverside sunset December (short)
Above : Monifieth (late afternoon, December)
Above : Clatto, Templeton, Rosemill, Bridgefoot
Above : Stannergate sunset walk to Broughty Ferry (January)
Above : Templeton, Dronley (September)
Above : Clatto, Birkhill, Dronley, Rosemill, Bridgefoot (October)
Above : Auchterhouse Moor, Craigowl (October)
Above : City Centre and Riverside (October)
Above : Clatto on a cloudy day (October)
A long walk in late October
Above : Autumn colours to Clatto, Birkhill
Below : - With some flooding on the roads - Dronley, Rosemill
Above : Autumn colours to Clatto, Birkhill
Below : - With some flooding on the roads - Dronley, Rosemill
Above : Broughty Ferry (October)
Below : Bridgefoot, Rosemill, Leoch, Dronley Wood (5th November)
Below : Bridgefoot, Rosemill, Leoch, Dronley Wood (5th November)
Below : Clatto in autumn sun (November)