{"id":23409,"date":"2017-10-04T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=23409"},"modified":"2018-09-04T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T22:05:09","slug":"kapstaden-till-kiruna-11-days-in-sweden-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/kapstaden-till-kiruna-11-days-in-sweden-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapstaden till Kiruna – 11 days in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"
4 – 15 October 2016<\/div>\n

This time last year a dream of mine came true – well, several dreams actually:\u00a0I made a musical pilgrimage beyond the Arctic Circle\u00a0(to a small mining town in Swedish Lapland) to watch my favourite band<\/a> perform in an airport hangar, after which I went to the other side of the country to watch another one of my favourite bands<\/a> play a small club show. Along the way\u00a0I slept aboard a decommissioned 747 and an old cruise ship, saw Scandinavia’s tallest church and Sweden’s second deepest lake,\u00a0stood beneath\u00a0the northern lights in Kiruna and ate wild blueberries\u00a0in Abisko, met some great people and a wild moose family and spent a small fortune on food and souvenirs.<\/p>\n

It’s taken me a year but over the next few posts I’ll be uploading some of the (8000!) photos I took during my trip, but first a little background on why I went…<\/p>\n

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A photo posted by Laura McCullagh (@laura.mcc_za)<\/a> on