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Norwegian ladies are a little more cold and lifeless than people think they are, and despite every effort, seem to have no interest in Aussie blokes at all.

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Huge train...

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The slow way to the north pole

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Somehow it isn't surprising that the other bloke in my sleeper cabin was another Aussie...  We're bloody everywhere. 

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Overlooking the township of Narvik

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The way Chris, one of my many whiskey drinking partners slept, vowing next time to invest in a sleeper cabin...  I doubt his neck will ever recover.

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Endless barren landscape above the arctic circle

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Our part of the world for 22 hours - you can get to Australia in that time from here...

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The only way to travel - asleep and free...

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Arctic Circle Solo Mission

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Upon being surprisingly given a free train ticket to anywhere in Scandinavia, I decided upon embarking on the 'Arctic Circle Challenge'.  Armed with 22 ham and cheese sandwiches and a big bottle of whiskey, I headed north from here on a 27 hour train journey on the 'Svenska Orientexpressen', arguably the best train in the world with full sleeper cabins, a cinema, bar and restaurant to the furthest north I could go, 'Narvik', about 350km north of the arctic circle...

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Stockholm, Sweden's capital...

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Busy Stockholm mall

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