Do like like it in Scandinavia?
By maximax8
@maximax8 (31042)
United Kingdom
September 7, 2008 10:01am CST
Do you like it in Scandinavia or is it too cold up there for you? The time to go is the summer when it gets long hours of sunshine and in the winter it gets short hours of sunshine and very cold weather. I worked as a children's nanny in Finland. The family had a lakeside cabin and a sauna. I got hot in the sauna then cooled off in the lake. In Sweden I really liked the architecture in Stockholm and took a train ride up past the Arctic Circle. In Norway I took an extremely picturesque train ride past fjords. I really enjoyed my time in Copenhagen but it rained a lot. I had a wonderful time.
Have you ever been to Finland, Sweden, Norway or Denmark?
Do you like it in Scandinavia?
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8 responses
@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
9 Jun 10
Yes, yes, and yes. Which is just as well, as I live in Norway :-) I've been to the other Scandinavian countries + Finland + Iceland + the Faroes and I liked all of them, but my favourite for friends/company is Finland and for landscape etc is Iceland. I'm going to Finland again in about a month, I was there visiting a friend in February but then there's an offer with SAS this summer. You only need half the number of bonus points to get a flight so I decided to go there in the summer for once, I haven't been there in the summer since 2003 when a friend of mine got married.
Some of my friends always complain about being cold. If I had liked warm summers and not too cold winters I think I would have moved somewhere else :)
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@greenline (14838)
• Canada
7 Sep 08
Hi Maxi. Nice to see you. I have been to Denmark and Norway. Yup , a bit cold. But, I was very much impressed with the natural beauties of the places, the fjords, seaports, the sea-view. You are a very lucky lady to have travelled to all the countries.
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
7 Sep 08
Hello Green Line. It is lovely to see you my dear friend. I liked hardly ever seeing darkness in the summer but the weather got cold in September. I hiked up a mountain in Narvik and couldn't see anything but fog. Bergen was very pretty and the train ride past the fjords was amazing. I am glad that you enjoyed it in Scandinavia. Traveling is my top hobby.
@wolfie34 (26770)
• United Kingdom
7 Sep 08
I have never been to Scandinavia my friend, but actually on my list of places to go there Sweden sits! Along with New Zealand it is one of my top three places to visit. I have been told that Scandinavia is very very expensive. I think I would like to take one of those singles tours that they do, where everything is included and there is no single supplement and they arrange trips and tours for you as part of a group which would be ideal for someone who has never been there before.
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
7 Sep 08
I hope that you will go to Sweden next summer my friend Wolfie. I know what you mean about single supplements. I travel independently, that is buy a flight and get a single room when I get there. When I was in Sweden the hostel was about £12 when it would have been £5 in London and it was £13 in Oslo. These days few countries in Europe are cheap, in those days a room in Budapest was £2. Prices would be much higher now. I hope that you will go to New Zealand one day. I found it very beautiful and quite similar to Norway.
@mammamuh (582)
• Sweden
29 Jan 09
I live in the north of Sweden and have visited both Finland, Norway and Denmark several times.
I don't think it's that cold here - during the winter we get snow - but that's winter and about -5 -10 C mostly and that's not that cold. The summers can be a bit boring, but mostly it's warmer than 20C. The midnight sun is great!
Stockholm is a nice city esp. Skansen - I do like Gothenburg more.
Copenhagen is nice as well.
Feel free to ask!
@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
11 Jun 10
I live in Denmark and I have visited Sweden, Norway and Finland. Some years ago my ex-boyfriend and I sailed from Hanstholm in Denmark to Bergen in Norway, and I think Norway is very beautiful. I have never been to the nothern part of Norway, but I would love to visit other parts of Norway in the future. Five years ago I visited Stockholm, and I also found that very beautiful. I have visited other parts of Sweden as well. My ex-boyfriend and I once sailed from Stockholm to Helsinki. We didn't have a lot of time in Helsinki, but we managed to visit some of the famous places. Unfortuneately the weather was really cold and wet.
@mipen2006 (5528)
• Australia
8 Sep 08
Ahh, Copenhagen, Tivoli Garden, beautiful girls. STOP! More great memories, but I'm happily married now.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
8 Sep 08
I guess it can be cold, but it's a wonderful area to visit. For some reason I don't think I visited Finland. But I enjoyed Denmark, Sweden and Norway - maybe I did stop in Finland but I can't remember. I was a bit too young anyways so my memory might be wrong.
I went back to Sweden later to visit some friends and enjoyed it quite a lot.







