Christmas in Sweden

We have spent Christmas in Sweden against all odds. Some sort of travel misery is now to be considered a seasonal tradition. It was not the fog but rather some sort of snow chaos at Heathrow that did it this year. We were due to fly out with BA on the evening of the 22nd, so all day the 21st we kept an eye on the status of the five daily BA flights to Stockholm. Watching them all getting cancelled one after another. When the turn finally came to cancel our flight, we checked every available option in terms of flights and dates (within reason) to find an alternative way of getting to Sweden. Every airline was solidly booked out until the 27th at least. But then… one last check on the SAS website…. and all of a sudden a Stockholm ticket via Oslo (for the 22nd!) show up on the screen. It must have been either a miracle or a serious bug in their booking system as SAS had about 5,000 customers stranded in London waiting to get home. Anyway, we snapped that ticket as quick as lightning and managed to get to Sweden in time for Christmas.


Photo by M

It was -24oC at Arlanda when we touched down on Wednesday evening. We spent 3 nights in Stockholm with Ulrica’s family. Eating plenty of Christmas food and getting to see a large chunk of the extended family on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day we took the train trough a very wintery and white Sweden to see Magnus’ family at his sister’s in Gothenburg for 2 days. We also got to celebrate Magnus’s 40th birthday on Boxing Day.

We have a lot of very pretty and snowy photos from our Christmas trip to Arctic Sweden.


Photo by M

Photo by M