Remote

While this trip doesn’t necessarily fall into the category of being extremely remote, it is nevertheless distant. Having said that, pretty much everywhere is distant from Australia?! So let’s start with the trip itself, and share where I’m traveling to. On the map above, the trip starts in Sweden with a key to the stops presented in the table below Destination More details about the ‘how’ Stockholm, Sweden (A) First stop, after some 23 hours flying time. Argh! Copenhagen, Denmark…

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This timeline started as a history of Scandinavia. Quite quickly I realised that I was far too optimistic to think that I would have the time and energy to translate the full and vibrant history of this part of the world into a blog post! It was taking me ages! And I wasn’t even at the end of the Viking era! So, I changed my plan and decided to make it a Viking History instead. This was a much better…

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The “why” I am asking here has two connotations: To start with the blog question, and to introduce this new Remote series… Even before I embarked on my trip to Svalbard and Greenland,  I had started the planning for this next one. I knew that we are currently in a period of exceptional solar flare activity which is ideal for viewing the northern.  And so, I felt some pressure to take advantage of this and venture back north. Catching a…

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