Full Arctic Circle

Eight hours and ten minutes is a long time with two kids on a train. But in the end we finally arrived in Sweden’s northernmost municipality steeped in winter glare. While only mid-April, the light is truly overwhelming.

There was a time when I used to commute along these tracks but now four full years have passed since my last visit to Kiruna. Yet, true to history, I will take the train back south to Umeå already tomorrow to teach a bit before flying off to the most distant of shores.