Our first day in Sweden! Our team arrived in Umea last night, by ferry from Vaasa (Finland).

A typical Swedesh Hotel?

Umea is the most northerly point we reach in continental Europe; only Reykjavik, Iceland is further north! So we were really surprised to find such nice weather here. Some people told us that the summer actually started today!

We had a meeting in the main square with the City Director of the Cultural Department.

A TV crew was there, too...

Umea is a candidate for the European Capital of Culture in 2014, so we got nice T-shirts and the chance to hit a special gong!

We spent the first day running all the way to Örnsköldsvik, home of the Swedish Ice Hockey Champion.

Life on the road...

We got a first taste of the endless Swedish roads through green forests. The next days will take us through the western part of Sweden: less people, but lots of nature.

Finally, we arrived in Örnsköldsvik. A meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, so we enjoyed our "freedom" and did some sightseeing today.

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Distance: 112km

Team Members:
Dipavajan Renner, Sandra Aurenhammer and Martin Prettenhofer (Austria), Anita Borics (Hungary), Roger Rogge and Matthias Eckerle (Germany), Sandro Zincarini (Italy), Ksenia and Daria Soboleva (Russian Fed.), Lenka Chobodicka (Slovakia)

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