2009-09-06
The Kingdom of Cheese

Sunday — Went with Christer by way of the Kingdom of Cheese (Burträsk) to his summer cabin, halfway to Umeå, where we met Hans and his mother and had a nice time, and afterwards picked lingon and blueberries in the woods and put them into a jar which we took with us to Russia; still had some when we got into our hostel room in St. Petersburg. Great munch, along with the Västerbotten cheese we got in Burträsk. That stuff is GOOD.

In the evening Christer took us to Umeå, dinner at McDonald's, for our overnight stay before catching the ferry to Vaasa, Finland. Taxi in Umeå to the ferry was horribly expensive, and the taxi in Vaasa from the ferry to the train station was very reasonable.