There’s a reason people don’t visit Sweden and Norway in January. The temperature is perpetually subzero,
whether you’re measuring in Celsius, Fahrenheit, or Kelvin. And the sun is perpetually nonexistent: while
in May the sun rises at 4 am, in January the sun rises in May.
There’s a reason I visited Sweden and Norway in
January. At least, I assume there is. The PTSD has driven it from me, but it involved
a suggestion from my once-friends and never-again travelmates Alpana and Gagan. They figured that two weeks in the dark and
frigid reaches of Scandinavia would make their decision to live in Cincinnati
seem reasonable by comparison.
Just as high-altitude areas require alternative cooking instructions,
so do Scandinavian winters require a new approach to vacationing. For example, where you may be used to “going
outside” and “seeing things,” Sweden and Norway have other ideas.
