Background: this timber-framed house is being moved 10km from Teg in Umeå to the village of Degernäs. The land it’s stood on for the last 106 years will be redeveloped for apartments.
The time and date of the move was kept secret, and I was asked not to share it. It generally makes life easier for the workers if these moves aren’t publicised in advance. I’m told they’ve moved more than 400 houses without a problem.
“So what did you do on the longest day of the year?”
“I stood beside the E4 with a camera.”
Undercover as a plane spotter.
Onto the old E4, towards Avion.
Passing Avion.
Wrong side of E4 towards the airport.
Onto the E4.
F—-in’ caravans.
Approaching the airport junction.
Off the E4 at the airport, and onto the E12 towards Holmsund. It’s a straight shot from here to Degernäs, the new home for this house. I leave the convoy at this point. Thanks for watching. Off home before sunset (23:14). /end
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Well hello #traintwitter. Nice feed you’ve got there. Be a shame if someone filled it with six days of Interrail adventures in search of… (hasthtag drumroll) #GroundLevelAalto 🇫🇮
The journey starts today. 🥳
#GroundLevelAalto is the Twitter story of the week-long field trip of a new summer course I’m delivering at Umeå University. It’s a 7.5ECTS course studying the work of Alvar, Aino Elissa Aalto in Finland. Over six days we visit six major buildings, and we travel at ground level.
The journey begins at the Port of Holmsund, and the Wasa Line ferry terminal. We sail with the new M/V Aurora Botnia, launched 2021.
Every journey starts with a single step. And then, maybe a bus. Since it’s one of the new EV buses rolling around #Umeå, I’ll be able to make it all the way to Copenhagen - 1,358km - without using fossil fuel. #NorrlandtoNorfolk
#Umeå Central Station, seen from Bangatan. All trains to/from Stockholm use platform 3, on this side of the station. There is no waiting room on this side, and trains generally don’t arrive more than five minutes before departure. 🥶 #NorrlandtoNorfolk
This being a Sunday morning, the buses are pretty infrequent. I am standing on this platform a bit earlier than I would normally like to. #NorrlandtoNorfolk
The journey to Zagreb and the #EAAE 2019 Congress begins with train 571, the 07:19 Umeå to Stockholm.
In somewhat surreal circumstances, I’ve just seen the woman sitting in front of me write a Facebook status update on her iPad saying that they are on the train travelling to Croatia for a week’s holiday. 😀
It takes just over six hours to get from Umeå to Stockholm. In addition to two slightly slower overnight trains with couchettes and sleeper carriages, we have three daily semi-high-speed trains along the Botniabanan, which opened in 2010.