Well, it makes me feel less envious of Scandinavians, though in almost every other way it does seem like it would be a great place to live.
I was talking to a coworker who lived in Iceland for a year. In the middle of winter, daylight was the sun rolling along the horizon for a few hours. In the summer, they'd come out of the bars at 2 a.m. to bright shining sun. I don't think I would like either one.
Many years ago I spent a vacation hiking with a friend, way the hell up in northern Sweden, well above the polar circle.
It never got even remotely dark, on the contrary it was bright daylight around the clock.
I had expected it to be hard to fall asleep, but it wasn't. (I was 18, at that age people usually don't have any problems sleeping

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The really strange feeling came on the train back to southern Sweden, when it suddenly got dark again!
We hadn't had any darkness for 2 weeks, and all of a sudden it was totally dark outside the train windows! That was the strangest feeling!
