August 20 - Very short 2 mile hike to Nikkaloukta on wide, flat walk through scrubby birch forest with mushrooms of all sizes and colors.

We reached Nikkaloukta at 8am with 4 hours to wait for our bus ride back to Kiruna. Fortunately, the trail ends right at a restaurant that opens at 8am so we snacked on their buffet for 3 hours. Fruit, rolls, bread, granola, cheese, salami, berry jams, hard boiled eggs, juice, coffee, yogurt.

The last hour, we walked up s small hill to see a church and a police helicopter just happened to be taking off below us to head up into the mountains. Of course, there's no rain now so we could see the mountain range.

Bus ride was 90 uneventful minutes on a very comfortable bus with wifi. We walked to the 'Yellowhouse' hostel where we'll stay 2 nights. It's old, inexpensive, and just a comfortable place to rest.

We found a small restaurant called Pub Eden where we had a dinner of reindeer carpaccio (we had to look up what it was after we ordered it) and a sausage pizza. Both were very tasty.

Rest day tomorrow and then working our way over to Scotland.