The North

This is an ice road across a frozen lake (just like in the quality TV series Ice Road Truckers). Getting driven across did feel rather weird, even thought the swedes were totally used to it and relaxed. "Do you have these sorts of road in the UK?" they asked.
They are checked by the council highways department every day and have a 3 ton weight limit, 30km/h speed limit and you are meant to be 50m from the nearest car. (So less like Ice Road Truckers then).
This might sound a bit silly, but they are really icy and slippy - I fell over shortly after this photo while I was standing still. They are somehow more slippery thas other ice we've been on.
We went over another one which was a more main road - so they had built a central reservation out of ploughed snow and had really wide lanes in either direction (so you could have dual carriageway with each lane 50m apart!)