Air strikes mean that many people have to find alternative travel solutions. When Evgenia Myreng heard that her sister’s plane had been canceled, she got in the car and drove 1830 kilometers down to Gardermoen.
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–– It took me five minutes before I decided to do it, she says to VG.
Evgenia Myreng, who is one of many Norwegians affected SAS’ pilot strike, should not let a canceled flight stop her from finally reuniting with her sister – after two years of pandemic.
– I’m a little tired, but that’s how it is. You just do it, says Myreng.
After the working day was over Monday afternoon, she got in the car and started the drive to Gardermoen. The trip takes less than a day and crosses the borders of both Sweden and Finland.
4100 kilometers long journey
Sister Yuliya Shiri and her son had fled all the way from Israel. Only the last flight from Gardermoen to Kirkenes was affected by the strike.
– It’s boring when you live so far north. You want to meet your relatives, says Myreng.
Further from Kirkenes, the plan was to drive a little over three hours to Båtsfjord.
Instead, the family was forced to drive all the way from Gardermoen to Båtsfjord, just north of the Varanger Peninsula. In total, Myvoll and his daughter Kataryna Marchenk drive 4100 kilometers to be reunited with their relatives.
–Yulia Shiri says the strike put them in a difficult situation.
– I saw it as a great opportunity to drive through Scandinavia and see places I otherwise would not have seen, she says.
Myreng says that this is not the first time she has sat in the car and driven across national borders.
When the war broke out in Ukraine in April, she and her husband drove from Båtsfjord to Ukraine to pick up their parents.
From Northern Norway to Ukraine
– Then it was four days of driving before we arrived with them. We picked up and picked up a random relative on the way back from Ukraine, she says.
The case was first mentioned by iFinmark.
Back from Gardermoen, they started driving at half past five on Wednesday morning.
According to the plan, they were to be back in Båtsfjord at seven on Thursday morning.
– They have seen a lot of the Nordics, but I hope they get to fly home, laughs Myreng.
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