Well, all you have to do is look at a map to know that northern Scandanavia is remote. Stockholm south is flat. Going north of Stockholm is hilly. One after the other -wasn't fun for me to ride (my plan had been to ride to the Arctic circle), so after a week I took the train back (which was hell because apparently they had changed the rules and no longer allowed bikes on the train, but there was no other way to get a bike south - don't know if the rules are the same). Finland was hilly, tho I only biked southern Finland.