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August 7Leaving from Kuusamo driving with Laura and her father to Rovaniemi where I will start my HH journey to the north. I woke up pretty well in the morning in Kuusamo and prepared do some more stuff on the net and then with Laura I went to the Lidl to get some more grocery for the journey either for camping and for expensive Norway where I will try to spend as least possible. Laura's father had also prepare to give me a plastic blanket to eventually cover my new tent in case of rain to be…

I had nothing planned when I landed in Helsinki, so I started to take trains and travel the most I could. I went from Helsinki to Porvoo, later to Turku, and then to Tampere. I returned to Helsinki to take a flight to Rovaniemi to explore the North Pole just for a few days. Great experience in a very chilly place but with the most incredible people I had ever met. Finnish are a very hospitable people.

9:00 amMeh. This midnight sun thing sucks. The sun was out at midnight, and 2, and 4, and now....ugh. Didn't sleep a wink. Yesterday we went to the Arctic Circle, Santa Park, and a great restaurant called Rosso. Yes, Santa Park and Santa's Village were kind of hokey (for a group of adults), but it was still fun and charming. They had a little dancing elf show, some fun kiddie things to do, and an ice bar. It made us feel like we were little kids again, until of course we went to the ice bar a…

After a 2 1/2 flight from Amsterdam we arrived in Rovaniemi, Finland. After unpacking we went to the famous Santa Clause village just outside Rovaniemi. Rest of the evening and night in Rovaniemi experiencing the first 0.00 with the sun still shining.

no time to write a proper blog (free internet at the library's nearly run out!) but here's where me and the girls have been since Lillehammer...Trondheim (Norway)Mo i RanaBodo (where we said bye to Elisabeth)FauskeNarvikBoden (Sweden)Rovaniemi (Finland)Currently we are in Rovaniemi, the home of Santa Claus and the capital of Lapland. Everything here has some tentative association with the jolly fat man (we stayed at Rudolph hostel?!) but we haven't been able to do much here cos it's been rain…

Vanaf een uur of half acht werd er langzaamaan opgestaan. Ja het leven van een vakantieganger is geen leven van lang uitslapen, dat doen we wel weer als we thuis zijn. Een uurtje later zaten we in de ontbijtzaal en ook dit keer lieten we ons het ontbijt goed smaken.   Rond 9.30 uur gingen we op pad naar het Arktikum. Dit is een museum hier in Rovaniemi waar van alles over de omgeving, zowel mens als dier, wordt uitgelegd. Het is vandaag een feestdag (langste dag) dus er was nog maar he…

Cardiff to Lapland and back via Estonia. Wales won 2-0!

We left at 9:30 am. Here in Finland there are a lot of mosquitoes! I have never seen so many. We went to Rovaniemi to see Santa Claus. This was not really the time for it. There was a Santa Claus village, but it was too commercial for us and so little people, not cosy at all. The Santa Claus Park will open in November, so we couldn't go there too. We went to take a walk nearby the Santa Claus Park and had a nice view over the city.

Setting off from Hong Kong in Aug 1992, 2 days after turning 22, I traveled China, Mongolia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, returning to Hong Kong in July 1993. Apart from Athens/Cairo, I never set foot on an airplane during this year-long walkabout. Before the days of digital cameras, internet, and mobile phones, this solo adventure was as much a discovery of myself as it was about these 31 countries. Many of them, like me, have long since changed.

La primera de las excursiones llega,  hemos ido a una granja de renos en moto de nieve, la experiencia esta muy bien, la conduccion es muy simple, aunque llendo de paquete la moto culea un poco, es mejor ir cada uno en su propia moto (tambien es mas caro)Al llegar a la granja nos han ofrecido un zumo caliente de bayas (o gomy-bayas como las llamamos nosotros), era dulce y estaba muy rico, ademas te hacia entrar en calor, luego nos han metido en la tipica cabaña lapona, con un fuego en e…

A year long road trip driving from Sydney to Southampton in a BMW X5 checking out progress on the Asian Highway Project and visiting 100 world heritage sites along the way