Rovaniemi Travel Blogs

My Easter was so different that what I'm used to. It is a time when we remember how Jesus was crucified and then how in the third day he rose again. Well, of course I remembered that one also, but my journey was more like Christmas- trip than Easter-trip. Last friday I started my journey to norther…

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 eithe…

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 …

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 San…

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…

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 w…

Best shot around the world

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 …

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.

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