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Rovaniemi Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Rovaniemi, Finland
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The Arctic Circle
... the Arctic Circle was notable as we passed by Santa's village. Despite what you may have heard, Santa actually lives just outside Rovaniemi, right on the Arctic Circle, and welcomes hordes of visitors (and their Euros) to his workshop, elf school, gift ...
Lapland: Santas Home!
... red berrys of some sort. It was AMAZING! Even if it did keep me, Kt, up all night with indigestion! Our final day in Rovaniemi we had a slight mishap with the clocks going back, meaning that we were rather early for our trip to the husky sledging! The ...
El día en que abandoné mi sociopatía. Especial...
JYVASKYLA-ROVANIEMI (6 de junio de 2010) No se como describir el día de ayer. Hasta Rovaniemi todo trascurrió con normalidad. Desayuné en el hostel de Jyvaskyla, hice el equipaje y encaminé las ruedas de mi moto hacia la famosa población de ...
Zen and the Art of Education
... a physical one by motorcycle across the western United States, and a mental one through philosophy and metaphysics. I brought it with me to Finland last year along with a few other "comfort books", with the vague notion I might want to reread it at some ...
rainbow flatwarming and line dancing
mmm just got back from haruno's, our favourite pizza place in rovaniemi. it is really expensive to eat out here (except for the super cheap cafeteria lunches at school), and not many options anyway (two Chinese restaurants but no sushi or Indian). but at ...
Sami see, Sami do
Today we were still in Rovaniemi and decided to hit the local museum called the Arktikum. The museum is primarily underground apart from a class tubing that runs along the top, above ground, for about 200 meters. It looks fairly spectacular from the road, ...
Rovaniemi - Capital of Lappland as departure
August 7 Leaving 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 ...
Cheap as Chips
... we have come across herds of them fairly frequently alongside most of the 'A' roads we have been driving on. Once we arrived in Rovaniemi we dropped the packs off into a day locker in the railway station and drove the car back into the centre of town. ...
This time, for real...
So I've completely changed my thesis topic. It is definitely a good thing in the long run, but a little scary/stressful too. I have a lot of work to do. Although I know that I have come a long way, the fact that I just wrote my second one page ...
yo check it out - SO HILARIOUS!!
ok this is required listening for all your edmontonians, check out this song "oliver square" by local rapper cadence weapon, that my friend harry sent to me last night. seriously one of the funniest things i have heard, ever!!! the whole song is about ...
Hello Santa
After a pretty good breakfast in our Hotel, we walked down to the bus station to catch the bus to Santa's Village. It was only 8km away, but the main attraction, besides being where Santa hangs out, is that it is right on the Arctic circle. Megan and ...
Tis cold up north...
... into the non-staffed Hostel Rudolph down the road. We checked in and paid up then headed the 10 minute walk to the outskirts of Rovaniemi where we located the hostel. The rooms were nice, we were in two adjacent twin rooms, with TV and en-suite, so ...
Märkko Alsopinen in Finland
After breakfast we headed off from our last night in Norway, with our destination being Rovaniemi in Finland. We saw a lot more Reindeer today, and Stu the vet made a good attempt to catch one but had no luck. We drove past more coastal scenery today, ...
Ranua Zoo
... etc were all lovely. I took far too many photos. We made it around by 14:50, in time for the next bus back to Rovaniemi, and once it was already getting quite dark. It was a fascinating ride back, as school must have just finished for the day because ...
the king of bread
a couple of random things that are just too excellent to not share... 1. this video. the most perfectly finnish disco i can imagine. seriously watch it, it will make even the darkest day a little brighter. 2. yesterday, i met the king of ...
buddhist monks in lapland
... . what we definitely weren't expecting was a beautiful young woman dressed in traditional sami (the indigenous people of northern finland) clothing - a full white dress with elaborate bright red and blue embroidery, a woven red, blue and silver shawl, ...
Rovaniemi
KOTONA TAAS! Kiva oli reissu ja kiva oli tulla kotiin. Kasperi tienasi sen päävoiton eli noin miljoonan rupian arvoiseksi tingatun Flash MP5 Playerin! (ks. Hong Kong entry) Hassua muuten, että Helsingin lentokentän nettikahvilassa nopeasti ...
Op visite bij de kerstman
... grens van de pool cirkel kunt staan. Maar dat kan ook op zat andere plekken. De rest van de dag hebben we rustig rondgelopen in Rovaniemi zelf. Morgen gaan we een dagje naar de Ranua zoo in (je raad het al) Ranua. ...
Lapland
I have always had a wish to visit Santa in Lapland and over Christmas and New Year, this was to finally come true! We started to plan this trip over two years ago, well before we knew that we would be leaving for New Zealand. In fact, when we ...
Bowling in a winter wonderland
... many many, many gutter balls. Before bowling, I went for a walk in ounasvaara, the large natural area in the middle of Rovaniemi, with Sanna and Siru, two of my finnish friends. It has been truly truly winter here for a few weeks now, and yesterday ...
Gearing up
... , Moscow) already familiar enough for me, I'm going to cheat a little and start my journey by flying from Rovaniemi to Saint Petersburg via Helsinki. In Saint Petersburg I have around four hours to get from the airport to the train station ...
the most important thing i've done for a while
after reading the article on CBC's homepage this evening, I wrote this letter to good old steve. I hope that maybe this will inspire a few other fellow canadians to do the same. this is too important for us to let slide. From: Lisa Cockburn Date: ...
Santa Claus is staying in town
... is staying in town We had another early start today, (I really need to speak to my travel agent), as we were flying to Rovaniemi, in the north of Finland, and the capital of Lapland. Fee and I each had a reason for heading so far north. For me it was ...
The REAL Father Christmas!
On Saturday (9th April) we took a trip to Santa's Village near Rovaniemi. The place itself was a little disappointing (but we had been warned), it was mainly just gifty shops, which were nice to wander around, and of course we purchased a few little ...
Ohi on
Aika näköjään kultaa muistot jo lyhyessä ajassa, sillä minnepä muuallekaan lähdin viettämään lomaa kuin Ranskaan. Helmikuun viimeinen viikko kului Ranskan Alpeilla enemmän ja vähemmän hiihtolomalla. Enimmäkseen kylläkin vähemmän, sillä ...
Arrival at the Arctic Circle!
... moment as we touch down in Rovaniemi airport and step outside- time for the thermals!! There is snow piled high and because Rovaniemi is the capital of Finnish Lapland, and because Lapland is the home to Santa Claus; signs of the happy chappy are all ...
Welcome to the Arctic
... on all night, and the train kept stopping to pick people up, but other than that we got a few hours sleep. We arrived in Rovaniemi at 7:30am, and it was still pitch black outside. Nothing was open at the station so we could not get a town map, but ...
Mitä valtion virkamies tekee lomalla Suomessa?
No luonnollisesti sairastaa. Kauan (peräti 5 viikkoa) odotettu loma on nyt sitten mennyt köhiessä. Lohtua on sentään tuonut yksi elämän perusasioista eli Sydämen asialla. Pääsin taas mukaan juonenkulkuun killittämällä ...