Rovaniemi, Finland Travel Blogs

Rovaniemi
Dec 24, 2000 (8 photos)

Rovaniemi

Lapland: Santas Home!
Oct 22, 2009

... 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 sledging ...

Zen and the Art of Education
Oct 14, 2006

... 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 point, but ...

rainbow flatwarming and line dancing
Oct 16, 2006 (10 photos)

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
Sep 24, 2006

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
Aug 7, 2006 (5 photos)

... It arrive, packed the towel and get everything in the car to drive. My bag was more heavy with the tent and food. The drive to Rovaniemi was 193km which we did in about a little more than 2h arriving by the end of noon time. We went directly to Santa's ...

Cheap as Chips
Sep 26, 2006

... 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...
Oct 23, 2006

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 research ...

yo check it out - SO HILARIOUS!!
Oct 27, 2006 (1 photos)

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
Nov 15, 2006

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...
Sep 23, 2006 (1 photos)

... 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 living ...

Märkko Alsopinen in Finland
Jul 22, 2009 (8 photos)

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, then ...

Ranua Zoo
Nov 16, 2006

... 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 ...

the king of bread
Oct 2, 2006

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 bread. ...

buddhist monks in lapland
Oct 24, 2006

... . 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, a ...

Rovaniemi
Apr 15, 2009 (1 photos)

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 näpytelty teksti ...

Lapland
Jan 1, 2009 (45 photos)

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 first ...

Bowling in a winter wonderland
Nov 5, 2006 (8 photos)

... 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
Jan 14, 2009 (1 photos)

... , 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 ...

Rovaniemi
Jul 22, 2005 (17 photos)

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the most important thing i've done for a while
Oct 19, 2006

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
Oct 28, 2005 (3 photos)

... 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 to ...

The REAL Father Christmas!
Apr 11, 2005 (4 photos)

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 items. ...

Welcome to the Arctic
Nov 14, 2006

... 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?
Feb 12, 2009

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 hartaudella viime viikkoisen ...

living in now, now living
Nov 19, 2006

... . as much as this bridge may look like the high level, you are in northern finland, not edmonton, the church reminded me. europe, even if rovaniemi is missing the telltale old buildings and cobblestone streets, being a town resurrected from the ashes of ...

finland is...
Sep 30, 2006 (10 photos)

... the twisted way that life works, it felt like home. in many ways, life moves at a slower, calmer, more peaceful pace in rovaniemi than in other places i have lived. i notice that here there seems to be more time for things like long runs in the woods, ...

shades of happy
Dec 1, 2006

There it is raining on a late November afternoon, again, and it has been dark for hours even though you haven't even eaten dinner yet, and your friends are too busy with school to go with you so you are alone, and there may be some things in your life ...

Rovaniemi
Mar 29, 2009 (7 photos)

No niin! Reput saatiin pakattua ja punnittua. Kasperin reppu painaa vain 5,0kg ja Antin 6,6kg. Koska haluamme matkustaa kevyesti ja lentää pelkkien käsimatkatavaroiden kera (ilman ruumaan laitettavia kantamuksia), olemme yrittäneet jättää kaiken vähänkin ...

firesculpting!
Nov 10, 2006 (15 photos)

... had never heard of this particular art form, but oh how beautiful it is! perfectly suited to the cold dark winters of finland. the basic idea is that large sculptures and figures are created out of various flammable materials such as wood, rope, fabric, ...