City Hotel Rovaniemi
Pekankatu 9 Rovaniemi, Lapland, 96200, Finland
Travel Blogs Nearby
At the Artic Circle with Santa Claus
... até entăo nosso ponto mais ao norte era a cidade de Elgin, na Escócia. Agora é Rovaniemi, na Finlândia e amanhă será Narvik, já na Noruega.
Isso somente se toda nossa peregrinaçăo der certo, pois sair de Rovaniemi e chegar a Narvik năo é das tarefas mais fáceis, amanhă contamos os detalhes...
Assim, embarcamos no Santa Claus Express e em 15 minutos estávamos na Santa Claus Village. Cruzamos Napapiiri (the Artic Circle), carimbamos os passaporte e... Pólo Norte!
...
Back to school
... but are very proud of their country and heritage. They are actually from a Lutheran heritage...which is where they base their emotions. They often have poker faces and do not make small talk. They listen intently and do not interupt. After a sentence they often pause to the think about what the other person said and then continue. They are direct and honest. It makes a lot of sense now that we learned about it. I have noticed that the boys are ...
Santa!
My last day in Finland started with a very traditional breakfast/lunch of reindeer with mashed potatoes and some sort of cranberry sauce. It was the best variety of reindeer I had the opportunity to try! Before I knew it, it was time to leave for Rovaniemi, and I was very sad to say goodbye to Suoma. On the way, we stopped to take pictures at the Swedish/Finnish border. We did the "one foot in each country" photo, but the best was ...
Rovaniemi: Crossing the Arctic Circle
... to give us a ride, so we jumped in. Before I even realized what was going on, I was sitting in a car, on the way to downtown. I am quite sure that this man did not plan to go to downtown, but he did not know how to say anything, and probably decided to take us right to the train station. We were deliriously happy because I cannot imagine walking there. Thanks God and that man we did not miss our train and as a happy end we had our dinner inside the train ...
Mikulásfalva, Arktikum
A szombat reggel nagy izgalomban telt. Még csütörtökön a taxiban az egyik lány, akivel megosztottuk a taxit a vasútállomásig, elkottyantotta, hogy biztos nekünk is a Mikulás a célunk. Emiatt Andris tudta, hogy megyünk hozzá és nagyon be volt sózva.
Rovaniemi vasútállomásától külön Santa's Express jár Mikulásfalvába, ami a várostól 8km-re van északkeletre. Én valami extra dologra számítottam, de kiderült, hogy az express egy sima busz, amire ráraktak pár ...



