Sky Hotel Ounasvaara Rovaniemi

This is our frist of many night trains accross Europe.<br>We Leave Helsinki on the 9th and get into Rovaniemi very early on the 10th<br><br>We should have a fun packed Day in Rovaniemi. looking to do some arctic rally driving. and other male bonding activities.<br>

We started heading back down the coast through Finland. The scenery was very different to that in Norway and was much flatter. There really wasn't much up in this area just lots of trees around. In the afternoon we reached Rovaniemi which is the home of Santa and is also is where we crossed the Arctic Circle line again. I was looking forward to the home of ...

... Bukit Lawang viidakon reunassa ja ehkäpä myös paikat Pohjois-Sulawesilla ja Pohjois-Malukulla). Laskemme sen varaan, että niissä paikoissa, joissa tarvitaan, verkot ovat majapaikkojen puolesta jo valmiina. Ja varmuuden maksimoimiseksi aloitimme jo myös malarian estolääkityksen (Lariam). Muuten lääkevarastomme ovat totuttua pienemmät: lähinnä vähän troppeja päänsärkyyn ja mahavaivoihin sekä yksi siprofloksasiinikuuri pahan bakteeritaudin ...

... lass working didn't understand English and very very unhelpful, bear in mind it is now approaching closing time and all she wants to do is go home. So I end up running back to the train station where the bus stop is to try and catch the No.8 bus again. Unfortunately the drivers English was also limited but he did grasp the word ...

... it is a rare and valuable substance these days. when light is scarce it becomes visibly higher quality than when it is abundant and harsh, everywhere like cheap clothes in an overcrouded department store. This light is like fine hand dyed silk. And then there is... The feeling of actually doing what you are meant to do, and doing it well. I can hardly describe this feeling of happiness, even through my physical ...

Our overnight train was pretty uneventful. We booked seats rather than beds (to save on costs) and they were not too uncomfortable to sleep on. The lights annoyingly stayed 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 ...

... will they be left to live in? Prime Minister Harper, the proposed Conservative Clean Air Act does not even BEGIN to address my worries and fears. First of all, intensity-based emissions targets are completely unacceptable. The only way that total emissions would not continue growing under your proposed intensity-based system would be if the economy slowed or stopped growing, and let's be honest, I can't see the government advocating that ...

... in a many-voiced debate about almost any topic I can think of... and now a few minutes later, I sit here, in my own way adding to that debate. Pretty wild for a girl who could already drive a car by the time she first surfed the net. Somehow it's almost time for me to get ready for our housewarming party tonight. And I guess that's another day that has slipped by without me getting any "school work" done. But then, that is just a matter of perspective. copyright lisa cockburn 2006

... the winter drive across the ice, no bridge for a few km's!) and hopping on a trail through gorgeous finnish forest, 8km to a beautiful little lake. incredible. it's been keeping me sane, and i am sad to see the season end (even though i am very excited for warm days!) (b) if you throw a sushi party, you are pretty much guaranteed to have the best sushi in town, and are REALLY popular with your friends :)

... 4 times on my walk to school before i figured out that if i walked right on the edge of the path it was a little less slick. but i tell you, when i got to school and saw a woman with poles in the hall, i certainly felt a new understanding for the great finnish hobby of pole walking. perhaps i should take it up! luckily by the time lunch came, the paths had been sanded, and get this - they had sanded the bike paths before the road! times like this, i know i am in europe :)