Santa Claus Office, where you can visit Santa Claus every day! Santa Claus Office is located in Santa Claus Village, Lapland Rovaniemi, Finland. The office is open every day throughout the year and you can meet Santa at his office. Santa Claus Office was established in 1992 and has received millions of children and grown-ups […]
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Category: Winter
Borgund Stavechurch
Stave churches are medieval wooden Christian buildings once very common in North-West Europe.They are known for having a post and lintel construction, timber framing where the load-bearing posts are called stav in modern Norwegian. Borgund Stave Church located in the municipality of Lærdal in Sogn og Fjordane and is the best preserved Stave Church in Norway. […]
Easter ski trip to Hogevarde
Easter time is the time of the year when “all” Norwegians go skiing. Traditionally ski touring or cross country skiing to some mountain top above the tree line at some 800-900 meters altitude. These pictures are from Norefjell which is aprox 1 hrs 30 min from Oslo. In 1952 the Olympic games downhill was […]
FI/ LUX HELSINKI, Enlivening the dark wi...
Helsinki will fill up with light again this winter with their annual event “LUX HELSINKI“. Light installations prepared by artists from around the world will be on display, warming the atmosphere around town. Conveniently, this light show will be arranged along a very easy to follow path along the town center, and to help warm […]
FI/ Convenient Airport Shuttle in Rovani...
Some things can just be kept simple and convenient. A great example of this is Rovaniemi’s Airport Express system. Commercial flights are few in this town, so the airport bus system has basically done away with time tables, instead catering to each flight’s arrival and departure times. Arrival When a flight arrives, buses are waiting […]
Northern Lights -The greatest travel ex...
This article delighted our eyes, as it shows the priceless value of experiencing the Northern Lights! A research done by Lonely Planet‘s publisher showed the result that more than half of those surveyed mentioned seeing the Northern Lights as their top 5 travel experiences. This staggering statistic shows how arctic Scandinavia have a lot to […]