Santa's Village
2017年12月24日, フィンランド ⋅ ⛅ -16 °C
It was wonderful seeing Santa and would really love to come back with all the grandkids one day. A dream come true.
Christmas Eve in Rovaniemi
2017年12月24日, フィンランド ⋅ 🌙 -21 °C
Another full day visiting Santa's Village, wandering around town and taking photos of the sunset. Unfortunately still no Northern Lights. We finished the day with a Lapland Dinner at a very quaintもっと詳しく
Rovaniemi
2017年12月25日, フィンランド ⋅ 🌫 -10 °C
Leaving Rovaniemi city centre today. We decided rather than walk around this morning we thought a snowman build on our balcony could be the activity for the morning.
Arctic Snow Hotel
2017年12月25日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -10 °C
Next stop via bus to the Arctic Snow Hotel and Igloos.
The Snow Hotel sleeps 70 guests and is one of the largest in the Nordic region. The building is carved each year to be different in appearance.もっと詳しく
Arctic Snow Hotel
2017年12月25日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -9 °C
Ice Hotel rooms are set up in themes and was amazing how much detail is in each room and corridor.
The Chapel
2017年12月25日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -10 °C
The Ice Hotel even has a Chapel.
Ice Hotel Bar
2017年12月25日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -9 °C
At the Ice Bar you don’t order a drink with ice, you order a drink in ice. A frozen icy glass gives the drinks a totally new dimension of a cold drink.
Arctic Christmas Night
2017年12月25日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -11 °C
Yes, we saw our first although faint Northern Lights before heading to dinner.
Christmas Dinner
2017年12月25日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -11 °C
Our Christmas Day meal was mushroom soup, this was followed by Salmon cooked over the flames of the central fire in the restaurant and John again had Reindeer, this time more like a hamburger meat. Weもっと詳しく
Bedtime at the Ice Hotel
2017年12月25日, フィンランド ⋅ ⛅ -15 °C
Our room for Christmas night has several ice sculptures around the walls and it is lit by coloured lights. It will be interesting to see if we get a good night's sleep. The room temperature isもっと詳しく
Boxing Day - Snow Activities
2017年12月26日, フィンランド ⋅ 🌫 -19 °C
Sleeping in the Ice Hotel was different. We slept in very tight cocoon like sleeping bags (which were a little difficult to move in) on top of reindeer hides. My feet got a little cold in the earlyもっと詳しく
Glass Igloo
2017年12月26日, フィンランド ⋅ 🌫 -18 °C
This afternoon we checked into the Glass Igloo. They are rather cute with a glass roof and a bed you can tilt to see the Northern Lights and heated so no sleeping bags or reindeer fur to keep warmもっと詳しく
Dinner in the Ice Hotel
2017年12月26日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -17 °C
Dinner tonight is in the Ice Hotel dining room. The table is ice and some of the dinner setting is also ice. Dinner was yum, tomato soup, John had Elk and I had Chicken and a yummy chocolate dessertもっと詳しく
Bedtime in the Glass Igloo
2017年12月26日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -18 °C
After dinner we retired to our room, finished our bottle of bubbles and waited for the Northern Lights for a while. The Northern Lights did not appear so hopefully on the cruise up the Norwegian Coastもっと詳しく
Leaving Arctic Snow Hotel
2017年12月27日, フィンランド ⋅ ☁️ -15 °C
Today we are leaving Rovaniemi and going to Stockholm for 5 days. Rovaniemi was a very interesting place to visit so much to do, visiting Santa was definitely a highlight but so were all the otherもっと詳しく
Rovaniemi Airport
2017年12月27日, フィンランド ⋅ ☀️ -2 °C
When we arrived at Rovaniemi Airport we were surprised at how busy it was, people were everywhere.
Stockholm is our next destination.
Stockholm
2017年12月27日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 2 °C
Arrived in Stockholm and staying in an Air BnB. The apartment is small but with a certain eclectic character of its own. The owner of the apartment has left the fridge and cupboards full of food andもっと詳しく
Information Seeking
2017年12月28日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
The apartment is quite central to so many sightseeing places. Today's adventures started by looking around Hornstull where we took the train into Central Stockholm. We visited the tourist informationもっと詳しく
Medieval Museum
2017年12月28日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
We then walked into Old Town (Gamla Stan) it has cobbled streets and lots of old buildings which are now restaurants and tourist shops. We continued walking to a Medieval Museum which had displays ofもっと詳しく
Abba Museum
2017年12月29日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 2 °C
Today is Cultural Day, we plan on visiting 4 all very different museums.
The day will be long and the light was short but discover Stockholm is the plan.
Abba Museum was first, it was fun learningもっと詳しく
Vasa Museum
2017年12月29日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ -6 °C
Vasa Museum was No 2 which provides a detailed account of a ship which sunk when it was first launched in 1628 and how it was raised and restored in the 1960's.
The Vasa ship capsized and sank inもっと詳しく
Junibacken
2017年12月29日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C
Third was more like a children's fun place called Junibacken where we rode a story train through chapters of a story by Astrid Lindgren.
Swedish History Museum Stockholm
2017年12月29日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C
The last museum for the day, Swedish History Museum, was only a quick visit as it was closing 45 min after we arrived. We just had time to visit the Viking section where we viewed artifacts from theもっと詳しく
Old Town Stockholm
2017年12月30日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 1 °C
Today was another day in Gamla Stan (Old Town) so we could take some photos during the daylight. We wandered around for a while taking photos, visiting the local stores and finding the narrowest laneもっと詳しく
