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    Dinner on Christmas Eve at Nilli Restuarant

    Christmas Eve in Rovaniemi

    December 24, 2017 in Finland ⋅ 🌙 -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 Finnish restaurant. We had the tasting plate of Lapland fish and reindeer servings, very yummy. John had reindeer again this time cooked 2 different ways and I had the vegetarian dish of beetroot.

    Merry Christmas from Lapland.    Read more

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    Building a Snowman
    Finished SnowmanView over the River from our Room

    Rovaniemi

    December 25, 2017 in Finland ⋅ 🌫 -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.

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    Arctic Snow Hotel

    December 25, 2017 in Finland ⋅ ☁️ -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. The walls and furniture surfaces of the unique rooms are decorated with ice art and illuminated artwork.

    Unlike normal Hotels you do not check into your room and unpack you leave your bags in a cloak room and they remain there until late at night when it is time to sleep. You sit around the Main House which was very basic and not comfortable for the remainder of the day, which is weird because once you are here there is not much to do other than to sit in front of a fire and read. Even the café was closed. You can wander through the Ice Hotel and the grounds but that does not really take that long.    Read more

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    Ice Hotel Bar

    December 25, 2017 in Finland ⋅ ☁️ -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.

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    Christmas Dinner

    December 25, 2017 in Finland ⋅ ☁️ -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 both had apple with icecream for dessert.Read more

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    Well what can I say?
    Entrance to our RoomFire place is not warming up my handsReady to sleep

    Bedtime at the Ice Hotel

    December 25, 2017 in Finland ⋅ ⛅ -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 0–5C°, and we sleep in sleeping bags intended for extreme conditions combined with reindeer furs.Read more

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    Boxing Day - Snow Activities

    December 26, 2017 in Finland ⋅ 🌫 -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 morning, other than that I slept like a bug in a rug. In the morning, after breakfast, we walked around the resort having a go at a sled on ski's, tobogganing and walking with snow shoes into the forest where the snow was so deep that when I fell into the snow it was difficult getting up. We then took a walk on the frozen lake and then back to the Resort for a Finnish Sauna and outdoor Spa.Read more

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    Glass Igloo

    December 26, 2017 in Finland ⋅ 🌫 -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 tonight.Read more

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    Dinner in the Ice Hotel

    December 26, 2017 in Finland ⋅ ☁️ -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 served on a frozen snowflake plate.Read more

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    Bedtime in the Glass Igloo

    December 26, 2017 in Finland ⋅ ☁️ -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 we will be lucky.Read more

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    Home for the next few days
    Lift has room for 1 only

    Stockholm

    December 27, 2017 in Sweden ⋅ ⛅ 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 chocolates in a number of places for us to eat.Read more

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    Information Seeking

    December 28, 2017 in Sweden ⋅ ☁️ 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 centre to obtain information on how to spend the next 3 days. Over coffee and cake and 30 min research we now have a list of things to do.Read more

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    Medieval Museum

    December 28, 2017 in Sweden ⋅ ☁️ 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 how people lived in the Medieval times. It was actually a very good museum. On the way home we came across this beautiful church and also stopped at the local supermarket so I could buy groceries for a home cooked meal and some red wine. Bring on tomorrow's adventures.Read more

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    2A new group is formed JACB.

    Abba Museum

    December 29, 2017 in Sweden ⋅ ⛅ 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 about Abba's lives and their road to stardom. The museum had a few interactive activities including, karaoke, dancing on stage with Abba and mixing the sound for one of their songs.Read more

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    Vasa Museum

    December 29, 2017 in Sweden ⋅ ☁️ -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 Stockholm 1628. After 333 years on the sea bed the mighty warship was salvaged and the voyage could continue. Today Vasa is the world's best preserved 17th century ship and the most visited museum in Scandinavia.Read more

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    Junibacken

    December 29, 2017 in Sweden ⋅ ⛅ 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.

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    Old Town Stockholm

    December 30, 2017 in Sweden ⋅ ⛅ 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 in Stockholm.

    Gamla Stan is the city’s old town, with cobbled streets and colorful 17th and 18th century buildings. It’s home to the medieval Storkyrkan cathedral and the Royal Palace, the king’s official residence    Read more

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