Rovaniemi & Santa’s village

After a lovely overnight train (significant improvement on our previous experience in Egypt) we started the day quite early at 7 am. Got the car and we headed to town to try and find breakfast… That seemed harder than we thought as nothing opened before 10 am. We eventually found a hostel that had its restaurant open.

We then went to Santa’s, it didn’t really live up to expectations, but we sat down with Santa and had a nice conversation, after a 35€ photo we went for a walk about.

Eventually we ended up at a tipi that sold fire cooked salmon which was amazing.

At that point it was almost sunset so we went for a drive to a recommended view spot. After a short freezing hike we found this outpost thing that’s about two stories high. The view from the top was insanely beautiful seeing the early sunset.Read more