Christmas is mostly thought as a family event, but of course everyone have their own way to celebrate it. In the eve of Christmas many family traditionally eats rice porridge as a breakfast. The rice porridge is eaten with cinnamon and sugar or with a plum soup, and if you ever do this for example during the summer time, it will always give you the feeling of Christmas.
I had the best experience that I could ever have, Finland was surely my best decisions, and here I met beautiful people and I made really good friends who showed me the Finnish culture on its best way and made me fall in love with it.
We spent 1 week in Rovaniemi from 28th of October to 4th of November. This period is late autumn-early winter, weather is usually a transition from autumn to winter. You can catch the cold, rainy, muddy, grey autumn or you can get winter conditions with lot of snow and very low temperatures.
Rovaniemi and Santa Claus village (part-2) You don’t need to pre-book the “taster” activities but if you choose to do longer safaris then you can go to the main reception and book Read More
The Moomin Snow Castle in Rovaniemi closed its door already from this week. Due to unexpected rise of temperature and warm weather conditions the structures of the castle is not working. In Read More
Since returning from Lapland myself and my husband have been inundated with questions from friends, family and work colleagues about how to go about planning a trip to Lapland. With this in mind I decided to write a (once off) blog on our experience from start to finish.
Looking for the perfect places to hunt aurora borealis. Here comes the best 10 spots which will guide you for aurora hunting in Rovaniemi. This is just a quick guide about the places.
Some say there is a special word for this state of mind. They all it a Lapland virus (I don’t know the exact Finnish word for it), which you may catch on your first visit and never get rid of it, for the rest of your life. I definitely got infected and after three visits to Lapland in different times of the year, still did not get cured. But who wants to be cured anyway?
Approximately a year ago, friends of mine had posted photos online from their holiday visit to an extraordinary destination. It was a “Wintry Wonderland” invoking memories of childhood revelry and joy. This piqued my interest enough to plan a visit there myself. What was this happy place?! Where was it located?