When we went to university this morning we experienced the real cold of Finland. Said to last for about 3 weeks every year we had about -28°C (that’s what people told us). Well, maybe -25°C, but it definitely was an interesting experience 🙂 It was actually an extremely nice day without even a single cloud […]

The highlight of the day was the husky safari. The bus took us and 40 others to a husky ‘park’. We were divided into three groups that took a short trip of about 3 km one after the other. Again, one would be the driver in one direction and the other would drive back. That […]

We tried snowshoes this morning. It’s pretty nice to walk this way. There are winter walking tracks that are really nice and give a nice view over the landscape. And we had blue sky and lots of sun.

Aside from the skiing we did today we had a great snowmobile drive. With a group of about 40 people we got one snowmobile for every two persons. Each person could drive for about 40 minutes. One drove to a reindeer farm and one back. The path went through the forest, over bridges (acting as […]

Today we left our cottage at about 9 am. We actually got the gear yesterday evening already to be at the lifts just about when they open. At the beginning it was about -6°C at the base, but during the day it went down to about -8°C. Up on the top of the ‘hill’ we […]

We actually got to meet Santa today. That’s because Finland ist Santa’s home. His house is located right next to a town called Rovaniemi and at the same time it’s right on the arctic circle … Well, anyway there’s several houses there. There’s also Santa’s post office. But aside from the fact that it’s all […]

After a journey of about 17 hrs (15 hrs of driving) we are finally in our cottage. As you probably notice we do have internet 😉 We started yesterday evening at about 8.30 pm. Aside from smaller break we stopped at the Santa Claus Village for about 2 hrs to take a photo with Santa […]