Journey: Rovaneimi – Auttikongas – Korouoma – Posio Sunday mornings don’t get any better than reindeer feeding and cuddles. Though Mark wasn’t keen, I nipped back to Santa’s village to meet the reindeer. I had the place to myself and had a lovely long chat with their owner, got to feed them and meet a …
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Day 82 – Went to Santas village!
Journey: Kansallis Puisto National Park – Rovaneimi Today was a quiet day; a lazy slow start and then a lovely long trail walk at Kansallis Puisto National Park, where we all managed to avoid the bogs (there are 35 different types of bog in Finland) I was then cruel and drove Mark to Santa’s Village, …
Day 81 – Mabel leads the way…into a bog
Journey: Karhunpesakivi – Pitkajarvi Lake – Saariselka – Tankavaara – Sodankyla – Pyha- Luoston National Park After a lovely relaxing evening reading with the pups, our morning walk was to see a bear den in the woods. To be honest it’s likely a tourist gimmick as no evidence of bears living there but Jasper checked …
Day 80 – Driving South
Journey: Honningsvag – Inari (Finland) Today was a driving day, having taken the big detour up north we needed to come south again so said farewell to Gustaf and drove back along those stunning roads, through the various unlined tunnels (some of which were 7m long!) back into Finland. We kept hoping we would find …
Day 79 – As far North as we can go…
Journey: Alta – North Cape – Honningsvag What an amazing day, given we weren’t planning on going to Norway and certainly weren’t planning on heading too far north…we have reached the northern most point of the European continent – Nordkapp! Or at least we are pretty sure we have, it was such thick fog we …
Day 78 – It’s true Norway is stunning!
Journey: Äijäkoski – Pallustunturi Visitor Centre – Havgajavri – Hetta, Pikefossen Falls (Norway) – Altaelva In the last two days the temperature has dropped from 33 to 7 degrees C! We have all felt the difference; Ernest snuck into our bed around 3am, and I had buried us under the duvet and didn’t want to …
Day 77 – We made it to Finland!
Journey: Gallivare – Karesuando – Äijäkoski (Finland) And the hoody and winter coat is back on… definitely feels more like it should temperature wise at 10C. The pups went to the vets for their worming tablet and got the all clear to travel. This active lifestyle has meant we have all lost weight. Mabel is …
Day 76 – Perks of being unorganised
Journey: Jokkmokk – Harsprangs – Lancaster Bomber – Sodra Stubbs – Gallivare I do love a lazy Sunday. We were late getting out of bed, had a coffee, took ages to get up, pottered about, had a second coffee and finally organised ourselves to go into town. Today’s mission was to plan how far north …
Day 75 – 31 celius at 9pm in the Arctic Circle!
Journey: Gimegolts Nature Reserve – Arvidsjaur – Grodkallen – Storforsens Nature Reserve – Arctic Circle near Jokkmokk Blimey what a scorcher – it was 33 degrees for most of the day despite us being in Lapland! When it’s this hot our strategy has to be short shady walks and driving with air-con as the van …
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Day 74 – Paddling about in Lapland
Journey: Skuleskogen National Park – Fredricka – Vormheden – Gimegolts Nature Reserve We were up bright and early for a 5.5km woodland walk before breakfast while it was still cool for the dogs. We reached two lovely lakes that the pups had a dip in…Ernest fell in and I had to fish him out – …
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