I’ve been busy at work trying to plan the Lapland Adventures for winter of 2009. The travel business is a strange business. We’ve only just come back from the Lapland tour, and the season is still going strong up in Lapland, and now I’m trying to find out how much things will cost in 2009. [...]
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Inflation? Yay? No!
Posted in Lapland, Tours on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lapland Adventure: Kemi
Posted in Lapland on Saturday, February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was the last day of the Lapland Adventure. We started off super early so that those who had booked the cruise on the Sampo ice breaker would get to Kemi in time for this Arctic Adventure. While they were off playing with a huge piece of machinery and floating in the ice, the rest [...]
Lapland Adventure: Muonio
Posted in Lapland on Friday, February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a most peculiar night in the Snow Hotel we headed towards Sweden and border town village of Muonio. There we went to first meet huskies and then for a very speedy sled ride with them. It was quite amazing to watch the huskies as the sleds were being prepared to go out. They were [...]
Lapland Adventure: Ylläs
Posted in Lapland on Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, far the tour has gone very well, and no one has been eaten by the poplar bear yet. But I guess our luck had to run out eventually. Yesterday Emmalee slipped on the steps and hurt her writs. It was still painful today and so we took her to the doctors. After waiting for [...]
Lapland Adventure: Sodankylä
Posted in Lapland on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a night of drinking and singing it was an early wake-up call on Wednesday. Thankfully, all but Rudolf seemed to be weathering well (his nose had a clear green tint to it). We started the day by driving up to Luosto, a national park in the fell country. There we had a nice 60 [...]
Lapland Adventure: Rovaniemi
Posted in Lapland on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Originally we were going to walk to accommodation from the train station since it was just next door. But our bus drive Veli-Matti was so enthusiastic to meet us that he came and picked us up from the station. After settling in and a shower we were ready to start our day in Rovaniemi. Veli-Matti [...]
Lapland Adveture: Helsinki
Posted in Lapland on Monday, February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was the first full day of the Lapland Adventure 2008, which we have organized with Busabout. We started off by doing a sightseeing tour in Helsinki and visiting all the ‘must’ sights: ice breakers, Sibelius Monument, Rock Church ect. At the Rock Church I made a blunder and said it was designed by brothers [...]
Lapland tour starts today
Posted in Lapland on Sunday, February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is the day I’ve been looking forward (and dreading a little as well). Today is the start of the Lapland Adventure we’re doing in partnership with Busabout.
Months of work, tons of emails and several sweat drops were required to get here. In the last week or so, I’ve become so excited about [...]
Global warming
Posted in Lapland, Tours on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In some ways I’m very concerned about the future of our winter Lapland tour. One of the biggest being that in the future due to global warming there might not be enough snow up in Lapland for all the winter activities that people love so.
The Metrological Institute had said that the past January [...]
Getting things ready for the Lapland tour
Posted in Lapland, New Projects, Tours on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, since last August has the upcoming Lapland Adventure taken a good measure of my time. There’s been a whole to plan, as we have not run tours in Lapland before. I guess the most difficult thing after we decided what kind of activities and which places we would like to show to our tour [...]
