Santa Claus and a far land called Lapland...

Shark · Post by **Shark** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:04 pm

lazza wrote:I know this is a bit off-topic...

Does anyone know if there is a Finnish Ice Hotel? I know that there is one in Swedish Lapland, but is there also one in Finland?

Thanks.

like this?
http://www.snowcastle.net/

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:36 pm

Shark wrote:
like this?
http://www.snowcastle.net/

Yes - thanks - just like that!

Any ideas how to get to such a place? It doesn't say much on the English web site... maybe flights to Oulu (although that looks a long way)...?

milanocapitale · Post by **milanocapitale** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:38 pm

iN MILAN we have the ICE bar made by ice cubes like the original hotel

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:03 am

lazza wrote:
Shark wrote:
like this?
http://www.snowcastle.net/
Yes - thanks - just like that!

Any ideas how to get to such a place? It doesn't say much on the English web site... maybe flights to Oulu (although that looks a long way)...?

In the north everything below 300km is considered neighbourhood ;)
And, if I remember right, the snow castle's in Kemi. And it isn't really that long drive from Oulu to Kemi. And I'd remember there are also trains going between those cities.

airis · Post by **airis** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:09 pm

magpie wrote:I'm going to visit Lapland and celebrate the New Year there. Maybe I'll meet Santa on his Reindeer Sleigh...

Maybe you will. Well, in Rovaniemi you can meet him even in summer.

I hope you will also see the northern lights. Well, lately it has been very cloudy.
btw It sometimes can be quite cold then ( -20 to -35 °C).

lazza wrote:
Shark wrote: like this?
http://www.snowcastle.net/
Yes - thanks - just like that!

Any ideas how to get to such a place? It doesn't say much on the English web site... maybe flights to Oulu (although that looks a long way)...?

You can fly via Helsinki to Kemior take a night train. It is also possible to fly to Oulu via Copenhagen or Stockholm and take a bus to Kemi.
It has been quite warm this season, but I think now they finally can start to build the castle.
( btw There is a different place in northern Lapland where you can overnight in an igloo. )

There is also a tourist ice breakerin Kemi

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:43 pm

airis wrote:
lazza wrote:
Shark wrote: like this?
http://www.snowcastle.net/
Yes - thanks - just like that!

Any ideas how to get to such a place? It doesn't say much on the English web site... maybe flights to Oulu (although that looks a long way)...?
You can fly via Helsinki to Kemior take a night train. It is also possible to fly to Oulu via Copenhagen or Stockholm and take a bus to Kemi.
It has been quite warm this season, but I think now they finally can start to build the castle.
( btw There is a different place in northern Lapland where you can overnight in an igloo. )

There is also a tourist ice breakerin Kemi

Thanks airis. I hope my wife and I might make a trip in February next year.....

turtle · Post by **turtle** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:01 pm

oh this is so great!! joulupukki i knew he was called like that, and i knew too he lived on korvatuntur near rovaniemi haha

but it is all so great...christmas must be so great in finland or???

really i so so so really want to have a real christmas (here in holland i/we do nothing with it, only to a restaurant..xD) with snow and santa claus, and in Finland i love that country...oh soo nice...i dont need presents if it is just that!^^ xD

And so nice that webcam too

although there sits nobody now haha xD

milanocapitale · Post by **milanocapitale** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:43 pm

have u heard about a couple of italian people killed by a train when they were doing sledog?It happened yesterday, they went to see Santa Claus.

look there
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/s ... 07,00.html

http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cron ... appo.shtml

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:58 pm

It wasn't a scheduled train but a special christmas train coming from Kolari.
So, the tourist group's leader probably didn't know there was a train coming at that time. Must've been a sad surprise to him..
I guess he'll ask VR for the special train timetables from now on.

The dead were 18- and 14-year-old, whose parents were the at the same trip.

BTW, "Kolari" is Finnish for "Crash"