2 days in LAPLAND on a budget (avoid my mistakes)

[@ClairesFootsteps]

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[@tapsavaan1671]

As a Finn myself, what I appreciate most is the feeling after a sauna. So relaxed and good. Happiness is made up of small things and when you notice them, you realize that they are the most precious things in your life.

[@santatelevision]

Congratulations of a nice and informative video 🙂 Merry Christmas!

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Thankyou, Merry Christmas to you too!

[@janiletoff6430]

@@ClairesFootsteps nice video. but dont pay 3 euro for water. . tap water is the shit😁 and merry chrismas

[@tanjanikola9489]

Detachable spikes on shoes are essential when it is icy!! 😁 And a good tip is to walk like a penguin, with weight slightly forward and taking short steps with the main weight on the ball of the foot. It is lethal when the snow melts and the slush freezes over again. In the south it has been terrible!

[@ClairesFootsteps]

That's a great tip and yes I needed the spikes, can't quite believe how many times I fell over 🤣

[@anttitaskinen7178]

Another thing is that the soles of the shoes don't contain plastic. They have to be rubber.

[@tanjanikola9489]

@@anttitaskinen7178 Rubber (kitka) soles can help, but not with the recent conditions. There has been water on top of solid ice and grit doesn't stick to the ice either, or sinks inside it. Even dogs have been injured here in the south. Today will be easier as a lot of the ice is melting.

[@JaHuu-b4g]

I used to work at Arktikum and was one of the team making that war exhibition. Hope u liked it.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Oh cool, thanks for that! I did like it a lot, so interesting 🇫🇮

[@rikutaskinen5432]

12:00 buy museokortti =museum card, 79 euro. valid for many museums

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Ah is that for museums all over Finland?

[@rikutaskinen5432]

@@ClairesFootsteps not all, but best of them. Mikkeli päämajamuseo is good and so on. surf in net...pls Happy clitmas!

[@oh2mp]

Nice video again. It was a great moment when you went into the avanto (Finnish word meaning a hole in the ice) and the man took your camera and filmed when you dipped yourself into the cold water 🙂 I have been once there in the Santa Claus village, but it was September, the temperature was like +15°C and of course no snow. I can tell you that I couldn't get to the "Christmas mood" 😆 Here's a little secret: The real arctic circle isn't there, but about 2km north. The Santa village was built there because the place where the circle actually is next to Rovaniemi is mostly on a swamp. Actually the runway of Rovaniemi airport crosses the real arctic circle where it is now. Because the axle of Earth is wobbling, the arctic circle moves about 14.5 meters per year in a 41000 year cycle.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Thankyou ! The sauna was great! I would love to visit in summer as well for the long days ☀️ haha I didn't know that about the arctic circle, that's really interesting! So not sure if I went above it at all on this trip 😅

[@oh2mp]

@@ClairesFootsteps I have usually given a travellin hint for Finland to foreigners that in winter go to Lapland because it's the winter wonderland. Just like you did! Southern Finland is totally a summer destination. In winter it's just boring and miserable here, but in summer Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Porvoo, Rauma etc. are very nice to visit.

[@roberteastwood6937]

I've lived here 43years. I still don't get the fuss about visiting Santa....😟

[@travel_with_renix6956]

Next travel : ferry from Bari to Corfu ❤?🎉

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Oooh yes it's on my list!

[@thesilentshopper]

Winter is okay but I really dislike the slipperiness. It's hard to get a good walk done when you have to continuously watch you step.

[@just42tube]

If you slide, imagine having skates, all the time and forget that idea of walking on ice, or use spikes as many do, it's much easier. Though you might complain that it is not reliability slippery everywhere.

[@Suomaki]

In reality Arctic circle runs about 2 kilometers to north. In the middle of Rovaniemi airport runway... 🤫

[@ClairesFootsteps]

I did not know this! So not sure if I was in the arctic at all 🤣

[@Suomaki]

​@@ClairesFootstepsyour plane crossed arctic circle when taking of from Rovaniemi... so you were in arctic 😊

[@Knappen82]

Not much snow, even in nothern Finland it seems 😐

[@just42tube]

Rovaniemi, located in the Arctic Circle, is the gateway to Lapland. This is where the journey to the north of the Arctic Circle begins. It's in the southern border of northern Finland in that sense and not a typical part of it.

[@Knappen82]

Everything north of Tampere is northern Finland to me 😆 I live in Helsinki.

[@just42tube]

@Knappen82 City dwellers in Helsinki are likely to have a very biased idea of Finland. Lahti region - just about 100 km inland - has usually fairly good winter weather unlike miserable southern coastal places like Helsinki.

[@just42tube]

@Knappen82 Helsinki is such a small place 715.48 km² compared to Rovaniemi 8,016.75 km². 😊 Rovaniemi is the largest city in Europe by land area. It's comparable to the London Metropolitan Region or the London Metropolitan Agglomeration.

[@jarmopaakkonen2045]

Rovaniemi ain't the home of Santa,he lives in Korvatunturi. Korvatunturi is in East-Lapland near Russia.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

New video idea for next Christmas possibly 💡

[@perolden]

It is nor SantaClaus, it is Joulupuukki (Christmas Buck) and Julgubben (Christmas Geezer- i Swedish), While Sweden has Jultomten (Christmas Fairy), Denmark had Julemanden (christmas Man) , England has Father Christmas, Holland has Sinter Claas, amd Norway has Julenissen( Christmas Nick). so Norway is the only Nordic country that actually has Santa Claus, nisse (Nick being short for StNicholas). In Norway there is a tradition of not commercilaizing Santa, and the US Post Office stille sends letters to Santa Claus, Noprthpole, to Norway, whilst the Finns hav peruaded Royla Mail to send their letters to Finland, the Finns tried the same thing with the Americans, bit the Americans kept their traditions. My finnish girl friend sent a letter to Joulupuukki inmy name, and I got some advertising back about Santa Claus using Finnair and such shit, even Mari (my Finnish girlfriend was apalled), the Norwegian PostJulenissen Office, sends out a neutral letter to American kids, no advertising. Rovaniemi is south of the Arctic Circle as well, it is basicallly a scam!

[@ClairesFootsteps]

I would say in UK we say Santa more than Father Christmas these days 🙂 but thanks for the information, very interesting! Haha a few other people commented about the Arctic circle, I didn't know that 😅 it's touristy, but there is a certain magic to it for sure!

[@Tedger]

Korvatunturi is pure tourist trap. I am finnish dude and never visited in lappland.. nor swam in icy water.. but I love good sauna :). As southerner.. the summer is the thing for me here, especially when there are rarely good snowy winters these days.. mostly wet dark... all the shades of black and grey from october till it snows.. also.. wet dark.. is so dark, it eats all the light. Day is at its shortest now.. and they get longer again. Only good thing about snow is that it brings light even the nights arent so dark when there is snow about. But yea.. I suggest you visit here during july or sumething.. I am very little travelled person, never had much genes or need for it.. I am pretty happy where I am living in my modest home with the ppl I know. I do however like to watch yt and other ppls adventures :)

[@Ex0rz]

How do you know its a tourist trap if you never visited? :D Watched plenty of videos from tourists saying its pretty cool.

[@cinnamontea326]

I'm Finnish and born in Lapland. Don't know if Korvatunturi is a tourist trap more like Rovaniemi is one

[@Kerppu68]

@Tedger Korvatunturi is so remote practically no one visits there. And you need a permission to get there

[@Tedger]

Well the pukinpaja thingie ​@@cinnamontea326

[@Tedger]

​@@Kerppu68as if i was talking about the hill rather that the pukinpaja attraction.

[@martennyman6624]

yes its my cop of te to 👍❤ but no...

[@ardongrainford8004]

Poor huskeys

[@ClairesFootsteps]

I was a bit unsure but they aren't kept in the same place for a long time, they get lots of exercise + can socialize loads so I don't think it's all that different to a dog being in a house

[@Pfaltzgraf]

Try to put something else than your face in the videos, too.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Try to not leave comments with unsolicited and unnecessary advice on people's videos, too.

[@Pfaltzgraf]

Well, the floor is yours, of course, but I think that most of the viewers in travelling videos want to see the locations.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

@Pfaltzgraf yes, did you watch the video? It's about the location and full of location shots 😅

[@juhanivuorinen6981]

Too much talking!

[@jattikuukunen]

Why don't you watch with sound off then?

[@juhanivuorinen6981]

@jattikuukunen No information at all

[@ClairesFootsteps]

It's a vlog, that means there will be talking 🙂