Tag: Lapland
Fellow passenger from Italy
I stood by the high way. The Lappish mountains in front of me, from other side covered in wood, from other side bold as an old man. This summer was rainy and grey and Saariselkä had gone foggy.
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The season for elk hunting has started again. Red vests, caps, rubber boots and barking dogs. The ones- a- year- talk about illegal hunting (elk is, after all, worth thousands of euros!) and unskilled
read moreSummer House
Every Finn owns a summer house. The purpose of a summer house is multi - : it is meant for relaxing on holidays, using your extra energy to useful everyday tasks such as wood chopping
read moreProfessional tourist guide Lapland
Remember how I wrote about the disastrous trip to France with my mother on her 50th birthday? Well, I have another story to tell about how a professional travel guide can not read a map. The professio
read moreSafari Corpse
A day as a safari guide can be quite a lot different than a day as a bus guide or town walk guide or museum guide. Why are safari guides usually old men?
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