by Casey Siemasko | Jun 5, 2014 | Finland
“This is the ice hole. When the heat in the sauna becomes uncomfortable, just come out here and cool off in the water,” the owner of the sauna nonchalantly instructed us. Ha. It was legitimately freezing out, and we were expected to just jump—naked—into arctic waters?...
by Casey Siemasko | May 6, 2014 | Adventure Travel, Finland
We used to think that transportation via reindeer sleigh was the creative invention of Santa Claus; however, that was before we took our very own one-reindeer-open-sleigh ride through Finnish Lapland. While unfortunately we remained quite firmly planted on the ground...
by Casey Siemasko | Apr 25, 2014 | Finland
It was only supposed to be a four-hour drive to arrive at Yllas, Finland from Kiruna, Sweden. But in typical ‘A Cruising Couple’ style, we got hopelessly lost along the way, largely due to driving without any sort of GPS system. Heck, we didn’t even have an old-school...
by Casey Siemasko | Apr 22, 2014 | Adventure Travel, Finland, Sweden
It might have been Lapland’s Northern Lights that initially caught our attention, but it was the chance to go dog sledding that proved to be one of the biggest determining factors for making the trip up north. We absolutely love huskies. How could anyone not?...
by Casey Siemasko | Apr 17, 2014 | Finland
We pulled up to a discreet looking entrance: a door surrounded by mounds of snow, tucked deep into the forests of Lainio, Finland. This is the Snow Village? We might have driven right past it if it hadn’t been for the well-placed signage. But when...
by Dan Moore | Apr 11, 2014 | Adventure Travel, Finland, How To Take Better Photos, Norway, Resources, Sweden
When we first booked our plane tickets to Stockholm, we had no intention of making the journey up north to Lapland. To be completely honest, I don’t think we even knew where Lapland was. But when we learned that the Northern Lights were visible there through the start...
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