Scandinavia in December

Starting in Oslo, Norway in late November last year, I went in search of the Northern Lights. We headed to Bergen via the Flam Railway, a descent from Myrdal mountain station to Flam of 867 metres in an hour with frozen waterfalls and cliff-edge views. A few days in Bergen, a charming city, then all aboard the Hurtigruten ship and north on the Norwegian Sea to the Arctic Circle and beyond. We called into 22 ports on our way, but a series of hurricanes stopped us visiting more, so we disembarked earlier than expected.

After a few days in Lapland we spent time in Rovaniemi, Finland right on the Arctic Circle enjoying activities like: dog sledding, ice fishing, reindeer sledding, and snowmobiling. Fortunately the young man who took us ice fishing brought some sausages as back-up which he BBQ’d on a fire on the ice – sausages never tasted so good!

We ended our holiday in Helsinki. Lights unseen!!

By Kath Frowen