Thursday 26th July 2007
After starting the day in the same manner as most of the other days (home cooked breakfast etc.. and getting up later each day), myself and Tim, my friend and neighbour proceeded to assemble the storage chests that we had purchased the previous day and after finishing up, both of our families he
aded off together to hire some bikes so we could have a cycle around the village (pic of kids with their bikes). We took the short cut from our cabin through to the next street and within a couple of minutes had arrived at the Snow Fun Safaris lodge where we proceeded to hire bikes for us all. The guy on duty at Snow Fun was extremely helpful and gave us some great advice on the best bikes to have for what we wanted to do and also gave us loads of information of things to do when we return in the winter. He had loads of time for us and our daft questions and even taught the kids their first few words of Finnish.
aded off together to hire some bikes so we could have a cycle around the village (pic of kids with their bikes). We took the short cut from our cabin through to the next street and within a couple of minutes had arrived at the Snow Fun Safaris lodge where we proceeded to hire bikes for us all. The guy on duty at Snow Fun was extremely helpful and gave us some great advice on the best bikes to have for what we wanted to do and also gave us loads of information of things to do when we return in the winter. He had loads of time for us and our daft questions and even taught the kids their first few words of Finnish.Once we had got going, we cycled around the area and explored how far everything was for when we return in the winter. We took a look at Santas House up at Lapp Village, the Poro Reindeer Restaurant (although both closed through the summer) and also cycled up and looked at some of the new developments of cabins that are being offered to the Brits as well as a property that was of interest to a friend called Simon the Kiwi (from New Zealand) who many of you may have corresponded with on trip advisor. All in all, after cycling around for a couple of hours we headed back to our cabins so the kids could play whilst the adults went for their daily sauna and shower before heading off out for the evening.
If I haven't already mentioned in my ramblings, we all by this time were getting very relaxed to the Finnish Environment of fresh clean air with little to no noise pollution and have never felt so relaxed in our lives. The Lapland bug was getting to us all and the thought of spending several months a year there was starting to become very appealing. We are all awaiting those elusive 6 numbers on a Saturday and Wednesday night so we can make our dream a reality.
That's all for today folks and don't forget to check back soon as Friday 27th was a really great day out for us all and could possibly be interesting to many.
