Tag: Abisko
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White-out snowmobile ride
No photos for Thursday, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. We had booked a “scenic snowmobile tour” for the morning, with a (for us) fairly early pick-up of 9:30. As we hadn’t ridden a snowmobile before, we had chosen the shorter, two and a half hour trip, rather than the four-or-five…
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Weather forecast grim for guided photo excursion
We woke on Wednesday and the forecast on my phone and laptop (Google and Apple have slightly different views of these things: it’s worthwhile to check both) concurred that while the morning would be clear, a snow storm was coming in for the afternoon. This boded ill for the aurora photography excursion that we had…
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A bit cloudier, weaker aurora (pink!)
Tuesday we had a lazy morning, nearly missing breakfast. Probably a result of sleeping well after getting very cold down by the lake the night before. Sat around catching up on the internet and relaxing. It was pretty overcast, so the views were more monochrome than on Monday, but we each went out for walks…
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Blue sky day in Abisko
The first full day at Abisko the weather was lovely. After a leisurely breakfast (and the writing of the previous post) we rugged ourselves up to go for a walk down to the lake (about 15 minutes if you were in a hurry, but we weren’t). First we walked up the hill behind the lodge…
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Getting to Abisko
Travel days have a similar character, but this one was more “fun” towards the end than the others have been. We started at a fairly leisurely pace: we had to check out of our room in Helsinki by 12:00, but our flight was not until 15:45, so we had plenty of time. We taxied to…