It's a Bit of All White! ; Think It's Cold? Try Finnish Lapland Where -30c Is Normal [Eire Region]
Daily Mail › February 10, 2009
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THE temperature is -13c, ten degrees below that at which blood freezes, and we are outnumbered. 'If you look carefully, you might see them between the trees,' says our driver.
As he guides our 4x4 through Arc- tic twilight, we stare silently into darkness. But even though there are more reindeer in Finnish Lapland than humans, and even though the road trip from Kittila to Luosto takes 90 minutes, we see nothing but pine forests.See the full content of this document
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It's a Bit of All White! ; Think It's Cold? Try Finnish Lapland Where -30c Is Normal [Eire Region]
We don't bump into anything either; a good thing as every year 3,000 of the 230,000 reindeer population meet a sticky end in a traffic accident. 'And trains,' shrugs the driver. 'Reindeer are always running into the trains. They're not very bright.'
We are here because two years ago I came to Lapland and fell in love. Not ...See the full content of this document
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