http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Sweden , Norrbotten , Jukkasjärvi en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 20:45:07 +0000 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:45:07 +0000 How cool are these pictures We39re so proud of them they truly reflect what we saw curtains of green and red light rippling across the sky. At times the lights were so active you just didn39t know where to look you were surrounded by them. And to see red I39ve only seen green northern lights before so seeing red in there as well was really exciting. We spent 12 days in the nort http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-708130.html Our fairytale white wedding in Swedish Lapland.The morning of our wedding I awoke early in a warm bed in a cosy chalet. A welcome contrast to the previous night spent in the ice fishing ice room in the ice hotel. I gave a kiss to my husband to be who immediately said happy wedding day with his eyes still closed. He does make me smile. We had to go into Kiruna to sort the papers http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-581424.html On the morning of the wedding I was woke up with a kiss from Nikki Nikki and I are extremely competitive to the extent we even make wishing each other happy anniversary a competition I knew that as soon as I opened my eyes she was going to say something along the lines of Todays our wedding day so I had to beat her to it. After the kiss and before I opened my eyes I said Happy weddi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-581365.html Nikki and I had our first date on Monday 21st February 2005 on that day in London it was snowing when deciding when and where to get married it seemed a simple decision to me Monday 21st February 2011 in the snow.....but not in London at The IceHotelI am the organised one of the two of us so usually I carry everything and look after everything when we travel however seeing as we could only http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-541392.html When I was a little girl every Christmas Eve my Mum would read me The Night Before Christmas. It was a lovely tale about Santa Claus accompanied by brightly colored pictures depicting his wooden house in Lappland with a snowy roof and candles glowing at the window. Santa would be beavering away in his cozy cabin to make lots of presents for every child in the world obviously with the ass http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-227098.html Leanne thought we were going to London to enjoy a stage show 24 hours later she was engaged and in the sureal setting of the Ice Hotel 200km inside the arctic circle. A holiday to beat all holidays the most amazing place we have ever been to. At it coldest the temparature was a chilling 28F. DAY 1 We woke up at 530 on Monday morning we packed our bags and headed for central London to visit th http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-167979.html We got up pretty early on the 24th and grabbed some breakfast. Since we were still pretty tired from the epic journey out we arranged for a late check out and went back to napOnce we had left the warm accomodations we went to the luggage hut and put all our belongings into a locker received the ohsofashionable snowsuits you see in the pictures below and immediately headed into the icehot http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-115592.html Puppies at one of the kennel's supplying the ice hotel. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-52707.html Ice HotelThe Ice Hotel in Jukkasjarvi is a definitely Swedish experience. Located on the Torne River in Swedish Lapland this is a great place to visit. So I did. We got up early and got on the bus. It wasn't such a long ride. On the way we had to stop so the reindeer could cross the road. And then I saw some moose Yay moose When we arrived in town we stopped at the old church which was great http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-50715.html Some pictures of the church in jukkasjarvi as well as the centre of kiruna town with the townhall the famous church and some pictures of me in action around kaupinnen. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-49590.html The sight of seeing the Aurora Borealis more commonly known as the northern light is simply breathtaking. Even if you have the possibility to see it almost every evening up here in jukkasjarvi it is different every single evening every moment you look up it is a feeling of magic. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-45044.html EdOur weekend to Sweden began with a 430am alarm on Saturday morning in order to get to Heathrow in time for our 7am departure. Luckily no dramas on this occasion such the expert travellers weve become. Tim and Greer were supposed to have joined our flight but dreaded an early start so cheated by booking a flight the previous night and staying at the Sheraton We arrived to a snow covere http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-43304.html Surreal experience.. enjoying the ride of my life dog sledding http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-40728.html Amazing...the aurora borealis http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-40727.html Beautiful landscape in europe's last wilderness.... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-40722.html Where the famous ice hotel is located http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Sweden/Norrbotten/Jukkasjarvi/blog-40720.html