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The Northern Lights  
   

The Northern Lights

Nature's free light show. Spellbinding. Image copyright: Antti Pietikainen and www.theaurorazone.com
The best Northern Lights ever.

September 16th 2011
An abandoned reindeer steak and a scintillating night sky, only in Lapland. I was enjoying a splendid dinner in the restaurant at the Luosto Tunturi Hotel a few winters back when the other diners started leaving in droves. It was as if there was a fire alarm to which I wasn’t privy. My dinner companion, the hotel manager, looked at me and said in typically understated Lappish style: “Do yo ... read more
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Finnish Flag Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its f... ... read more
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