I did say that they were doing Lapland for Christmas?

[tim]

The youngest of our 8.

-24deg.

[tim]

[cambourne7]

nice

-24 is not as bad as it sounds i am sure you all had a great time!!

[tim]

They - 3 of the G/C plus parents- are loving it.

Me - I don't fly. Not any more!!

This was just across the border - Murmansk, Xmas '41.  ( -35)

[supersprout]

Nippy!
Is that you waving out of the window? :o

[Heldi]

Fantastic Tim...both pictures.  I keep saying to myself that one year we will do Lapland. I want my daughter to be old enough to really enjoy it, and remember it and my son to be young enough to still enjoy it, 3 and 9 they are. Next year maybe??  (I just want to see Santa  :) )

-18 I think is the lowest temperature I've experienced. In West Germany. Loved it! Snow like I'd never seen before. Our car broke down and lots of lovely German folk stopped to help us.In a garden centre in Holland a lady told me they get a big freeze every 15 years or so. I saw some people skating on the river at Arnhem that year. Looked so picturesque. Never will forget it. On the way home it snowed and snowed and ofcourse they don't grit the roads over there do they. It was slow going in the car but the people on mopeds and scooters were wizzing along with their legs out, skimming the snow leaving snowy fountains behind them  :).

[tim]

This one's 2, & is loving it. Memory? I think so. The others are 10 & 8. So I reckon yours are just right!

[Leonnie]

I bet they're having a fab time Tim :) I think our two are the right age to go, they're 5 and 7 now but we were thinking of taking them next christmas time.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Temperatures like that are OK in still air. In a howling gale, they're something else!

[Ceratonia]

Temperatures like that are OK in still air. In a howling gale, they're something else!

So true.

I go to the north of Finland sometimes on business. Temperatures of -25 or -30 don't feel too bad when it is perfectly still, as it often is there, but any slight breeze cuts you to pieces. It is generally very dry there when it gets really cold and is much more pleasant to be outdoors in than a cold, wet day here.

That part of the world doesn't really appeal to me as a place for a holiday, though. I've never been anywhere else where there seem to be so many completely wrecked people of all ages drinking moonshine/homebrew on the streets by the middle of the afternoon as some parts of Northern Finland.
Glad to see there are some children who still believe in Father Christmas. My 5 and 7 year olds are rather sceptical (although seemingly perfectly OK with the idea of a tooth fairy!)

[Heldi]

I'm quite amazed at what you say about Finland C. Don't know why,maybe I just thought us Brits were the heavy drinkers, rolling around the streets?

My son is clinging on to the hope there is a Santa. School friends said it was "Just your parents" a couple of years ago. I've told him that Santa exists in his heart if he wants him to. Then he asked  "What would happen if I stop believing,will Santa die?" I told him no because there are always more children being born who will believe in Santa and will keep him alive.That seems to have lifted the burden for him  :) He now also has to keep it going for his sister too, which he is very good at.

Aw the little bairns... wish I could keep the magic going forever for them.

[tim]

I think that I would be on Moonshine if it were dark all day!!