Lovely snowy weather greeted us when we came home from Provence in the middle of November. And during our rather brief stay in Finland we had snow three times, and three times it all melted away again. Except in Lapland of course, where the 100 years of independence celebrations were accompanied byt two birthday parties and one wedding anniversary. Which obviously meant that we celebrated something every day! There was quite a lot of snow already, and the weather was cold, too cold for skiing anywhere but up at Yllästunturi. Inversion makes the temperatures around ten to fifteen degrees higher up there than down in the valley, and consequently the so called “lämpölatu” – a 3 km long loop – was crowded every single day.
O S M A F Frankenhaeuser 