Rovaniemi
We started the day where we had finished at 1am at the Arktikum, this time buying tickets and seeing the exhibitions about the Arctic Circle, animals, history and way of living. All very interesting and so different from anywhere we’ve been before.
It was then on to meet Santa Claus at his village right on the Arctic Circle, and sure enough there he was sitting in his chair by the fire…. fiddling on his phone. He told us how hot it was whenever he came to Australia and let K sit at his desk full of letters from children.
After having our photo taken we wandered around the village until we found the Arctic Circle, now we have been across both the Antarctic and Arctic Circles. Overhead at the same time there was a fighter jet practicing some amazing manoeuvers that were incredible to watch.
K wandered in to the Santa shopping village and in one of the shops the owner got irate with her taking a photo of a $5 Christmas tree bauble. He ordered her to delete it, which she did and said he would delete everything off her phone. He tried to grab the phone, grabbed her by the arm and swore at her! The other shop owners were quick to come to her aid, they called the Santa's Village manager, who then called the police. The manager and other shop owners were very keen to get K to lay criminal charges as they said this man had a history of this behavior, had been spoken to about it and it reflected poorly on Santa’s Village. K was interviewed by the police and we left just as the police went in to speak to the shop owner.
Even though it was beautiful weather we decided not to chase the Northern lights that evening as reports were that conditions weren't favourable. We'll try to chase them a little later in our trip.
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