Northern Lights We arrived in Inari, a tiny little village, and wondered into the hotel to find a room. The hotel is also the pub/restaurant/cafe/bus station etc.... basically everything. Mike reckons we were in 'Hicksville'! Anyway, it turned out ok in the end. The museum I wanted to go to was closed on the monday so we had to stay an extra night so I could go Tuesday morning. Just spent the day wondering the village which took about 15 minutes so I wondered...

!Huskies! Wow! Whoa wow! I want a husky! Had a really good, yet quiet at times, time in Rovaniemi. The town itself is very smallsowe had walked the entirety of itin the first day and it seems the staple food that doesn't cost the earth is pizza!! We have managed to not have pizza at all so far and found a couple of not too expensive places but thinkwe have exhausted them so pizza it is tonight! Went went snowmobiling under the stars. Was pretty tame for most...

Finland! Moi (Hi), Been in Helsinki for 2 days. A nice city, chilled, but expensive as..... We have a found a nice restaurant called Iguana that is not too expensive and does decent portions of nice food so have eaten there both days so far. Stick with what you know, hey! Not much exciting news really, just been wandering around. Went over to Suomelina (I think thats the right spelling) which is a fortress on an Island a 15 min ferry journey from the main lan...

Onward Zdrastvuytye! (Zdrast-vuyt-ye) That means Hello in Russian. A prize to the person who pronounces it correctly Been in St Petersburg for a couple of days now. Won't bore you with statistics and a point to point view of what we've visited and seen. Basically there's lots of really big beautiful buildings, photos of which shall be added soon. St Petersburg is a lot more friendly and also young compared to Moscow. A lot more dynamic I feel. Moscow is just ...

!SNOW! Busy, busy, busy! Today we went to Ismailovski Market (locally known as Ismailova and pronounced Ish-my-lo-va). Basically a craft market with some antiques too about an hours drive NE of the city. A haven for Stage managers as Mike rightly pointed out. It snowed over night last night so it was all fresh. First snow we'd seen fall. There hasn't been any in Moscow city for ages. There was some at Sergey Posad but that was out of the city. After trapesi...