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  1. Win A Trip To Finland

    Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 7 January 2012

    In the last three months, we’ve ridden horses in the snow, camped in the snow, built snowmen in the moonlight and hiked the Great Wall of China in temperatures so...

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  2. Kilpisjärvi

    Blog: Roving Light Travel Photo Blog - 21 November 2010

    Nestled in the northwestern corner of Lapland Finland, Kilpisjärvi is a village some 350+km above the Arctic Circle (GPS 69°02'N - 20°47'E). With only 120 inhabitants, it is truly a village quite off-the-beaten-path.

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  3. Today’s History Lesson

    Blog: Seat of Our Pants - 9 April 2010

    It may not look the part, but this little Russian Orthodox church is actually a thumb-in-the-eye addressed to Sweden ,courtesy of Imperial Russia. To understand what I’m talking about, a history lesson is in order.   The border where the church stands is now in the middle of a shopping center, but up to 1809 this place [...] Related posts:The Swedish Icon I guess it was bound to happen.

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