Lapland Skiing - Day 5 - Cross-Country on the Frozen Lake

Today is Cross-Country skiing day! I have wanted to do this forever and so I booked us into a cross-country ski safari tour. They’ll teach us how to ski and take us on a tour of the area. Diana and the kids were not looking forward to today, so it was a struggle to convince some younger members of the family to get out of bed at all! After breakfast we took the gondola into town and walked across to the meeting point. We arrived 3 minutes late and there was no-one there. Whilst we’re wondering what to do, the tour company calls and tells us that the guide has left already and we’ll need to make our own way there. The lady makes it sound like it’s a long way and is worried that we’ll not find it, so wants to send the guide back to get us. She hangs up and calls back a few minutes later to say we should make our own way there. No problem, where is it? Around the back of the building! ...

Friday, 20 February 2026 · 3 min · Austen Constable

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