https://austenconstable.com/tags/nordic/ Recent content in Nordic on Austen's Travel Blog Hugo en-gb Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://austenconstable.com/posts/2026-02-20-lapland-day5/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000 https://austenconstable.com/posts/2026-02-20-lapland-day5/ <p>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&rsquo;ll teach us how to ski and take us on a tour of the area.</p> <p>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!</p> <p>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&rsquo;re wondering what to do, the tour company calls and tells us that the guide has left already and we&rsquo;ll need to make our own way there. The lady makes it sound like it&rsquo;s a long way and is worried that we&rsquo;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!</p>