Finland : We have arrived

We have arrived

>> Sunday, April 05, 2015

Our plane arrived in Kittila a few minutes late but it didn't stop us getting fairly quickly onto the Inghams bus and along the road here to Levi by 8.30pm local time and then into our very nice cosy wee cottage which is only about 200m from the main slopes.
Sandy and I walked over to the nearby supermarket and got a few things and we sat down to a quick dinner of rice and vegetables, followed by quite a fair number of rye bread rolls, which we had all been looking forward to, as always!

The cottage is great, we are very happy with it. Our only concern is Olivia,incredibly who appears to have a high temperature... and therefore we will need to watch this very carefully. She has gone to bed with some medicine and if necessary will miss.skiing tomorrow if she needs time to improve. Having had pneumonia last year in France when we were skiing, we don't want a repeat this year if at all possible.
More information tomorrow.... Bed time for the rest of us now.

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This will be our 1st winter holiday to Finland, where we will ski at Levi, which is the biggest resort in Lapland, (about 170km inside the Arctic Circle, and close to Kittilä on the map) as well as our 8th summer visit to this hidden gem of a country in the far north of Europe.
We fell in love with Finland in 2006 when we stayed in the southern town of Kotka.
We were back in 2008, flying to Helsinki, then staying in both Kotka and Varkaus, around 300 kms north east of the capital city. This gave us our first taste of the lakeland areas inland, and we loved swimming in the beautiful warm lakes!

In 2010 we returned by car from Scotland in a heatwave to the areas close to Juva and Puumala, renting our first cottages by lakes that were incredibly warm to swim in.

After such fantastic weather in 2010, we had high hopes of the same in 2011, and incredibly, we were again very lucky to have a real heatwave! We stayed in two cottages close to Juva again, and fell further in love with the tranquil solitude you experience in this spectacular lakeland area.

By 2012, we wanted to try some new areas and cottages, so we planned a 24 day holiday, staying for a week in three different cottages as well as staying in a beautiful Helsinki aparthotel for 3 nights. It was lovely to discover the eastern town of Parikkala, as well as the western town of Ruovesi, and in between, we stayed for a week in what has become our firm favourite cottage of all our trips, close to Jyväskylä. We loved our stay on Lake Palvajarvi so much in 2012, that we returned to the same cottage again in both 2013 and 2014 for two weeks, and now, in 2015, we are looking forward very much to our 4th year at what is definitely a real home-from-home!

Winter - in Levi

Around 170 km north of the Arctic Circle in Lapland, the town of Levi is the largest ski resort in Finland. It is situated around 15 minutes from Kittilä and its airport. Skiing takes place on all sides of Levi fell, the peak of which is 531m above sea level. There are 43 ski slopes (17 of which are floodlit for winter skiing) and a total of 27 lifts, including a brand new 6 seater chairlift with heated seats on the south slopes.
Levi is used each year as a stop on the ski World cup circuit, with slaloms being held in mid-November.