Hheelllloo Ssaannttaa!! ; Few Things Can Be As Special for a Parent As Taking a Child to Meet Santa in Lapland. Travel Editor Stephen White Recommends the Truly Wonderful Experience
Western Daily Press › September 12, 2009
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Perhaps you have to be a dad (or a mum) to understand. I'm talking about the magic of taking one of your little loved ones to meet Santa on his home patch, in snow-bound Lapland.
Let me describe the scene. It's minus 20 degrees Centigrade (cold in anybody's vocabulary) and after a frantic and bumpy snowmobile ride through the woods, followed by a gentle reindeer trek (both under cover of warm, but slightly smelly, reindeer skins), 10-year- old daughter Helena and I are approaching a small house, bang in the middle of nowhere, hidden deep in the frozen forest.See the full content of this document
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Hheelllloo Ssaannttaa!! ; Few Things Can Be As Special for a Parent As Taking a Child to Meet Santa in Lapland. Travel Editor Stephen White Recommends the Truly Wonderful Experience
The reindeer slows... then eases to a stop a respectful distance from the building.
Our driver indicates, silently, that we should walk the remaining few yards. Hand-in-hand, we approach, almost reluctantly, deferentially.A pair of bright-eyed, mischievous, partying elves appear. They run towards us, embrace us, their shrieking laughter shattering the Arctic silence. The...See the full content of this document
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