| In my room at the lodge, I got changed in the winter wears I ranted at
Snow Fun safari. When I went outside, the sky got much better than the last night. Good!!  |
| Next, I went to a "Sport Shop" to rent cross-country skiing gears.
I always visit Finland at the end of Feburary, but it's the beginning of March. March |
means "Ski Holiday" for people in Finland so it was very crowded. |
------- Cross-Country Skiing Time!! ----- I started cross-country skiing just around Äkäslompolo lake without going far. |
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The shiny sun! The clear blue sky! Pure white snow! This is the Lapland!! I missed everything. No words can explain!! |
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--- The Most Famous Cafe 「Navettagalleria」 --- It has many kinds of meals and snacks that taste awesome, and tranformed to the restaurant at night. |
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Just when I was taking a rest, a woman and her mother sat in fromt of me. The woman often looked at me and gave me her smiles as if she wanted to talk to me |
| everytime our eyes met. I thought the oriental people looked very strange
to caucasian people. Oh! it just hit me that I've never seen any oriental people on any trails. |
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Am I the only oriental cross-country skiier there?? In the end, the lady and I started talking. She and her mother live in Germany |
| but her mother was Polish (Her mother couldn't speak English so she translated.) The most interesting talk was that the German always hold a Good-Bye-Winter Festival |
| for 6days in Feburary when the spring gets closer. She showed me many pictures of the Festivals on her cellphone. It looked like the German Halloween Festival. |
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Also she showed me the other pictures of the wild reindeers that she happened to see on the trails. She was very friendly to me. It was very interesting. |
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Interestingly, for some reasone, I happened to meet many Germans like it meant to be during my stay in Ylläs. To be continued!! |