The Christmas tree decoration -event, initiated by a local luxury travel entrepreneur Janne Honkanen, joined local companies and local citizens to bring.
Thursday 31 December 2020
The travel industry is one of those hit the hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic, and adjustments have been made across the glove to allow holidaymakers to enjoy travel again in the safest of circumstances. Pamela Goodman shares her top choices for holidays in 2021.
Islanders
Sweden
Sweden’s west coast, stretching from Gothenburg up to the border with Norway, is littered with islands. Original Travel can tailor-make itineraries to take in the wealth of archipelago experiences.
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Menorca
Understated compared to neighbouring Mallorca and Ibiza, Menorca should feature high on any island lover’s radar as an easy escape from the UK. With picture-perfect beaches and an interior of rolling fields, dry-stone walls and grazing cows, the island has a peacefulness that can be found even in July and August. Menorca Experimental is the hotel to head for – a renovated 19th-century farmhouse near Alaior with beautifully creative interiors by Dorothé
Share Saunas, Northern Lights, and Plenty of Winter Adventure in Finnish Lapland Sleighs. Reindeer. Crystallized pines and an endless blanket of powdery snow. In Finland s far north, you’ll find the classic cues of winter at every turn. But there’s more beneath the frozen surface. By Peter Jon Lindberg
PAYTYRRR, WAKE UP!!! No time for pants let’s go!!!
Janne’s mittened fist came thumping on my door like John Bonham on a floor tom,
boomp boomp boomp boomp boomp. How long had I been asleep? What time was it? Where
were my pants, anyway?
Oh right: I’d left them in the mudroom before bed, along with my boots and five layers of Lycra and wet wool. After a rowdy welcome dinner of fish soup and grilled reindeer steak, Janne Honkanen, my host, had coaxed me out for a midnight hike across fields of moonlit snow, followed by a soak in the hot tub, where he regaled me wit