.... after a quick greeting and a "move and go to hell !! " the hostess of the aircraft to greet and thank you for choosing their airline for my trip (thanks to the fucking, was the only covering that route !!!!!) I was wasting too much time, I have fallen (in the true sense of the word ... merdaaaaa ice!) down the aircraft steps.
incredible sight that I was presented before the eyes: the airport in Kiruna is nothing if not a "sgabbiozzo" red in the middle of nowhere with a track that might not be seeing the end of the day, aircraft landing Ice ...
kept my promise (John two weeks later it is still there rises the snow-eared ...), it all together we are boldly launched the "pitch" for taxis outside the airport ... Throughout
Kiruna (village was born as a result of the establishment of an iron mine in the wilderness so desolate and fascinating) are 5 taxi.
E 'can then guess what we had to wait to see get in our taxi ... Incredibly the
our expectation was still bearable ... for two reasons: first ever for the company ... according to the climate in which we were greeted ...
It is thought that Lapland was a place ruled by eternal ice and record cold ...
In fact it is so ... ...!
But this week, apparently raising the global temperature has led fruit (always said I was' na thing that would become useful!;)) that the climate is doing far north of the world turned out to be more bearable. In fact, as mentioned earlier, the temperature did not go beyond the -5 degrees, and this was the fact it is almost pleasant to be outdoors ...
Once you get the taxi, we headed to the hotel where we stayed the first night, a super luxury 5-star hotel with conference room at the modest sum of 75 euro per head per night for a double ... On the other hand, you know, the trip "last minute" is not always an advantage ...........
One thing struck me immediately of Lapland: the fact that he almost immediately began to burn ass ....
As if that was not enough that they have to leave 75 bombs at the hotel only to sleep for 5 minutes (5 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!) travel, the taxi driver had "the 'courage and zeal "to ask ..... coroneeeeeeee 500 (just over € 50 )!!!!!!!!!!
The conditions then were not the most encouraging ....
After a night spent sleeping on the floor at the hotel (you know, two to save money, he does everything ...) and after plundering the area honest breakfast the next morning (it is said that there has been people who able to take food for the next two days ...) it can be said to have officially started our tour of Lapland !!!!!!!
all starts (needless to say) at a cost of groceries and local ICA shit, closely followed by a phone call to "those of the house" where we went to live for the next week, asking them to come and take from where we were (I could not now say more about our geographic location at the time).
arrival of our two guides, the impact was huge: two Lapland Lapland (see photos to believe) that they were not in his underwear by the wish to speak and tell them how things work ... maybe that's why that after an initial super-interest, my attention has gradually weakened, until reduced to a simple "yes, man!" with whom I've replied to every thing that was said (which, for the past experience, it is very dangerous ...). The landscape that we could see the windows took your breath away and after about 10 seconds (the time needed to get out of Kiruna, not a big city ...) it appeared that the landscape was composed of a snowy forest that stretched as far as d 'eye all around us ...
think, it seems that the Lapps have the happiest dogs in the world: there's plenty of place to get them to pee in the evening ....!!
After about fifteen minutes, we arrive at our accommodation: a country cottage in the woods, "walled" dog-sled and which enjoyed a breathtaking view.
taken possession of our rooms (not even division between men and women to say = end up in a room with Bamba, Oscar, and Dominik Thu, those with significant problems of bloating ...), we decided with our guides the list of activities to do in the days when we were there : Visit to 'Ice Hotel, full day, including "snow mobile" (snowmobiles), fishing on the frozen lake, day tours with sled dogs ... what to say .... A FIGATAAAA!
Our activities started ... now! In fact, it just finished drawing up this list, the guides have uttered the following magic words: "ah so you want to see the ice hotel?!?! All right, you're already late !!!".
After establishing the new world record for dressing and, most importantly, after waiting for me (as always my times suffer serious delays in comparison with the other because of the time I prayed that exists between my brain and my limbs), we scoured parties (not because of speed, but because of snow. ..) to the hotel ice: my dream ...
I must admit however that I hotel I expected much different from what I found: a person who hears about an ice hotel, imagine a hotel built in domestic hotels are located around the world, The difference is that this is made of ice ...
The Ice Hotel in Kiruna, a little more like a conglomeration of "igloo" rather than a hotel. However, the charm that exudes that place is something incredible ...
Our tour started from visiting the church: this is a true church (in the shape of the church) made entirely of ice, the place where for the first time I heard Oscar suddenly in a prayer in Italian, which threatened to make me pee pee from laugh (which would have been dangerous, given the temperature, for reasons I'm not even here to explain ...).
The visit of the church was closely followed by the visit of all hotel rooms, each built with a different style depending on the author: rooms were built by Japanese artists, Danish, Swedish, German, English, French and, of course, Italian! The images and
video (which we often had as main characters in jeopardy macaques) have followed with a frequency that was the embarrassing ...
icing on the cake was the final visit to the ICE BAR ...
Strangely, as we approached the place, it was increasingly gripped by a strange feeling ... thirsty ... and more water ... but rather to something good! So we decided to ask Ambrose (fastened her name to the bartender) to make us a range of cocktails to stand up this unpleasant feeling off ...
After receiving the bill be passed out and have recovered thanks to the salts, the temptation was to advise the cute bartender (thanks to fuck) to give the drink served at that bar names as a "tramway", "shovel" or "barred", names that aptly describe the feeling you get when you have to pay more or less 10 € for a cocktail ...
After the usual photos and a necessary step in the souvenir shop, just to complete the 'butt', we returned to our lodgings for dinner and to have to "know" all the dogs and animals found there.
The evening was incredible and at the same time to rediscover the taste of fun with nothing ...
No television, no local .... just us and a deck of cards poker = 4 in the morning ...
