We visited Ruka as part of my birthday trip. And beside skiing, my birthday wish was to fulfil a long-time dream of mine - to see the Northern Lights. The day before my birthday was sunny, so the forecast seemed promising. As we had no experience at all, we booked a snowshoe walking and Northern Lights hunting tour. We felt so ready to see this miracle of Nature - we had our camera and tripod with us, with all setting already set. We forgot only one thing. To try it first. We

When planning our trip to Finland we really wanted to take a couple of days and dedicate them to skiing. But we also wanted to go Northern Lights hunting. For the purpose we had to go North of Helsinki. Levi was the obvious choice as it is far North, but we thought it might be too crowded. So we chose Ruka. Getting there: Just over 1h flight, operated by Finnair, from Helsinki to Kussamo and then take the bus from the airport to the centre of Ruka Village. Prices: The bus tic

Well, the winter snow vacation we had last month is over but the cold weather keeps reminding me about it. It was so nice to visit home, spend my birthday with my loving family and also to see some snow! Yeay! Even if in the cities there was no snow anymore (simply, the temperatures were pretty close to the ones here in Lisbon) at least there was plenty of snow at the ski resorts! There are three main ski resorts in Bulgaria - Borovets (around 100 km from Sofia, in the Rila m