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The Highs and Lows of Searching for the Northern Lights

by Runaway Britupdated on 6 Comments on The Highs and Lows of Searching for the Northern Lights

[mks_boxquote align=”right” width=”150″ arrow=”0″]”An obsession consumed me, and the more I saw, the more I wanted”[/mks_boxquote]Relentless blasts of icy wind grasped at the exposed skin of my cheeks, the only flesh not covered in layers of wool and …

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The Arctic Journals #4 Aurora Borealis

by Runaway Britupdated on 1 Comment on The Arctic Journals #4 Aurora Borealis

“The Aurora blazed all of a sudden into brilliant life… a thousand miles high and ten thousand miles long: dipping, soaring, undulating, glowing, a cataract of glory.”

This is Philip Pullman’s description of the Aurora Borealis in ‘Northern Lights’, the …

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The Arctic Journals #3 Cross-Country Skiing

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There are two things that I have always disliked: sport and being cold. For this reason I have never understood why people want to go skiing. Skiing holidays baffle me, why would anybody pay a lot of money to go …

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The Arctic Journals #2 Northern Lights Apartments

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We were met on the road by Patricia Cowern, owner of the Northern Lights Apartments and Arctic-Color gallery in Porjus, who greeted us warmly and led the way to our cabin. The complex comprises of 4 wooden cabins aptly named: …

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The Arctic Journals #1 A Long Journey

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At 19.22 the train pulled out of Stockholm’s Central Station and our 17 hour journey into Swedish Lapland began.  Our destination: Porjus, a small village approximately 100km north of the Polar Circle, and our mission: to seek the enigmatic Aurora …

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