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My 2008 trip to Lappland was one of the most unforgetable trips and I strongly recommend to have a look again 🙂 .

Everytime winter season was approaching during the past years I was considering to visit again Lappland. However such trips require in advance planning, since airtickets are sold already since summer and accomodation and activities are fully booked.

This year I didn’t have anymore excuses, especially since my brother with his family was visitig me in Stockholm, so we booked night train tickets to Kiruna.

Have a look a some selected photos and I will get back with a more detailed update about our key learnings from this trip.

As you may know Santa Claus is also known as the world’s most generous home-invasion artist. He bears gifts to millions of people around the world on Christmas day for a small fee.

Most of the people around 30-40 years old begin to doubt and even deny the existence of Santa. Since I have finally reached this magical age, I thought why not taking my brother, his wife and their lovely daughter Emilia for a short 800km trip to Santa World, which is presumably the permanent Santa’s residence according to Swedish Tax Authorities.

Santa World or Tomteland as the local vikings are calling this place, is the Swedish response to the much famous Finish version of Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi. Most probably the Swedish Tourist Office could not convince the Swedish blond ladies to demonstrate their skills as well during the winter, so they came up back in the 1984 with the idea of creating a wonderland where Santa Claus alleged moved from North Pole.

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How many times have you had the opportunity to watch the premiere of a movie with all the actors in the same cinema hall ?
Me, so far only one time 🙂 . However this “one time” was definitely a special one, considering that his excellence Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was just sitting 2 rows in front me.

VIP-premiere of the movie “Two Women” was held in the Concert Hall Barvikha Luxury Village in Moscow. The event was attended by the whole crew, including himself Ralph Fiennes. To see the movie as one of the first besides myself 🙂 was also the famous Russian singer Alla Pugacheva with her toy Maxim Galkin.

Movie director, Vera Glagoleva and producer Natalya Ivanova mentioned that the movie “Two Women” is a joint project between Russia, France and Latvia. It is noteworthy that the famous British actor Ralph Fiennes has played a major role in the film entirely in Russian. Apart from Fiennes, actors starred in the movie was the winner of two awards “Cesar”, the French actress Sylvie Testud, and the German movie and theater actor Bernd Moss.

If you want to spot me running around like a real paparazzi, have a look at min 1:00:

Finally I decided to visit Tallinn.
Tallinn is the capital city of Estonia, which is happily located between Poland and Greenland, just considerably left from China and slightly above the middle of earth. Moscow has nothing to do with Estonia.

As the title of this post suggests, each letter is duplicated in this beautiful Baltic city. I do not have an assistant to duplicate each letter in description of each beautiful sight which Tallinn has, however at least I can provide a photo gallery with no photo duplications 😀 .

More photos are located as usually HERE.

Few colorful and less-colorful photos from my latest trip to Chişinău, capital city of Republic of Moldova.