places to visit in the arctic Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/places-to-visit-in-the-arctic Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:12:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Arctic Circle Travel http://travelsfinders.com/arctic-circle-travel.html http://travelsfinders.com/arctic-circle-travel.html#respond Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:42:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=242843 I am in fact up at 3.30 a.m. and phone through to make certain Ian is also ready on time. I have some tea in the lobby and am checked out by 6 a.m. Amazingly Lesley and Fay are already waiting outside in the van to take me to the plane. Now that’s what I call service! We pick up Steve, Ian, Hans and Christian on the way. Now to find out whether we can fly out or if we will have to abort our plans and return to the hotel. Ian tells me, as the weather has been so

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