Arctic Circle
Jun 28th, 2006, 11:27 PM
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Arctic mozzies come and go.
We've skied and driven round the area between Lulea and Kiruna in gloriously sunny late winter weather, with temps rarely getting below -20. Apart from the occasional deer (or is it elk or moose?) meandering onto the road - a problem practically anywhere these days - the fauna were impeccably well-mannered.
But in a glass case in our hotel at Gallivare were a set of preserved mozzies, some only slightly smaller than the birds currently gorging themselves outside my study window.
Timing is everything in these things. Why not go there when the mozzies aren't around?
We've skied and driven round the area between Lulea and Kiruna in gloriously sunny late winter weather, with temps rarely getting below -20. Apart from the occasional deer (or is it elk or moose?) meandering onto the road - a problem practically anywhere these days - the fauna were impeccably well-mannered.
But in a glass case in our hotel at Gallivare were a set of preserved mozzies, some only slightly smaller than the birds currently gorging themselves outside my study window.
Timing is everything in these things. Why not go there when the mozzies aren't around?
Jun 29th, 2006, 09:32 PM
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UreOSceptic,
Mozzies are everywhere, before we flew out of Rome to Copenhagen to begin the Arctic Circle tour my friend woke up with a massive mozzie bite on the eye proving the Italian mozzie is not shy at having a go. We have plenty right here in Oz, fortunately they very seldom bite me here, but they certainly did in the Fiji Islands (another breed) where they feasted on my legs and left huge scars, until I woke up and realised that I needed to wear long cotton pants instead of a skirt and then I was left alone.
Re, moose, I was very disappointed not to have seen a live one on our travels only to eventually see a gigantic head of a moose on the wall in the old historic section of the Meyergarden Hotel in Mo in Norway, once observing how big it was, monstrous would be a good description, I would certainly not like to encounter one face to face.
In my Lonely Planet book 'Scandinavian Europe' the description given for the Finnish mozzies is "mosquitoes as big as your hand and swarm relentlessly" obviously from your own interpretation of the 'mozzies' under glass at your hotel this may be true. Not encouraging to read for the prospective visitor, again fortunately I did not see any on the tour and would have dealt with them if I had. I guess we just got lucky and missed them.
aussieR
Mozzies are everywhere, before we flew out of Rome to Copenhagen to begin the Arctic Circle tour my friend woke up with a massive mozzie bite on the eye proving the Italian mozzie is not shy at having a go. We have plenty right here in Oz, fortunately they very seldom bite me here, but they certainly did in the Fiji Islands (another breed) where they feasted on my legs and left huge scars, until I woke up and realised that I needed to wear long cotton pants instead of a skirt and then I was left alone.
Re, moose, I was very disappointed not to have seen a live one on our travels only to eventually see a gigantic head of a moose on the wall in the old historic section of the Meyergarden Hotel in Mo in Norway, once observing how big it was, monstrous would be a good description, I would certainly not like to encounter one face to face.
In my Lonely Planet book 'Scandinavian Europe' the description given for the Finnish mozzies is "mosquitoes as big as your hand and swarm relentlessly" obviously from your own interpretation of the 'mozzies' under glass at your hotel this may be true. Not encouraging to read for the prospective visitor, again fortunately I did not see any on the tour and would have dealt with them if I had. I guess we just got lucky and missed them.
aussieR
