In the beginning of February, we looked at the temperature in Saariselkä, a little village up north located in the Lapland of Finland, it was -37 Celsius Degrees… we were frozen already and we had not even arrived there! Our best bet was to stock ourselves up quickly with the right clothes to stand such coldness!…
Month: April 2016
THE ultimate list: How to dress up properly for EXTREME COLD?
The BASE LAYER is the most important thing you need to wear. Our experience with http://www.raindrops.co.uk was magnificent, as for the adults we got the 100% Merino Wool Thermal set which included pants and a long sleeve round neck shirt. We absolutely loved them, they were comfortable, warm and most importantly they did not itch!…
ICELAND: a joyful place filled with excitement
We had gone to the Finish Lapland in February (read about that in The North Pole blog post) with the hope to see the Northern Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, but unfortunately it had not been possible for us there. Ever since we left there, we were left with the curiosity to see such a…
Aachen by mistake
Jack decided he wanted to have Pizza, which is strange, because he doesn’t really like it… so we googled Pizza Hut, and the closest one to us was in Aachen- a German small city close to the Dutch border. As we were already going there and Jack fell asleep in the car, we decided to…
The life changing post: Le Tour du Monde and a… big move!
We had travelled to London, Paris, Geneva, Leysin, Interlaken, Jungfraujoch, Amsterdam and Rotterdam in November 2014, taking advantage of the big distance that was already to be flown to get to Israel, were for the first time we were going to get Jack’s hair cut. It is a Jewish tradition, that a very few people follow,…
