Laplandica

…is one way of starting a blog about our Great Adventure this coming year. So far, this last month has be intensely hectic and I haven’t had the time to update information.
If one would start listing everything that had to be carried-out and done before leaving on a sabbatical, the list would be a month [...]

…has just begun to show its teeth. With fresh Irish votes being counted after Thursday’s election to accept or throw-away the European Union’s “Lisbon Treaty”, a sometimes referred to European Constitution that had previously lost favor with European member states, the results have proven to be a sounding shamrock NO! The conditions set for this [...]

…in the Jokkmokk mountains was a result of continued searches for silver already during the later half of the 17th century. Silver ore, which eventually led to the Falk-Nila Mine, was first mentioned during this intense period of discovery. Through the years, many people knew about it, but no one worked the silver until the [...]