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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A hotel in Inari Finland in January. I was a 20yo woman and everyone else at the hotel was a burly older man. I don't speak Finnish. All TV was in Finnish or Russian. I just stayed in my room. I went to the Sami museum though and that was great--it was just the hotel at night that was bleak.

I also got a weird vibe in Molokai. It was beautiful, and the tour of Kalaupappa was fascinating, and I didn't get a sense of hostility from the people I met, but I felt like I would not understand anything even if I lived there for 30 years. It was like half of what was said was a lie/inside joke/myth/historical reference and 50% was not and I couldn't tell which was which. It also felt like a place where it would be so easy to die in the sea or some remote area and never be found, or to be killed and have nobody fess up.

And a Microtel in Syracuse NY. I wish we'd gone with our initial plan of camping even though it was chilly.
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I lived in Helsinki, so I just have to ask.  How in the world did you wind up in Inari?![/quote]

Lol, I was visiting a friend who was doing a Fulbright in Helsinki. We did some stuff together in the city, but since I didn't want to overstay my welcome with her (she had a small apartment with a roommate) I did some other side trips--Stockholm, Estonia, etc. I thought it would be cool to see northern Finland and the train ride was overnight so it was like transportation + lodging. I took a train to Rovaniemi, where Santa Claus Village was closed, and then took a bus to Inari. Spent the night in the aforementioned hotel, saw the Sami museum, and did the journey back. I'm glad I went, and it wasn't any colder than Helsinki (there were days when I was there that the high was like 2 degrees F) but the hotel creeped me out![/quote]

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