The last leg of my Retirement Travel Trifecta stepped over the Arctic Circle as our Finnair jet made its final descent from Helsinki to the Rovaniemi Airport in Finland.
The Lapland Capital of 66,000 sits a couple miles south of the circle’s boundary line and served as our launchpad to the Trifecta’s northernmost destination, situated another 300 miles north, 12,000-plus miles from home. Our brief time in the city was spent sleeping and eating.
With an eye toward Sweden a little more than an hour to the west, we spent our first day in Finland exploring its scenic Lapland Region lake country between the capital and the Torne River at the Swedish border at Pello.
