“Do they have cheese in them?” he asked.
She saw more tourists in snowmobile suits the persistent cash register. Before they could contact the eyes, it came out.
“I thought, here we’re going again,” she said.
It was a small storage, but enough. If you are a blonde and therefore identifiable as a probable native of Rovaniemi, you can hardly move around the supermarket during the tourist season – and it’s all Santa’s mistake.
Santavo’s hometown
A simple marketing idea that plays from baked childhood imagination has created a small city on the outskirts of the Arctic Circle, which is almost different for many people who live there. And it’s not just the necessary tourists in the milk street or the cracker aisle. It is also noisy Airbnbs, growing housing crisis, sidewalks so crowded that you can’t pass them without hitting people, and the door of the car bangs in the middle of the night.
And it all started when the Nazis came to the city.
At the beginning of World War II, Finland joined the Nazis, who built a large base in Rovaniemi, a Lapland railway center. But by October 1944 the Nazis lost and the Soviet Red Army marched to Eastern Europe. As a small memento for Finns and the Russians, the receding German soldiers burned to the ground.
It left an empty canvas. After the war, Finland asked Alvar Aalt, a famous Finnish architect to rework the city. Aalto, known for his bold churches, concert halls and kitchen stools, came up with the idea: Why not remodel the destroyed city in the shape of a head of reindeer, while peripheral roads shoot like antlers to honor the connection of the area to grace the reindeer?
