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Northern Lights in Finland above the Arctic circle

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We have had the aurora boralis on our must see program for quite awhile. So as we were booking our Amsterdam trip for the family Christmas gathering in the Netherlands somewhere during a hot July day, I suggested to Sandee to go early in December and take the opportunity of being in Amsterdam to fly into Sweden for say 5 days, where I had identified a small village of about 200 inhabitants that had a hotel converted from an old military school complex that seasonally opened just for that purpose. I reserved through an internet booking site and got a confirmation number.      Subsequently we booked a plane to an airport called Lulea and rented a Hertz Volvo to bring us via interstates to that village in about 2 hours.     By late October I tried to contact the internet agency for further info to the hotel and have a reconfirmation of our booking. Found out that the agency was out of business and emails bounced back.    Trying to reach the hotel directly also did not succeed. I at long l