Spring evening music
On April 24, Robert Wells and Sofia Källgren (well known Swedish singer and piano player) will perform in the church in Arvidsjaur! Buy tickets at the Tourist office, 250 SEK/person. 
Ice forest
Lillberg - coolest place in Sweden?
Lillberg from Akkanålke. Storberg to the left.
On wednesday morning it was reported on the radio about the lowest temperature this winter; -42º in Naimakka.
But Linus Holmström, a caretaker on Hotell Laponia, has his own reflections.
-We usually have a little bit colder than what's reported on the news. My homestead Lillberg (close to Storberg...) is a really cold place.
This morning at 6 o'clock for example, we had -45 degrees and the car thermometer showed the same temperature... When it was time to go to work around 9 it had already risen to -37º.
-It would be very interesting if the Swedish metrological institute (SMHI) put up a wheater station here. The reports would surely be different, says Linus.
It was reported from Pjesker village that they had -39º minus. Here in the town we had around -30º.
How it has been for the camping batallion with the visiting Dutch Marines we don't know...
Inside rainbow
ROGGBIV
The fishy cause of the beautiful rainbow...
The Guoxiken
Peter has been watching (and photographing) birds. In the centre of his attention was the Siberian jay, a small bird related to crows and Eurasian jays. The Siberian jay is locally known as Guoxiken. There are several different spellings and pronounciations to this fine word, but we are hope for our spelling. 
Guoxiken is flying in...
Brave birdies...
Portrait
They grew tired of modeling and flew away...
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The blog is back...
...after an extended Christmas holiday... We're starting slow with some beautiful pictures:
Unusual sky in the beginning of January
Fairytale outhouse
We like fire-pictures in this blog and here is an especially nice fire!
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Cristmas spirit
It is nice to have coffee here...
You have to know a little Swedish for this, the sign says: Only staff may be in here. If you stress different vowels it says: Staff only, sheep are in here. www.lambi.com
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Extreme conditions
We are not far from the darkest day of the year, which is clearly noticable in everyones energy levels. The sun rose at 09.47 this morning and set at 13.27 in the afternoon, which gave us exactly 3h 40 minutes of daylight. the difference compared to the light in the summer is enormus and part of the charm of living here, by the arctic circle...
10.00 in the morning 20091109
22.30 at night around midsummer in 2007
The Christmas market in pictures
Santa had his own booth
Santa visiting Anna-Lisas Souvenirs
He is fast...
Beautiful fire
Christmas spirit
Huge tree in the town square
Tourist information about Arvidsjaur is available at
www.polcirkeln.nu
A new film editing program...
We have a new editing program at the Tourist office, it is so nice to use compared to freeware it brings tears to my eyes. Behold my first tottering steps in filmmaking with normal tools below:
The control group...
A stop along the way...the weather was beautiful.
Fresh air
Towards Arjeplog
Lunch at Hotel Hornavan. The food was good and the view was great!
We found a combined meat, berry and souvenir shop...
...with a broad range and beautiful decorations.
This is how it looks. Don't miss it when you go to Arjeplog!
Movie opening night
Saturday is the opening night for Icebound's new movie. See the trailer here:
The movie opening takes place on Saturday at Hotel Lapoina, 21.00 and 15.00 for children. Afterparty after the opening at 21.00!
Restoration
The snow is here!
The road to the Tourist office
The snowpiles are already quite big
In front of the Tourist office
Tourist office meeting
On September 22-23 it was time for a Tourist office meeting again. This means that all the Tourist offices in the county gather to discuss common goals and problems. Gällivare Tourist office hosted the meeting.
We stayed at Fällnas castle, in great rooms with excellent food.
After spending a day speaking, listening and being serious, the time had come for an activity. Gällivare Tourist office had managed to find one none of us had tried before. Superball...
Part fun, part nauseating...
On the way home we (Arvidsjaur and Arjeplog Tourist offices) made a stop by Harsprånget to stretch our legs and breathe.
Beautiful
We found a small waterfall along the path...
Burning snow in Arvidsjaur
Michael and Heike and two of their 21 dogs.
Their beautiful house in Tjappsåive.
It says that a picture can tell you more than a thousand words, but I don't think that two thousand words is enough to describe how cute dogs they have.
So cute...
On the way home we saw a nice windshelter.
For more information, visit the webbsite http://www.burning-snow.com/
Free fishing
We went to a small lake to make a flyfishing-film. As a bonus we were able to try one of the best charfishing spots in Sweden! 
Erika is trying her luck 
A char with beautiful colours. 
An excellent example of a grayling. 
What is hiding in the water? 
A very satisfied fisherman. 
This is how we make good coffe in the wilderness... 
...and it tastes best outside.
For more information about guided fishingtours and more, visit http://www.natursafari.se/
Artful glass
He made Uta model in front of the gallery right away!
Inside were combinations of glass...
...in many different forms...
...and art.
You just have to buy something!
Visit Uta's own page: www.arcticglas.se
A moment in history
The giant trout
Giant brown trout
Another angle...
