The Age
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A week in near-darkness became my daughter’s last true childhood holiday
A family traveled to Finnish Lapland near the Arctic Circle in December 2026 for a week-long Christmas holiday in near-darkness. Located 850 kilometers northeast of Helsinki in Oulanka National Park, temperatures dropped to minus 22 degrees Celsius. The author later recalled this isolated week in the snowy forest as her daughter's last true childhood holiday before pandemic lockdowns began.
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