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It’s that time of year when I sincerely hope that a wave of Yuletide goodwill and bonhomie pervades your household. During this beautiful time, where would the most appropriate place on earth be to celebrate in your newly acquired second home? Why a log cabin in Lapland of course; a spell in the Arctic Circle would most certainly serve to sort the pioneers from the faint-hearted.
My recommendation should you miss the deep midwinter where frosty winds may moan, is take a long cool look at Ylläs. Ylläs, it appears, is not only arguably Finland’s finest ski resort along with a catalogue of other winter activities but houses that prince of the red velvet suit and flowing white beard’s winter residence and elfin HQ.
When I use the term ‘long cool look’, I apply it in my own inimitable way as temperatures can drop as low as -40 degrees celsius but average around -12 degrees celsius. However, your very own log cabin is built to a spanking high standard to withstand any adverse effects from the big freeze outside. The walls are constructed from kelo logs, a traditional Scandinavian timber which is matured for more than 100 years and is known as ‘dead standing’ wood. As a word of encouragement to sufferers from endemic hypothermia, while all cabins are super insulated courtesy of this ingenious natural overcoat, they also include a wood-burning stove.
If your imagination is overrun by visions of fur clad trappers locked in the wilderness for months on end, then think again Rudolph. This country has on offer Versace-style luxury log cabins and they come in configurations of one or two bedrooms, include a fully fitted kitchen with white goods, sauna, log store and heated car parking space. Each cabin is set amongst resin-scented pine forests and all these ‘super-cabs’ offer an extra sleeping area in an open plan mezzanine and an additional toilet in the larger versions for the Sahti impaired. In fact, the most aristocratic offering actually sports three storeys, which may prove somewhat of an impediment to the dedicated bon viveur.
Your arctic retreat is available in several different styles and price ranges. The ‘Teerentie’ one and two bedrooms at dhs680,000 to dhs770,000; the ‘Lumipolku’ at dhs925,000; ‘Hillankuku’ farmhouse style houses come for dhs1.15 million; and the triple floor ‘Akaskrispo’ is available for dhs1.33 million. Strange names indeed but the Finnish language has no known bed-fellow in Europe so we may as well let sleeping elves lie. However, if you find the idea of a chunky warm wood structure with brightly lit apertures twinkling beneath snow-bent leaves charming in the first degree; then you could be destined for an arctic-ulate property investment.
Ylläs is renowned as one of Finland's best and most extensive ski areas for both alpine and cross-country skiing available between November and May. So on to Kittila airport: trot on Prancer, now there’s a good fellow.
Andy McTiernan is editor-in-chief of Property World Middle East. Contact him at pworld@emirates.net.ae
www.propertyworldme.com
Read more UAE News on www.7days.ae
It’s that time of year when I sincerely hope that a wave of Yuletide goodwill and bonhomie pervades your household. During this beautiful time, where would the most appropriate place on earth be to celebrate in your newly acquired second home? Why a log cabin in Lapland of course; a spell in the Arctic Circle would most certainly serve to sort the pioneers from the faint-hearted.
My recommendation should you miss the deep midwinter where frosty winds may moan, is take a long cool look at Ylläs. Ylläs, it appears, is not only arguably Finland’s finest ski resort along with a catalogue of other winter activities but houses that prince of the red velvet suit and flowing white beard’s winter residence and elfin HQ.
When I use the term ‘long cool look’, I apply it in my own inimitable way as temperatures can drop as low as -40 degrees celsius but average around -12 degrees celsius. However, your very own log cabin is built to a spanking high standard to withstand any adverse effects from the big freeze outside. The walls are constructed from kelo logs, a traditional Scandinavian timber which is matured for more than 100 years and is known as ‘dead standing’ wood. As a word of encouragement to sufferers from endemic hypothermia, while all cabins are super insulated courtesy of this ingenious natural overcoat, they also include a wood-burning stove.If your imagination is overrun by visions of fur clad trappers locked in the wilderness for months on end, then think again Rudolph. This country has on offer Versace-style luxury log cabins and they come in configurations of one or two bedrooms, include a fully fitted kitchen with white goods, sauna, log store and heated car parking space. Each cabin is set amongst resin-scented pine forests and all these ‘super-cabs’ offer an extra sleeping area in an open plan mezzanine and an additional toilet in the larger versions for the Sahti impaired. In fact, the most aristocratic offering actually sports three storeys, which may prove somewhat of an impediment to the dedicated bon viveur.Your arctic retreat is available in several different styles and price ranges. The ‘Teerentie’ one and two bedrooms at dhs680,000 to dhs770,000; the ‘Lumipolku’ at dhs925,000; ‘Hillankuku’ farmhouse style houses come for dhs1.15 million; and the triple floor ‘Akaskrispo’ is available for dhs1.33 million. Strange names indeed but the Finnish language has no known bed-fellow in Europe so we may as well let sleeping elves lie. However, if you find the idea of a chunky warm wood structure with brightly lit apertures twinkling beneath snow-bent leaves charming in the first degree; then you could be destined for an arctic-ulate property investment.
Ylläs is renowned as one of Finland's best and most extensive ski areas for both alpine and cross-country skiing available between November and May. So on to Kittila airport: trot on Prancer, now there’s a good fellow.
Andy McTiernan is editor-in-chief of Property World Middle East. Contact him at pworld@emirates.net.ae
www.propertyworldme.com
Read more UAE News on www.7days.ae
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