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The shops are packed with Christmas bumf and you can’t go anywhere without carols and festive tunes filling your lugs. It can be a magical time of year for kids…but do you go the whole hog and take ’em off to Lapland to meet the real McCoy?
It’s one of those things you reckon has to be on your bucket list. But does it live up to the hype? I took my youngest two – Rosie, then nine, and Freddie, six – to Finnish Lapland on a three-day ‘dream’ trip. Read here to see whether it was worth it.