outside the BBQ-ing teepee on an excursion with a French group in Lapland, January, 2019

One very cold night (-15°-ish) we went along with a French tourist group (most tourists there were from France) to a totally dark thick forest to possibly see the northern lights. But it was very cloudy, so from the very beginning we didn't expect to see anything. The trip organizers didn't expect anything either, so they had prepared to entertain us otherwise. We had a sausage-BBQ-ing sit-around in this teepee with a big fire in the middle - the tent was much bigger than it looks like from this photo. (Among the Videos, check out the clip called "on a night excursion with French tourists in Lapland, January 2019".) There was a lot of French banter, of which we understood little, but a bit more than we expected from ourselves. Here my wifey is posing before going in. Next photo taken at the same time ... (click "Next picture")