On the Trail of Santa ; Trekking in the Arctic Circle ... Well, It Is Christmas It's Christmas Eve and Children Worldwide Will Be Battling to Stay Awake to Catch Sight of Santa. Mercury Travel Editor Paul Cole Trekked Into the Arctic Circle in Search of a Familiar Figure.

Sunday Mercury › December 24, 2006

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IT was a call that came right out of the blue.

Santa, it seemed, wanted a chat. Would I care to join him for a berry juice?

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On the Trail of Santa ; Trekking in the Arctic Circle ... Well, It Is Christmas It's Christmas Eve and Children Worldwide Will Be Battling to Stay Awake to Catch Sight of Santa. Mercury Travel Editor Paul Cole Trekked Into the Arctic Circle in Search of a Familiar Figure.

We'd met a couple of years ago in Lapland as he made his famous list, checking out who'd been naughty and nice.

Perhaps he needed a second opinion' he wanted it checking twice.

It was an invitation impossible to pass up.

Even if it meant trekking high into the Arctic Circle by husky sled, reindeer sleigh and snowmobile.

After a trip to stock up on thermal undies and winter woollies, ...

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