anyone seen the northern liughts/ aurelois bouris?sp?

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tell me about it where did you go? was it good?

We see them quite often from our home in Scotland. About three yrs ago there was a fantastic display, 360deg around us and a corona! It's pretty amazing; even though I know what causes them, they still seem ethereal and mysterious to me.

ooh ooh, I have!!

We went to Reykjavik when I was 27w pg, in January this year. On the first night we arrived we took a bus tour out of the city and... saw the Northern Lights. It was very beautiful, incredibly subtle, just a long greenish smudge across the sky - if you stared at it for a long while you couldn't see any changes but if you looked away, then back, you could see it growing and changing.

We stood in the snow, -14 deg, for about an hour and it was just lovely. Only thing that wrecked it were all the idiots trying to take flash digital photos of it.

ooh how funny why dont people just enjoy the momnet rther than flashingand photographing everything

Dh and I have seen them in Lapland (stayed in Ice Hotel before dd was born). Did a snowmobile ride out into the countryside one night and there was an amazing display...shimmering across the whole sky, mostly green but some pinky-red too. It was mesmerising. Dh took some fab pics (non-digital otherwise I'd post them...30sec exposures. No flash!!).

I enjoyed the moment...dh took the pictures!

I know! But even more than that - hello? it's THE SKY - flash ain't gonna light that up, honey!

at Ice Hotel!

phdlife I can safely say it was one of the worst night's sleep i've ever had! Luckily you only stay one night in the actual ice Hotel, then we had 2 nights in a nice cosy cabin. Was actually a bit disappointed by our icy room (basically a small white box) but had a look round the rest of the hotel the next day...amazing...

this is one of my life's ambitions. when i was unexpectedly flush i looked at the some of the holiday companies that do these trips and they all seemed to be no under 5s, so it'll be a while before i get the chance. what i really wanted to see was the snow show (loads of art installations made from ice and snow) but i'm not sure it's happening again

well okay cat, since you put it that way.

I'd also LOVE to see the northern lights, suedonim I had no idea you could see them in Scotland? Whereabouts are you? and it is a frequent thing?

I used to see them sometimes when I lived in Aberdeen - but I think there are more reliable places to view them. They are stunning.

My parents live in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and see them a couple of times a year. Dad rings me to tell me .

I think you need to go north of the Arctic circle to get a decent chance at seeing them.

No, but I would love to. This is on my (very short) list of things to do/see before I die

Seeing the Northern Lights has always been on my list of things to do and, to my amazement, I saw them the year before last whilst driving home late from a concert. I live in deepest darkest Northumberland and didn't know (until I saw them) that they could be seen here.

They were freaky and wonderful.

3Ddonut, sorry, I didn't get back to MN again! We see the lights in Aberdeenshire. We're in the countryside so they're easier to spot. They're unpredictable so some years we see them more often than others.

I was lucky enough to see them in St Andrews about ten yrs ago. It was the most beautiful, hypnotic spectacle I have ever seen. I would love to see them again but live in Wales now so not much chance here!

Saw them a couple of times in Canada - totally, totally amazing. Real, serious light up the sky/curtains of light stuff. Second time I was on a train going across central Canada, and sat up for hours in a dome carriage (ie glass dome overhead) just gawping. Oh, and snogging a boy I'd met on the train I was 18 in my defence.

Oh my god, all these fantastic romantic stories - love snogging a boy on a train crossing Canada . I snogged a Belgian boy on a cross channel ferry once - no Northern Lights though

He was rather yummy . We did get chucked out of the carriage at about 3am (it was technically first class. We so obviously weren't )

I saw them in Canada too, was standing outside of a bar having a sneaky fag (in my youth) and wahey! Wasn't sure if it was the beer or not for a while...
No snogging tho