A Visit to Santa's Town

There's still one form of correspondence that hasn't been taken over by email: kids' letters to Santa. At Santa Claus Village , 8 km north of Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, ol' St. Nick gets nearly a million letters a year from children worldwide — especially from Japan . And now he even writes back (for details, go to www.santagreeting.net and expect to pay about $8.)

If the kids have been especially nice this year, you might reward them with a trip to...