For weeks the needle has pointed north, now it turns around: we have a workshop appointment in Schladming and a few thousand kilometres to cover before it. Three stopovers lie in between - with reindeer right outside the door, salad on the pizza and a Finnish invention Sven falls in love with on the spot…

The welcoming committee in Suomussalmi

We had actually wanted to visit a friend in Helsinki. He, however, was on holiday - at his cabin by a lake in the middle of Lapland. So we reprogramme the sat nav, drive a good way north once more, and Sven spends the rest of the day building a jetty…

The last kilometres to the cabin

Time for the next country. On the way there we briefly become involuntary animal rescuers, at the border we miss out on the cheap diesel, and in the Korouoma we do not meet a single other person for hours. What we do find instead, over and over again…

An encounter in the Korouoma