February 2025

I REALLY WANT TO SEE REINDEER !

After two futile attempts at photographing reindeer and/or aurora in Norway we decided to try our luck in Finland, actually so far north in Finland that we were in Lapland. We land at Kuusamo airport at around 10am, meaning shortly after sunrise, and it was a white winter wonderland that greeted us as we headed for our cottage in Ruka, a 30min drive north. 

This is what driving in Finland is like

The cottage turns out to be the most beautiful log cabin situated on the shore of a frozen snow covered lake called Hakojärvi. Wow, I could live here if it just wasn’t so damned dark all the time ! The sun is already setting when we go for a short exploratory walk in the snow, it will be gone by 2pm, 4 hours of sunlight a day, oh boy, that doesn’t leave us much time for photography. 

Our wonderful home for the next 5 days