Out of the glass cabin, into the villa!

When we wake up today, the sun is starting to show itself again. Hooray, a beautiful sunrise! Just like yesterday, we start with a great breakfast buffet. Then it’s time to pack our suitcases and check out. We stay in the area a little longer though and grab snowshoes. Snowshoes on our feet, cameras in our hands, we set off on a trail that leads through beautifully snow-covered forests.

After this lovely outdoor experience we get in the car and drive to Ruka. This small winter sports village lies on the way to our next accommodation. We browse the local shops and have lunch at a Subway with a nice view of snowy trees. Then we drive on to our new accommodation! We follow a heavily snowed-in road and have to search for our little cabin, as the road is brand new and not yet on Google Maps. We find it, and it’s a stunner! Wonderfully spacious and so beautifully situated! It’s a very modern cabin with a huge glass front looking out onto a small forest. It also has a sauna which, as is typical in Finland, is integrated directly into the bathroom. From the bedroom, too, the large window front gives us a direct view of the surrounding trees. There’s a fireplace as well, and everything is brand new and beautifully furnished in Nordic style. Life will certainly be good here for the next few nights!

After the obligatory sauna session we have dinner, a Thai curry. We have high hopes of seeing northern lights tonight, as they’re forecast to be stronger than they’ve been in a long time. We stay up late but eventually have to give up because it’s simply far too cloudy. We can’t see through to the aurora, so we go to bed, but set the alarm for 2 am, when the cloud cover is supposed to break up a little. Unfortunately we’re disappointed then too. The clouds are still there and too dense. But in our bed with this beautiful view, we sleep very well regardless.