Sauna, sun, solitude.

A dream for nature lovers: The holiday gite in a Finnish river promises interesting encounters with moose and lots of sauna wellness. The locals, this is not enough - they are also cheerful and humid nights of Tango and karaoke in the summer in the country.

 

Viitasaari - rain, wind, eleven degrees. And in the summer? Na primavera. The last outpost with supermarket is Viitasaari, a village in central Finland. Here, once again made a large purchase, then it will go 38 kilometers in the direction of loneliness.

Europe on the first street, then turn off onto a narrow road, right and left only coniferous forest, and to a lake and a house. Re-turn, this time on a dirt road, little houses, no oncoming traffic. Then on a dirt road, potholes in the pace umkurven, the goal finally comes into view: a Bullerbyn houses made of wood, red with white windows on a green hillside with birches. In the background, the shimmering blue lake.

One way or another similar starts for many of the German summer holiday in Finland, which is not always accompanied by rain and cool temperatures is characterized.

Also 38 kilometers away from Viitasaari appear soon on a little blue sky between the clouds by the rain has stopped, the wind too. Well then, let's go: Unpacking, inventories acknowledge the hammock between two birches mounting - and then just enjoy the view over the lake, the scent of freshly mown grass and the silence. If man could stop the time, now would be such a moment!

In Finland, in a cottage on the lake, the time does not stand, but it goes slower - at least it feels like that. This is probably due to the fact that for two weeks of life remains hidden. No event, no hassle, no emails or traffic noise, no neighbors and no messages. This is luxury for the soul.

Outhouse in Styropor Design

Luxury in the classic sense, the log cabin not. There is electricity, telephone, television and the Internet are not. Even the cell phone only works on a hill. The electric stove in the kitchen has two plates, refrigerator and coffee maker are the only other electric appliances. Drinking water shall be provided with buckets from wells gekurbelt and 50 meters will be towed to the house. The toilet is a separate wooden shed rustic coziness of a thunder beam with Styrofoam toilet seat, along with Finnish women's magazines. For all cases there is a ready to spray with lemon fragrance.

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Forests and lakes dominate the country: Finland is slightly smaller than Germany and much less populated

The holiday everyday splashes so as the waves at the shore. Excursions hardly worthwhile because the villages and towns in the surrounding area are rich in culture and sights. Also, public life in the midsummer weeks only in emergency. Because a large part of the 5.3 million Finns also examined the distance to everyday life and flees into mökki, the cottage at the lake. Almost everyone still love technology metropolitan Finn is secretly a nature boy.

The tourists make it like the locals: it rowing on the lake, fishing pike, perch or bass, stoking campfires and grills to catch, or he explored the woods behind his hut. It's earthy, mossy and boggy, with flechtenbewachsenen ancient granite boulders. Old trees, there is hardly the forest, in the structurally weak central Finland a major employer, has nearly all the old forests ever with their highly efficient harvesters flattened and re-afforested. What remains after such an action a sad crater landscape.

To run through the woods, no marked trails, but wide forest roads - or wild narrow paths. Intermediate pines, birches and juniper bushes electricity also moose and bears around.

The ruminant Kings of the Nordic forest can best view in the twilight, Meister Petz shows, however, never. This is perhaps even more so. Powerful paw prints betray his presence and increase in every walk a little tension.