This October has been unusually cold & rainy so far, but it couldn’t prevent me from a weekend in the mountains :) The plan was actually to take part in the Ride the Alps event. Unfortunately, it got cancelled last minute, therefore I couldn’t do anything with my booking in the hotel and decided to go anyway. Instead of the bike, I took the hiking sticks however.
I dreamed of such trip for the whole summer. It wasn’t easy to organize however – unpredictable weather (even in August!), coronavirus uncertainty in June, trying to arrange some outings with other people (and dealing with the last minute cancellations) and so on. The more it got postponed, the more I felt like I am depleted of energy and need some time on my own. “WTF, the summer is over, I have to act now”, I thought 2 weeks ago and booked a place on a night hike, organized by canton Graubünden (there are hikes every day until 30th September – book yours and have an unforgettable experience).
Winter is almost over… So it’s a good time to rush up a bit to get rid of my “blog debt” for the last year :) Meet the majestic Central Switzerland in all its summer glory!
If someone would ask me what is my favorite place in Tenerife, I’d answer without much hesitation – Anaga mountains. They are surrounded by ocean, they are green and wild in many places, they have so fascinating shapes.
Finland will never be the same. In the night before the Christmas Eve I found myself queuing in Prisma (a huge hypermarket, the first one in the country to be open 24 hours). I thought that I will be the only night owl / foreigner / agnostic there, but actually the queue was quite long.
And on the Christmas Eve I cycled to the church and after that went back home through the center. I was hungry and here it was – a truck with burgers, standing near the Central Railway station. On Christmas Eve, at 0:15 I had a tasty vege burger and a friendly customer service. Something like this would be impossible to imagine even 5 years ago.
I’m content with this Christmas also because I went hiking 2 days out of 3. On Sunday it was night hiking with torches (and testing new route near Saunakallio!), but today it was during the sunlight and I decided to take the camera with me. I didn’t have any expectations as the days are mostly gray this time of the year, but the nature turned out to be at its best today.
