We had set the alarm for 9am and it was still pretty dark when it began to ring. It was hard to get up and out of bed, but we'd agreed yesterday with Katja and Petri that we would go snowboarding in Ylläs. After a standard breakfast of coffee, cake and porridge, the four of us plus Grandma and Nena, the dog, squeezed into Petri’s Audi Quattro for the drive to Äkäslompolo. The car handled exceptionally well on the snowy roads and even when a ...

It's a bit of blur what happened to yesterday. First of all, we slept for ages even though we didn’t go to bed particularly late. Perhaps it’s because the windows have blackout curtains (for the 24 hour summer daylight) and the bedroom is practically soundproof. We managed to get out for a walk down to supermarket and buy some dinner and that seemed to be about it. Today, however, we tried to make amends by setting the alarm for 8:30am, but all we m...