Von Kirkeness zum WEIHNACHTSMANN nach Rovaniemi in Finnland

In dieser Folge geht es nach einem kurzen Besuch in Kirkeness wieder zurück in Richtung Süden. Auf unserer Route durch Finnland machen wir Halt in Rovaniemi beim allerechten Weihnachtsmann, dem wir eure und unsere Wünsche ausrichten. Viel Spaß beim Video.

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[Music] There are Norwegian sweaters for dogs here, crazy, I’m a bit against it, I have to admit. I’m very much for it! How sweet that is. Or no…. Please daddy!!! Nah hey, people! Susan, what is this? This is the DMAX: The shrimp fishermen, the all-right! The real crab fishermen? They’re real adventurers. There’s

More on that ship back there in the background, all full of crab pots, totally sick. The king crab! We are now at the last and northernmost point, so it’s not the northernmost point, but it is the last point in the north before we finally head south again.

And in Kirkeness, yes the closest place is Russia, is Murmansk, but of course you can’t get there, I’ve already told you at some point, recently, that you can only get in there with a visa and then you can also get one at the Foreign Office You have to enter on the list

That you have entered Russia so that if you are taken prisoner for political reasons you will know who and which German citizens are there and so on. Of course that is out of the question for us. We think it’s a shame, because from a purely cultural,

Historical and scenic point of view, we would be extremely interested in going to Russia. Maybe the political situation will be such that at some point we can do that more or less safely, but at the moment it’s okay not. We’ve

Only been here in Kirkenes for a very short time, we actually imagined it to be different. Yes, but we’re moving on somehow now, right? So somehow we don’t have any peace anymore. Now today we’re driving a little bit towards the Finnish border and yes, soon to see Santa Claus, in Santa Claus Village.

I hope you have diligently submitted your wishes. Then I’ll write them down in good time and then throw them in Santa’s mailbox. I did this two years ago and I know from reliable sources that some of these wishes have come true. So, I hope you’ve

All been diligent and our wish lists are ready, we’ll hand them in of course, and then we’ll go back to Sweden and gradually back towards Germany. We are on our way south from Kirkenes, which is our last stop at the fjord. It’s already dark outside, I think it’s

Around 7 now, and you can really feel how it’s turning now. When we went here three weeks ago, it was light for a long time late in the evening and now we’ve really reached the turning point where it’s getting dark earlier and earlier. You notice this

From evening to evening. The forecasts for the northern lights are phenomenal for this night. Unfortunately the sky is completely cloudy, let’s see if things get better where we’re going, we’re driving a little further towards Finland.

We’ll see, last night after the visit to Vardø, this witch hunt kept me busy for a long time . I took a little booklet with me from the monument. Everything is in English, so to speak, these are the original notes from the

Court files that were found there. And it’s unbelievable what’s in there, what they confessed under torture, the girls and boys mostly of course. Which means, of course, it was mostly women, but also a lot of men, surprisingly many: around 25% were convicted of witchcraft and were male.

And they were accused, for example, of having cast evil spells on children or animals. Dressed as ravens, cats, dogs or in the appearance of ravens, cats, dogs, for example, having flown to Bergen on some mountain, the Blocksberg so to speak,

Also the Domen, which I showed you yesterday, is also one of Norway’s Blocksbergs . Then they slandered each other in the worst possible way, probably under pressure and torture, but that was…, well, that’s what occupied me so much, I’ve

Read through almost every single fate of these more than 90 people here, and I’m here not over it today. I’m going to think about it for a while, it’s really crazy. And sometimes they dragged one to court in unison, She then confessed, then accused six others or ten,

And then convicted them all in the next two days, and that happened in no time. That was really crazy, so I was really concerned about what kind of fate was behind it. Sometimes it was also the case that, for example, a

Woman was tried for the first time in 1625, the second time in 1628, then finally in 1625, and was then sentenced to death and burned. That means that for 10 years they were followed, looked at, looked at strangely and accused of

What a bad thing that must have been, so that still bothers me a lot. Yes, but enough of that. We’re heading south now. Hedwig (dog) finished her dinner, I heard it clattering. Now we can drive on and then let’s see

Where we sleep today and whether we can still make it to Finland or not until tomorrow. We’ll see, you come with us. Or people, now we were suddenly at the Finnish border. Because we don’t have any reception at all, we didn’t really know when it was coming. But it came somehow suddenly.

It’s really dark, it’s raining, and suddenly she came running out with a swinging trowel telling us to stop. And now the five of them have turned the entire bus inside out. We opened all the cupboards here, looked everywhere, it wasn’t prepared at all. Yes, he rummaged through everything once.

Yes, five of us, no, five of us! All passports checked, made a few jokes about Hedwig (dog), they were apparently expecting a small dog because she is still young and then I opened the door, there she was sitting….. there they were everyone very surprised. Oh it’s only a 30 kilo puppy, well okay.

But she doesn’t weigh 30 yet, at most 25 so far, so she’s still small. Yes, at least they turned everything inside out, but now they were satisfied and now we are in Finland. Now we’ll drive a little bit, then we’ll look for a place

Where we can sleep in peace, and tomorrow we’ll go to see Santa Claus. Good night! Good morning from Finland. And after what feels like weeks, we finally see the sun again, which is really nice. It would have been cool if there hadn’t been any rain last night,

Because the Northern Lights were so amazing that you could even take photos of them in Germany. And we were right in the epicenter, so to speak, but there was complete cloud cover, so unfortunately there was nothing to see. But it’s not bad, we still had a

Wonderfully quiet night here in Finland by the lake, all alone. We arrived in pitch black. We didn’t even see where we were standing, it was just a small parking lot. This morning, when I opened the door in the light, we were standing 5 m

Away from two lakes, one in one direction and the other in the other direction. First of all, we started our ice bathing challenge again, which has now fallen asleep a bit in Norway because we didn’t want to go into the salt water, there is always sea salt everywhere,

Which isn’t so pleasant, but as long as we’re still here in the lake country we will be using it again regularly. It wasn’t at all…., so it was really cold, but it wasn’t that bad, I somehow imagined it to be worse, now after a

Long break of two/three weeks, it must have been now, but it went quite well. I really enjoy reading all of your Christmas wishes that you send on Insta and YouTube, it’s really great what cool wishes there are. I’ll summarize it all later and write it down neatly

So that Santa Claus can read it too and if we make it to Rovaniemi, probably not today, it’s still relatively far away – I think another 5 hour drive or something like that, and we I don’t want to rush too much, but

We’ll probably arrive in Rovaniemi tomorrow or the day after tomorrow at the latest, and then I’m happy that I can put in the wish list and include as many of your wishes as possible, that will be cool. Yes, now we’re going to drive a bit through this

Wonderful autumnal Finland, it’s really a dream what it looks like here. The leaves are all orange and red, the fir trees in between are still dark green, these are really great contrasts when this is illuminated by this autumn sun,

So it’s a lot of fun. Yes, we’ll see you later so see you then! [Music] [Music] So, it’s now 2/3 hours later, I can’t really tell. You may have already heard that we were a little too excited about the weather. It actually… I barely said it when it started drizzling, and now it’s actually raining really hard. But it’s still nice, we just decided,

Since there’s nothing else to do in this weather but drive, that we’ll probably drive through to Rovaniemi today. That’s 5 hours in total, now we still have about two and a half hours left, and then we’ll drive through and throw in the community wish list on time, tomorrow, I think,

Which I’ll write later. Yes, and then we’ll probably be back in Sweden tomorrow, because from Rovaniemi along the Baltic Sea it’s not that far to Sweden, so it was just a small interlude here in Finland, but that’s how it was planned. Well, from the beginning we had only

Planned the transit back south here through Finland, simply because we didn’t want to travel back the same route through Norway, and that’s right, so now we have another detour to see Santa Claus, which of course makes us happy, and then we’ll soon be back in Sweden.

For the past three days we have had a very unpleasant loose contact with our fan at the front, which means the heating is off all the time. At one point the windshield washer didn’t even work; that would be really bad in

This weather. In any case, it’s cold and I’m just now looking at the weather report for tomorrow and I just happened to see that the weather is changing. Rain turns into snow, heavy snow and wind, so a worst snowstorm is coming,

Which means we have now decided that no matter what, we are driving through today, we have to go south. We don’t have any winter clothes with us, no thick jackets and stuff like that, no, really, no. I don’t want to come in in the winter at all, do you?

But how cool would it be if it were to cut in Rovaniemi now, you could go to Santa Claus Village and at least have snow, but only there, the rest can please stay free, no it gets really cold, 0 degrees, minus 2° or something like

That It can get slippery when it’s so wet, I really don’t mind. Imagine if everything on our route were now snowing, like in winter, and otherwise there was no snow at all anywhere! Let’s hope not! We’ve had it before, and we don’t want it again.

I don’t know who followed us back then. We hadn’t made YouTube yet at the time, so I’ll see if I can dig up some old archive recordings. Exactly in Rovaniemi 2 years ago we happened to be looking at maps, and I said to Christian:

It’s only 600 km or so, I don’t know exactly, it’s only 600 km to the North Cape, and we already had it at that point We had two failed attempts to get to the North Cape because we were never able

Or wanted to drive that far for reasons of time and desire, and then he said: Yes, we’re going there! But it was lockdown, Norway theoretically didn’t let anyone in and then we said, okay, then we’ll just go to the Norwegian border and see what happens,

Whether we’re allowed to enter or not and if we get into Norway, then we’ll see it as Sign that we should go to the Northern Cape. An old ass, that was mid-October. We set off from Rovaniemi, where it was autumnal, like it is now perhaps, and the further we go

As we came north, there was already more snow on the side of the road, at some point all the trees were white, then suddenly the road was white, snow became a lot of snow, a lot of snow became ice and at some point

In the middle of the night we were between Karesuando, the northernmost Swedish town Village and Alta, which is in the very north of Norway, in the fells at -20°, all the water is frozen. We bought two bags of firewood, which burned down after 45 minutes because it was so cold.

Wow, that was such a bad night, we saw the northern lights really amazingly and for the first time that night. So it was somehow worth it and it’s a cool story today, but I don’t need it again, it just sucked.

We then drove south from Alta, always to the point where the temperatures were lowest below zero so that our water doesn’t freeze again, always south, depending on the temperature. Oh, we’re going to Narvik today, it’s only -9° and stuff, so that was tough. As far as Trondheim,

It was slowly becoming autumn again, and then we decided to drive back to Sweden because you have to go all the way through the mountains. So that was bad, it was really bad, we only had all-weather tires on it.

I wrote a blog post about it, which you are welcome to read if you want . All winter camping tips based on this experience, accurate. So enough chatting, we want to take a break somewhere, we’re hungry, and then we’ll take a look.

Or nice and warm, our ventilation has now started again and we now have to heat as much as possible until it fails again next time, because it keeps going on and off. Probably, I’ve already read up on it, it’s probably the case that…

There’s some kind of resistance or resistances and they can corrode and you have to remove them, sand them down and put them back in, and maybe we’ll have to do that tonight. We made it to Rovaniemi, we are finally there. However, we didn’t drive yesterday, we made a stopover.

It rained really hard and constantly all night long. It was a bit stormy at times, but it was the right decision to continue driving, because this morning there were cars coming towards us that had or had overtaken us, from the north with a layer of snow

On top, so we would definitely have been covered in snow if we had stayed where we were. For us the precipitation came down in liquid form, now it has just stopped a bit. I’ll now write all the wishes on a nice piece of paper and then

Minnie and I will go to Santa Claus and hand over the wish list, i.e. the community wish list, and her personal wish list, stroll around Santa Claus Village for a bit, and of course take you with us. It has to be said that we have been here a lot, so very touristy,

You can spend a lot of money here, buy souvenirs, Santa Claus also pays well to have a photo taken with him, me I think we paid €30 or €40 last time. It’s a beautiful, high-quality photo, but it’s not cheap either, yes. Let’s see what it’s like this time, it’s already been two years.

We are definitely looking forward to it and you are welcome to come along. So dear ones, I’m now writing Santa’s wish list. I’ll now transfer all the wishes you sent me to the list here, then I’ll dress it all up a bit and then we’ll hand it over together.

So, I wrote down all the wishes and two sides came together. There were a lot of great wishes, just like the last time we did this. Now we’ll tie it up and then we’ll be ready for Santa Claus. For

The next step I went out because I’m afraid that our bus will burn down. But it looks so nice when it’s a little charred at the edge, I think. Once, second page too. In order to give it the right “used look”, I have to make sure that

Everything is really finished correctly, so that the whole wish list mailbox doesn’t burn down, that would of course be a complete catastrophe, and then off we go! So, first I put on something warm, it’s really bitterly cold, a friend of mine just wrote me a message saying that

It’s been snowing constantly in Kiruna since yesterday, we saw cars with snow on them, we have to get out of here, we have to go South. It’s also really cold, we don’t have the right clothes with us. I’ve already knitted something like this here and Minnie’s sweater

Is almost finished, but oh no, the heating runs non-stop. Otherwise we can’t stand it anymore, but now we’re off to see Santa Claus. [Music] It’s also funny that the Arctic Circle runs right through the middle of Santa Claus Village. Minnie is now officially out of the Arctic again, and I’m heading south again. Yes, I told you the story yesterday that we were stuck in the snow and Christian says this sign was the corpus delicti,

Why we came up with the stupid idea of ​​going to the North Cape. Yes, I think so. But that was a month later in the year and since yesterday it has been snowing non-stop here an hour to the north, and here the rain is slowly turning into squalls. So we have to go,

But this! That was the guilty sign. There is also a post office here, the sign just now said: 96 days until Christmas. Everything here is really designed to ensure you have a great time. You can write postcards and then there are two different mailboxes. Once in a mailbox,

Where they will be sent immediately, and then a mailbox, where they will be sent shortly before Christmas, and then arrive on time as Christmas mail. So we have good ideas again. Well, someone came here on a bike, and he can definitely tell stories. Santa Claus Village is done, it was stressful, sensational,

But also stressful. It’s just a real classic tourist story, but it’s really, really beautifully done. It has to be said that it is well exploited commercially, but our little one is always happy about it. Once you’re here and yes, Santa Claus is there for the children,

It’s all really well done and so on, here are the elves, they really live their role. That’s really really cool, so you can definitely go there and we’ve now done everything we had to, wanted, needed, postcards, photos and so on. Now let’s move on, I would say no.

Wish list, exactly, and now we move on: off to Sweden! I’ll now make sure that we have fresh internet because our mobile data has been used up and luckily there’s Santa Claus’s free WiFi hotspot here, so I’ll get fresh internet again right now and then we’ll get started.

An hour and a half to the border, then we’ll be back in Sweden this evening and even further away from the snow because it follows us mercilessly. And you’ll see in the next episode whether we made it to Sweden without snow . Until then, bye!!!! music] [Music