Santa’s summer

An old cabin made of grey logs stands in the out-back beyond Korvatunturi Mountain, on the shore of a little, clear lake surrounded by the forest. You can’t even see it from far, but if you look very closely at the right direction, you can perceive a little quay on the shore, and beyond it a path and then the steps leading to the door. There seems to be a fireplace in the yard and from behind the cabin begins the causeway leading to a certain well-known secret mountain. But you are not able to find this causeway if you don’t proceed properly. First you have to go around a little dwarf birch two times clockwise and then to step between the two prettiest cloudberry flowers. Well well, then you can see there between the tussocks the causeway you didn’t see earlier.

The person who walks along this causeway to his own secret cabin, is, of course, Santa Claus. The secret summerhouse is a place where Santa Claus relaxes in his privacy admiring the midnight sun. Actually, Santa Claus doesn’t have any summer holiday, but now and then he wanders outdoors, rows on a lake and sits at a campfire in deep thoughts. Certainly there are visitors at Santa’s Chamber also in the summer. Travellers from all over the world come to the land of the midnight sun and naturally they want to meet Santa Claus, too. Santa welcomes them warmly in his Chamber, and always when somebody is knocking the door, Santa surely is there.

It is summer now and the wintry blizzards and cracking frosts seem to be very far away. So thinks Santa Claus, too, but even in the light summer nights and burning days Christmas prevails in his mind as a warm thought.