Cabins in the wilderness

Luxurious cabin with Wi-Fi and mod cons

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Log cabin in the middle of nowhere

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Getting warm and snug in front of the fireplace

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Cabins in the wilderness

There’s nothing like going to a log cabin for a bit of peace and quiet. Getting away from it all. From city life, school and work, noise, traffic and pollution. You can hike and swim in the summer, pick berries in the autumn and go skiing in the winter. Live a simple life. There’s no better place on earth than your very own cabin in that special place in the wilderness.

Except if you’re a teenager, of course. At least, some teenagers. For them going to a cabin with their family for a week, or even a weekend, is hell on earth. You’re stuck in a tiny space with no privacy, and probably no decent bathroom either. And you have to share a bedroom with your brother or sister. There’s not even any Wi-Fi, and you’re bang in the middle of a mobile black spot. To top it all, your dad wants you to get up at the crack of dawn to go for long walks, and your mum cannot understand why you don’t want to play cards for hours and hours. Every. Single. Evening. Ha, ha, what fun – not.

But let’s assume that you’re someone who actually likes staying in a cabin. In Canada there are thousands to rent all over the country, so you have a fantastic choice. You can stay in a log cabin by a lake or go canoeing and camping out in the wild. As the Canadian wilderness is so vast, you can go for days and weeks without seeing anyone. Lakes play a bigger part in Canadian outdoor life than they do in Norway. What can you use a lake for? You can canoe on it, swim in it, fish from it, drink it, use the water for cooking or have a bath in it. They’re not bad at sunset either. And as there are 30,000 of them, there’s always one fairly close by.

Log cabins also remind Canadians of their history. They remind them of the old days when people travelled by horse and wagon, and built their first primitive homes in the wilderness. Hunters and fur trappers lived in simple cabins for weeks and months, not seeing anyone. These days cabins are just as likely to have all mod cons, even more so than here in Norway. So maybe it’s a little easier being a teenager in Canada.

Cabins in the wilderness

Cabins in the wilderness

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