Canoeing on the lake, Kuhmo - The Travelling Editor

The sunset draped a glean on the sapphire lake and turned it amber – and we were about to run our canoe head-on to the shoreline. My focus was so fixed for a moment on the horizon, the bold line of landmass – the Finnish town of Kuhmo, distantly – separating the two patches of golden-dyed blue, that I didn’t realised Kate had switched her paddle from right to left; as the current carrying us grew stronger with the evening gust, and both our oars beating on the same si…