When I was in my twenties, I studied to become a wilderness guide and carried out that activity for several years in the arctic circle. I also spent a while serving the Finnish Army so spending both warm and cold nights outside in a tent was therefore quite familiar to me. But then Adulthood decided to hit and so I chose to study at university. I then worked for 15 years as a registered nutritionist specialised in psychology of eating. Although it was a very interesting job, mentally it was not easy every day. I started to miss nature a little more every day and longed to go camping again. Since my preference for comfort had also grown stronger over the years, I didn’t really do anything with that desire to camp and just daydreamed about it.

When covid hit, most of my working days changed leading me to sit behind my desk working on my computer all day long. By Autumn 2019, I had enough with this routine and decided to try something completely different. And that was when I bought my very first 5 meter bell tent! I pitched it in my backyard, enjoyed the comfort and cosiness of it and just loved camping (with a bit more comfort) again! I wanted to share this same glamping experience with other people and decided to list my backyard bell tent on AirBnb. After two hours, I already had some reservation. And the rest is history.