Long Way Home (2025) s01e06 Episode Script

1
[theme song playing]
[Ewan] Across 20 years,
and three incredible adventures,
we've traveled to some of
the farthest flung corners of the world.
This is us on the road, Charley.
This is us on the way, man.
Yet we've never properly explored
the countries on our own doorstep.
- Okay, here we go. Into Europe.
- [Charley] Let's do it.
So, we're spending
the summer riding a spectacular loop
through 17 of our closest neighbors.
[Ewan] Starting at my house in Scotland,
we'll cross over to the continent,
travel up through the Nordics,
and into the Arctic Circle,
down to the Baltics before winding our way
through the Alps and across France,
returning home about two months later.
[Charley] And we're gonna throw
caution to the wind
by doing the journey
on temperamental 50-year-old bikes
that have been given a new lease of life.
[Ewan] My bike's making a funny noise.
[bike clangs]
[Russ] Riding alongside them
on a third motorcycle
are cameramen Claudio and Max.
And the guys will also be taking
personal diary cameras.
[David] Russ and I will be following
with a small crew and two electric trucks.
Only meeting up
with the guys when necessary.
[cheering]
[Ewan] So, this summer,
Europe is our playground.
- Wow!
- [blowing]
[Ewan] And we're gonna follow our noses
and see what we find on the open road.
["There's Always Gonna Be Something"
playing]
[Ewan] Norway,
you have really, really blown my mind.
We're on the way to Sweden!
I looked at the map last night.
I thought we were so much further south.
I was like, "Oh, God,
- we're still so far up there, man."
- [Charley chuckling]
[Ewan laughs]
Having been as far north
as this trip will take us,
our plan for this leg
is to start heading south into Sweden
and then into Finland,
as we look to get lost in the forests
and lakes of Lapland.
[Charley] Everything changes
when you cross a border.
That's what's so nice.
["There's Always Gonna Be Something"
continues playing]
[Charley]
Oh, yeah, look at that. Straight road,
- down into some beautiful lake.
- [Ewan] Very nice.
[insects buzzing]
Look at these bugs.
Jesus!
[in foreign accent] Jesus.
You can see them. Clouds of them.
But that's funny.
Like in the in the space of an hour
Well, that's 'cause there's so many trees
and so much water here, I guess.
I got some sausages, some dinner.
- [Charley, indistinct]
- Here, have some jerky.
- No. No, thank you.
- No?
- I've changed.
- [Ewan] Your body's a temple.
I used to be a jerky boy for a long time.
[crew member laughs]
[Charley, Ewan chuckle]
Okay.
- [motorcycle revs]
- [Ewan grunts]
[Charley]
Oh, there's something on the road there.
[Ewan] Unbelievable.
He's got a tiny windscreen.
[Charley] I know. He's got like a little
just a little car, isn't it?
[Ewan] Let's see what he's up to.
Can he come in?
Yes!
- [Charley] Hello.
- [Ewan] What are you
- [Charley] Wow.
- what are you doing in there?
Cycling.
What does it feel like in there?
Exhausting.
Downhill and in the flat it's great, but
- [Ewan] Yeah. Up the hills
- Uphill is
[Ewan] Are you on a tour
or are you just out for the day?
No, it's a kind of a challenge.
[Ewan] How how many miles? Or kilometers?
- 2,100.
- [Charley] Oh.
[laughing] 2,100 kilometers.
In how long? How long?
Uh, 8 days.
[Ewan] What's your name?
- Niklas.
- [Ewan] Niklas.
I'm Ewan and Charley.
We do long, long motorcycle rides
- [Niklas] Okay.
- but it's very easy for us
- compared to what you're doing.
- Well, well
- I mean, it's very hard for us as well.
- It's very hard for us too.
[Charley] I mean, the elements. [chuckles]
- Good luck, mate.
- [Niklas] Good luck.
So nice to meet you. Thank you so much.
- [Niklas] No problem.
- See you. Take care.
- [horn honks]
- [crew member clapping]
[Ewan] That is fantastic.
[Charley chuckles]
[Ewan] Okay, guys. Should we go?
[rock music playing]
[chuckling]
It's a good on the road song. Wasn't it?
[Charley] It is. Good [stammers]
good travel song.
[Charley] Oh, there's a deer.
It's a big elk or reindeer, that is.
Holy moly.
[rock music continues]
There's a little road here on the left.
Don't know where that goes.
[Ewan] Hmm. Goes straight to our campsite,
that's what I think.
[Charley] Oh, look. This could be good.
[Ewan] Can we camp here?
But I I guess we can, right?
[Charley] Yeah.
[Ewan] All right.
[insects buzzing]
[rock music stops]
[blows]
- [zipper opens]
- [urine splashing]
[Charley] Jesus.
- Going all the way up my johnson.
- [chuckles]
[Ewan] Taking your life
in your hands there.
[Charley grunts, blows]
But look where we are. We're in a
a wood next to a marsh. I mean,
we're asking for it, really.
Every paradise
- There is a
- [Ewan] Oh, no. There's the rain.
- [Charley grunts]
- [Ewan] Ah, balls.
Speedy, speedy.
[buzzing]
[sighs]
[blows]
[Ewan] Shit.
Very, very, very annoying.
Shit. It's getting so wet.
My tent [grunts]
- [sighing, grunting]
- [thunder rumbling]
Here and here
[spraying]
Okay.
[Ewan] That's very soggy.
Uh, no.
[Charley] Are you Are you in yet?
Oh, no. You're not in.
[Ewan] I just came to see you.
[Charley stammers] Whose idea was it
- to camp tonight?
- [Ewan chuckles]
Ah, boy.
Yeah, what a baptism of, you know,
the start of the rest of the trip.
Inside my tent,
they're all just looking at me.
- [chuckles] Trying to get inside.
- [insects buzzing]
They want my blood.
[Ewan] All right, Charley?
What a night. Bloody hell.
Maybe I'll be dry
in the morning. I hope so.
Let's skip cooking
the sausages tonight. [chuckles]
Cheers. Night, Charley.
[insects buzzing continues]
[tent zipper opens]
Smuggling around out there, Charley?
[grunts]
- [blows] Morning, Ewan.
- [Ewan] Morning, Charley. How are you?
- How the devil are you, old bean?
- [Ewan] Pretty good, man.
[insects buzzing]
[breathing heavily]
Sorry. I'll get my trousers done up.
[chuckles] Oh, my God.
Well, at least it's not raining.
[whispers] My God, they're everywhere.
In Siberia No, far eastern Russia,
I got badly bitten on my
- [Claudio] Oh, my goodness.
- Yeah.
Made a really nice, uh,
camp here last night.
There's lots of mosquitoes here. [sniffs]
And my, um, bottom has been
bitten rather badly yesterday.
[Charley] Wow. Jesus.
- There's one, two, three, four, five.
- [Ewan chuckles]
There's five. At least five.
And that was just in one On one squat.
One sitting.
And also my willy
is bitten in three places.
- He really helped himself, didn't he?
- [Charley chuckles]
Little greedy bastard.
- Oh, my God.
- [Claudio] Yes. No need to ask.
There's a there's a there's
a thing in Britain called a Twiglet,
which is like a a snack. [chuckles]
It's like this bent, knobbled
That's what my penis looked like.
- [Claudio] Oh, my goodness.
- Just terrible. It was terrible.
[Charley] Look at where we are.
Wow, that's just beautiful, isn't it?
[Ewan] We've got a lot of miles
to cover today
as we continue heading south.
And with so much
of Sweden covered by forest,
we're all set for a beautiful journey.
[motorcycle backfiring, revving]
Oh, hang on.
I think I can hear Ewan's bike.
I-I'd I thought we fixed this in Norway.
- [backfiring, revving]
- [Charley groans]
That's so annoying for Ewan, isn't it?
To have that noise again.
- [motorcycle sputters, stops]
- [Ewan sighs]
I don't know how to fix it. I don't know
[sniffs] myself, how to make it better.
Which really pisses me off.
Annoys me.
[insects buzzing]
[Charley] Can we go?
Right? Come on, man. Let's get outta here.
[backfiring, revving]
To survive on a trip like this,
you become so attached to your motorcycle.
And you become so reliant on it.
When your bike is not running right,
it's it's an horrible, horrible feeling.
[Ewan] Oh, gravel
- [Charley] Oh, gravel. Oh.
- I think. Gravel, guys.
[Charley] Watch yourselves.
The road less traveled.
[motorcycle sputters, backfires]
You all right there, Ewan?
[Ewan] It's not running great.
[Charley] Just an old bike.
You know, it's 1974.
[Ewan] It's got to be fixable.
It's just a machine.
I just wanna fix my bike.
That's what I wanna do.
[Charley] Should we stop here?
Oh, my God. That's quite oily still.
Um, so,
let's see.
Oh, yeah. Look, that's coming through.
- Hey, Moe.
- [Moe] All right,
- so what is your problem?
- [Ewan sighs]
I just took the covers off
both the float bowls.
I put some fuse wire up the, uh
All the three jets.
I've sprayed them
All three jets with carb cleaner.
[Moe] Okay. So now, I want you
to push the plug into the plug wire.
- [Ewan] Yeah.
- [Moe] I want you to lay the plug wire
on the valve cover.
- [Ewan] Like this?
- [Moe] Yeah, that should do it.
Okay, watch. Ready?
[Moe] Yeah, let me see.
[sputtering]
- [Moe] It's not sparking or something.
- It's not sparking, right?
It's just sparking initially
and then it doesn't spark.
[Moe] Okay. Check the plug wires
going into the distributor cap.
Make sure those wires are pushed
all the way in.
Oh, yeah. That went in.
- Okay, that Was that it?
- Okay, well, there's your problem.
Somewhere along
All right, make sure they're all in.
Yeah, that just jumped in.
Okay, well, there's your problem.
Crank it.
[starter grinds]
[revving]
- [Charley] Oh, my God.
- [kisses]
[Moe speaks indistinctly]
[exclaims]
You got it figured out.
[Ewan chuckles]
Is it normal to want
to cry at a moment like this?
Is that sort of a thing that happens?
Well, I feel like a million dollars.
Thanks, Moe.
[motorcycle engine revving]
[Ewan] Ah, so smooth and nice.
[laughs]
Ooh, it's so nice.
- [Charley] It sounds amazing.
- [Ewan chuckles]
[Charley] Well, I can tell you,
it sounds a lot better than it did.
- You know. I mean
- [Ewan chuckling]
I didn't want to say anything before,
but wow.
[Charley] Ewan, look at those cars.
I wonder where they're going.
Should we follow them?
It's a it's a drag strip.
I wasn't expecting this.
[tires squeal]
I think the strip must be there,
where the
- Where the seats are.
- Where the seats are, yeah.
- It's so funny. It's so much effort.
- So much money.
- Money and effort, for what
- Yeah.
how long does it take?
- [exclaims, stammers] Well, yeah.
- Thirty seconds? Twenty-five seconds.
Amazing.
It's just a quarter mile.
No, no corners. Dead straight.
- What is that?
- [Ewan] Look at that.
The size of the engine. It's no wonder
- that they're so big.
- [Charley] Oh, that is just huge.
[racer] Hello.
[Ewan] Can you tell us how it all works?
They tell me to roll to the pre-stage.
I have my RPM up.
And, uh, roll a little bit more.
I push the "start" button,
and I release the button.
And it goes away. [chuckles]
- [Ewan] Wow.
- [racer] Yeah.
[Charley] Wow, that's awesome.
Oh, my God. Are there kids racing?
Hello. How old is is your daughter?
[person] Hey. My daughter, she's nine.
[Charley] Oh, wow.
- She's been driving since she was six.
- Wait, she was doing this
- when she was six?
- Yes.
- How many children do you have then?
- Three.
You have three children
- Three children.
- and all of them are
- Yes, that's her big brother. He's 16.
- That's a
And the one on the bike is 14.
- So [speaks indistinctly] Yeah!
- Oh, your heart must be
I mean, she's got to be
the coolest girl in school.
[announcer] Next up, coming all the way
from the UK,
we have two electric Rivians
- going head-to-head
- Oh!
- on the track.
- Uh-oh.
[Ewan chuckles] Oh, my God.
Look, Dave and Russ are gonna race.
- You ready to race, mate?
- Yeah, let's do this, man.
- [Russ] Come on.
- This is me promising that
whatever happens at the race
- is my fault.
- [official] Yeah.
[engines revving]
- [Charley chuckling]
- [grunts]
[announcer] Ten.
[race official speaking indistinctly]
[Charley] Come on!
Holy shit.
Oh, no.
- [announcer] And it's the white Rivian
- [crowd clapping]
- that's the winner.
- Nice burnout.
I like it.
[clicks tongue, sighs]
I've gotta be a humble loser.
- [announcer speaks indistinctly]
- [Dave laughs]
Really, it's [stammers]
it's won or lost
- Reaction.
- At the reaction time,
- it's won or lost.
- That's where Dave did good.
His reaction time.
- I'm surprised.
- Point four of a second.
[chuckling]
Like a boss.
I love it. I really enjoyed it.
[Charley] I mean, what an event
to come across in the wilderness.
Sweden just keeps handing us
these surprises.
[Ewan] I'm so glad we chose
this route, Charley.
[acoustic rock song playing]
After last night's camping in the rain,
we've booked some cozy cabins for tonight.
[sighs]
Ah, it's gorgeous.
We could put a little fire on
to heat it all up.
I'm gonna take my
- boots off. That's perfect.
- [Charley] Uh
[Ewan] Is that a little cooking spot
we can use in the forest?
[Charley] Okay, who's hungry?
Is anyone hungry?
Don't worry. It's all going terribly well.
[Charley chuckles]
Make sure you don't burn anything.
Think they're done? Yeah.
[Ewan] Thanks, Charley,
for doing the food.
[Charley] Pleasure.
Wow.
There's real heat coming off it.
It's nice.
It feels like if you walked off
for, like, a minute and a half,
- you'd get totally, totally lost.
- [Charley] Yeah. Hmm.
Like you'd never find your way back,
you know?
[Charley] This is
where I stayed last night.
It was really nice to get some good sleep.
There he is.
Happy bunny, in the back there.
Gonna pack up our stuff now
and, um, head off
to the next excitement.
Um
Let's see where we go.
["'Cello Song" playing]
I'm riding along listening
to some Nick Drake.
Oh, I love Nick Drake.
This seems very in keeping
with the scenery today,
this road through the forests of Sweden.
[Charley] Oh, there's a deer here on the
Ooh, that's a big one.
Look at that.
[Ewan] Beautiful.
Today we've been invited to meet Tony,
a traditional craftsman
and a local legend,
who has a special connection
to these magnificent creatures
and the forest in which they live.
[Charley] He's just down in one
of those houses, I think.
[Ewan] Down here on the left.
["'Cello Song" stops]
Think this is it?
- [Ewan] Yeah.
- This looks like it.
SÁMI CRAFTS AND REINDEER PRODUCTS
TONY HEDMAN
[Ewan] Hello, lovely dog.
- [Tony] Afternoon. Tony.
- [Ewan] Nice to meet you. I'm Ew
- Nice to see you.
- [Tony] Hey.
- You must say hello to the dog.
- I wanted to say hello.
- I didn't know whether
- [speaks Swedish]
That dog is so kind [stammers]
she will only kiss you.
[Ewan] She's like a snow dog.
She's a Swedish white moose hunting dog
but she's not barking for the moose.
- [Ewan whispers] Hello, darling.
- [Tony] She is always kind.
- Everybody loves her.
- [Charley] Sweetheart.
- [Ewan] Yes.
- Can we go in or, uh
- Yeah, you can show us what you do.
- First we go in and eat.
- You haven't drink coffee and tea
- Yeah.
- afternoon?
- Oh, we'd love that.
- [water pouring]
- [Ewan] Cheers. Thank you very much.
- [Charley] Yes, thank you.
- [Tony] You eat dried reindeer.
- Try.
- Yeah, eat.
I've eaten. I've been eating
quite a lot actually.
- Have you had some?
- [chuckles] I've had some, yeah.
[Ewan] Yeah, I like it.
- Have you seen reindeer?
- [Charley] We've seen lots of reindeer.
- On the road. Whoo!
- Yes. Yes, yes, it's very dangerous.
- That's life here, you know.
- Okay.
[Charley] So, you ran a business here?
I started with, uh
In the '70s.
- [Charley] Mm-hmm.
- About 50 years ago.
I was young boy.
Then I started to buy
and sell reindeer skin, reindeer horn.
Do you hunt the reindeer yourself?
[Tony] You cannot hunting reindeer.
- [Ewan] Right.
- There's They have owner.
Every reindeer have a owner.
- [Charley] Oh.
- If people own them,
- and you can't hunt them
- No.
how do you end up
with the skins and the meat?
- Because the the owner slaughter them
- [Ewan] Right.
- sell the meat and sell the skin.
- [Ewan] I see.
Dry the skin and sell it.
And what do you like to do with the hides?
You take them in the water,
take the hair away after five, six weeks,
and then you make leather.
And then you can make,
uh, leather for beautiful things.
When you have Can make leather
for this kind.
- For a leather for a knife
- Oh, for the knife.
or you can make white leather.
So, you can make this amazing, beautiful
- Oh, that is beautiful. Yeah.
- small bag.
- [Ewan] That is beautiful.
- Very beautiful.
You can make the ornaments
by yourself today.
- We can?
- Yes.
Oh, great. I'd love to.
[Ewan] Come on, we're going in here.
[floor creaking]
I can see you [chuckles]
- [Tony] Don't move too much! [laughs]
- I can see you've had a bit of a tidy up.
- Bloody hell.
- One sit here and one sit there.
- [Charley] Okay. All right.
- Okay.
[Tony] Uh, you want to make bottle opener.
- No, no, I'd like a cheese knife.
- [Tony] A cheese knife. Like these.
'Cause I'm, I'm
What's that say? Cheese?
Yeah, that's great. That's great.
I'm making a cheese knife today.
- [laughs]
- And you want to have
- [Ewan] Like a
- Butter knife or, uh, knife?
- A knife knife.
- [Tony] A really knife.
A really knife.
- [machine whirring]
- Oh, look, he's cutting a horn.
- That's not a knife.
- [Tony] No.
- [Ewan] This is a knife.
- [Charley] Yeah.
- [Tony] We cut this one
- [Ewan] Okay.
then you put
Drill it, put the glue, and then ka-tung.
- Okay, ka-tung.
- [Tony] Yes. [laughs]
That's the technical term.
We [stammers] We ka-tung it.
[Tony laughs] Yes.
[drill whirring]
Look at the concentration
on Charley's face.
Yes!
Now we're talking. Look.
- That's about enough, do you think?
- It's good.
- Charley, that's beautiful.
- [Tony] Yes. Very good.
Won't give it to him quite yet.
But we can show it to him.
[Charley] That's my wife Olivia.
That's Doone, my daughter.
And Kinvara.
- [Tony] It's very special.
- [Ewan] Well, thank you.
What do we owe you for this?
No. I never take one Krona.
I don't need a house
for 400 square meters.
I don't need to show the new car.
And I have 1,300 hectare,
because I don't want to cut the trees.
I save it for the next generation,
and the next, and the next.
- [Charley] That's important.
- [Tony] Because I have a free life.
That's That's very, very rich life.
Little bit mosquitoes sometimes,
but otherwise, it's good.
What kind of person
would complain about that?
[all laugh]
[shutter clicks]
[Ewan] I just found it very moving.
Tony, I just clicked with him
as soon as I met him.
And that's what this trip is all about,
connecting with people and learning
about the places they live.
We've been told about
an amazing eco-hotel up ahead,
where we can get even closer
to Tony's beloved forest,
and sleep among the trees.
Look at the pine forest.
It's beautiful, isn't it?
- [Charley] Yeah.
- Smells Smells amazing. Oh, I love it.
[Charley] I love the shimmer
when you look through the tress.
[Ewan] Have you ever stayed
in a tree house before?
- [Charley] No.
- I don't think I've ever slept in one.
[concierge] Welcome to the Treehotel.
[Charley] Each room here
has been uniquely designed
by a leading Scandinavian architect,
with extreme care taken to have
as little impact
on the environment as possible.
[Ewan] Okay, Charley, you go first.
- [Charley] Okay.
- [Ewan] This is your place.
Okay, come Come into my house, Ewan.
Oh, bird nests.
Stunning.
[concierge]
Three hundred and fifty bird houses.
[Ewan] It's so nuts!
[Charley giggles] Oh, my God.
Look at that. It's a glass roof.
[Ewan] That's amazing.
- Extraordinary.
- Well, have a lovely time, Charley.
Let's have a look at yours.
I'm desperate to have a look at yours.
[Ewan] Come on, then.
Oh, I love it.
So, you can see this one
is hanging in the trees.
- [Charley] Wow.
- [Ewan] Yeah.
[concierge] And what we need to do is
we need to open for the trees to grow.
- [Ewan] Wow.
- [shutter clicks]
It's nice that we are next to each other.
[gasps] Oh, my gosh.
Look at that.
This really feels high up, doesn't it?
It's really amazing.
[Charley] It's just, uh, just us.
And nature.
And just stunning and beautiful.
Tony the craftsman.
Wow. Was he a character.
We spent, what, three hours with him.
Just had the most fantastic fun.
Great entertainment.
And lovely to see how he lives in harmony
with his surroundings.
Anyway, time to get some sleep now
in my beautiful tree house.
Good night.
[coffee machine whirring]
It's nice to be
in beautiful places like this,
but it's, um, obviously much nicer
if you have someone to share it with.
[phone rings]
[chuckles]
Hello, Charley.
Good morning, my good man!
[laughs]
How are you in your tree house?
I'm sitting in my in my chair,
um, thinking about you.
[both laugh]
In your swing chair.
In my swing chair, yes. [laughs]
I'm all naked and ready. [laughs]
Charley, no!
I'm doing my video diary.
That was completely on camera.
- Oh, no!
- [laughs]
I was just joking!
Well, we'll make them wonder now, right?
I'm sure they all wonder anyway.
[both laugh]
[engine starts]
[Ewan] We're now leaving the forests
of Sweden and crossing into Finland,
known as the land of a thousand lakes.
Oh, wow, look at this.
Finlandia! Whoo!
[Charley] That's why traveling overland
is so much fun.
It's this change, constantly.
[Ewan] Could you tell
I'm getting hungry? [laughs]
[Charley laughs]
- [Ewan] Let's stop over here, shall we?
- Yeah.
[Ewan] Maybe make our own tea,
- do some fishing.
- [Charley] Yeah.
Ewan's got the old, uh, stove going along.
We've got food, you know. It's perfect.
- You have a lighter?
- Yeah.
I sure do.
- Oh, did you fall down?
- [grunts] Yeah.
Did you?
[all laugh]
[Charley] There was a stump.
- Okay. Oh, you're having the dal rice.
- Yeah, I'm going to go for it.
Mmm.
It's always a good idea
to bring some seasoning along.
Oh, there are some blueberries there.
Are they ripe enough to eat?
Mmm. Well, really close.
Reminds me of when I was in Ireland.
In Ireland they call them fraocháns.
And we'd always go off
looking for fraocháns.
I would go with my friend Kas,
and we'd go on our motorbikes together,
and just go off
into the Wicklow Mountains.
We'd sit there, us talking rubbish,
and eating handfuls of fraocháns.
Or blueberries.
[fishing line ripples]
- Ah, that was a good one.
- [Charley] That's a good cast.
Very nice.
[Ewan] You want to go, Charley?
[Charley] Yeah, I can do it.
[Ewan] All right, mate.
Beauty, mate. Beauty.
Feels a bit heavy this one.
Is that Have you got a smaller?
- [fishing line ripples]
- [Ewan] Oh! Oh! Easy.
[Charley] Oh I went right over the
[Ewan gasps] Oh, shit!
[Charley] Oh, my God. The drone.
I just cast over the head of it.
Hold on, I think I've got it caught.
- [Ewan] Can you wind it in?
- I'm winding it in, yeah.
It went right over the top.
[bleep] cast.
- Have you got it?
- I think I've got it.
- [Ewan] Oh, wow, what a cast!
- Jesus!
[Ewan] Like [laughs]
[Charley] There it is!
The light's still on!
- [Ewan] The line is still on!
- I caught a fish!
- I got a fish!
- [Ewan laughs]
- [Charley] I caught a fish!
- [Ewan] Amazing!
- [crew] Pick it up and raise it!
- [Ewan laughs]
Oh, my God! That is outrageous!
- [Ewan] We did it! We did it!
- [crew] No, no, no.
[Ewan] Look,
it's totally mangled in there.
What are the chances, Charley?
You had the whole lake. The whole lake!
The whole lake, and it just cast that way.
[Ewan] Right over the top.
God, it went way past that.
Oh, God, that is funny.
- Well, at least we caught something.
- [Ewan laughs]
Amongst these Finnish lakes
we've heard of this crazy sport
where they race snowmobiles,
but not how you might imagine.
[engines revving]
[announcer speaking Finnish]
Wow!
My brain doesn't understand
what it's seeing.
It's like playing the bagpipes,
'cause you got to have constant breath
going through the pipes,
so you can't stop.
And this is, like, the sort of
water motorsport version
of playing the bagpipes.
'Cause if you stop on one of these
you just sink.
It looks like he's in trouble, this guy.
[announcer speaking Finnish]
- Ooh!
- [announcer speaking Finnish]
[laughs]
Oh, my gosh.
Who is the first person that got to a lake
on their snowmobile and went,
"Maybe I'll try it," and raced across?
- And thought, "I can make it." Yeah.
- "I can make it."
Mac and Cheese, I want you to meet Mikko.
- Oh, wow. Fantastic.
- Mikko runs the event.
Hello. Very nice to see you.
- This is his bodyguard.
- Hello. Hi. Nice to see you.
- Hey, buddy. How are you? I'm Ewan.
- Nice to see you. Hello.
Hello, hello. How are you?
Nice to meet you.
[Charley] We can go to the pits.
- Let's go see.
- [Charley] Yeah, let's go.
Yes, absolutely.
- [Charley laughs]
- Isn't that amazing?
- Oh, good for snackage. Uh-oh.
- Oh, yeah, I saw that.
Oh, God. Look at the cake and the donuts.
[gasps] Sausages.
Oh, sausages.
[Ewan] Nice to meet you. How are you?
Hello. Hi. I'm Charley.
- [Ewan] What was your name?
- Emmi.
- Are you in the final today?
- Uh, yes. Almost.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
- Are you excited?
- Yeah, yeah. Excited for the finals.
- [all laugh]
- [Ewan] Okay.
- Can I see it?
- Yes, of course.
- Is it all to do with your body?
- [Emmi] Yes. It's very wobbly, yes.
And you have to keep
the weight of the front up.
- [Emmi] Yes. Mm-hmm.
- [Ewan] I hope we get to see your final.
- I hope. Yes.
- We'll be rooting for you.
[laughs] Thank you.
[engine revving]
- You're Ewan McGregor?
- Yes.
- Oh, shit!
- That's right. How are you?
- Nice to meet you. What's your name?
- I'm doing fine. Jarkko.
- Jarkko. This is Charley Boorman.
- Hi, I'm Charley. Nice to see you.
There's a lot of American muscle
here in Finland,
and in Sweden, and Right?
There seems to be like a
Yeah, because the distances are long.
Basically, you have two things to do,
enjoy motorsports some way, or drink.
- Right. Right.
- [Jarkko laughs] Yeah.
[engine revving]
[Ewan] This is the ladies' final.
[Charley] Ladies' final.
- [Emmi] Thank you. [laughs]
- Have a good race.
[engine revving]
- Let's do it.
- Go on!
[Ewan] Come on, 96!
Oh! Oh!
Way in the Way in the lead.
- Well done, well done.
- Yeah. Brilliant. That was a good race.
[Jarkko speaking Finnish]
[Russ] Are you going to celebrate
tonight? You gonna celebrate?
Yes, of course! [laughs]
What a bonkers, niche, niche, niche sport.
Snowmobiles on the water.
[Charley] Unless they sink.
How do they get it back?
[Mikko] There is special boat.
So the boat comes
and he lifts it out of the water?
Yes.
[Charley] How many are missing?
- Uh, three now. [laughs]
- Three now. Yeah.
- So they're at the bottom somewhere.
- Actually missing.
So we are really busy at next week
trying to found these.
We will see you in a bit. Thank you.
[Jarkko announcing in Finnish]
We're happy that you have enjoyed.
- We loved it.
- Aw.
It was so cool. Thanks, man.
Tell nice stories.
[Ewan] Yeah, yeah.
We'll tell all our friends.
- Ah, thank you very much.
- We'll tell our friends.
I'm happy that you all enjoyed.
Uh, have safe journey.
[Ewan] This is so gorgeous. Look at these.
[singsongy] Foxgloves and bellflowers.
Really pretty.
They're, like, almost like thistles.
Can't resist. It reminds me of home.
[chuckles]
We're going further south, guys.
Whoo!
We've been told that
there's something special
hidden in the forest up ahead
that's worth checking out.
Oh, look, there's one over there.
There's loads.
There's one there. Look.
- They're everywhere.
- [Charley] And down there. Look.
- [Ewan] Okay. Let's try one.
- How bizarre.
- [wind chimes chiming]
- Oh, there's an instrument on top.
- [Ewan] Yeah. Side by side.
- Side by side.
[Charley] Whoo. [chuckles]
[chiming continues]
[chiming]
[Ewan hums]
[chimes]
- [Charley hums]
- We should be
- We should probably be naked for this.
- [Charley laughs]
[playing out of tune]
[playing rhythmically]
He looks like a mad professor. Look.
[playing out of tune]
[playing rhythmically]
Uh.
You can tell who's musical and who's not.
Ewan's already playing some lovely song,
and I'm just bashing away.
[laughs]
[rhythm increases]
Jazz, man. Jazz!
[wind chimes chiming]
On my microphone.
[wind chime humming]
It's still going.
[Charley hums]
I have always been fascinated
by the north of Europe,
- but never, never been.
- Yeah.
And I have to say, I've just
I've just loved it.
- You're having a good time?
- Really, really good time.
I'm having a great time, too.
I feel like a
I've I've really got to know it.
[Charley] Wow.
I wasn't expecting that view.
- [chimes chiming]
- You can hear the chimes.
- [Ewan] Yeah.
- [chiming continues]
What a special place.
[Charley] Scandian gods.
[Ewan] It's July.
It's just a passing shower.
[Charley] Bloody hell. What a day.
[Ewan] It's just a little drizzle.
It looks like a million scarecrows.
It's sort of blending in with my hair.
[laughs]
[Ewan] How cool is this.
- Your own private little island.
- This was the dream.
- Here he comes.
- Whoo!
That's amazing!
[both shouting]
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- [Ewan laughs]