After an hour’s taxi ride and with long, slow queues ahead of her, pianist Anna Buchenhorst realized that the wait in the traffic chaos on the E4 had to end – at any cost – if she was to have any reasonable chance of catching the flight from Arlanda to Vienna on Tuesday morning.
So Anna took her pack and set out on a more than two kilometer long trudge – over frozen fields, frosty streams, footbridges and hills.
– It was freezing cold, but I had changed into ski clothes that I had in my pack, she says.
In the end, she got onto smaller roads, but the attempts to get a lift yielded nothing. After a final climb over a mountain, a car appeared with a woman in it – who offered to take Anna to terminal five.
– She didn’t even want anything for it, says Anna, who, after many ups and downs, made it to her plan in time.
Hear Anna’s story – and see her own photos – in the player above.