Two engineers from the SEAT Technical Centre drive to Lapland in a SEAT Leon X-PERIENCE to personally deliver thousands of letters written by employees’ children to Santa Claus
They cover more than 4,000 kilometres across Europe on all kinds of roads
A festive atmosphere has filled Martina’s house for some time. A fully decorated Christmas tree shines in the corner of the lounge where’s she’s sitting, busily writing the most special letter of the year. Santa Claus is still days away from visiting her home with presents, but Martina has no time to waste. This year is going to be different, as her letter to Santa is being hand-delivered by Jaume Camps and Jordi Ojeda, two engineers from the Technical Centre at SEAT, the company where her mother works.
The journey begins. They’ll have to cover a distance of about 4,000 kilometres before reaching Santa’s house. They make their first stop two hours into the trip in the south of France. As if on cue, the fatigue detector recommends that they take a short break. They continue like this for several hours, leaving many cities behind. They reach Germany and decide to stop for a while in Hamburg, where they walk around one of Europe’s most beautiful Christmas markets.
After crossing the Oresund bridge that links Copenhagen and Malmö, Jaume and Jordi follow the Swedish coastline until Lapland, in Finland. They’ve spent the past several hours watching the snow-covered landscape go by and know they’re in the final stretch of their trip. Once again the car demonstrates that no road is too extreme for the car, and now they’ve gone from paved motorways to long, tree-lined snowy back roads.
When they reach Romanievi their trip computer displays nearly 4,000 kilometres of driving. It’s only 3 pm but as they arrive at Santa’s house in the dark it seems like night-time. The two engineers unload the sacks of letters from the car and admit they’re a bit nervous. The time has come; they’ve made a long journey and are about to deliver the letters to Santa Claus in person, just like they promised all the children they would.
