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We had gone to bed at one at night (Finnish time) in our luxurious cabin, but at four o'clock Teije woke up by a call coming from the cabin loudspeaker telling that some people had to disembark now for Åland / Marianhamina.
Finland
Elisabeth & Teije2004-03-06 13:51:51
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all this imaginarily lakes on his map?
We are now on our way to Kalajoki, located at the Botnic Gulf; wherever it is possible we take side roads and enjoy the woods; but probably one has to stay on one spot for a longer time to get a glimmer of one of the 100,000 lakes Finland claims to have.
When we are one kilometre away of the camping at Kalajoki, we come across a traffic jam and it takes more than an hour to arrive at the gate of the camping. The roads are filled with drunken youths, stalls and youths who want to get drunk as soon as possible. At the reception of the camping we are told it would be better for us if we would seek another place to stay and they want to give us our money back. We would like to attend this great festival, but we don't like all these drunks (at four in the afternoon) and decide we take our money (€ 50) and look for another place to stay.
Fortunately, it is still early (and light) and we drive to Kempele, more than hundred kilometres to the north, a bit south of Oulu. We find a motel which also costs € 50, but now we have a shower, streaming water and our own private bathroom! We miss the party, but at least we get some rest this night. Also we can change some of our Dutch euro's for Finnish ones; we had promised some Dutch friends to take back Finnish euro's. After the owner tells us almost every year someone gets killed at the festival at Kalajoki, we are really happy we didn't stay there.
Saturday, June 22, Oulu - Tornio (with a detour to Luleå, Sweden)
Breakfast is included and we fully enjoy of this unexpected luxury. Quite early we hit the road and because we only have a short distance to cover we ave mapped out some nice detours.
Instead of taking the castal road along the Botnic Stream we take the 849 throught the interior of Finland. And except woods, wood and more woods we also meet the first reideer.
We see them
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See photographs from:
Sweden Gallery
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Norway Gallery
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Finland Gallery
