It has been a little bit funny that I have been on the other side of the world but never in Lapland. Well, now I have been there as well.
After spending relaxing time at Olli's uncle's summer cabin and visiting Olli's cousins' we did 3 days tour of Lapland by car (3555 km). We spend a night at Saariselkä then drove to Hammerfest in Norway (the northest city in the world) trough the spectacular and beautiful North-Norway. Then back via Kilpisjärvi to Tornio (for one night) and then back to Espoo. IMO the east part of Finnish Lapland was really nice and beautiful. A road from Kilpisjärvi to Tornio was kind of boring so if you go, choose the easter way. There were a lot of reindeers and mosqitous, of course.
This weekend we were celebrating Olli's dad's birthday at Kuressaare, Estonia. We had a great party with very good company. Happy birthday to Jukka, one more time and thanks for a wonderful party :)
Gradually I begin to realise today is the day we leave to our round the world trip. We just packed our stuff (2 large backbags and 2 small), we checked in for the first flight to London. The adventure, here we come...
-Maija
Thank you for being there in Kuressaare! I truly enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteWe spent a week in the same summer cabin and did some fishing, too. We threw nets twice and got total of 19 pike-perch,18 perch and 1 whitefish. Try to beat that, Olli.
Jukka