Offroad
Ristijärvi - Manamansalo ~ 70 km
For breakfast - what a variety - wind and rain. can't believe it... Somehow I depurted "already" at 11 am... But then ... finally a good surprise: Wind comes from the back! And suddenly I wished I would have got up earlier... ;o)
And it was so strong that I really could feel it... "Le vent nous portera", on of the last songs of the trip playing on "Repeat" in my mind for the whole day...
This time I had better luck with my capabilities reading maps: I managed to find the right way, even if it was quite difficult. Finnish cycle pathes are marked every few hundred meters, if you don't have nothing to do than to go straight ahead on the street no. 5, for example. But if you have to leave a very large road and to take a very small way, there is no sign. So topographic accordance is the only hint (not even signs - it was a grey road...).
The street was very, very beautiful. I guess, not many tourists get lost in this streets (but maybe there are ... I'm not so special, as I learned at Pokka).
Not having any problem today, I arrived at the camping at 15.30... I thought about doing 50 more km, but the next Camping is at 100 km, so... stop here. The next question: Do I stay at a campsite with view of the east or of the west? Sunrise or sunset? I decided for the western Camping site, right in the national park, even if it has to be more expensive... Even if the weather wasn't so fine, but optimistic as I am... maybe there will be some sun later... So I put up my tent really right next to the beach, with an awsome view of the lake. It seemed more to be the sea than a lake...
So, what now? I was in a really good mood, I didn't wan't to stay here at the campsite, so I went to the reception, and asked, if it is allowed to go by bike through the national park. The answer was: "Yes, maybe, I don't now. I think it's not prohibited, but, however, I would not do this, because the roads are too bumpy". Yes, maybe, but that was not the question...
It was SO BEAUTIFUL going there... It was for the first time, that I left my luggage somewhere and cycled nearly weightlessly... it was more like hovering, than driving. I had a rest at the lakes, met lots of blue berries and cranberries, the colours of the national park were great. A little offroad with my "Mountain Bike". Streets were getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller... and at the end it wasn't a street but only a wooden bar to go over a swamp... (and of course I fell down over there, I was just too carefree and effusive... but the mosses were soft, and I didn't get hurt (other than austrian trenches (Graben) next to the street... ;o) )
However, it was just the right adventure after that short stage of today.
And at the evening I was happy about my optimism: Sun appeared and offered a wonderful sunset. It took (I think) one and a half hour for the sun to disappear... And I took lots of pictures... ;o) It wasn't so cold, because there was absolutely no wind.
So I decided to wash my hair, with no risk of getting too cold and therefore ill. But...
But when I came back from the shower, there was quite a storm. And it was so strong, that when I laid in my tent, it pushed the "wall" in my face, so I had to rearrange my mobiliar, putting the heavy bags windward against the door, so I could at least breath while sleeping... I thought, it might be hard to fall asleep with this noise of the wind... I thought this for about 2 mins, then I didn't think anything more ... *zzzz*
Fichtenbarometer - spruce barometer: Tell me something new...
At the campsite
at the national park
It was in a strange way very colorful...
no comment... such things exist only in Finnland...
right the view out of my tent...
...
For breakfast - what a variety - wind and rain. can't believe it... Somehow I depurted "already" at 11 am... But then ... finally a good surprise: Wind comes from the back! And suddenly I wished I would have got up earlier... ;o)
And it was so strong that I really could feel it... "Le vent nous portera", on of the last songs of the trip playing on "Repeat" in my mind for the whole day...
This time I had better luck with my capabilities reading maps: I managed to find the right way, even if it was quite difficult. Finnish cycle pathes are marked every few hundred meters, if you don't have nothing to do than to go straight ahead on the street no. 5, for example. But if you have to leave a very large road and to take a very small way, there is no sign. So topographic accordance is the only hint (not even signs - it was a grey road...).
The street was very, very beautiful. I guess, not many tourists get lost in this streets (but maybe there are ... I'm not so special, as I learned at Pokka).
Not having any problem today, I arrived at the camping at 15.30... I thought about doing 50 more km, but the next Camping is at 100 km, so... stop here. The next question: Do I stay at a campsite with view of the east or of the west? Sunrise or sunset? I decided for the western Camping site, right in the national park, even if it has to be more expensive... Even if the weather wasn't so fine, but optimistic as I am... maybe there will be some sun later... So I put up my tent really right next to the beach, with an awsome view of the lake. It seemed more to be the sea than a lake...
So, what now? I was in a really good mood, I didn't wan't to stay here at the campsite, so I went to the reception, and asked, if it is allowed to go by bike through the national park. The answer was: "Yes, maybe, I don't now. I think it's not prohibited, but, however, I would not do this, because the roads are too bumpy". Yes, maybe, but that was not the question...
It was SO BEAUTIFUL going there... It was for the first time, that I left my luggage somewhere and cycled nearly weightlessly... it was more like hovering, than driving. I had a rest at the lakes, met lots of blue berries and cranberries, the colours of the national park were great. A little offroad with my "Mountain Bike". Streets were getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller... and at the end it wasn't a street but only a wooden bar to go over a swamp... (and of course I fell down over there, I was just too carefree and effusive... but the mosses were soft, and I didn't get hurt (other than austrian trenches (Graben) next to the street... ;o) )
However, it was just the right adventure after that short stage of today.
And at the evening I was happy about my optimism: Sun appeared and offered a wonderful sunset. It took (I think) one and a half hour for the sun to disappear... And I took lots of pictures... ;o) It wasn't so cold, because there was absolutely no wind.
So I decided to wash my hair, with no risk of getting too cold and therefore ill. But...
But when I came back from the shower, there was quite a storm. And it was so strong, that when I laid in my tent, it pushed the "wall" in my face, so I had to rearrange my mobiliar, putting the heavy bags windward against the door, so I could at least breath while sleeping... I thought, it might be hard to fall asleep with this noise of the wind... I thought this for about 2 mins, then I didn't think anything more ... *zzzz*
Fichtenbarometer - spruce barometer: Tell me something new...
At the campsite
at the national park
It was in a strange way very colorful...
no comment... such things exist only in Finnland...
right the view out of my tent...
...
koerndl - 9. Aug, 00:00
