Hi there, so now I'm at the camping, Internet is for free, so I can tell you now... but the truth is, I can't tell you! There were so much impressions and feelings all at once, it was hard!

So, starting from Oulu I went up to Rovaniemi, then via Pokka to lake Inari. I guess everyone meeting me will just hear a lot of Pokka... I had a very nice conversation with the owner of the bar/restuarant, where I was living in a real finnish mökki (cottage), hat some special lapland food, and very intersting news from living in lapland. Great evening, thank you Kari!

The way from Kaamanen to Norway was hard, ups and downs of 8 and 10 %! But nature was changing, and how! love this norwayan fjord-landscape! Next day I stopped at the supermarket at Lakselv, and very courious I was looking at a bike to lay on, when his owner came along, also having some food at the supermarket, also for travelling to the northcape, also for seeing the solar eclipse... So, why not travelling together? Mathieu and I, we had a nice ride for about 60 km to the next camping, where we met just some other people by bike. I have been travelling for 14 days, and in whole finland I only met one biketraveller, and now... the other two german guys just have been to the northcape, and told me horrible stories about "The Tunnel" (with Maiuskel!) that leads to mageroya...

However, the next day we REALLY managed to reach north cape! (Thank you, Mathieu, once more...) Right in time for maybe seeing the solar eclipse and the midnight sun.
we tried to get a ferry, and there was really a time table! so lets have a look
Mathieu: "We missed the ferry for 10 minutes!"
Me, having a closer look: "Yes 10 minutes and nine years..."
So we arrived there, through The Tunnel, (that seemed harder in stories then in truth...), I really didn't expect it to be SO cold...
71 degree Nord, 7,1 degree Celsius
something like that...
Nevertheless we put up our tents ... in the middle of nowhere. For me the first time, glad not to be alone with this experience.

The next day, waiting for the solar eclipse to come (and for not freezing too much), we decided to go by foot to the "real" northcape, not the touristic one, and finally we had our own "northcape" But nature is so great! loved this walk of some hours very much.

Nevertheless, as they told me, there is going a bus back to Inari (didn't want to do the same street again) at one o'clock in the night, we packed our things, went back to Honningsvåg, for getting some information. The information was finally that the bus leaves at 5.10 instead, having a break of 4 hours. So Mathieu and I had the same fate: passing the night... however... His ferry would leave at 6.15, so... After the bar has closed (2 am) we ended in the "house" of a bus stop, onto an Isomat, under a sleeping bag, waiting for the morning to come... It felt strange, because it were just two days and a half that we spent together, but we had so lots of things in common, ending in dialougs like:
M: Do you like the end pieces of bread?
A: Yes, I love them.
M: Thats what I guessed...
A: Because you love them as well...
However, time went on, bus came, i got on it, and ... just nothing. felt empty. even if there was an austrian guy, living in Helsinki for one year now (Erasmus) Talking for about one hour, then I fell asleep. Just for to wake up in Lakselv...

Since Inari I'm on my way again, alone, but with many impressions and thoughts carrying with me. weather here in the "south" isn't much warmer then at mageroya, but its ok. Fine weather for travelling, because if you stand still, you start freezing...

Thats the story from northcape, rest will follow. now i just will note some thoughts going through my mind the last few days...

So, sorry again for not having any fotos to show you (#%&!@-finnisch Computers...),
nähdään!
körndl