Month: June 2010

And finally we reached Sodankylä! But let's start from the morning, actually from the night. It was my first night in tent, as I mentioned yesterday, and the place was beautiful, even more when all the dogs fell asleep. I do really believe I was the only one without one. However I woke up all of a sudden around two: […]

Some days are better than others… and some are worse, for example today. I started the day quite softly, stopping at the Arctic Circle to take the traditional picture that you can see here beside (I've got so many of them taken in different years, that you can see me growing old), and stopped along the way several time for […]

Today I've learnt how beautiful it is to cycle with tailwind. And what a wonderful morning it was, with a temperature of 13 degrees, which let me cycle for the first time without wind jacket. I realised immediately that my pace was much faster, at around 21 km/h. I chose to stick with route 926, the so-called Itäpuolentie, as it […]

I left this morning with no big hurry from Kemi. The weather, like in the last days, has been unstable, but at the end of the day I got just a little bit of rain. Leaving the coastal road and heading towards Rovaniemi, the landscape changed accordingly: more up and downhill, which is not a problem as long as you […]

I wasn't supposed to travel too much today, and so did I: 20 km 🙂 After the first day, I thought it'd be wiser to relax a bit, thigh muscles are a bit in pain, although not as much as I thought. Two weeks ago I was walking on the mountains, and the next day also the muscles in the […]

Haluaisin sanoa, että ei tunnu missään, but since I'm writing these posts in English, I'll say something different. I left this morning from Oulu at around 9:45. I have to say that the hardest thing before leaving was what to take with me. I ended up packing five bags, plus tent, plus mattress, and I'm sure I'll give up something […]

Ok, maybe it's not like on a jet plane, but at least you're the one who drives! I'm leaving tomorrow morning for a temporally undetermined trip on my bike around Finland. The weather looks promising, the temperature a bit less (it's 8 right now, plus 8, not minus). However it's time to leave. I won't have a permanent place to […]