Category: Tour de Finlande 2010

Watch the route up to day 18 Watch the route from day 19 to 28 Watch the route from day 28 to 30 Good feelings also today. Leaving Mikkeli the scenery changed once again its shape as I was getting further deep in the lake area. This doesn’t mean flat roads at all, the music teacher I met yesterday outside […]

Watch the route up to day 18 Watch the route from day 19 to 28 Watch the route from day 28 to 29 After you've been on the road for some time you start to wonder what makes the difference between a good and a bad cycling day. I guess there are so many variables that you can never tell. […]

Watch the route up to day 18 Watch the route from day 19 to 28 Best night I've spent in the forest. Soft soil, nice sleep. That's the best rule. The second best rule: put on all your waterproof equipment you have with you, even if it's +30 degrees. That's the only way to get mosquitoes at a safe distance. […]

Watch the route up to day 18 Watch the route from day 19 to 27 The last night has been quite rainy. Actually it started to rain soon after I posted the report about yesterday's trip, and it didn't stop until the morning. I had to pack the tent while it was still wet but right now I'm once again […]

Watch the route up to day 18 Watch the route from day 19 to 26 Yesterday I had a stroll around Joensuu, which was very very full of people for the Ilosaarirock  Festival. I really felt I was the only one not going to it! I've enjoyed the city anyway, especially as I was given the hint to eat some […]

Watch the route up to day 18 Watch the route from day 19 to 25 Yesterday evening I had a nice swim in the warm waters of Lake Pielinen, before finding out that my cycling t-shirt and shorts I put to dry after washing vanished. I even asked to the owner of the hostel who didn't know where they could […]

Watch the route up to day 18 Watch the route from day 19 to 24 Today it was a very relaxing day. Even because most of the job was done by a ferry. Yesterday I went to sleep in the woods close to the harbour to be on time to catch the morning ferryboat from Koli to Lieksa. It's a […]

And another very hot day. This morning I woke up around 7, as the sun was making of my tent a sauna, first time it happened during this journey. Well, in time for a new cycling day, I'd say! I left the woods getting on road 6 towards Juuka, which wasn't far away, as yesterday I managed to get farther […]

I guess with today I have spanned all the possible temperatures of this journey. If it hasn't been over +30, it's been close to it. It seems ages ago that I was freezing in the tent. And it was just a month ago that I had to sleep with 4 degrees outside. Miracles of the north. I left Kuhmo by […]

This was a perfect cycling day. Despite the fact I didn't sleep that comfortably the last night in the tent, and that I had ran out of water, and that I had to go to a gas station to refill, just to find out that they had an automatic tap in the toilet that mixes cold and hot water by […]