Category: Tour de Finlande 2010

The weather changed overnight becoming cloudy. However the temperature was still very good and the wind was blowing from east, which was also good as after stubbornly heading straight north, now my route changed towards north-west. Road 92, departing from Kaamanen, was the hilliest I have found so far, with slopes reaching a gradient of 10%. I have to say […]

Now I know: the world starts from Ivalo. Or at least the scenery changes drastically. Today it was the most touristic day so far, and the entire road from Ivalo to Inari was a spectacle of blue lakes and sky, with a wonderful shining sun in the background. And warm it was, with temperatures reaching 23 degrees it was the […]

After yesterday's long leg, a much shorter one today. For several reason, one of which was to be on time to see a football match which is better to forget straight away. Not a big deal being so far away. However, leaving this morning from Kakslautanen I realised I had again run out of water, so I had to postpone […]

I'm trying to post this while I'm in the middle of the forest, so at least for the first version there will be no picture whatsoever, as I still wonder whether I'll be able to post it at all through the plain GSM network. Anyways, here's the surprise: my tour plan has changed. While I originally thought to turn west […]

Today I decided to take a small trip around Sodankylä. The original idea was to get to Luosto, but it would have been something like 80 km, and since I also have some work to do, I decided to take a smaller loop. It was nice to cycle without all the bags, it made me feel a bit lighter. Just […]

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 […]