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| Trunk surrounded by cranberries |
During summer time, it was, let’s say, crowded in
apartment 72. A lot of friends were coming and thus, we discovered sight-seeing
Finland.
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| Olavinlinna in Savonlinna |
After a one day walk
around in Helsinki, Angie, Tobi and me started on a rainy Monday morning towards
Lappeenranta. A cozy little town with Finland’s oldest wooden church; but not
so much more to explore. After a little
while more in the car, we reached our cottage in Punkaharju – an huge campground
including attractions like waterparks, mini golf, canoeing, frisbee golf, table
tennis, fishing, … Heaps to do. Oh yeah, and Sauna of course.
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| Tobi and me on top of the Puijon Tower |
Next stage was the old
Swedish castle Olavinlinna in Savonlinna, battle scenery between the Russians
and Swedish, before Finland got independent in 1917. Beautiful, this castle,
surrounded by water – the Kyrönsalmi.
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| Lookout from Puijon Tower |
We went further north,
as far as Kuopio, where we would stay the following two days. The three of us,
in one hotel room, and I was the lucky one, winning the children bed which was
as soft as jelly. But ok, I survived. The next day, we walked up the Puijon mountain, where ski jumpers are having fun in winter time, doing a boat ride on
the Kallavesi and enjoyed a traditional finnish celebration (wooden sauna, an huge buffet including smoked salmon and a lumberjack show with live music). The next day, we were heading back towards Helsinki. On the way, near Leppävirta, the hiking track though the Orinoro gorge was the last highligt.
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| Path leading through the Orinoro gorge |
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