Kind of a roadtrip

Post by **Fuse** » 02 Aug 2007 08:14 pm

Kind of because I stayed at our summerhouse for 3 weeks but hey did over 1000km of driving during the time.

Finland is called a country of thousand lakes, maybe after these you know why.

Ooh it's a lake.

Stopped to eat by some lake, I had a portable grill with me so I cooked some traditional Finnish summer food, grilled sausages and meatballs.

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GLT also had time to rest a bit.

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Again after couple hours of driving I stopped for a coffee at this caravan place, surprisingly it featured a lake also.

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Arrived at our summerhouse and heated a sauna. There's also a small lake behind those trees back there.. The cottage is literally in the middle of the woods, so it's quite peaceful there. Buildings could be considered quite archaic though, built right after the war when there was shortage of everything, but somehow I like it there. It's my father's childhood home, there used to be a small cow stable there also and a barn but those have been taken down in the early 80's..

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Headed to fishing.

We also got many rivers and rapids. There was a restaured blast furnace from the early 1800s by the rapid.

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Latest model of Husqvarna

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View from the furnace building, that's my sister's boyfriend's Peugeot.

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Stream was too powerfull there so I headed down the stream and found this place called "Nurmijoki" (translates "Grass river") There was a lean-to building near, too bad I didn't have any sausages left.

Now what's that. A beer house, wohoo! Visited this local beer festival with my sister and her boyfriend.

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Old beer transport truck.

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World's smallest restaurant and boats by the marina (Restaurant was closed though because the marina was being restaured.)

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Finnish metal band "Kotiteollisuus" playing..

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Then I somehow didn't take so much pictures when the night went by.. Hmm I wonder why's that.

Panoramic view from the hill near our summerhouse and me looking stupid at the hill.

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Sunset

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Did some more fishing at one day at this river nearby, fish was biting.. Got few pike-perches,few pikes and some basses.

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Mr.Fish says hello.

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Mr.Fish gets two friends.

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My father cooking the fish outside. Stove is actually an old sauna stove.

With some modifications and a little help from the angle grinder it became an outside cooking stove.

Cooks more at one time than electrical stove.

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Of course I did some work with the car also, repaired few rust spots and cleaned it inside out.

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My Cousin's Peugeot

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Look it's trying to fly.

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A reindeer, they don't naturaly live at these latitudes, but this one was imported from Lapland.

It was by one gas station, GLT in the pic after.

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Going down the freeway, roads were almost empty which was great.

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AC would be nice.. (Outside temp isn't accurate, really it was something like ~25 celsius degrees outside, sensor is behind the front bumper so it gets some heatsoak..)

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Home sweet home. Parking the car next to it's older sibling.

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Post by **jtbo** » 02 Aug 2007 10:44 pm

Finnish summer is full of trees and water, that is what is dominating scenery

I have driven this summer up to north of this country, all the way west and quite bit to south, bit over a week from now I will travel to southern parts of this country and scenery is same. Even it is very beautiful, sometimes it would be nice to see bit different scenery when driving along

Post by **Chris_C** » 03 Aug 2007 01:43 am

Great pictures Fuse, Jani sent me some a while ago, and it looks an amazing place! Definately will have to come over at some point, and have a look around!

Post by **jtbo** » 03 Aug 2007 05:46 pm

I put some various pics here http://www.janiervast.com/kuvat/index.p ... road_pics/ It is Central finland shown in pics mostly, also one Vauxhall (Opel here) driver that did not how to drive.

As you can see, it is pretty similar looking

Of course there is lapland, it is bit different looking place:
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It is very beautiful in many places and at evenings at lakeside it is so peaceful that you can hear earth rotating

Post by MJ » 03 Aug 2007 11:29 pm

Nice pictures, and beautiful surroundings. Lots of trees and water