1st
September 2015
Wandering down
the Finnish coast
We played canasta
for a while last night, so it wasn’t too early a night. But once we were asleep, we slept right
through till 8 am – And awoke to another blue sky ! This camping spot was
delightful, and we had breakfast sitting in the sun, just enjoying the peace
and serenity beside the water. Before
setting off, we went over to the office to use their wifi, (the one that wasn’t
working in the campsite !), and managed to get a bit of the blog posted and a
few emails sent.
For those of you
who have been enquiring about the mapping section of my photos in Picasa, and
the fact that I haven’t been doing it for a while, the reason is that I have
had so little time with decent wifi that it has been all I can do to get the
photos uploaded, captioned, and the blog written. The mapping feature for the photos WILL be
done when I get enough time to sit and do it.
When travelling on one’s own it is much easier, but when travelling with
Janet it is required that one is a little more sociable in the evenings, even
playing cards ! So it is just a time
issue ! I can assure you that I want it
done as well because it is how I track my whole journey afterwards – When I
have forgotten where we went !
From our little
island of Larsmo, we headed on down the minor coast roads through Jakobstadt
and Nykarleby, and were then forced to get back on the main road (Hwy 8) and
travelled on to Vaasa where we stopped to buy some bread. I believe the town was named after the 1500’s
King Gustav Vasa of Sweden. There were heavy black clouds looming that had
appeared out of no where in just the last half hour, and for a while we had
some quite heavy rain showers. The road
was about as exciting as yesterday – Trees, fields and occasional water !
We then continued
down to Pori where we had another opportunity to get onto smaller B roads, and
as it was getting on in the afternoon we started looking for suitable camp
sites. We followed one little road out
to a place called Luvia, right on the waters of the Gulf of Bothnia. At the very end of the road we found a little
wharf area with some gorgeous wooden yachts tied up, but everywhere was pretty
deserted, with most buildings and cafés etc locked up tight for
the
winter. We wandered around for a while
and asked a couple of people about camping around the marina, and they all said
they thought it would be fine – So we did !
We set up just back from a very nice marina, and sat enjoying the
evening sunshine with a glass of red wine, followed by supper. The rain seems to have disappeared again, and
now, currently 7.30 pm, I am still sitting outside enjoying the sunshine.
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