Lappland and Karhunkierros

Part 2 of my recapitulation; as already mentioned, from Helsinki I went to Kuusamo, where I met Yki again. I arrived there on thursday evening and a bit later we were already fishing. We didn't catch anything useful, but fortunately Yki had some traps as well where he caught some fish, which we had smoked for dinner. On friday evening we left Kuusamo to go hiking on the famous Karhunkierros, the bear's trail. We did only a part of the whole trail and Yki told me first that the distance would be approximately 35 km, but in the end we realised that is was much longer. We walked 51 km in 2 1/2 days, or to be precisely within 48 hours.
The trail is built for trips of several days' duration and therefore are cottages on the way where you could stay overnight. But since it was quite crowded on the trail these days (i.a. a travel group from Slovakia with 45 people), we decided to sleep in our tent.
It was impressive to walk through the forests of Lappland and we were lucky with the weather, sun was shining allmost all the time. At the first evening there has been a lot of mosquitos and you have to know how to protect yourself although you cannot totally avoid them. But you get also used to them somehow.

On monday I left Yki and Kuusamo again and drove farther north, to Rovaniemi. Yki, I want to thank you and your family again for the warm hospitality, have a nice time in St. Petersburg and I hope to see you again.

What happend actually in july

Daily life got me again. I work at the moment to earn some money, joined again the legendary 3rd team of the FC Bülach and will give my comeback there on next sunday (10.15, Erachfeld, Bülach). Let's hope I still have the confidence of the coach.

By the way, the small FC Thun plays in the champions league, while the mighty FC Basel didn't qualify.

I promised to recapitulate my Scandinavia travel when I'm home again. I came home for three weeks ago, so it's time to start with the story of my journey in july.

At the beginning of july i flew home to Switzerland for some days for the bachelor party of my brother. He was really surprised to see me. The evening was funny, eventhough it didn't end so nice. Then I went back to Helsinki, where I left my car at Antti's place. I stayed one day with Linda and Antti, did some Helsinki-sightseeing and went with Linda to Soumenlinna, the fortress on islands in front of the harbour and had some nice summer evenings in the Finnish capital. On thursday I left Helsinki and drove up to Kuusamo. But more about that follows later.

Back Home

Ok, I'm home again now.

If you were waiting for new information about my travel, I can only say that I didn't have time during the last month of travelling to update my blog, or at least I didn't have internet access when I would have had time to write something. But I made a lot of notes and will update it during the next days. So stay tuned!