Juva Camping
68 Hotellitie Juva, The Lakelands, Eastern Finland, Finland
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Finland! :D
... forehead saying the name of someone famous. you have to ask questions until you guess who you are. it was funny. But anyway then we arrived and we walked to our hotel. That night we had dinner at a buffet place with everyone, and when we arrived back to the hotel, we found out there was a swimming pool in the hotel, so of course all us kids headed down there immediately. the pool was freezing and in Finland they have a tradition where they go in the sauna (everyone has ...
Into the unknown...
... it's fair to say that the scenery, although beautiful, is also monotonous. While on the train, I learnt some Finnish, an interesting language with lots of great sounds - for example, 'cheers' is 'Hleligan Guuligan', or something like that. After arriving at his house in the forest, I helped tidy up ready for an open day (his dad had rebuilt the old building from scratch following a fire, and the village was so impressed they were giving him and award), and had some top authentic ...
Hetta Huskies- DOG CAMP
... checking toes, collars, eyes, ears...everything. Takes a long time when you have to do 100 dogs. The boys were generally doing building tasks at this time.
Puppy feeding- the little pups needed to be fed 4 times per day. Whoever had this job always complained because as soon as you walk into their cage you are covered in puppy **** and urine. Hence you could hear most volunteers grumbling "dirty stinking puppies" or "little poop demons".
4.30-7pm- time to ...
Running over reindeer!
... as we had thought it would be, either that, or we have been getting spoilt with amazing scenery lately.
the town itself was cute. we parked in the old towns cobbled streets and walked to the castle, the main attraction in the town located down in the river on an island. we paid a euros to have a guided tour, of what lonely planet described as “one of the most spectacular castles in northern ...
Finnish Countryside Sights.
Now here is something strange we found out from talking to Finns. Many of them actually enjoy Winter and prefer it to Summer! Yes Winter is their time. Our hostess at the Bed and Breakfast said with a fond and dreamy expression, "Ahhh – We have the ice hockey, we have the skating, and we have the skiing. There is much more fun things to do in Winter!" and “Sauna is better in the Winter!” and "There are no mosquito's and sandflies ...


