Sokos Puijonsarvi Kuopio

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... matter) snapped, so that there ends the first act of my experiments about the impenetrability of the Finnish soil and starts the drunkard's walk that would bring me through an unforeseen route, although after the road ended it would appear obvious. And the first step was choosing to take my flight to Ireland, the second was to apply for a Russian visa in Helsinki so that I could visit the country before leaving its neighbourhood. The third was to decide ...

Exploring the town of Kuopio. A place with a hill large enough to house a ski jump! It appears Kuopio has hosted world championship ski jump competitions. Having never seen a ski jump, it was very impressive. We caught up with the brother of the friends we are visiting for lunch in Kuopio. The town hall looked cool, with a small market operating in the square opposite. From here, we made our way to the summer cottage.

... to have a lot of trees! And it is very green compared to back home in Australia. We also couldn't see any livestock in the paddocks we did see. Our friends have collected us from the train and taken them to their parent's place in Kuopio for the night. A lovely two bedroom apartment, with a view over the trees (did I mention the trees?) Tomorrow, with the big travel part behind us (for the moment) we start exploring!

Pas le d ecrire pour le moment qq attend pour utiliser le PC. Mais anectode... J etais dans un petit hostel a Kuopio. Dans ma chambre un St Gallois. Le soir je vais me brosser le dents et a se moment un tuyau d eau des WC pete ! L eau n arretait pas de venir avec pression dans la salle de bain. Impossible de ...

I went to the world biggest sauna in Kuopio, which is a huge traditional smoke sauna with an amazing view over the vast lake (which was frozen) and I hole cut out in the ice to jump in after the sauna, which was extremly cold and a bit of shock to the system

... I never got the balance right and my ski poles did not help either! At the same time Naiara and me were trying to move to side whenever a fast grandpa came racing past! You can amazine we had a few laughs there as well! After this active morning we have a supermarket-bought-and-eat-in-bus-cafe- lunch! Time to split up as Naiara wants to go to Savonlinna and I will head back to Lahti! Chica ...

... days later in Leppävirta! Eating pasta dinner for two that night!That same evening an Italian guy shows up and we somehow manage to trick him into going to the Biggest Smoke Sauna with us the next day! The Sauna does not open till 4, so what to do during the day? The weather is ****, so looking at indoor possibilities. Ice skating not possible as they do not rent out skates (?????), so ...

... making it a cooler experience. Unfortunately didn't get a chance to try this out but I think it'll be better in the summer anyway when the lake has thawed. 1-2km away is the PUIJO TOWER well worth a visit. The lookout tower adorning the Puijo hill, a.k.a. 'the great tower' or 'radio tower' or, as Savo people sometimes say, "the potato masher" was built in 1963. In 2004 the tower underwent renovations. The tower is 75 m ...

... from just sitting in the car the whole day. Instead, we made a little hiking trip to an old wooden church (I think it was 4,5 km one way) and had a nice barbecue and traditional sauna (with jumping into the ice cold lake afterwards) together with some French guys and again other exchange students that came there on their homeward journey. This was all at the nice cottace we again had rent, made for actually 4 people and we were staying there with about eight ...