Going to Cape North - Finland (2/6)

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FINLAND TRAVEL DIARY

The journal is the continuation of the state Sweden
The journey is made with a camper and composed of four people

Wednesday '31.07.91
Departure from the camp at 7.30 am in search of the port. Warnings excellent road: boarding at 9 at Stockholm in Naantali. Beautiful day, calm and beautiful trip among a myriad of islands in Sweden and Finland. We tanned on the deck. On the ship VIKING LINE motorship ISABELLA There is a chart with illumination of the journey. Come to Naantali 19.dove went to a camp but we went here in Turku now everything was closed. We visit the Cathedral exterior. Along the main channel that goes to sea, then take the direction of Helsinki. At 23 tired we stopped to sleep in an area of service.

Thursday '01.08.91
Departure in the morning and arrive in Helsinki 8. Paid parking is available near the station. Visited the city: the Cathedral on a beautiful staircase, the church TEMPPELIAUKIO CHURCH in the public gardens, beautiful in glass and copper. Gardens with stone beads, palace and national museum "Palais des Festivals, the scene with a vast plaza of flags. With the various expenditures in a shopping center and near the underground station. Departure for the north. Family camping in a forest of birch trees near the lake Corpilahti. Near Jyvaskyla to 16th Close to us in French camper with whom we exchange some impression. Throughout the camp Simao 6 or 7 families in all.

Friday 02.08.91
Departure at 9.30. Äänekoski made for expenses and shipment of the postcards of Helsinki. Lunch in a parking lot where we find a coach of German direct the North Cape we have convinced a change of the route to the east and reach the North Cape. Arrive at 16:30 in Kajaani, camping very great among the woods and near the lake. My sister and I do finfandese with a sauna bath in the lake ice, which courage to dive! After dinner, take a stroll on the lakefront, to the village, the picturesque church at sunset, the harbor and the fountain. Mangiate also the first strawberries for sale on the streets. Finland is famous for its fantastic strawberries.

Saturday 03.08.91
Departure from the campsite at 8.30am. few kilometers later, past a small hill and a itsmo in a lake, we are in Lapland. And now you sight the first reindeer. A Kuusamo ask what use pump because the words are the only Russian (?!). The operator is taken with other clients and us the pump. Column that contains a pump and a dark green of course, to make diesel, we are full of the camper with the black one. We pay, we are ... but the engine was turned off a few hundred meters from the retailer .. gasoline was green! While the diesel pump was green! The operator feels terribly guilty, and, along with my father emptied the whole tank with a cannula (sucking mouth and then letting the gas sliding) by calling the family to eventually tow your camper with tractor etc.. They made us fill up with diesel free 1000 apology. Very kind, but that will have lost about 2 hours and the camper is still a little 'a hiccup, and will do it for a few days. We had to climb a mountain on which they could see the Russian plain, but as now the engine is not fully in place, my father does not trust to face a climb so far. When the engine should purge the filter from petrol fumes and shake your camper. In fact I know that was fun to see: we had to get out and shake to shuffle your camper waste gas with the diesel. Crossing the Arctic Circle NAPAPIIRI: stop and classic photos of the cartel. 18 to arrive at Kemijärvi. After dinner we took a tour of the camp, under the birch trees, we found some mushrooms. Coach for boys Jyvaskila with much going to the sauna. Here are no longer night. sunset and sunrise are united. The temperature continues to be good.

Sunday 04.08.91
Departure from Camp Kemijärvi the 9th Prime tents and workshops at Lapps Tankawaara input to a region to search for gold. Step at the highest so far encountered, Saariselka 438 m, we stopped for lunch. Herds of reindeer are free and to try to make a picture more faithful to the capobranno me a charge. I climb on the fly with my camper that laughing! From this point changes the landscape for all Finland has been a succession of lakes, forests of conifers and birch trees, now appearing on the horizon the first Norwegian mountains. We meet the first meadows of aerofori (those beautiful flowers that always plush cotton) continue Bisch and reindeer. Shoot a reindeer and a white albino. Soon after we were wrong road, convinced that it was a crossroads in the village, not the fork for Russia take the road to the plateau Russian. We have extended the route of about 150km, but in return we have seen the border with a barbed wire and turrets Russian military. Requested information to a German couple who came from the opposite side. We hoped so, since we were already there, you can do a look ... maybe in Russia in S. Petersburg without visas approved months in advance we would not be able to go (to that of the Germans). This area was the only one who could remember the tundra. To go to Norway we had to drive along the valley of the Tana River, the border between Finland and Norway. This is not to cross the border to the Russian border. The move to Norway is indicated only by a cartel. Campsite just after the border to Karasjiok. Campsites in Norway are less equipped and organized than Finns. and also more expensive.
The journal continues to travel the state with Norway

ITINERARY

1100 Km MILAN, Basel, Frankfurt, Kassel, Hannover
HANNOVER Km 700, Hamburg, Puttgarden, GRAANNA
500 Km GRAANNA, Stockolm
300 Km Stockolm, Helsinki
Helsinki 300 km, CORPILHATI
370 Km CORPILHAT, I Kajaani
400 Km Kajaani, Kemijärvi
560 Km Kemijärvi, Karasjok
250 Km Karasjok, Nordkapp
230 Km Nordkapp, ALTA
390 Km HIGH, NORDKJOSNORN
370 Km NORDKJOSNORN, NORSVIKBOTN
380 Km NORSVIKBOTN, MORSJOEN
350 Km MORSJOEN, Steinkjer
300 Km Steinkjer, SJOA
250 Km SJOA, OSLO
250 Km OSLO, Ljungskile
250 Km Ljungskile, VIBORG
430 Km VIBORG, HAMBURG
740 Km Hamburg, Freiburg
480 Km FREIBURG, MILANO

Total 9800 km
23 days travel