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Tuesday, 21. July 2009 : Kuopio to Puumala

Some hectic but pleasant days with cousins meeting, and then slowly going south towards the Saimaa Canal. Re-stocking in Puumala a lovely small town with Finlands second longest bridge as tourist attraction.

The nice and warm weather stayed with us for the first few days of our journey, good for the people who had arranged a big cousins-meeting at a summerhouse somewhere in the Finnish woods, an idyllic place at the shore of one of the thousands of lakes in the area.

Now, temperatures have fallen a bit, but are still around 20 degrees, and today we had a number of heavy rains and thunderstorms. Feels safe with Sir Francis’ mast quite a bit lower than the bridge just a few meters away.

Tomorrow we hope to find a nature harbor, if we are lucky we might find one with a wood-fired sauna, as we did some days ago. A hot sauna bath interrupted by some cold water dips and a couple of beers – that’s happiness for a Finnish soul and I do feel kind of Finnish myself these days.