Journey: Pärnu – Sooma National Park – Viljandi – Tartu Pärnu is a lovely town full of green spaces, we walked through Villi Park and Rannapark while enroute to the beach only to find out dogs weren’t allowed, but nevermind Mabel and Jasper still found some sand to roll in on the promenade. We then …
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Day 89 – City to City
Journey: Porvoo – Helsinki – Tallinn (Estonia) The pups are so funny, they make it very clear that town and city walks are boring. Rather than the usual high speed end of lead pulling we get in forests when they are darting from smell to smell, in towns Jasper and Mabel drag their paws like …
Day 88 – Birthday Boy!
Journey: Salpa Asema – Kayralemmon – Ahvionkoski – Kotka – Porvoo When you live in a van 24/7 with someone you have very little privacy or personal space. This makes things like present buying/wrapping difficult. I’d managed to snaffle a bag of gingers into the van unnoticed and hid them in my bag intending to …
Day 87 – A breathtaking view
Journey: Koli National Park – Joensuu – Salpa Asema Despite being only 5 minutes from Koli National Park it was still 10am before we made it. I’m just useless in the morning; I’ve got to have my doggy cuddles, meditate, lots of coffee, potter about…it takes me ages lol. The other morning I had made …
Day 86 – Parklife and Meditation
Journey: Komulankongas – Kajaarni – Tiilikkajarva National Park – Koli Nature Centre We are literally going from one National Park to the next and it’s wonderful being out in nature so much. Driving in between them we are listening to various podcasts and today’s Sustainabable one talked about how treadmills were originally made as a …
Day 85 – Bears and other things…but bears!!!
Journey: near Russia – Oulanka National Park – Kuusamo The Silent People – Variscongas waterfall So Markles got back from his bear watch at 7am with the biggest smile on his face. He has written the next bit: Bears have always been my favourite animal, so when I saw details of watching them, I knew …
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Day 84 – Ceramics, woods and a birthday surprise!
Journey: Posio – Riisitunturi – Ristikallio – 2km from Russia In Posio we had camped outside a beautiful ceramics gallery so we had a lovely look around there, then visited a small museum linked to the shop. I’d accidentally taken us to the wrong part of Riisitunturi National Park so we ended up on dirt …
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Day 83 – Reindeers and canyons
Journey: Rovaneimi – Auttikongas – Korouoma – Posio Sunday mornings don’t get any better than reindeer feeding and cuddles. Though Mark wasn’t keen, I nipped back to Santa’s village to meet the reindeer. I had the place to myself and had a lovely long chat with their owner, got to feed them and meet a …
Day 82 – Went to Santas village!
Journey: Kansallis Puisto National Park – Rovaneimi Today was a quiet day; a lazy slow start and then a lovely long trail walk at Kansallis Puisto National Park, where we all managed to avoid the bogs (there are 35 different types of bog in Finland) I was then cruel and drove Mark to Santa’s Village, …
Day 81 – Mabel leads the way…into a bog
Journey: Karhunpesakivi – Pitkajarvi Lake – Saariselka – Tankavaara – Sodankyla – Pyha- Luoston National Park After a lovely relaxing evening reading with the pups, our morning walk was to see a bear den in the woods. To be honest it’s likely a tourist gimmick as no evidence of bears living there but Jasper checked …
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