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  • Midsummer Adventure

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    DAY 1: Just by random I was checking prices for midsummer night from booking.com.
    And from Ylöjärvi I found place to stay… with bed, toilet, shower and basic kitchen stuff with 39€ when all the other places were something like 150-200€. So friday morning I started riding!
    This was very early in the morning. First I was heading to Kylmäkoski -to the same place where I started checking TET Finland Section 2 update 1 week ago. But back then I was checking it from Kylmäkoski to south. Now I was planning to take the route north towards Sastamala and Hämeenkyrö.

    And of course I made a video of the first day ride!

    The route wasn’t as good as the route south from Kylmäkoski but it wasn’t too bad. I accept!

    DAY 2: The place where I was sleeping used to be a school “Voionmaan opisto”. The room was pretty perfect with the toilet, shower and basic stuff for kitchen. And yes -the price was 39€ for midsummer night!
    There was a slight risk of rain and thunder in the afternoon so I decided to take a shorter and faster route back home. I still saw some amazing places!

    I also mad a video of the second day ride!

    The routes that I was riding were like this (blue was the one on friday and red on sunday):

    Next time I will do wild camping also!! I tried couple years ago and my back didn’t like it. Lets see how it will go now…

  • Holiday 2019 Gozamite & Finrin Day 1

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    Our holiday trip started on saturday 29th of june. We hade booked a ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn at 07.30 in the morning. We also booked the breakfast in the boat so we only needed to check that we had everything and then start the tour.
    Boat arrived to Tallinn 09.30 so we had all day to ride! And there was quite many places to see in our route.
    First place where I stopped to take a picture wasn’t planned.

    Small Kulli trainstation on the eastside of Tallinn

    The ride goes on until the windmill in Seidla village. This windmill is still operational! Then some other places too…

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    Paide castle and 30m tall tower
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    Very beautiful castle park in Viljandi
    Somewhere in Fin… Estonia!

    And after we put our stuff to the hotel in Törva village, we still checked the castle ruins and the cave in Helme.

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    Our first day route was like this.

  • Tour around Finland Day 5

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    We woke up in our small cabin 7 meters away from the lake (we measured the distance last evening!) and ate some breakfast that we bought from the grocery yesterday. The morning was very beautiful!
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    I had at least 2 possible persons/ shops who might have motorcycle tires to sell. After 8am I started to make the phonecalls. The first one answered about 8.30 and they told that they have one 180/55 R17 tire and also they could install it to my bike in the morning! I knew right away that our tour will continue on the same day! But I wanted to check the other number too… Maybe I could have the tire with correct size?? (= 190/55 R17)
    And about 1 hour later this other guy answered. First he said that they don’t have any tires… But then he asked “What size?” and after I told him the numbers he said that he has 190/50 (little bit lower than the correct size) because he owns Suzuki Hayabusa and he ordered new tires to his own bike earlier… but didn’t install them because Hayabusa was now little bit broken.
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    He was also ready to install the tire to my bike about 1 hour later.
    So I got new tire very fast and we were able to continue our trip!
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    I made the reservation for the next night from a hotel not so far from Suomussalmi. We would stay the next night in Ruka (one of the biggest ski resorts in Finland).
    On our way to Ruka we stopped only at Juntusranta birdtower…
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    And at Hossa to enjoy some ice-cream…
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    Then we were at Ruka! First we took a ride to the southside hilltop. From there you’ll have some very nice views almost all around!
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    The view to the east is the most interesting because you know that Russia is there somewhere (not very far!)
    Later in the evening we walked up to the northern hilltop, this would be 500 meters above sealevel! The views are very nice!
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    There were few stairs to climb to the top (I think it was 338 steps…)
    The room at the Hotel Arctic Zone was very Nice!
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    And once again my wife made a nice video of this day:

    The route for day 5 was like this:

  • Rosala Tour

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    We made another weekend tour just resently. It was the weekend from friday 15th to sunday 17th (of June) and the decision for this trip was made very fast!
    First I decided to check how is my tent… I took it from the basement and we went to the yard with my wife to check if it’s ok. And it was!
    Then I ride to the garage to change the bike, wife stayed at home to make us some food (snacks) because we really wanted to spend the night in a tent!
    First stop of the trip was in Trollshovda (Trollshead in English).
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    Then we rode to Kemiönsaari and to Kasnäs and stopped in Lövö bridge.
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    This is one of the most beautiful views in the bridge in Finland! And the road from Taalintehdas to Kasnäs is very beautiful (This bridge is in this road).
    Then we try to find a good place for camping and we found quite ok place… This was the first night ever in the tent for my wife!
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    She didn’t sleep very well but I slept quite ok -except my back didn’t like it at all! So I decided to sleep in a normal bed for the next night!
    Next morning was about to go to the ferry that would take us to an island. Rosala is the name of the island and this would be the first place where Vikings or Christianity step their foot in Finland.
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    This ferrytrip is for free! and it takes about 30 minutes…
    Rosala is quite small island. There’s only 1 road that goes from Hiittinen village to Rosala village. That is about 8,5 km’s from the villagecenter to another. In Hiittinen there is beautiful old wooden church…
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    And a very nice cafeteria just beside this church:
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    Then after you ride this 8,5 kilometers you will enter the Rosala village and there is one place you really need to visit! It’s the Vikingcenter Rosala which is the only one of its kind in Finland. It’s an area with lots of items, clothes, weapons and buildings from Iron age of Finland. The Vikings didn’t take much land here in Finland and here in Rosala there are the best ancient excavations of this Viking age. But in the same time with Vikings the Christianity also made its first steps to the Finnish ground.
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    This is from the restaurant they have there. There is restingplace in every table, so if you get tired while eating you can step back and sleep awhile!
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    This is from Chapel they have in the area. Christianity is mixed with old religions of Vikings… at least it was like that in the beginning.
    The best building to see is the the dwelling house with huge fireplace on the other end of the room inside. It really gave me authentic feeling and I could see the Vikings shouting, drinking and making their business there…
    Next moring we started our ride back home and the first stop was at Taalintehdas. This is one of the oldest industrial villages in Finland. The ironworks company was founded in 1686.
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    This blast furnace is much newer but it has been rubuilded as a “meeting point” in the beginning of the nature path that you can find from Taalintehdas.
    We also visited an old market place called Latokartanonkoski (Rapids of Latokartano). There are ruins of an old mill that was built in 1805 and it stopped working at 1962.
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    It is a very beautiful place with quite a lot to see. One interesting thing is that this place is full with Beautiful demoiselles flying around.
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    Their wings are shining bright blue in the sunshine… and they look like they are from a fairytale!
    The route for the whole weekend you check here.

  • Hela-Tour

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    Me and my wife have been married now half a year. It was time to take tour with motorcycle just the two of us. We had 5 days to do this trip and I chose western Finland.
    Day 1 (May 9)
    We started before the midday and I was very excited about finally going on a tour with my new bike “Optimus”:
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    After filling the tank it felt very nice and relaxing to ride the bike! The first leg was 120 kilometers and the the first stop was at Koski (english: Rapids) and there is also quite nice rapids there (Rapids at Rapids…)
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    Then we stopped at the grocery store in Oripää to buy some sausages. Next stop & break was at “Kekkosplassi”. It is very nice area with a big fireplaces to grill some food, we had sausages, sandwiches and also something to drink.
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    Then in Säkylä we checked Katismaa and Eenokki (harbour and beach) but these were just very short stops. Finally in Kauttua Ironworks area we stopped for awhile to examine the area. Like all old ironworks areas this has also many very nice old buildings and rapids with some small dams and old bridges.
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    This was the first time when we noticed that it was quite hot! Weather forecast had promised very nice and warm weather for us… and it was Summer coming already before the middle of May! It was too hot to walk with all riding gear.
    The last leg was about 60 kilometers and we arrived to Nakkila where we were supposed to stay for the first night. After we took all the luggage away from the bike we still checked the dam and powerplant of Harjavalta and the medieval Church or Ulvila.
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    The route for the day 1 was like this:

  • Corsetour Day 9

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    We would leave this beautiful island… oh yes. It would be wise to stay for example 1 week but we want to spend more time those roads in Europe! So early in the morning it’s time to choose same route back to Bastia -harbour. And then take the boat-trip to the mainland (Savona this time). One last picture from Corsica:
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    This is from this here. We’re riding so early we actually had time to have some kind of breakfast in the cafe near the harbour before the check-in to the boat.
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    But the trip takes more than 6 hours this time… so definately if you don’t want to put all day to your boat trip it’s better to choose Livorno – Bastia route.
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    We will be in Italy mainland about 6 a’clock in the afternoon… And the food is not cheap i the boat!
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    Then from Savona we had a nice ride through countryside… Lots of nice twisty small roads with nice scenery every now and then.
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    The hotel was in Ovada… Pretty nice hotel with garage but without restaurant.

  • Åland/ Aland/ Ahvenanmaa

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    With motorcycle

    This was a dream come true finally for me! I’ve been to Åland few times with a car (last time was 17 years ago!) but now I got there with my motorcycle. This is the 4 days trip to Åland (Swedish)/ Aland (English)/ Ahvenanmaa (Finnish).
    Åland is here and to get there with a motorcycle you need to take a ferry from Stockholm, Helsinki or Turku… Or a small ferry from Korppoo (Galtby) or from Kustavi (Vuosnainen). If you use these ferries the idea is to spend the night in some small islands before you go to the main island -and that’s what we did.
    But before we took the boat from Korppoo we spent the night there in Faffas. They had a very nice cabin near the sea!
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    And then 10am it was time for a boat (ferry). This trip (to Föglö island) takes 4 hours!
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    In Föglö we had lot of time to get to know the island. It’s not very big! There’s actually only 1 road that goes through the island.

    But there is also a very beautiful church and quite interesting hiking path in this island. Our accomodation in Föglö was Degerby Mat & Cafe.
    Next morning the ferry to the main island left the Föglö at 9am. This was 30min trip.
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    And the first route was a detour from the mainroad to some villages in Högskär.
    Then we rode to the southside of the “capitol of Åland” (Mariehamn), this was a beautiful road through islands.
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    After this road we rode to the eastside of the main island. First we had this very nice road with some nice bends and then we visited the fire station museum (but it was closed).
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    Then sun was shining so brightly and weather was too hot (about +13 celsius) so I had to go swimming! Did it here. Water was maybe +8… (You can also see a picture of me going swimming here!) We took a short break in Käringsund.
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    Then we visited Sålis Batteri, this is some fortifications that Russians built even they should not do it. Åland was a demilitarized already 50-60 years before!
    From the east parts of the main island we moved to north with this road.
    In the north we visited the Getaberget (and the tower), Havsvidden (with some nice views too) -this place had a great road!

    And finally visited the Stallhagen Brewery and I bought 2 bottles of beer.
    This was the first day on the main island of Åland, we spent the night is Strandnäs Hotel.
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    Next morning I took a short tour in Mariehamn (This city has about 11500 inhabitants).
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    Then we started the ride of the day. First we rode to north (again) because there was still few places to visit. First there was Road of Tjudö -this is maybe the best road (for motorcycling) in Åland! It’s definately worth riding!
    Then we rode to one small harbour again. This was Hamnsundet with small cafeteria (not yet open).
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    After this we took the most famous cafeteria in the island (Uffe På Berget). The altitude in the top of the tower is more than 50 meters above sealevel!
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    And then we went to the castle! There is only 1 middleage castle in Åland, it’s called Kastelholma.
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    This took about 1 hour to walk through the museum and there was some very interesting stories about the people who lived here (or were prisoners). After castle we rode this road: Road of Sund. This was with 2km’s of gravel.
    And for the last place we visited Bomarsund fortress. This has very interesting story which ends with Ålands demilitarization in 1856 (In Treaty of Paris).
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    Then we took the ferry to Kumlinge island at 5pm and we stay the night in Kumlinge Stugor. Next morning we visited Kumlinge church, Kumlinge mountain (Vårholmsböte) and rode the best motorcycle road in Kumlinge…

    The ferry took us to Brändö islands (4-5 islands in group) and there you have to ride through these beautiful landscapes of the archipelago sea. What a road this is!

    Our trip in Åland ended about 3pm when the ferry arrived in Vuosnainen in the north side of Turku. (But there is still 1 more ferry after this!).

    You can ride the most beautiful places in the main island of Åland in 1 day. But I really recommend that you take your time at least in Kastelholma castle and in Bomarsund fortress. So it should be at least 2 days. And if you have the possibility to visit the small islands too… Then you’ll really know what is it all about! ********* (Gotta go there again some day!)

  • 1st day of the jumping starters

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    Me with one fellow rider took the jumping start and left a day earlier than the others.
    7.30 in the morning we’re already on the way to Tallinn by boat. Aafter arriving Estonia we rode east to see Jagala Waterfalls.
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    These look a little bit like Niagara falls but this time there were not much water running. We rode more east to find Leesi Village. From there starts maybe the best road of Estonia with nice bends and corners… Actually there are no real motorcycle roads in Estonia… but at least something.

    Then there is abandoned Hara submarine base, which was last time used before 1991 under Soviet occupation.
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    After these nice roads and sites we finally took the straight road to Tartu.
    300 kilometers and now we are in small hotel southside of Tartu –Hotel Starest
    This was the route of today.