And it started raining four days ago and it has been raining for three days straight. And now everything is so wet and cold although it's not raining anymore but the air so so humid that the tent won't dry. I think the tent has been wet for five days now. We manage somehow that the inside stays dry but the end of the bed linen is a bit wet.
I don't know if it will dry anytime soon. I can hold my bread with honey like this because the honey is so viscous
that it won't drip in a day. And it's quite hard to get it out of the packaging too and the butter that we keep in the car is so hard in the morning that we can't spread it. And our olive oil has thickened.
That's our olive oil.
It has been clear once. It looks like honey it is still fluid. And if you put this in a pot,
for example a spoonful in the middle of the pot, it just stays there and only when it gets warmer it floooows everywhere. We bought an already sliced bread
and almost finished it and they gave us three ends, one, two and this also is an end.
I don't know how that can happen. Dani has got new gloves to close the roof tent. Because it rained so much and the fingers would freeze otherwise because it's so cold and wet and it really hurts. We have towels that haven't dried for five days.
And the tent hasn't dried either, as I said, that's really a problem as it's moulding now. It's wet all the time. It's incredible but it just rains so much
and we can't leave it open during the day. We try to towel it down but...
And we have to fold it during the day.
Let's see
if we can get something against the mould in Turku. Exactly, but why Turku? We're in Kuusamo now. Today we'll drive in the direction of Forssa,
where we'll arrive tomorrow, where we'll pick up Venla, that's the backpacker whom we met
in Montenegro and who lives in Turku. (DAE-5 1/2) Exactly, in DAE-5 1/2 you can see how we met.
We'll stay some days in her apartment, do our laundry, take a shower, I'm so looking forward to it, and today we'll just drive and tomorrow we'll meet her. We've driven the whole day and it has been raining for some time now and our wipers did their job until they just stopped. Whatever we try, nothing works. We'll take the next exit and see what we can do.
My first guess is that the fuse of the wipers opened, and I'll have a look at that now. Fortunately it's very simple to access. I think it's number 9, or is there anything better? No. On the right side, the second from the right.
Damn, it's fine. (Oh.) [That might have been the fuse for the wiper fluid] There's no way we'll drive in the rain at night. We drove so much today, we're almost in the South of Finland. The plan was that we drive as long
as the rain hasn't stopped so that we can set up the roof tent when it's not raining.
And now, 50 km before the rain would have stopped, the wipers stopped working. They're just there, vertically, and don't do anything. Karin thinks that she will be ill, I'm so tired but I don't want to go outside, because I don't want to get wet and cold again. And it's (a new low) a new low, yes, we reached our optical and hygienic lows, it's time for a shower, we have no fresh clothes left, so we can't even change our clothes, so everything that's wet stays wet.
Or is exchanged to dirty clothes. And... Oh our roof tent is moulding. Top.
It won't stop raining now the forecast says it rains till tomorrow morning. That means we'll get ourselves together
and open the tent, and go to bed. Good night. Good night! The mould is becoming more and more but there is good news.
Whoohoo! The horn is working.
[See end of Defender Tour 2.] Yesterday evening as we arrived we found this, we're quite close to the street
but the place is a bit hidden, and that's a cut ignition lock, it says 'off, on, P, and ignition'. No idea whether it's from a car or a moped, but it's a real ignition lock, so there was a moped, or even a car, stolen here. We're in Forssa now, where we pick up Venla, and we'll free some space for her. Dani parked the car so near to the bushes
that he can't go out now.
I thought that I won't need to get out. But I forgot that Karin can't lift the water canisters
because she's oh so ill. The Finnish summer outfit. Venlas partner has an education
in craftsmanship of the Middle Age,
if we understood that right.
And today is a special day
where you can have a look at everything. There's also a forge,
and it looks so cool that I had to get the camera. When it's finished it shall look like this. Karin what are you doing?
I'm talking to an onion.
No, my ear is hurting and that should help. Hello? The onion. Yes, hello? It's a sharp pain in the ear and it hurts rather much. Okay yes, I'll get some rest, okay, yes, I've already got an onion on the ear.
Okay, thank you, bye. We took a shower, it feels so nice, (we're reborn). Hey! It's so nice here and her flat is so cosy and we can stay for as long as we want maybe. Good morning from Turku, or Turku, we're in the city now and the weather is so nice.
(There's a city festival today.) It's the 100th birthday of Finland,
so the festival is a bit bigger than usual.
And there are many things to see. Venla is working today, she's volunteering.
(So today you'll see less Defender, more city!) There are several divers in the water
and they are cleaning the river. That's almost a whole container with bikes only. Within 2 h they brought all these bikes out of the river.
We're in a public park
and there are so many sport facilities, there is a huge artificial lawn, there's something for runners, and to do the long jump. And there are a rake and a shovel, for the public. You can simply use it. Very nice.
We're home again, we've spent the day in the city, we've been to the festival, and enjoyed the sun and the city. Now we're home again and doing our laundry, in the evening there will be a firework that we'll watch. We're on the way to the city again because there's a firework that we want to watch and afterwards we'll go to a bar maybe. We're wearing warm clothes so that we won't freeze when we're not moving.
Good morning Karin,
good morning Venla. The Finnish passport of Venla has a Moose that is walking when you... How do you say it Karin? A flicker book. ...
When you flip the pages. That's a special security feature. It's really cool. We're in the car again, on the way to the sauna.
It's a public sauna next to a lake, we'll go grocery shopping first
so we can grill some food there. There is wood at the sauna but you heat it up yourself. So we'll have a real Finnish sauna experience. Venla has started the fire in the sauna and there is a hut full of fire wood and I'll bring some down to the cabin.
And there's even a sleigh
so you can bring the wood down in winter. Our camp fire is burning too, and the sauna is getting warmer. We've got 70 degrees and 75, 74 % humidity. The sauna is ready and we are too.
We finished the sauna and the coal is ready to grill. We have chocolate bananas,
Finnish cheese with jam, and haloumi and sausages. It was a really nice day and we want to come back here,
let's see if we can make it. We're back in the flat, we had dinner, and we're so exhausted from the sauna, I think we've been to the sauna four times
an three times in the lake.
We're very tired and will go to sleep now. And tomorrow morning we'll see what
we'll do tomorrow. Good night. Many thanks to Ville for the song!.
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