Day3 Teijo - Salo - Kaarina

It was a short night with crazy noises like thunder when the fishing couple pulled their kayaks back out of the water and without mercy over the gravel road. I got some sleep anyway.

The morning was beautiful, and after morning gymnastic and an oatmeal with plums I was ready to hit the road. This day would likely offer only a boring landscape, straight - yet hilly 😉 - major highways and plenty of sun.

This time I had my normal shorts on and it became a painful and looong ride. Now why was I doing this again? Are bicycle rides that nasty? Do I "only" need to get used to it? I had some entertaining discussions in my head😇. 

The distances to the next break got shorter and in the end I stopped about every few minutes for a break. Even more my cognitive abilities (yes, I do have some) were rock-bottom. I did barely noticed other by-passing bicycles, had some difficulties to understand other people (or maybe its the different slang😱😇) and overall was a bit shaky on my way.

One of the old km markers along the old Turku - Helsinki road (now road #110)

Hell of a noise, could hear from far far away. Anyway folks seemed to have fun while drifting through the curves.

Anyway, I think I will take it a bit easier tomorrow but then I cannot take it too easy without risking my goal. And BTW who cares about this goal anyway?

I booked me a room in a hotel in Kaarina without even looking any details. The thought of a bed and rest alone were delightful. A bed in a hot room was what I got and the bed felt great, almost perfect. I also enjoyed a dinner at the local chinese😁

Well fed, I decided to change my plan and tomorrow would definitely be an easy going day.

Total length: ca. 63km (my Geotracker app screwed up again)

The last 43km; look at that average speed 😱😱😱

Day2 Fagervik -Raasepori castle ruin - Fiskars - Perniö - Teijo National Park

After my oat meal was cooked I had no more water. So I stopped at the first house where I saw somebody outside and got my bottles filled. Along came at first the old castle ruin from Raasepori.

They played West Side Story in the summer theatre.

A medieval animal rights activist 👍

There are no mountains in Finland but millions of hills. The issue with the trailer is that I cannot go fast downhill on gravel roads; so uphill 1st gear and downhill braking. Next off to Fiskars.

I was dead tired and exhausted, in fact I was so dead that I could barely eat my ordered salad. I think about one hour later I filled my bottles and had a proper rest before continuing.

Lovely and lonely country side roads

Google maps have proven again to be used with caution as it wanted to send me through the woods - I don't think so! Straight ahead instead following the road.

I found a shop where I could fill my water bottles and then towards this beautiful lake for another night in the wild.

Dressing room and toilet

Day 1 - from home to Fagervik

And start...

About 4 hours and some 50km later, I arrived in Fagervik. I had a short stop at the cafe and enjoyed a piece of “rasberrydream” with vanilla sauce - totally decadent and what a great start.

From here it was not far to my favorite swimming place where I also would camp for the night.

p.s. blogging with my phone only is really cumbersum. Lets see how much energy I have for this during the trip...