Days 58-72 Finland

The coldness hit me instantly after arriving to Finland. Rain, coldness, snow occasionally felt terrible right away. Even though I'm not such a big fan of heat I found Bangkok a better place when considering the weather. It's some sort of miracle how quickly one can adapt to the heat and how slow it can be to the other direction.

My plans got a little twisted a couple of days ago. My original plan was to arrive in Melbourne the next morning the container arrives i.e. November 29th. But unfortunately the shipping company delayed the container for a week. (and even for a second week but luckily Heinrich managed to organize that.) So the container arrives in Melbourne in December 5th. Heinrich and Anna postponed their flights from Vietnam until December 10th. I didn't want to pay for altering the flights so I decided to go to New Zealand.

I'll arrive in Melbourne very early in the morning and depart to Christchurch at midnight. After landing in NZ I'll get a rental Motorcycle for a week to circle around the South Island. I'll fly back to Melbourne in December 8th.

But first I have to stand the coldness of Finland for couple of more days until I fly to Malaysia to see Kuala Lumpur and the Singapore.

But what have I done during my time in Finland (except planning the next phases of my trip)?

I've played guitar with my daughter

I've changed the car tires. It was really slippery to drive with summer tires on the icy roads.

I've started my beloved Blackbird. She needed some extra power. That's why the charger.

I've eaten in Hesburger without the disappointment I felt in Vladivostok

I've done some maintenance for my son's motocross bike (I just watched on the side)

I've driven in snow.

And I've wondered about a thousand time how anyone can live in this weather.


Kommentit

Lähetä kommentti

Tämän blogin suosituimmat tekstit

Days 38-40 Vladivostok

Kuva
Saturday morning started with a walk to the old forts north of the city. The forts were build to defense the city after Japan-Russian war. The fortress was build as strong as it was possible during the time's knowledge at late 19th and early 20th century. The forts are mainly ruined but still you can go inside and walk in the hallways and even go under ground from one fort to another. It needs good legs as the stairs go down 200 m and then up as much. As usual, the scenery was absolutely beautiful More info about the fortress can be found in Wikipedia:  Vladivostok Fortress After walking back from the fort we had a little party at the clubhouse. Dima (from Yakutsk) had come to Vladivostok to buy a car. He had driven through the Road of Bones and made a video about it. You can find the video in Youtube:  Road of Bones part I On Sunday I went to see Heinrich and Anna. By accident I got my bike cleaned for free. I stopped at one car wash. One local biker ca...
Lue lisää

Kouvola-Simo-Kautokeino-North Cape-Inari-Kuusamo-Joensuu-Kouvola

Kuva
I've been thinking about a trip to Lapland and Norway for a long time already. I've visited Lapland nearly every other year for years but haven't been to Norway for about 35 years. Naturally I cannot remember much of that trip. My original plan for this summer was to ride to Pamir highway but due lack of time and money I had to postpone the trip and stay a little closer to Finland. I knew I could use about a week for the trip so Nordkapp became the goal. As some of you might have seen in Instagram this time I'm not traveling alone. I'm accompanied by my good friend, my youngest son's godfather Riku with his KTM 950 adventure S. We share some of the equipment to save some weight. The trip began on Saturday morning. The first task was to ride through Finland. As we knew we cannot waste too much time on the way northbound we took the fastest (the most boring) route by highway 4 (E75) to Oulu. Damn it really is a boring route to ride. If you're riding thro...
Lue lisää

Days 102 - 105 Adelaide - Lake Leake - Bendigo - Yarra Ranges

Kuva
I spent the Sunday in Adelaide. Nice city with a weird layout. The main center is surrounded by parks named only with numbers. Someone mentioned it was planned by some officer immigrated to Australia a long time ago. On Monday it was time to get back on the road. The weather forecast had promised terrible heat to Adelaide and I decided to escape using coastal route. It was as fascinating as I expected. But maybe my level has risen too much after seeing such an amazing places so far. There was a lot of salt lakes and bushes on the way. Basically nothing else. I had planned to stay on certain camp ground on the beach but as I got there I noticed the place was only suitable for campers not tents. Quickly I adopted plan B and headed to Lake Leake about 40 km north. That was a beautiful place. It rained in the night but luckily my tent really appeared to be waterproof. Most of the night I slept very well. In the morning the clouds had passed and I got ...
Lue lisää