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It's not been quite 24 hours since I landed, but it's close enough for title purposes.
From the bus on the way to Lahti, I saw some very strange wooden thing under construction on a building site. It took me a good few minutes after to work out that it was in fact a house; wood frame houses under construction look very strange.
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inannajones and her mother in Lahti, we went to Lammi for long enough to drop off my bag and get some food, and then we were off to the summerhouse. The summerhouse is a little cottage with an outhouse and a sauna beside it, on the shore of a lake called Pääjärvi. It's one of my two favourite places in Finland.
We had a sauna at the edge of evening. The woodburning sauna is completely different to the electrical kind, and much better and more pleasant (not that the others are unpleasant, either). We were in 90°, and even 100°, briefly, before going to dip into the lake. On the second dip, it started to rain. There is something intensely magical and, well, intense, about being naked in a lake as rain begins to fall all around you.
We ate pizza, and drank wine, and listened to the fire popping and the rain on the roof, and toasted sausages at the fire. There was something in the woodpile when I went out for firewood; I'm not sure if was a rat or a squirrel or what, but it bolted for the undergrowth at speed, and was probably quite ticked at me for disturbing its shelter. Bed after the sausages, and a deep deep sleep.
This morning, we woke at around nine, and breakfasted, and then went down to the lake again. It was sunny and warm, and we watched fish (perch, bream (I think), a small pike, a yellow water snail and some wee red-eyed fish that I'm choosing to call Maelor-fish). One of the Maelor-fish nibbled my toe. We swam some, too - orinannajones swam, and I hung off the ladder on the jetty, and waited to see if my depth phobia would cut in (it didn't). Water was about 20°, just nice.
And now we're back in Lammi, catching up on mail and lj and offloading images from the camera, and we'll head on toinannajones' grandmother's house, way out in the country, for tonight.
Pictures will appear when I have time to cut them down to size a bit, and find someplace reliable to upload them to (any recommendations?).
From the bus on the way to Lahti, I saw some very strange wooden thing under construction on a building site. It took me a good few minutes after to work out that it was in fact a house; wood frame houses under construction look very strange.
Having met
inannajones and her mother in Lahti, we went to Lammi for long enough to drop off my bag and get some food, and then we were off to the summerhouse. The summerhouse is a little cottage with an outhouse and a sauna beside it, on the shore of a lake called Pääjärvi. It's one of my two favourite places in Finland.We had a sauna at the edge of evening. The woodburning sauna is completely different to the electrical kind, and much better and more pleasant (not that the others are unpleasant, either). We were in 90°, and even 100°, briefly, before going to dip into the lake. On the second dip, it started to rain. There is something intensely magical and, well, intense, about being naked in a lake as rain begins to fall all around you.
We ate pizza, and drank wine, and listened to the fire popping and the rain on the roof, and toasted sausages at the fire. There was something in the woodpile when I went out for firewood; I'm not sure if was a rat or a squirrel or what, but it bolted for the undergrowth at speed, and was probably quite ticked at me for disturbing its shelter. Bed after the sausages, and a deep deep sleep.
This morning, we woke at around nine, and breakfasted, and then went down to the lake again. It was sunny and warm, and we watched fish (perch, bream (I think), a small pike, a yellow water snail and some wee red-eyed fish that I'm choosing to call Maelor-fish). One of the Maelor-fish nibbled my toe. We swam some, too - or
inannajones swam, and I hung off the ladder on the jetty, and waited to see if my depth phobia would cut in (it didn't). Water was about 20°, just nice. And now we're back in Lammi, catching up on mail and lj and offloading images from the camera, and we'll head on to
inannajones' grandmother's house, way out in the country, for tonight. Pictures will appear when I have time to cut them down to size a bit, and find someplace reliable to upload them to (any recommendations?).
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