You have to do it once in a Lifetime -
go by bike around the lake Ähtärinjärvi!
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| Ähtärinjärvi |
This summer has been cool and boring in Finland.
We have been watching weather forecasts and NOW, on 25th of June,
we decided to take our bikes and go for a trip
around the lake Ähtärinjärvi.
Foreca weather forecast promises five hours without rain since 10 a.m.
The sky is quite gray, but now we go!!!
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| From the road Puistotie in Ähtäri we turn left towards Alajärvi |
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| Via roads Suojantie and Pohjantie it´s nice to go to the main road Lehtimäentie. |
I am not sleepy any more after this meeting:
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| The first stop by lake Ähtärinjärvi. No mosquitos at all. A week ago there were too many... |
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| Tour de Ähtärinjärvi - this guy tries to leave his followers. |
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| An idyllic old red house |
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| Turn right. The shortest way to Suninsalmi. |
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| These flowers are a sign of the Midsummer. |
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| The road goes to a forest of fairy tails. |
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| There are often some problems with bikes, also today. Our mechanic was clever. I´m happy for that. |
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| We are already in the midpoint of the trip. So easily! It must have been tailwind. |
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| The northest part of the lake Ähtärinjärvi. |
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| This little village with cafe and activities has been chosen to the village of the year 2012 in lakelands. |
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| I was thinking about a cup of coffee... |
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| ...but boys wanted to eat pizza, definitely. |
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| The cafe is furnished nicely. |
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| One match before the pizza. |
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| After the break it´s time to go to dirt roads towards Itä-Ähtäri. |
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| One sign to Soini City (keskusta) with 2000 inhabitants and one to a "small poor village" in Southern Finland (Helsinki). |
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| Magnificent Ähtärinjärvi in front of us again. |
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| Crossing over the bourn Kolunjoki |
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| That bike I have seen! Oh yeah! They did it again! They are hiding in a milk bridge! |
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| 50 kilometers. Now it´s time for sauna and swimming! There is not the better way to spend summer holiday. |
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| Riding a bike again. We have been eight hours on the road with pauses, but why to hurry... |
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| Only six kilometers to the center of Ähtäri. |
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| Bye-bye beautiful lake! Now we go home! |
I feel some pain in my thighs,
of course, after the trip of 65 kilometers.
Some pain but no rain!
Foreca predicted correctly.
Actually we got the better weather we thought.
This kind of days I will remember even in a rocking chair.
The perfect day in good company!!!
