kalsarikännit

We're in Finland and don't understand a word. Super funny language. Feels like all the words are long and have a lot of Äs and Ös and Üs. Ole and I just read words to each other and enjoy.

First stop is Oulu. A major city in northern Finland with nearly 200,000 inhabitants and a pleasant atmosphere. The campsite is a bit outside, but right next to a beautiful Baltic Sea beach. We spend a morning in the sun there too. It's 18 degrees and the Finns are all half-naked and celebrating midsummer. We're happy in our sweaters about the nice weather and get some amused looks.

Henry doesn't feel like doing anything today and whines at every movement. In the afternoon on the way to the city, his nose starts running and by the evening he develops a solid cold. That makes putting him to bed twice as fun. ;)

But before that, we explore Oulu a bit. We eat delicious salmon burgers and halloumi salad at Roosters, I finally find a bikini in which I don't look like I'm carrying two melons, and the bustling food market that we walk by on the way home rounds it all off nicely.

We only experienced a small part of Oulu in two days, but it was consistently positive. Somehow the city feels young, the people are helpful, the food seems to be high quality, international and delicious. The entire city center has free WiFi and the sun seems to be shining most of the time. We don't need more to be happy.

And because you should leave when it's the most beautiful, we're leaving Oulu after 2.5 days and heading to Kalajoki. Simply because the name sounds nice. Here we end up at the trendiest campsite in all of Finland. I don't even know if you can still call it a campsite. They have EVERYTHING. Restaurants, playgrounds, beach, swimming pool, saunas...

So here we have set up the pavilion again and are looking forward to the next 4 days of sun.

By the way, we have realized that we're not really free campers. You can probably do that in all Scandinavian countries, but we like having other people around us and chatting and showering and going to real toilets and playgrounds and so on

Annika