tandem2scandinaVVie: First day in Finland

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Hello dear english-reading followers, sorry for the translation getting late, it's not that there isn't wifi in finnish cities, it's just that there aren't that many finnish cities in the countryside !

Some passengers on the ferry get quite alcoolised as drinks are tax-free outside swedish sea area. We forgot too that we'll loose one hour. Therefore we had a short night and landed it Turku very early in the sunday morning...
Finland, here we are !

Unsurprisingly, the town looks a bit like in a western movie, only a few shadows in the street but fortunately, shops open even on sundays, from 9AM to 10PM !

While having our breakfast on a church's steps, a finnish guy comes and we start to talk about many things, him just finishing his evening in english.

After a short tour and once shopping's done, we leave Turku.

Bad weather is following us in the countryside, we have no choice but taking shelter in a not-that-straight barn, waiting for the 4 hour long rain to end.

On one of these excellent finnish bike maps, we spotted a "tent pitching area", in the very center of a natural park. To get to it, we take an unsurfaced road (compacted earth, very nice dry, much less wet).

For now, southwestern Finland looks pretty much like Sweden, as we learn it has been a swedish colony for a while. But the landscape, the roads and the buildings, everything seems to be wilder.

When reaching the natural park, we take a hiking path to the tent area. What a mistake !

The path goes into a mordor-like marsh, we have to walk with our bikes on a wet woodden path. When getting back in the forrest, the path is made of gravel or fir tree's splipping roots. After a 3km nightmare, we arrive at ... the car parking !

Resentful at first, we get delighted to find a "fire barrack", a nice exhibition on the marsh's inhabitant (one crane couple), toilets and so on.