Those 2 weeks were just GREAT!!! I was with my boyfriend Olivier, his son Léo, and part of his family (his parents, his brother with his wife and daughter). We stayed 10 days in their cottage near Savonlinna (a cute place with several red wooden buildings like the ones I’ve always dreamt of ;-).
The weather was quite nice almost all the time, so that we could go walking and picking berries and mushrooms, do canoe and sightseeing… Our program was more or less an alternance of excursions to some place and relaxing time in the cottage. And of course, each day ending with a good sauna and a bath in the lake J Just the holidays I needed!
We visited Savonlinna and its castle. Unfortunately we were there a week too late for the famous Opera festival (anyway, the tickets are quite expensive…). We went for a one-hour-cruise on the Saimaa Lake: all this water, it’s very impressive!
We also went for a day trip in the Eastern part of Finland, near the Russian border, to visit the Lapperantää fortress and to see the Imatra falls.
As you can guess, this trip had a little nostalgic taste: I could eat Finish food again (pirakka, salmiakki, reindeer…) and I could remember some Finish words (after a few days, I felt almost like at home :-D).
We were very lucky because Olivier’s parents have Finnish friends there who invited us for dinner, first in a farm, then in a summer cottage: it was so nice and they were pretty happy to meet a French girl who had lived in Finland and who was fond of their country ;-)
Now that I’m back, what I miss the most is of course the sauna time before having dinner…
Ahhh, holidays…
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2 comments:
Ahh çà fait plaisir de te lire !
Tes photos sont superbes, çà donne une impression appaisante et relaxante rien qu'à les regarder alors j'imagine bien ce tu décris de ton voyage de détente ! C'est ce qui nous manque ici, des espaces naturels calmes et tranquilles.
Je savais pas que tu étais partie avec toute ta belle famille ! Tu devais être contente de pouvoir leur faire partager ton intérêt pour la Finlande !
Cà devait être trop mignon cette ferme finlandaise et le cottage ensuite ! Tu aurais des photos ?
En tout cas, vous êtes toujours mimi sur cette dernière ! Au fait je parie qu'Olivier a ramené pleins de trucs ! Les valises étaient pas trop chargées au retour ??? lol
Biz
eh oui on est tout mimi sur la photo (d'ailleurs ma mère, tu la connais, la veut déjà pour l'encadrer :-D)
Je t'envoie des nouvelles bientôt (là je dois faire mon sac car je pars à Quimper pour le boulot demain)
Bisous!
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