Finnish final frontier!

Another day of interesting roads (if you are on an LT - mint if you are on a GS). We have spoken to a lot of people today garnering opinion about the best border crossing to use and they all contradicted each other but the common theme was that the minor roads are shocking if you are on an LT but mint of you are on a GS. We are going have a punt a Imatra.

We ate reindeer sat by the side of a road and then drank coffee in the pouring rain at some kind of council recycling centre which seemed like the equivalent of ebay for non-internet users. Simon bought council issue waterproofs that made him look like a cross between Trigger from only fools and horses a Finnish lollipop man. We then ended up on an unpaved road in a mozzie infested birch forest about 5km from the russian border with only a bunch of trees separating us, we didn't see another car for a good few hours but chuckled at the fact that there were numerous bus stops but no people or buses in evidence, all a little odd.

We got striped up for 80 euros for basically sausage and chips and a pint of beer and then got lost in another mozzie infested forest walking back to the campsite. Finnish people ride bicycles into lakes and go swimming fully clothed.

There is still no sign of it getting dark!

Later

Will

Ps. The more south we get the more normal things seem to appear but Mike is still generally weirded out!
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