Jyvaskyla 2014: Day 13 - Friday 18th July

Day 13 - Friday 18th July

>> Friday 18 July 2014

As Keith and I are watching updates from our speedway team's match tonight, it's just a short post about today.

Another hot day, with the temperature finally reaching 27C this afternoon while we were swimming. We spent time in Jyvaskyla shopping earlier, then came back and relaxed. Olivia and Sandy were both keen to go out on the boat, and both had shots at rowing, which they enjoyed. Keith also came out with me earlier.

Olivia rowing the boat back to shore.

Tomorrow, we're off to Varkaus to see our pals Jyrki and Mari. Hopefully more pictures tomorrow evening!

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This will be our 7th summer visit to the truly beautiful Nordic country of Finland, a hidden gem in the far north of Europe. We fell in love with Finland in 2006 when we drove via Sweden to the south east coastal town of Kotka.

We were back in 2008, flying to Helsinki, then staying in both Kotka and Varkaus, around 300 kms north east of the capital city. This gave us our first taste of the lakeland areas inland, and we loved swimming in the beautiful warm lakes!

In 2010 we returned by car from Scotland in a heatwave to the areas close to Juva and Puumala, renting our first cottages by lakes that were incredibly warm to swim in.

After such fantastic weather in 2010, we had high hopes of the same in 2011, and incredibly, we were again very lucky to have a real heatwave! We stayed in two cottages close to Juva again, and fell further in love with the tranquil solitude you experience in this spectacular lakeland area.

By 2012, we wanted to try some new areas and cottages, so we planned a 24 day holiday, staying for a week in three different cottages as well as staying in a beautiful Helsinki aparthotel for 3 nights. It was lovely to discover the eastern town of Parikkala, as well as the western town of Ruovesi, and in between, we stayed for a week in what has become our firm favourite cottage of all our trips, close to Jyväskylä.

We loved our stay on Lake Palvajarvi so much in 2012, that we returned to the same cottage again in 2013 for two weeks, and now, in 2014, we are looking forward very much to our 3rd year at the same place.

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