Welcome back...

A Tent With a View, or, Where To Next?

We arrived back last night, and have started uploading 493 photos and 19 video clips (yes I foolishly bought a bigger memory card) while the washing machine rumbles away in the background, and the YLE olympic commentators witter away in suomea.

Have stayed in four-star hotel, bunked in aitta's, tent in campsite and backwoods, in mökki with no electricity or running water, and mökki with dishwasher, flat screen TV and two saunas; eaten elk, karelia pies, karelia egg sauce, karelia stew, wild berries, pulla and drank kahvi, kotiolut (home beer), australian shiraz and lake water (boiled of course) ;  seen lots of puu (trees), jarvi (lakes), and even mäki (hills); traveled by car, coach, ferry, train, minibus, taxi and foot; and walked, hiked, climbed, rowed, swam, sailed, slept and been bitten by a hundred hyttynen (mosquitoes) all the while.

Will eventually make a few posts on some of the highlights, and put up a few of the photos - when I can summon up the energy.

Oh and Konna had another name day...

[edited 18/08/08]