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Eurosully We’re travelling around the UK and rest of Europe in a Compass Elddis motorhome with our dog, Buddy.
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☔️Today has been a soggy one in Finland…but it’s warmer and that means all the snow and ice has gone from the roads…whic...
28/11/2025

☔️Today has been a soggy one in Finland…but it’s warmer and that means all the snow and ice has gone from the roads…which is great.

💶I contacted a nearby campsite to see if we could pay to do services- they said yes…€10 mind just for grey waste!

🐺Anyway, I realised that this was the same guy I’d emailed last week regarding an eagle photography experience they advertised…that didn’t come to anything because he said that the friends he has who feed the eagles can’t do that anymore because of the wolves! Only in Finland!

📷Kai was a lovely chap and turns out he is a photographer and is a member of the Professional Nature Photogrpahers of Finland SAL. We chatted about nature and he showed us his campsite and his bird feeding station-with a pond he feeds the otters in!

😳He showed us his YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/?si=9tX7wPwyUzgY8IWl) and lo and behold did he not see a lynx walk through his garden one night! His campsite is right on the edge of Nuuksio National Park and he’s been there 5 years and only seen a lynx on camera twice-never face to face.

📷He also gave us the first publication of Nature Exposed which is a beautiful book created by all the professional photographers in the group to showcase Finland’s nature (wildlife and landscapes combined).

These serendipitous moments are the best!

🍴We are now at the Finnish Nature Centre Haltia on the edge of Nuuksio National Park (home of the Flying Squirrel). We’ve had a lovely lunch in the dog friendly cafe and asked if it was ok for us to spend the night in their carpark. They said yes!

🎄Tomorrow is the Xmas and outdoor flea market at the centre with free entry to the exhibitions and meet a professional nature photographer…I’m going to see if he’s in my book…

✅Jobs day today- services and laundry.🧺We’ve found the 24hr Pesulas (laundromats) really handy as they are attached to s...
27/11/2025

✅Jobs day today- services and laundry.

🧺We’ve found the 24hr Pesulas (laundromats) really handy as they are attached to supermarkets, which in turn are attached to food outlets etc. They all have special rug washing and drying machines too which I’ve not seen before in the UK.

🎿We love wandering around the supermarkets to see what’s different here- sauna supplies, skis, sledges, ice hockey sticks and plenty of merino wool socks- you don’t see them down at your local Asda!

🍔As the laundry was underway we finally visited a Hesburger- Finland’s own chain of fast food outlets. With 4 times more outlets than McDonalds in Finland, we thought it was time to pay them a visit- for official review purposes only of course!

🍟So…good value meal deal, really nice chips and we liked the sauce on the burgers.

🍔But, overall ranking first to last: Burger King, Hesburger and McDonalds.

Today’s walk around Porkkala has been a walk of ‘and then’.So we’d been enjoying the beautiful walk and then saw a treec...
26/11/2025

Today’s walk around Porkkala has been a walk of ‘and then’.

So we’d been enjoying the beautiful walk and then saw a treecreeper, hopping from tree to tree. Lovely!

We walked on and I said ‘I’d still love to see a Created Tit’ and Andrew said he’d love to see a Gold Crest …and then…

…literally 2 mins later we walked on and saw them both, just hopping on the floor and flitting between the branches. We watched them for ages.

As we walked on we commented how we’d not seen any deer in the forest, despite seeing them in the fields on the way here…and then… 2 deers ran out in front of us and then circled us, allowing us to get some great shots!

…and then, as we stood photographing another treecreeper a friendly Great Tit came very close on a branch…and then…landed on Andrew’s lens, then onto his shoulder and started pecking at the fluff on his new hat, and then back onto his lens! Really cute and all captured on film (look closely at the photos!)

So then we said we’d still like to see a moose…and then…

…we didn’t see a moose! 🫎

😳I’ve put my nature cam out loads of nights in Finland and the most I’ve seen is a magpie’s tail!🫣This morning, however,...
25/11/2025

😳I’ve put my nature cam out loads of nights in Finland and the most I’ve seen is a magpie’s tail!

🫣This morning, however, I was very excited to see that it had triggered a few times in the night…super duper!

A rat! A flipping🐀 - soooooo disappointed!

🚐Parked up in another forest - caught the last light of the day…at 4.30pm!

Tomorrow is set to be lovely and sunny, albeit hovering around zero degrees C, so we have planned a couple of walks to explore the area and stay here for a 2nd night.

👩‍🎨Today we visited Fiskars Village, a community of artists and designers who live and work in the historic ironworks bu...
24/11/2025

👩‍🎨Today we visited Fiskars Village, a community of artists and designers who live and work in the historic ironworks buildings.

🫣What a pretty place- but don’t visit on Mondays as most places are shut, although we did manage to visit a couple-axes and baubles in the same dog-friendly shop.

❤️We are now parked up with another stunning view across a lake- my lunch spot has never been so pretty.

🚐Alone…again…peace.

🧌After a lovely morning walk around an enchanted forest looking for trolls (none found 🧌despite this being called Troll ...
23/11/2025

🧌After a lovely morning walk around an enchanted forest looking for trolls (none found 🧌despite this being called Troll Forest (Trollskogen)- false advertisement !), we drove 10mins to the town of Ekenäs- which the Swedish version of its Finnish name, Tammisaari.

🇸🇪We know that places in this part of Finland have signs with both languages, but this town is the first we’ve seen where Google and our map uses its Swedish name.

🗣️We also know that the Swedish speakers number 81% v Finnish, so presume that is why the Swedish name prevails! The municipality of Raseborg as a whole is majority Swedish speaking.

📽️It has a lovely old town with a variety of colourful wooden houses whose renovations are strictly regulated, Finland’s first pedestrianised street, the oldest still-used cinema and is Finland’s 7th oldest town.

🎄Also, our first Christmas tree lit up (seen hundreds in the woods 😂). The lights went on in most places last night here in Finland.

Are the lights on back home?

🛍️We’ve been out shopping at the Kirppis in Hanko today- it translates to flea market- where we have found a few bargain...
22/11/2025

🛍️We’ve been out shopping at the Kirppis in Hanko today- it translates to flea market- where we have found a few bargains.

🧢Hats for 2€ (yes we both bought one after Andrew tried them all on!)

🏔️A Clique Malamute expedition parka for €30 - retails at around £100-120 at the moment. There’s 1 mark on it, so that’s a bargain. It’s sooo heavy though we might need to up-plate!

🏕️A kuksa which is a Lapland wooden outdoor drinking cup for 2€ - these are usually 10-15€ for one this size.

All in all a success!

❤️A lovely wander around Hanko today.🧈From a small fishing town to an exporter of butter and an importer of cars, this t...
21/11/2025

❤️A lovely wander around Hanko today.

🧈From a small fishing town to an exporter of butter and an importer of cars, this town has an eclectic history.

💣It was blown up by the Russians and burnt by the British during the Crimean War.

🚢It had its harbour developed 1889 once Finland got its ice-breakers, so ships could reach it in the winter.

🛀It became a fancy spa town at the end of the 1800’s with beautiful coloured villas built for Russian visitors (Finland was a Grand Duchy at that time and belonged to Russia).

🦁It was liberated from Russia in 1918 by the Germans and two lions (Conrad and Aurora) form part of the monument to commemorate it- it’s been dismantled twice in the 1940’s (the Russians came back) and has stayed put with a new inscription ‘For our Greedom’ since 1960.

🦮The town is super dog friendly- loads of cafes, restaurants, shops and beaches allow dogs- here’s Bud in an art gallery! He loved it as much as Andrew!

🇸🇪🇫🇮Around 50% of the town speak both Swedish and Finnish, like this whole area, and all the signs have place names in both languages.

🐕Here’s Buddy to say ‘ hope your day’s going well’ ❤️🦮⬇️We’ve had a walk to the most southern point of mainland Finland ...
20/11/2025

🐕Here’s Buddy to say ‘ hope your day’s going well’ ❤️🦮

⬇️We’ve had a walk to the most southern point of mainland Finland today. We didn’t get all the way as it was windy and we were too soft to get any colder.

🚙Instead we looked through the gates at all the cars at Freeport- it’s a no-drone place so we had to look on Google Maps to see these.

🚗I love that there’s a special place to park red vehicles!

🫣So my smugness yesterday (in heading to the island of Korpo to avoid the overnight freeze on the mainland) needed slapp...
19/11/2025

🫣So my smugness yesterday (in heading to the island of Korpo to avoid the overnight freeze on the mainland) needed slapping off my face as we woke up to an unexpected few cms of snow!

❄️As we’d parked at the bottom of a small slope we were a tad worried about getting up it… but managed fine in the end- No drama!

🌨️The road to the ferry was completely covered with snow as we headed back to Nagu- the plan originally to stay there for a night or two.

🌨️However…with 15cm of snow due this evening and 2 days of sub zero afterwards we quickly reassessed and headed to a different bit of the archipelago further south.

🌥️The forecast here is for very little snow and much warmer temps for the next few days so we are much happier! Planning diagram included here for peer approval!

🍽️We stopped for a late lunch at a roadside garage- their lunches are really good value- we paid €17.90 each for salad starter, hearty main meal, hot drink and sweet treats for dessert. Very nice too.

I enjoyed reading the local newspaper (via Google translate) and laughed at the translation of this joke- if this means the same in Finnish can you imagine the complaint to if this one made it into a UK rag?

🫶In the immortal words of Colonel Hannibal Smith- I love it when a plan comes together!🥶With an icy blast covering most ...
18/11/2025

🫶In the immortal words of Colonel Hannibal Smith- I love it when a plan comes together!

🥶With an icy blast covering most of Finland over the next few days (icier than usual!) we made a plan to escape the cold and get to a tropical island!

🏝️Well, 2 ferries and umpteen bridges later and we are now on the island of Korpo- a heady 6 degrees warmer than where we were last night!

🌡️At these temperatures every degree matters!

🦌The drive through this part of the archipelago has been beautiful- we’ve seen plenty of deer in the fields alongside the roads and watched a white-tailed eagle soar over the ferry harbour.

✨We are now in a very dark sky…very dark…

🫣So imagine Andrew’s enthusiasm when I announced I’d planned another intangible UNESCO cultural heritage adventure today...
17/11/2025

🫣So imagine Andrew’s enthusiasm when I announced I’d planned another intangible UNESCO cultural heritage adventure today!

🎻If fiddle playing and sauna weren’t fun enough…who knew glass blowing would be so fun to watch- and a new inuenndo bonanza for himself!

🫗We visited the Glass Village at Nuutajärvi (which is the oldest glass blowing community, founded in 1793) and watched students on a vocational course learn new skills- pretty amazing really- we chatted to two ladies who’d only been learning since August and they were already making baubles.

🔥The tutor told us there were only 10 glass blowing centres in Finland and this one has lots of small artisans who use the facilities and sell their produce.

🫣A bit too fragile a souvenir for us…unlikely to survive the journey home!

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