Cycle Tour Bike trip to the North Cape
Dag 21, hviledag/rest day: Rovaniemi. Til fods/on foot
Added on 03 Mar 2014
on 21 Apr 2014
ridden on
06 Jun 2010
Weather
Today dry weather with sunny spells, but still very cool with an ice cold northerly wind.
Accommodation
Ounaskoski Camping
Jäämerentie 1
FI-96200 Rovaniemi
Properties
No cycling today! I made a tour of the city on foot.
Remarks
The most extraordinary day of the whole trip: No cycling at all, but rest day in Rovaniemi. After my breakfast at the camp site, where my tent is pitched right on the Kemijoki river bank I had a guest: Raija arrived by train and taxi. First I showed her my tent, where we warmed one another in the cold Finnish summer! That done we went for a walk into town. There we visited the architecturally exciting museum Arktikum, which tells about life beyond the polar circle. The exhibition is very traditional. Lunch and coffee in the museum restaurant. Afterwards we walk through the city centre to the railway station, where Raija boards a train home and I enjoy som city life: At a computer in a hotel and in a beer bar with yet more contact to the local population. Waddled 'home' to my tent across the impressing Jatkankynttilä bridge.