Tollikko

This day we drove down the Eastern side of the Gulf of Bothnia and visited some cute little towns on the sea like Raahe, Kalajoki, Kokkola and Jakobstad. Kalajoki had a beach area with large houses that would not be out of place at any of the SA popular coastal towns. This is where we had lunch. The other 3 places had nice old wooden styled town centres which made them worth passing through. We ended up staying in an Airbnb near Vaasa. This was a lovely, old cabin that had been tastefully modernised , situated in a slightly off of the beaten track farming community. The cabin was built in the 1800s and the landlord told us that the original owner had his wife and 7 kids living in the cabin! I must say, we were struggling to picture where they put them all in this tiny little cabin! But I guess in those days you just made do with what you had. This day was also probably our 6th day out of about 7 weeks where we did not have a single drop of rain! We celebrated this by playing a classic Finnish game called Molkky - an excellent lawn game which we were already well acquainted with.Read more