Eurosully, Somewhere, somewhere (2025)

29/10/2025

🏝️An island day today!

🧭It hasn’t taken us long to explore this tiny island.

💡🏡We’ve been to Marjaniemi to see the lighthouse and hopefully get some salmon soup from the small cafe there- it comes highly recommended- alas, no dogs allowed so we gave it a miss!

🦆Next, on to a short board walk through the marshes and up the bird watching tower at Kirkkosalmo- 4 coots, 1 goldeneye and 6 swans flying over- everything else has headed south!

👂And finally- the Organum- an acoustic art installation that looks like it belongs on Tatooine! This is where we are sleeping tonight.

💚It’s another strong aurora, but like last night the clouds are covering the sky. Captured on a long exposure on the phone, the clouds last night looked eerily green. I don’t think tonight will be anything different looking at the clouds overhead!

28/10/2025

❤️We had our last night in Lapland in Tornio last night- sad to be leaving the very north of Finland and will miss seeing reindeer by the roadside and in the fields.

✍️Our Lapland tally of 291 reindeers isn’t bad though!

⛴️We have driven a little further south to the largest island in the Gulf of Bothnia, travelling onto Hailuoto on the free island ferry which took 20mins.

🥶In a few months time you will be able to drive across the ice to the island which sounds scary!

💶They are building a road which has 2 bridges and a causeway, at a cost of 100million €, to be completed in 2026. This will make things easier for the 1000 island inhabitants, but they worry it may also alter island life if too many tourists arrive.

27/10/2025

🇫🇮After 4 nights in Sweden (vegging out at a campsite after getting LPG), we are back in Finland to pick up where we left off.

💲We stopped off at the Dollar Store in Sweden with Andrew on the hunt for a new hat- this one was a hard NO!

🌧️Our last night in Lapland is a wet one! We are in Tornio, which is the oldest town in Lapland.

🍣It was 400 years old in 2021 so they made this beautiful steel salmon called Konami, to commemorate the 2 important industries of the town.

🔔We are staying near this stunning church - which has a bell tower that is part of a massive UNESCO site, stretching across Europe.

🧭The bell tower is one of triangularion points on the Struve Geodetic Arc, a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km.

🌍Struve, alongside a huge number of other scientists across Europe, created a chain of 258 interconnecting triangles, using maths to measure a segment of the meridian. The segments nearer the poles were longer…meaning the spherical earth is actually flattened at the poles and is ellipsoidal in shape!

👍This international scientific cooperation is partly why it is a UNESCO heritage site- the other being its importance to geodesy.

❤️We’ve already seen the one at Hammerfest, so makes sense to see some of the others further down the arc.

25/10/2025

🤔I saw this today and thought I’d share it. We made the decision to retire early and travel because…well, because, life is too short and you never know what’s round the corner.

❓Was it the right thing to do? We think so, and although we miss family when we travel, if we’d waited to do this in later life, we might have missed the chance.

🚐Retiring whilst we’re healthy now, has been the right time for us.

❤️Hope you find your ‘right time’ to do the things you love.

24/10/2025

🍁Nice to see some autumnal colours still in this part of Sweden, and a restful day around site today- washing/drying a bargain.

⛸️The site has a few beaches with access to the water. It’s hard to imagine that the water you can see in this picture freezes so deep that in Jan/Feb they plough a 30km road across it for cars to use and also create a 10km ice track for walking, skating and jogging etc! The ice is 0.5m thick.

🧊The reason the sea freezes so deeply is really interesting. 8 major rivers flow into the Gulf of Bothnia, so the water is ‘brackish’: a mixture of freshwater and salt sea-it’s actually 4/5 parts freshwater making it the most freshwater-diluted sea water area in the world.

❄️The ploughs are 6 tonne so it would be fun to drive the MH across the ice- I use fun in the loosest sense cos I wouldn’t be driving! I’m sure Andrew would describe the ride differently.

🥶The coldest recorded temp here was -41’C in 1999, the municipality has the highest number of snowmobiles in Sweden and in 2015 they had the deepest snow measured at 113cm.

23/10/2025

🇸🇪We are in Sweden! Why? (we hear you ask!)

🗓️When we planned the Finland trip we know our onboard LPG would only last us 4 weeks once we were in the country (only 1 LPG place in south Finland), and if the weather allowed us to stay in Lapland for that amount of time (which it has), then we knew we could drive 2 hours into Sweden to Pitea, and get topped up. We lasted 31 nights (with 3litres to spare), hence we are in Sweden!

🦮Only snag then being that we’d need a vet to give Buddy a wormer before coming back into Finland, 1-5 days later (we could also have taken Buddy to a Finnish vet within 28 days of going into Sweden and returning).

🚐So Pitea = LPG + food shop + Vet.

❤️We are now heading back to Finland but first, having a 3 night break at a Swedish camping chain we used last time (we actually stayed here exactly 2 years and 1 day ago with ice and snow on the roads).

⛺️First Camp has loads of campsites and they offer good out of seasonal deals. We’ve paid £50, including EHU, for 3 nights on their 3 for 2 offer.

💷We also joined the First Camp Club last time (2 years ago), so we also used our Club points to save another £2. We’ll get more points from this stay to use again later. These campsites have excellent facilities and are well worth looking at if you are in Sweden, Denmark or Norway.

22/10/2025

❤️Well nature lovers…be prepared. Not wild, but the next best thing in order to see some beautiful Arctic animals up close (Andrew’s big lens also helped of course).

Zoos are always a tough one for us. It always seems cruel to keep animals away from their natural habitat, but more and more these places keep conservation, rehabilitation/rescue and education at their core. Many of the animals at Ranua have been rescued and can’t be released so the large natural-looking enclosures are the best they can hope for.

❤️Our favourite arctic animals:

Sleeping beavers
Sleeping otter
Wild boar
Polar bear
Wolf
Dhole
Wolverine
Lynx

…and me!

🥰Not that the other animals, owls and eagles weren’t cute- but we’ve seen a lot of reindeer already!

🐻The brown bears were notably absent as they were hibernating!

21/10/2025

🎶What a difference a day makes… 🎶

❄️So we woke up to snow…having just said yesterday how much lovelier Santa’s village would be with a bit of the white stuff!

🏵️That being said, we’ve been there, done that 2 years ago and are happier driving without it…so we’ve bid a hasty retreat south to Ranua- the cloudberry capital ‘of the world’ (the emoji is the nearest I could get).

🧡So with cloudberry jam and cloudberry yoghurts in the shopping trolley, we are hunkered down for the night ready for an exciting day out tomorrow!

20/10/2025

🎅Not quite the same without snow, but we had a little wander around Santa’s place today. When we came 2 years ago we had snow and we also took Buddy to see Santa.
It’s free to meet Santa, who loves dogs, but you pay if you want the photos and videos the elves take. Since we did that last time, we gave it a miss this time.

❤️Last night’s meal seemed expensive for what we got, but today’s lunch was an absolute bargain- €18.90 for buffet lunch. We love that many food outlets allow dogs inside, although not all do.

19/10/2025

😳Well, I had almost given up any hope of seeing anymore reindeers in Lapland. 9 days with barely a sighting. Then…boom…we are back with reindeers again.

❤️78 just today- very happy traveller.

We also saw a very large male reindeer at Äkäslompolo- such attention to detail on a massive scale 🫣

🎅…and we’ve just eaten reindeer for tea in a flippin’ expensive restaurant (dog friendly), to the background music of Christmas carols so it can only mean I thing…yes we are here with Mr C himself.

🧑‍🎄Bring it on Christmas…just for a few days mind…and then I wont be thinking about it again until December!

19/10/2025

❤️Facebook is full of amazing pictures from last night’s strong aurora. We were in the absolute best spot to see it ready for the evening’s display.

☁️It started well, but alas, the clouds came in and we didn’t get the aurora we’d hoped for. But we did see how the aurora makes a cloudy sky look and it too was fab.

18/10/2025

🚐Another parkup on our own. Dark skies, very quiet!

🌨️The route we took today west across Lapland to get ahead of the really cold weather and snow. Just a sprinkling to date.

❤️Our parkup this evening had another couple of occupants too!

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