Travel plans

This was ment to be automatically published a week ago, but somehow it didn't. Well, here it is now, though some of my plans have already changed.

June is almost over and  the rest of my summer looks quite busy. Or maybe busy isn't the right word. You're busy when you have lots of things to do that you don't want to do. And I most certainly want to do all the things I've written in my calendar. And to do all those things, I have to travel back and forth through Finland from north to south. 

I´m gonna spent couple of weeks in Kuopio, get therapized and tanned, relax and meet friends. Then I´m heading to Revonlahti, to stay at my friend Johannas' place, a lovely, old, little cottage with little electricity and no running water. Then I could  finally meet her horses, and  pat them and feet them carrots. Maybe even try riding a horse, who knows? From Revonlahti, it's not long till Oulu where I could loiter a while with the same plan as in Kuopio, before heading further north, back to Ivalo. Just in time for the Watercross, Rock@Ivalo-Sity (yes, thats how it's written up here) and Jukka Poikas' concert. After recovering from that,    I'm going to Pyhä with Johanna, to dig up some amethysts and see Pyhä Unplugged. Johanna told me the place, Pyhä Kuru is worth seeing and hearing. A huge bowl of rocks in the middle of fells. I'm mainly interested in the amethystmine. From Pyhä, my pockets filled with precious stones, I guess I head back to Kuopio and school.  In the end of August, that Synja-meeting at Koli finally ends my summer holiday.

In moneywise, and for the sake of adventure, I hope I have enough stamina and courage to hitchhike. My plans to hitchhike from Kuopio to Ivalo didn't start too well though, for I was standing by a wrong junction. But I wont be discouraged! Next time I`ll have a map. Besides, I would have gotten a lift from there too, only it was to Savonlinna, in  totally opposite direction from where I was heading to.

-Tiina