{"id":22384,"date":"2016-06-26T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=22384"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:47:46","slug":"freedom-is-a-finnish-lake-near-virrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/freedom-is-a-finnish-lake-near-virrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom is: A Finnish Lake near Virrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome is feeling free, parked in the cool, sunlit air at a small, free of charge parking area alongside Lake\u00a0Toisvesi, near Virrat in Western Finland (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=loc:62.25548,23.75246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">N62.25548, E23.75246<\/a>). Thinking about it, the idea of charging for parking here seems ludicrous. Not that it&#8217;s not a wonderful place, but the fact this is Big Country. Already, without yet touching the vast tracts of forest in the north, we&#8217;re getting a sense of Finland as Europe&#8217;s most forested country. 70% of the land here is trees. It feels like almost all of the rest is lake! Using my thumb as a rough measure, we&#8217;ve the same distance driven\u00a0from the bottom of Poland to here, to do again to bring us to\u00a0the top of Finland. Big Driving days ahead (anything over 2 or 3 hours is a Big Drive for us!).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22391\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22391\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22391\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03925-1024x512-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Zagan wild camping at Lake Toisvesi, Finland\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03925-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03925-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03925-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zagan wild camping at Lake Toisvesi, Finland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last night a rock concert kicked off, drum-thumping starting exactly at midnight. Impact on our sleep: not much. We were both bushed. The shift towards endless daylight&#8217;s eating away at our kip. It&#8217;s not unusual to see someone arrive in a car at 11:30pm, and take off for a run or a walk on the beach, as though it were hours earlier. Despite the &#8216;no motorhomes&#8217; sign we shared the parking area with 2 other vans and a caravan, and no Finnish police arrived to turf us all out. Caravans, by the way, share a similar status to motorhomes here, something we&#8217;ve also seen in the Baltics. Most countries forbid caravans from using aires, and typically the friendly wave between passing motorhomers isn&#8217;t extended to our caravanning cousins. Not here &#8211; we&#8217;ve shared kipping spots with caravans and motorhomes alike, and today found ourselves waving like kids to about 50 Finnish motorhomes and ten Finnish caravans!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22388\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22388\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22388\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03918-1024x512-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Wild camping in caravans appears to have the same 'accepted' status in Finland as motorhomes\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03918-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03918-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03918-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wild camping in caravans appears to have the same &#8216;accepted&#8217; status in Finland as motorhomes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You may have noticed by this point we&#8217;re next to a lake, and we previously said we were avoiding lakes, or more accurately the mosquitoes hordes we expect to frequent these watery havens. Yesterday we pulled out the map and changed our minds. We were going to hug the western coast, and if we&#8217;d been allowed to take Charlie on the beaches we might have done just that, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/juhannusaatto-midsummer-eve-in-uusikaupunki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">beach and dunes at Kaanaa<\/a> were fantastic. New plan: make a bee line east for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalparks.fi\/en\/kolinp\/sights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Koli National Park<\/a>, before turning north to Sonkaj\u00e4rvi to drink beer and watch blokes carrying wives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22386\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22386\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22386\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03909-1024x512-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Good roads and good drivers here in Finland. Keep an eye out for speed cameras though - every junction to seem to have one (the speed limit usually drops at junctions)\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03909-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03909-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03909-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Good roads and good drivers here in Finland. Keep an eye out for speed cameras though &#8211; every junction to seem to have one (the speed limit usually drops at junctions)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22387\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22387\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22387\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03914-1024x512-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Finland in June: Green Trees and Purple Flowers line the roads\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03914-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03914-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03914-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finland in June: Green trees and purple flowers line the roads<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So here we are. A couple of hours through the forest-lined roads, a diesel fill-up (\u20ac1.19 a litre) and a swim in the lake later and I&#8217;m tapping this out. It feels good to be here. Finland&#8217;s beginning to feel like a place of freedom, where we can roam about like the nomads of old. The Finns seem to feel entirely at ease in their own company, and don&#8217;t bother us or even acknowledge us. I&#8217;d heard this about them (we have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/076145506X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=076145506X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=outoamilieuwa-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Culture Shock book<\/a> on Finland), and I thought it might come across to me as being aloof, but no, not at all. It feels like mutual respect is extended by default, and it very much suits my own introvert nature. I like the Finns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22389\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22389\" class=\"wp-image-22389 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03920-1024x538-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Toisvesi: frozen from December to April\" width=\"620\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03920-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03920-1024x538-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03920-1024x538-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Toisvesi: frozen from December to April<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22392\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22392\" class=\"wp-image-22392 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03938-1024x400-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"Look carefully, there's a tiny Jay head bobbing out in the brackish waters!\" width=\"620\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03938-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03938-1024x400-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03938-1024x400-768x300.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look carefully, there&#8217;s a tiny Jay head bobbing about in the brackish waters!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not much else to report. We&#8217;re both keeping track of events back home, as we await the next steps following Britain&#8217;s vote to leave the EU. Being so far from home it&#8217;s hard to judge quite what&#8217;s happening. The mood of the country seems far from jubilant, but maybe that&#8217;s just the media portrayal of events. We&#8217;ve already had one email asking is if we&#8217;ve seen any change in the way we&#8217;re being treated abroad, which we haven&#8217;t, but it gives a small indication of the uncertainty which may well lie ahead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22390\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22390\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22390\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03924-1024x679-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie's bark-a-thon posiion whenever we turn up somewhere new: the poor thing has attempted to use his wee to claim land from the Sahara to Finland!\" width=\"620\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03924-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03924-1024x679-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DSC03924-1024x679-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie&#8217;s bark-a-thon position whenever we turn up somewhere new. The poor thing has attempted to use his wee wherever we stop to claim land from the Sahara to Finland!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/6-tips-for-roaming-european-internet-access-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yesterday&#8217;s post about SIM cards<\/a> etc, I&#8217;ve just run a speed test on our Internet connection here: 4.6Mbps up and 11.9Mbps down on the Elisa 4G network. Why it&#8217;s twice as fast up as down, when it&#8217;s normally the other way around, I don&#8217;t know, but it feels beautifully responsive. Here&#8217;s hoping tomorrow&#8217;s speed is as good, as we&#8217;ll watch the England football game if it is, sat by a lake in a forest in Finland! I love technology (when it works :-).<\/p>\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I spent a bit of time today reading about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4\">Simo H\u00e4yh\u00e4<\/a>. He&#8217;s passed away now, but became a\u00a0national hero in Finland&#8217;s fight against the USSR as they attempted to annex the country in 1939. Small in stature, and seemingly as reserved as any Finn, he gained the nickname &#8220;The White Death&#8221; from the Red Army. Sitting\u00a0in snow at temperatures down to -40\u00b0C, with snow in his mouth to prevent his breath giving his position away, he killed over 500 of the enemy in just 90 days before finally being shot in the face with an exploding bullet, which he survived and lived into his 90&#8217;s. Incredible stuff eh?<\/p>\n<p>P.P.S. No mosquitoes spotted yet, but some MAHOOOOSIVE\u00a0flying biter thing tried to take my leg off earlier. We have some anti-mozzie spray called &#8216;Off&#8217; which we got in Estonia, and which we&#8217;re no doubt about to test the effectiveness of!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>New to motorhome life,<br>planning your own motorhome adventure or<br>looking for the perfect gift for the motorhomer in your life?<\/strong><br>Check out our\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/motorhome-and-campervan-books\/\">OurTour range of books<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/All-OurTour-Motorhome-Guide-Books-With-Text-Bars.png\" alt=\"MOTORHOME AND CAMPERVAN BOOKS FROM OURTOUR\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finland leg of our motorhome tour of Scandinavia brings us to a free parking area beside Lake Toisvesi near Virrat in Western Finland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,452],"tags":[1741,1757,1758,1759],"class_list":["post-22384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorhome-blog","category-finland-motorhome","tag-finland","tag-motorhome-tour-scandinavia","tag-scandinavia-in-a-mtorohome","tag-virrat"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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