Yesterday I got idea to try canoe. :) And today we tried it with my friend from Czech republic Jarek.
We lend it from one hungary guy who is living here in Jyvaskyla for 10 years. We make an appoitment with him at 9am today.
I was waiting near 'hotelli Allba', near the lake Jyvasjarvi at 9 o'clock ;) while Jarek was shopping in Lidl. We wanted to take with us more than 4 litre of water per each, because today's forecast: 30 degree C.
He came just after hungary guy, with one open bottle of mineral water. He told me that his plastic bag with bottles pust to wheel on his bike and it makes big boom. It makes hole to plastic bag, but the most funny thing was, in that time was jogging some man near by and the water came from bottle maybe to 3 meters :) That poor jogging man was totally wet but he could not start yelling on Jarek, because Jarek just told: ,,Oh I am sorry" and he find out that he is foreigner and he can not use finish "strong" words to him :)
We got the instruction from Bela, that was the name of hungary guy, how to use canoe. It was mainly for me, because I have tried it before :)
But Jarek was experienced :)
We start our journey and stay by every nice place.
It was maximally wonderfull day. Sun was shining, wind was not strong... just we canoe and some other people on boats :)
Finish people really know how to relax and how to make their housing nicer :) We visited maybe 5 different places on several islands and there were fully furnished cottages. After such a experience you can really find out what is the criminal level in Finland... really
We stop on one island to have lunch, and after a while some people came and we find out that they are owners of place where we are. So we start packing our stuff to not bother them and when they came closer we appologize them to be here. But they just relaxed answer that it is no problem. They told us they are going to spend in their cottage next 4 weeks. We were thinking in one little one but then we saw they are opening another bigger one near by. That little one was just sauna :)
Weather just change maybe 2 kilometers before our comeback. Wind was really hard and lake was starting to be more wave than ussually. We saw raining clouds so we put more effort to paddling.
But our canoe always changed the course, but we made it very happy and finally came back before rain.
Behind us is another beautifull day in Jyvaskyla, Finland. And I really start to find out, that this country can offer a lot of beauty.