11th August, 2016
The trip from Ruokalahti to Tampere was supposed to be the most scenic of the trip. From what we had ridden so far on this trip is would be easier to say the only scenic days travel - this trip had been more about a series of destinations than the the road. Finland is the land of ten thousand lakes. Or more. And the roads looked slightly undulating and were supposed to be very quiet indeed. They were.
But Finland is the land of ten thousand lakes and occasionally they need filling up or creating and our scenic days ride was undertaken on one of those days when the lakes needed filling. And the very quiet roads meant that there was not really much business to be done for a road side café so there wasn't any. Except the two that we found. Coffee and apple doughnut/cinnamon bun for lunch. We have been told that the Finns are the world's greatest coffee drinkers averaging 12 cups a day - where do they get it from?
We did not see many people but it looked as though there were some about - either that or the worlds most selective recycling schemes.
And with not much to do we were back to photographing road signs
The trip from Ruokalahti to Tampere was supposed to be the most scenic of the trip. From what we had ridden so far on this trip is would be easier to say the only scenic days travel - this trip had been more about a series of destinations than the the road. Finland is the land of ten thousand lakes. Or more. And the roads looked slightly undulating and were supposed to be very quiet indeed. They were. 
But Finland is the land of ten thousand lakes and occasionally they need filling up or creating and our scenic days ride was undertaken on one of those days when the lakes needed filling. And the very quiet roads meant that there was not really much business to be done for a road side café so there wasn't any. Except the two that we found. Coffee and apple doughnut/cinnamon bun for lunch. We have been told that the Finns are the world's greatest coffee drinkers averaging 12 cups a day - where do they get it from?
And with not much to do we were back to photographing road signs
Tampere was the destination as that was the location of the nearest Harley dealer to Helsinki and somewhere we could leave the bike to be picked up and brought back to London. The Harley dealer there had a super set up and interesting chops too. They were really nice people. they were also concerned about Europe as Finland's main trading partner was Russia and the Euro made everything expensive. they were also very worried about the effects of immigration and how it affected their culture. Finnexit on the cards?
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