Fact: there are few to zero phone booths in Finland (it is of course the land of Nokia)
Fact: There are many many miles of boring flat road/rail track in Finland, you can afford to have big nights out if you can sleep in transit.
We bused from Savonlinna to Koupio. The accommodation we were hoping to stay at (winging it of course) apparently it turns out is not open yet for the summer season, we finally sorted ourselves out to stay at a camping ground which was fine.
We dropped our gear off at the camping ground and set off to catch the bus back into town for the night. On the way, Nathan spotted a Squirrel run across the road, I hadn't seen one yet so we proceeded to scare it into moving so I could get a photo. Nathan threw a rock into the scrub to flush it up a tree, all of a sudden there was the noise of something moving fast through the undergrowth - straight for me! My thoughts were "rabid angry squirrel" and I ran like a little girl, it was of course Nathan's rock. He made me write this.
Anyway, we went into town, had quite a big night out - watching a (good) Finnish heavy metal band play and then hitting the dance bars!
Early-ish in the night we decided to flag the bus and leave figuring out how to get home until later, when we were thinking straighter... This of course had disastrous results which I will not go into here, but resulted in us getting somewhere between 1 & 2 hours sleep.
So the next day, after what you could describe as a poor sleep, we put in our biggest day of travel, train/bus/bus all the way to the Swedish border. Somewhere in the region of 10 mind-numbing hours travel, at the end of which we found our prospective accommodation booked out. We eventually found a place to stay but not before being swarmed by thousands of bee sized mosquitoes, those things are vicious, clothing and hair are no obstacle.
So we settled into our B&B for the night making the promise to plan accommodation ahead from now on!
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