Greetings!
Today, we got up very early, were driven to the Helsinki Airport, waited in line for an hour in a very long line. There was a FinnAir strike yesterday, and everyone who couldn't fly then wanted to fly today. Checking in our bags meant queing up through 15 long twisting lines to get through security.
We flew to Evolo, a village 1124 kilometers north of Helsinki, in Lapland, Finland. We had lunch at the home of a Sami woman who is the great great grandaughter of the Village founder, and who is working hard to preserve the language and culture of the Sami. In the afternoon, we drove to Inari, our last stay in Finland, where we'll be staying until we leave for Helsinki on Tuesday.
There are just six of us on this post-tour, and we've become good friends. This last week, as the spring begins to appear, and we travel north to a place where the sun stays up longer and the cold hasn't quite ended, we're so glad we chose to stay together longer than the core OAT trip. Most of us have been together for three weeks.
Inari is a beautiful village in a land of iced-lakes, reindeer, and forests. Tomorrow, we'll visit a museum, a husky farm, and take a long bird walk around one of the local lakes.
If you're wondering what happened to Friday, so am I. If I can find the photos I took during our visit to Malmgard, a manor established in 1612, and occupied for many generations by the same family, I'll post it.
To see all of rhe photos taken today, click on Saturday, May 17th, Inari, Finland.
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