Another day, another lake…

Odo: 283807
Location: Aland Islands, autonomous region somehow connected Finland 
though swedish speaking

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Actually this is yesterdays sunset and I was on that lake before but who cares. For your confusion I will post this days sunset tomorrow… The region around Nortällje sucks concerning spots for staying the night so I just returned to a place where I stayed when D. was visiting. After a morning swim I started to make plans. I wanted to leave Stockholm to go to the south of Finland, like Turku for example. Since I still have no guidebook I just looked at google maps for the shortest ferry connection which normally are the cheapest. Kapellskär to Marienhamn, 2h, 42€ with the van. Shortly before I drove to port I read the wikipedia article on Marienhamn saying it’s the only town on the Aland islands. ISLANDS? Fuck. It looked like there is a connection to the mainland on gmaps. If you don’t zoom in close enough… This means I have to take another ferry which tends to be more expensive than one ferry. These are the times where I miss a lonely planet guidebook. They really have this kind of stuff sorted out for you… So the clever thing to do would have been to drive back to Stockholm yet another time, spend the weekend at the pride festival partying and take a ferry from Stockholm to Turku next week which is cheaper than the connection over the aland islands. Since I hate tracking back and I already did drive back to Stockholm twice I did quite the opposite and got on the ferry. Check in without prior booking is an additional 5€ at viking lines but the lady at the counter thought my van is less than 2,4m of height so I saved 17€. Since she didn’t ask and I realized her mistake not before I drove off from the counter I thought I’ll just see how it goes and be extra careful with driving. The maximum height of the ferry was 3,8m, so the height limit seems just a simple rip off… Let’s see how the aland islands will be. 30k inhabitants is just as much as my home town including the neighboring villages. I’m a little bit afraid that I’ll strand there for a couple of days since the outbound ferries seemed quite booked out. But maybe it’s nice over there 🙂

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