saturday, July 5th [Finland travel blog]

Today we went to Tammisaari, those small swedish islands (well they belong to Finland, but there they mostly speak swedish), to the Kettunen's place. They used to be the neighbours of my host family (they originally owned the house where I am staying, before selling it to my host family and built their own house next to it). We stopped at the village first, where we went to this small market place, on the sea shore and we ate some hamburger and ice cream (the waiters were giants.. they were something like 8 feet tall. or 2 meters tall). Then we headed to the Kettunen's place. Their son is a chef (a cook). and we had a looooooot of alcohol that night! haha. we visited the few other houses on the property (its a huge field with older buildings..). amd we went to the one cottage near the shore of the sea. that's where Outi and I will sleep tonight. Timo smoked some salmon, and drank thoses "zip" estonian long drinks. they were really good! They are made with cactus and lime. yum! We also had russian champagne! XD Then Outi and I headed to the sauna that Timo built. a savusauna. it was really amazing. I have always loved taking saunas. but this one was really awesome. some people might wonder wether or not its awkward to be naked with finns in sauna. Well I didn't find it awkward. being naked is part of life. you were born naked. why should you be ashamed of being naked? Finns are not there to judge your body, so don't be shy and enjoy a real finnish sauna! get undressed, shower then jump in the sauna and enjoy! throw some water on the rocks and be finnish ;D
After sauna, we took the iltapala and went to bed.