Days 30 and 31 ~ Baltic Jewels & the Midnight Sun: A Visit with Taija
A Visit with Taija ~ July 24 -27, 2022 Sunday, July 24 We woke early this morning in anticipation of a drive through the Finnish countryside to Taija's village of Ojakala. We have been to her home (her childhood home, actually) before, and we look forward to meeting her family and seeing her parents again. Jeff has been communicating via text with Avis, and they prefer to meet us at the train station to pick up the car, so we enjoyed breakfast at the prison ... err I mean HOTEL, and then grabbed a cab to the central train station. Finnish Train In short order we had our rental car, programmed the GPS for Taija's house specifying "no highways" and we were off into the countryside. Basically, Finland is made up of farms and forests. Everything is clean and beautiful. We never saw litter of any kind. Occasionally we would pass a barn or shed that had fallen into disrepair, but not often. Fields upon fields of barley -- a deep gol...