Cottage holiday

2nd day at the cotttage 130km north of Helsinki. Rather sucky weather but that's ok because I'm just happy to sit around and enjoy the view. Apart from 2 parenting seagulls and their 3 downy babies that claimed the pier as their own, it feels as if we're the only ones on miles on end. That's such a Finnish psyche - no one wants to see a neighbour. It's just you, cottage, forest and lake.

We love this area. There's a local berry wineyard, butcher, strawberry farms and what do you call a place that makes cheese? .... Anyhow, we trooped down to the strawberry shop that also sells locally made jams, juice concentrates and honey and got 3 liters of fresh strawberries & a jar of raspberry jam.


At the wineyard, DH got some wines made from berries and get this, rhubarb wine! Rhubarb is a vegetable whose stalk looks very much like red celery, is usually used in pies and has a tendency to be sour :P A happy boy!



The butcher's not bad but to my surprise, most of its meat are pork rather than beef. We got some freshly made bratwurst, cheese sausages & pork for the grill. There's also another butcher who specializes in lamb a drive away. Hoping to go there and a strawberry farm a couple of days later.


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