Hike destination

edited by Antti Huttunen and Touko Kauppinen: Retkipaikka 2015

Destinations collected from the website Retkipaikka.fi.  Fantastic photographs about the miraculous wonders of nature.  Many of the destinations are quite near Helsinki.
The website has the exact locations of these destinations.

I guess all the places listed in this book and on the website are remarkable. The one closest to my heart is Rokokallio, in Vihti. My mother was born near it and we used to walk to the top of the "rock" often.

Now is good time to plan the hinking destination for the summer. This is a good guide and the boys are motivated to walk to see these "exotic" sites, when they know before hand what kind of scenery is waiting for them. And some of these places look like they came from a fairytale book.

Rock maze at Rokokallio, Vihti

Pea soup fog

Tapani Bage 2010: Tahvo ja Bella hernerokkasumussa
illustrated by Salla Savolainen

Tahvo is a cat, who thinks he is a siberian tiger, Bella is a dog, who live on an island. One autumn day the fog is so thick, we Finns would call it pea soup fog. Tahvo and Bella collect drift wood from the shore.  The fog is cold and Tahvo wants to catch it and taste it. Does it taste like pea soup?

Suddenly they catch a penguin! He is Pablo and he wants to go back home to the Antarctic. Tahvo and Bella help him to find a vessel to get there.

The weather is always a good toppic to talk about. Usually the weather is too cold or rainy. On some rare occation we complain about the heat. The peasoup fog is where I live quite rare.  What I like about this book, is the cat who thinks he is something he is not and everyone else is ok with it and the mystique the fog brings and finally the helping others.

Tahvo is trying to get some of that pea suop.