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Special News: Alois did 103km today!!

Backstage Information: The sun is going down tonight at 11:22pm and is coming up tommorrow morning at 3:42am.

Starting point (A): Camping Seinäjoki

Ending point (B): Karleby Camping, Kokkola

The Street name of the Camping site: Vanhansatahmanlahdentie !!?? 22 letters!!

The weather is still good with 20oC in the morning and 30oC when we arrived at 3:30pm. We did today 168km. 

During the first 120km we did not found any Shop, Market or whatever store to buy a coffee or coke. When Alois met us at the 120km mark we found a decent Market. Suddenly a Mercedes came in front of us and a young guy talked to is and told us that he was already waiting for us. A friend saw us some days ago and he was hoping to see us. There are not many gravel biker crossing Finland. Personally he is an extreme biker and a worldclass gravel biker. He was planning the Marocco extreme biking race with 1200km through a very hot area. He said that we are very lucky to have this nice weather. Previous weeks it was permanently raining.

In the evening we went to a nice restaurant at the sea side. Good food and beautiful view.

Hei hei!!
























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