Day 4: First day riding - to Oravi

Day 4: To Oravi

Where's Brock's latte??

Breakfast is ready!

The sun greeted us when we climbed out of bed. Good stuff - so breakfast was served down at the café just near the edge of the lake – so very nice…. And yummy stuff too!

So let’s get this show on the road.  We thought we would check out the market again before leaving town – so picked up some cherries there and after some serious discussions on directions we headed off in the way that Karina & Gary Garmin suggested and all was well.  We found a large supermarket on edge of town – so bought some food for lunch and headed off. 

Just as we got back on the way it started to rain so we covered up our panniers – but it didn’t really set in.  The sun came back and we pedalled through beautiful forests – the ground covered with wildflowers and the bird sounds that I love and huge lakes everywhere.  We turned off the main road and it was really nice pedalling along – and not too many hills - yet!

Is it a little cool?  maybe the wind from the lake is a little chilly!

maybe another twig?

Look at the Lupins!

We had lunch on a pontoon on a lake – cold wind coming over the water!  The clouds were building up behind us – huge dark blue grey clouds and thunder beginning to zing around, so we packed up and went on our way.  But again thankfully, we managed to keep ahead of it. 

It was a really nice day of riding - good roads, not much traffic, lots of sunshine - beautiful wild forests, heaps of peace and serenity!!

No 13 with the door open - upstairs

And so we arrived into Oravi and after a bit of trouble finding reception, we got the key and moved into room 13.  Bit institutional on the outside, but very nice inside – Ikea like.  Only problem with this room was the lack of complimentary coffee or tea!!! 

Summer holidays

We showered and then went for a ride and discovered the mossies – or they found us!  Oravi is a sports resort so there were heaps of boats, there’s a ferry over to the National Park on an island (we were too late) and canoes to hire etc  but too cold and the water looked a bit rough.  There were ‘summer cottages’ all along the edge – very Scandinavian! 

Maggie among the wildflowers

We went down to the bar and had hamburgers (vegie also) with chips and a beer/cider.  So all good!  Bit of a drama tho – breakfast only served on weekends – ah well – we shall have to eat our lunch for breakfast and then wait for the shop to open at 9 and buy some more lunch. 

Tucker for hungry bike riders