Day 50: Vuotso to Sodankyla - Racpat Scandinavia and the Baltics 2024 - CycleBlaze

August 20, 2024

Day 50: Vuotso to Sodankyla

A Beautiful Day for a Bike Ride

“What a beautiful day for a bike ride,” repeats Patrick throughout the day today.

Our room is quiet and comfortable. We sleep like logs. At 7:30 breakfast is served in the main building and we are there. There is oatmeal, fresh fruit, eggs, toast, coffee, juices and of course dried fish and pickled herring. 

We go to the main house for breakfast
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We have a long day ahead of us, but today the wind should be less of a factor. For most of the morning it is forecast to blow from the west, the tree line gives us good cover. We make good time, there is a café at about 18km that we pass by in favor of the next one at 37 km. It’s a nice place run by a Scottsman.

The caffeine does wonders, the next 30 fly by. Same same but different scenery: lots of trees, blueberries on the forest floor, and lakes. We have a couple of “rollers” but the country is flattening out quite a bit. 

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We stop at a bus stall for a food break
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Frosene SaccoThe best food break shelters!
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The view from the Bus Stall
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 b The last 25 get a little harder as the wind turns more to the south. We have lunch at one of the few bus stalls we see, then push on to town picking up a bike path on the outskirts. We stop at a grocery store to buy some supplies, then, head through town to the campground.

Across the road is a pub with finger food where we are now enjoying a beer and waiting for our fried seafood baskets.

Today's ride: 91 km (57 miles)
Total: 2,544 km (1,580 miles)

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