Leaving Visatupa

16 Sep. 2006 Visatupa



Next morning we were going to have breakfast at Janne’s home, so we went out of the room. The lake was misty with evaporated water. Another beautiful day. Pilka found us and ran to us in the back of the house. She was too nice to everybody. Then I saw a white cat. I didn’t know there was also a cat. Actually I am a cat person, so I walked to the cat to play. Then I saw…

What a scary face!!!

That cat got evil eyes sort of, and wild look. Probably it belonged to the hostel, well, it seemed so violent. I even couldn’t take a photo of it, because if I did, it might crash my camera. The cat howled saying like; Get the hell out of my sight, idiots! The good girl Pilka tried to get closer as if she wanted to say hi, then the cat groaned to her,

Wooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Pilka just ran way startled. Poor girl…



Janne and his family spread out heaps of foods all over the table. Breads, spreads, cheeses, hams, cereals…we were busy with eating, then that guy showed up for breakfast and came up to us. We were still curious about this guy. So we started asking about him. We were getting to used to communicate more easily now.

He was actually German. We had no idea about that because he always spoke Finnish. We were still not be able to figure out what he was doing there, but he said he had stayed at Visatupa by himself many times. That was why he knew people around there well.

We were going to leave for Rovaniemi on that day, to get back to Helsinki by night train from there. Luckily, Jannne was also planning to go to Swedish Lapland via Rovaniemi on vacation, so he gave us a ride sharing a small gas charge. When we were packing our stuff, that German guy knocked on our door. He was holding bunch of Kleenex packets and 2 bars of Snickers for us. Oh, it is very kind of you, but these are too much, I assume that you would need those tissues! We received 2 packets of Kleenex and snickers. Thanks so much, those tissues were very useful after all.

We got on the car. As Janne started the car, Pilka bursted running following us. Bye-bye Pilka, we love you! When the car got into the main road, we saw that guy walking along the road looked like heading for nowhere.. Where are you going today? What are you gonna do? Anyway, it was nice meeting you!