at the ice-hole air is bubbled during whole winter to prevent from freezing

yesterday the bubbling was stopped

to have my morning bath i had to break a thin layer of ice

otherwise summer, +13ish, but it felt +25 on the sunshine

two more days like this and all the snow will be gone

first of may is vappu in finland, fiesta is everywhere

except here

they celebrate the end of winter

i celebrated with canoeing on the river

i paddled some kilometers until a bridge where the river narrows, of course i went down to spice up things

on the way up, the boat got stuck on a rock, i had some frightful moments
coming back against the flow and wind