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August 5, 2011

Midsummer cruise / Crucero de Hogueras de San Juan / Croisière de la Saint-Jean

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In English:

Midsummer is the most important festival celebration of the summer. When living in a country where hard, cold and dark winter lasts many months, then the celebration of summer with white nights is expected with full heart.

On Midsummer’s Eve “everybody” goes to countryside and especially to their summer cottage. In Finland there are about half a million of summer houses. That is a lot of them knowing that we are only about 5.4 million inhabitants. Many summer cottages are mainly situated by the lake. When one is on summer cottage, then to warm Sauna is a must, then to swim in the lake, back to Sauna and back to swim. Drinking and good eating, mainly barbecue, belong to the pleasures of cottage life. In addition to these, rowing the boat, fishing, hiking, biking, relaxing, recharging batteries for the job, make summer cottage life so important to people.

The culmination Midsummer’s Eve is Midsummer Bonfire burning. People are gathering together to some nice place for this. In many cases that nice place is an open-air dance pavilion. During summer open-air dance pavilion with live music are very popular. Can You imagine this: young couples in the darkening night, by the glimmering lake at moon light under weeping birch (Betula pendula), Bonfire and atmospheric music. That is life.

We took our Midsummer cruise in the city called Jyväskylä. Jyväskylä can be reached from Helsinki by car in less than three hours. It has nice port with few cruise ships which serve water traffic between Lahti in the South or making cruises lasting few hours as ours did of Lake Päijänne. Päijänne is the second largest lake in Finland.

Our cruise ship was called S/S Suomi. Suomi is Finnish word and means Finland! Suomi was built in 1906 and it meant that our cruise ship was 105 years old! The other ship in my photos is Suometar. Both ships departed at 7:30pm lasting 3 and half hours. Both ships took same route, but we preferred the historic ship Suomi.

What my photos show to You? Well, mainly summer cottages of ordinary people and one luxury summer cottage. Also You can small islands, canals and people who have gathered to admire Midsummer Bonfire burning. Welcome to make a cruise with me onboard of S/S Suomi on lake Päijänne!

Resumen esn español:

Bienvenido a tomar un crucero de fiesta de San Juan a través de mis fotos en el lago Päijänne en Finlandia!

Résumé en francais:

Bienvenue à prendre une croisière de la Saint-Jean à travers mes photos sur le lac Päijänne en Finlande!