Bored to life

This pandemic is terrible for a traveler. You desperately look for safe ways to travel. In the middle of the summer, it occurred to me that staying in an immobile boat might be one way in which you can travel and respect the rules.

The Bore hostel in my hometown, Turku, is a place where you can pretty much go as you please. Almost everything can be done online. You are placed in a cabin, and the only time you’ll meet other travelers is over breakfast that is very generous. They might have changed the rules now that the pandemic is getting worse. The bar was closed already in July.

The prices are a bit steep for a hostel but being at the northwestern riverside bears specific significance for me, since it’s close to where my parents lived before they had me.

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Camp pleasure

For obvious reasons, this travel blog has been very quiet lately. I decided to fight boredom by going back to my early days as a traveler. Since I was totally broke back then, I spent a lot of time in various camping sites in Scandinavia and the UK.

Strangely enough, my heimat in Eastern Helsinki (the upper side of the attached picture) is just across the bay from a wonderful camping site, Rastila Camping. It is a five-star site with all the amenities you can think of, a great restaurant, a beach, and five fabulous saunas that you can rent even if you’re not staying at the site.

For anyone interested in city life, there is a also a metro stop that takes you to central Helsinki in about 10 minutes. Very fond memories from Bredäng Camping Stockholm sprang to mind.