1st stop: Oulu


Our first stop, after leaving from Turku and driving up for about 600km, has been in the city of Oulu.

We spent one night in a nice and quite cheap accommodation cottage in a camping place (Nallikkari), next to a big and quiet beach and pretty close to the town centre.

We arrived at the place in the evening and it was already very dark so we could not explore at that time.

You could actually notice getting out of the car at that time was already the difference in the temperature. Already colder than the one  we left in Turku.
Another thing you can immediately notice is a weird smell in the air.
Making some research later I found out that the smell is coming from the smoke of the numerous industries that are located just outside the town.
Oulu is actually famous for the industries for the manifacture of paper.

In the next morning, we headed to the town centre in order to have breakfast and visit Oulu centre.

The city of Oulu is quite small but there are some nice and traditional buildings that make it a cute town.
 
The town is located on the coast of Finland so it was really nice to walk along the water, enjoyng the sun ofthe morning (we were very lucky with the weather there).

Like in Turku ,there is a nice and traditional Market Hall (KappaHalli) , just a little smaller and I think  (for some stuff)a little bit cheaper then the one in Turku.

In there ,is possible to find some typical finnish products so, we had breakfast with a good coffe and a typical, just baked “Pulla” bread with apple pieces (my favourite).

After walking around for a couple of hours, it was time for us to go back to the car and continue our trip to the next destination…



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