Pello Day 2

We had a lovely restful day today at the guest house we are staying at near Pello, Sweden on the Torne River.

This morning we went for an amazing walk in the forest around where we are staying. I have never experienced an environment such as this Lapland Forest before. The ground was like walking on pillows. Everything was covered in deep moss.

There were many many mushrooms of many many varieties. We saw blueberries and lingonberries. We learned all sorts of interesting things but the best thing about the walk was that our Finnish friends Sinikka and Pekka knew all about Finnish nature and showed us so many things we wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

We also learned about a Nordic building called a Lavvu that is essentially an indoor fire pit. It’s too bad we didn’t have some sausages to cook for lunch.