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Ruissalo

Hi again! I´m going to talk about another place that I went at the beginning of my stay here, and this place is an island called Ruissalo. Ruissalo is an island really close to Turku, now, in winter, you can go with the bus number 8, but I think that in summer you can go by boat (I´m not sure). I went with two friends and we spent one morning there, actually, it´s a small island so you can see it entirely in a few hours! It was really beautiful, we went to a beach and it was peaceful (and cold of course). Next to the beach there is a sauna, where you can go and do ice swimming (I really want to do it), and the fact is that it costs 5€, so it´s okay, but when we went there we saw the sauna and I don´t know what we were reading that we read 35€ and I was disappointed with the price and then some Finnish guy told me that it was 5€ and I felt a bit stupid. But it was nice, we were walking over the snow, in the middle of the forest and we saw footsteps of some animal, although the cold I really liked it, it´s true that there is not much to do there, just walk and see nature.
I remember also a completely frozen lake, I was afraid to walk on it! I recommend this place to go for a couple of hours and forget your problems or worries, and also I want to go in spring because it has to be really different!


See you soon!



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