TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Sunday, March 20, 2005

12:21 PM
Posted by jodi rose

well, I've been walking on water again!
most of saturday afternoon, hanging out with sophea, wandering between
unnisaari and harakka islands
it is a very strange sensation, looking at the ice beneath my feet wondering just how thick it is, and feeling it bounce a little when we walked,
some of it was frozen in waves, like they had just crashed around a rock and then froze there
and the ice had all these different levels of crunchiness underfoot, some of them quite disturbing, was never completely convinced that I wasn't about to fall through into the freezing water - which you can see out the heads is not frozen very far, and the shipping lane kept open between where we were and Suomenlinna, or we could have walked out there too!
group of people set up a picnic and ice skating party between the shore and unnisaari island,
looked very cosy with their fold out chairs and thermos, did some lovely swooping and swirling skating moves
last time I was at unnisaari involved sauna and dancing for the isea closing party - very very cool - although now there is a hole cut in the ice for people to dip in after their sauna
we didn't have that in summer. www.unnisaari.com


xx jr