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Lite preliminär info från Ecotrip i Finland inför 2004.

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Från: Risto S Varanka rvaranka@cc.helsinki.fi Datum: ons 3 dec 2003 01.20.25 Till: frederixie@linuxmail.org, peter.markusson@telia.com Ämne: Ecotrip 2004 pre-hype

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The year 2004 is drawing closer so I'm sending you some preliminary information our Ecotrip next summer. Just in case somebody in Sweden/HPVS would be interested... which would be splendid...

For the year 2004, the trip will be in South-West Finland, in the direction of Turku. The trip is planned to be from Wednesday 4.8. to Saturday 7.8. The Ecotrip has been in the vicinity of Turku already 4 (?) times before, hopping across a chain of islands. This year we have a similar plan with a bit of a new twist.

The primary plan is to consider a route Salo-Kemiö-Nauvo-Naantali-Salo. The islands at the South-West coast of Finland form a unique cultural (a long history of special Swedish-speaking settlements) and environmental milieu (I heard there's only about 7 similar clusters of islands in the whole world). The daily riding is roughly something like 60 km, more if you feel like it... There are some ferry rides and stops at cultural points of interest, one research station is on the route as well as an info site about the state of the environment in the area and how that has changed. Nokia also has a big cell phone factory in Salo but at the current point we are just throwing around ideas...

Salo is about 55 km of riding from Turku and 140 km from Helsinki. The alternative plan would be Kaarina-Nauvo-Åland. Åland is the internationally famous big island South-West of Finland but many people have already experienced it, so that's one reason why this is the secondary plan...

Please note that at this point there is a lot of uncertainty about the next summer's ferries and their schedules, so there might be some changes in the plans...

To be continued...

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