Baltic Sea Info Tour/Turku
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Bike Tour from Turku to the Infotour Start in Mariehamn
From June 19-21 a bicycle tour headed from the Finnish harbour city Turku to Mariehamn, the starting point of the Baltic Sea Info Tour on the autonomous Finnish province Åland. Turku is an important harbour for ferry connections between the Finnish mainland and Sweden. It is also the fifth-biggest City in Finland. The bike tour crossed the beautiful Åland archipelago passing a number of small islands and using small ferries to cross the sea between the islands.
Several hundred kilometers north of Turku the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Olkiluoto is situated where currently a third reactor is under construction and where the government wishes to see a fourth reactor. Olkiluoto is also the site of the proposed final repository for the high level radioactive waste of the Finnish NPPs.
Local contact
Uusi Tuuli ry
- phone: +358 40 7563197
- email: pyorakiertue2010 AT gmail.com[1]
Bike Tour Schedule
On Saturday June 19 we met at Kauppatori (main square) in Turku at 10.00 AM and had there some kind of public happening and started cycling (40km) at 11.00 AM. Then we stopped in Naantali to have there a short anti-nuclear info happening and continued to Livonsaari. There is eco-village, which let us camp on their land. They also told us about their village.
On Sunday June 20 we continued to Brändö using three ferries and rode the bikes for about 60km. In Torsholma we camped at the beach. The next day, Monday June 21, we took another ferry to Fasta Åland and rod about 50km to Mariehamn. We stopped on the way at the remains of Bomarsund fortress (with swimming possibilities) and at Kastelholm castle - which was a nice tourist part of the trip.
The Baltic Sea Info Tour will start with events in Mariehamn on Tuesday June 22.
Camping is in general free, but you have to make reservations for bikes if there are more than 10 bikes coming.
Other Information about the Turku-Åland Bike Tour
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