Tuesday 11 August 2015

One more discovery: Seglinge

Still in Lappo we started checking what could possibly be our next destination. And since that was a summer of getting to know the Turku archipelago better and discover new places, we picked one we knew nothing about: Seglinge
Sailing was great, weather was perfect, it was a very enjoyable leg of about 30 nautical miles. On the way I was really impressed by the little open sailing boat, that had no cabins or interior at all, and came to the archipelago all the way from Denmark... I wish I was that brave! :)


When approaching our destination I took someone's private summer cottage for harbour and was wandering why the pier is so small and where are the other boats :D 


At first glimps the place did not seem anything special to me. But the best was yet to come! It became one of the best places we saw last year. After paying the harbour fee and talking to the harbour keepers we went to the shop to fill up our grocery storage.


Again Seglinge was one of those places where carrying two bikes on board for the whole summer vacation pays off :) Grocery visit was done much faster by biking there and after that we were ready for the island discovery. 


We were told by the harbour keepers about the old windmill, inner lake and swimming area. So off we went! Must confess though that we never reached the lake. We were already very close, but the path to see it lies through a very green and moist area, so the amount of biting mosquitos made the walk unbearable and at the very last moment both of us lost patience and rushed back to the bigger road where the bicycles were left, leaving clouds of attacking vampires behind.


So there is still a part of this place for us to discover next time, lets put it this way :) The views on the island were really great! You could see the harbour from the main road, sea was glittering in the sun... summer was at its best.



 

By the time we were back to the harbour, there were no more places left. And also it was time for the local market to begin! Local inhabitants had a great idea of keeping the market on Mondays, so we were at the right place at the right time, without even knowing aobut it :)


You could buy there all kind of stuff: home made jams, juices, ciders, buiscuits, pancakes, archipelago black bread, smoked fish, herbs, handicraft items... list can be continued :)





 
This, by the way, was the only place where we got to eat smocked perch. It was delicios and was sold out in no time! By the time I had a round for taking pictures that was all what was left! 


This young seller attracted us for two reasons: the first one was the real fresh pancake from Åland. I have heard of them earlier, but never got to to try one! It was high time :) Home made apple jam gave a delicios touch to it :) And the second reason to shop at this desk was to support the dreams of this young lady: with the earned money she was hoping to buy either a rabbit or a new mobile phone :)



I think we should go visiting there again, maybe we will get to meet the rabbit ;)






6 comments:

  1. We were in Seglinge last week and heard from the young shopkeeper's mother that a rabbit, a computer and some kind of a "mönkijä" had been already purchased with summer market earnings. And while we were talking the young lady herself was in Turku browsing through and comparing all the mobile models :-).
    Johanna

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    1. That is so nice to hear! Thank you very much for this update, Johanna! Hopefully next summer we will visit this place again. I loved it :) And its a pleasure to hear summer "work" at the market pays off ;) Looking forward to meet the rabbit :)

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  2. We loved Seglinge too! We rented bicycles and drove around the island. We visited the harbour keeper's sheep and for a while also took part in sheperding them (not so successfully though). We even managed to find the lake although we almost gave up searching too. The path wasn't clear like you already mentioned.
    Johanna

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    1. I fully agree with you that this place is best seen by bicycles. Like I mentioned, we did the same, but had our own small bicycles with us. So was the lake worth seing and looking for? I wonder is we should try better next time ;) Sounds fun that you got to sheperd the sheep too!

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    2. We decided to have our own bikes with us too next summer because they come so handy in many places. This time we had to rent them. The day was quite hot so dipping in the lake was really refreshing. And it is always fun to be in a lake in an island that's in the sea :). And I think the lake added up to Seglinge's charm in general.
      Short after we arrived to the sheep they were to be moved from one fence to another and we tried to help. Funny thing was that when they were in the old fence they were so eager to get the bread from us that some of them tried to climb on us. But after they were let out from the old fence and we tried to persuade them to the new one with bread they had no interest at all to bread anymore. They just munched the grass :) Finally the owner and her kids managed to get all but one sheep to the new fence. The most stubborn one - "Seija" (if I remember correctly) - was allowed to leave outside.

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    3. Sounds like you had a great time in Seglinge :) We should try to find the lake next time.

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