What I saw out Jussi’s window on the ride into town from Turku Airport.
Unlike the first time we met, there was no fence between Jussi and me when we went to dinner in Turku.
June 17 — Hyvinkää, Finland to Turku, Finland
Getting back together with Jussi
I woke up to find I had slept until noon, but the hotel was kind enough when I checked out 20 minutes late. It was raining, and there were low clouds. This wasn’t good, as Hyvinkää is a visual flight rules only airport, meaning I needed better weather to leave. Fortunately, the forecast called for improvement.
With my umbrella and a light jacket, I didn’t get very wet on the four kilometer walk to the airport, where I waited for the low clouds to clear. Eventually, they did, and after a few hours of waiting I took off at 4:27 p.m. Forty-four minutes later, I was back in Turku.
Partly because of my uncertain arrival time, I had told Jussi I would take a bus from the airport into town. But his wife tracked me on flightradar, and when I landed he was there to meet me. He dropped me at my hotel, and I took a walk along the Aura River, which I crossed on a bridge and re-crossed on a free ferry that takes about 90 seconds. On my way back from Turku Castle I took the automated Kakola Funicular, also free but also short. Jussi and I returned to the river for an excellent dinner, and I drank a couple of lonkeros, Finnish cocktails made from gin and grapefruit juice.