2026
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![Conqueror of The North, Helsinki, Finland [June 2026]](https://buff3ysbicyclingblog.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Flipper-Kanga.jpeg)
Conqueror of The North, Helsinki, Finland [June 2026]
Finland has delighted with its smooth roads, bike paths, gentle gradients, ubiquitous coffee shops and warm welcoming people. From the bike loving city of Oulu we track the Euro Velo Route 10 (mostly) southwards through the cultural hub and ‘second-city’ of Turku then on to Helsinki to complete the northern part of this particular bicycling…
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![Swamped in Sweden to Biking Paradise in Oulu [June 2026]](https://buff3ysbicyclingblog.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Penny-Farthing.jpeg)
Swamped in Sweden to Biking Paradise in Oulu [June 2026]
South of Pello on the Finland side of the border, I cross over into Sweden for the final cruise down to the Baltic sea. The road on the Swedish side is a delight in that a long-ago railroad track is now a pretty serviceable gravel path running beside the road on a steady trajectory towards…
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![Finland Finland Finland, [June 2026]](https://buff3ysbicyclingblog.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Floating-Sauna.jpg)
Finland Finland Finland, [June 2026]
Forget Sibelius and that crowd, Finland so inspired Michael Palin that he wrote the Monty Python classic, ‘Finland Finland Finland‘. Merely filling up a contractual obligation record side (refer ‘I like traffic Lights’)? perhaps. But I suspect there is some affection in there, and with reason. Finland, Finland, FinlandThe country where I want to bePony…