Fantastic Finland- Friday 18th July

We visited the adventure park at Kouvola, Tykkimaki which is situated about 50km north of Kotka. Olga came with us and it was a lovely sunny day, with the temperature around 23C. It's a super place for children, and both Sandy and Olivia loved visiting for the second time, as we had also been there in 2006. Like then, we had a great lunch- very healthy- in one of the very good value restaurants. It's such a refreshing feeling to go to places like Tykkimaki and know it's going to be super clean, and that you can look forward to real quality food at lunch times. I'm afraid you can't always say the same at some of the UK's amusement parks that we have visited.

Olivia was particularly keen on the monorail pedal train that took you around part of Tykkimaki!


I'm sure Sandy drove the very same lorry in 2006!


The goats, sheep and Shetland ponies were a new addition.


Feeding the goats.


It took Olivia a while to get the hang of what she was supposed to do here! I had to help direct her right foot to the accelerator!


A bit ironic that we went all the way to Finland to have a ride on a Shetland pony!
However, Olivia and Sandy both had great fun riding the ponies.






The sheep were very popular with the young children.


It all was very tiring by 4pm, and Olivia had a nap in the Tykkimaki pull-around car.


Meanwhile, Olga and Sandy continued on another ride.


Yes, Tykkimaki is great!


And I enjoyed it too!


A very happy family!