Cyclists are greeted along the Velhovesi Ring Road by old peasant houses, ship owners’ estates, windmills, piers and pastures. The fishing shacks and boat shelters remind of the times when pike landed by the fishermen of the archipelago were taken as far as Stockholm. These waters have seen many kinds of people – from smugglers to seal hunters and island children making their way to school in little flat-bottomed rowing boats. Many trails are now covered in moss and time has taken its toll on the buildings, but a lot of the houses are still homes that are lived in all year round. The archipelago people are still entrepreneurial, which can be seen from the many signs at the side of the road advertising farm goods for sale to the public.
Rauhankatu 10, P.O.Box 37, 23501 Uusikaupunki
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Tarinat kerännyt ja kirjoittanut: Johanna Pakola, Terhi Raumonen, Mikko Paana, Heli Walls
© Mainostoimisto Tekokuu
