SupervagabondS au pays d'Israfil et Tarja
Notre premier voyage à deux canoës, à chacun son embarcation, à chacun ses méditations.
Ce carnet est dédié à ma fille Amélie,
parce qu'avant de partir j'avais, tout comme elle, sous estimé sa capacité à être vagabonde.
A l'heure de dérouler ce carnet, elle n'attends que de repartir ensemble avec son canoë.
Nous pensions que ce voyage serait bien différent de celui de 2017, effectivement il fut vraiment un cran au dessus, autant dans les émotions de notre relation père fille, qu'au travers des rencontres qui ont eu lieu.
Le titre est aussi un hommage parce que sans ma fille, sans Israfil et Tarja, il y aurait moins d’émotions dans ce carnet.
Ce carnet est aussi un cadeau de noël pour ma fille, parce qu'il n'est pas obligatoire de consommer à outrance pour lui démontrer que je l'aime.
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Our first trip to two canoes, to each his own boat, to each his meditations.
This notebook is dedicated to my daughter Amélie,
because before leaving I had, like her, underestimated her ability to be a vagabond.
When she unrolls this notebook, she is just waiting to leave together with her canoe.
We thought that this trip would be very different from that of 2017, indeed it was really a notch above, as much in the emotions of our father-daughter relationship, as through the meetings that took place.
The title is also a tribute because without my daughter, without Israfil and Tarja, there would be less emotion in this notebook.
This notebook is also a Christmas gift for my daughter, because it is not compulsory to consume excessively to show her that I love her.
Ce carnet est dédié à ma fille Amélie,
parce qu'avant de partir j'avais, tout comme elle, sous estimé sa capacité à être vagabonde.
A l'heure de dérouler ce carnet, elle n'attends que de repartir ensemble avec son canoë.
Nous pensions que ce voyage serait bien différent de celui de 2017, effectivement il fut vraiment un cran au dessus, autant dans les émotions de notre relation père fille, qu'au travers des rencontres qui ont eu lieu.
Le titre est aussi un hommage parce que sans ma fille, sans Israfil et Tarja, il y aurait moins d’émotions dans ce carnet.
Ce carnet est aussi un cadeau de noël pour ma fille, parce qu'il n'est pas obligatoire de consommer à outrance pour lui démontrer que je l'aime.
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Our first trip to two canoes, to each his own boat, to each his meditations.
This notebook is dedicated to my daughter Amélie,
because before leaving I had, like her, underestimated her ability to be a vagabond.
When she unrolls this notebook, she is just waiting to leave together with her canoe.
We thought that this trip would be very different from that of 2017, indeed it was really a notch above, as much in the emotions of our father-daughter relationship, as through the meetings that took place.
The title is also a tribute because without my daughter, without Israfil and Tarja, there would be less emotion in this notebook.
This notebook is also a Christmas gift for my daughter, because it is not compulsory to consume excessively to show her that I love her.
When : 6/24/19
Length : 85 days
Length : 85 days
Total distance :
705km
Height difference :
+3658m /
-4314m
Alti min/max : 54m/258m
Guidebook created by SupervagabondS
on 10 Oct 2019
updated on 22 Jul 2020
updated on 22 Jul 2020
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Global view
Guidebook : Nav 15 / 1er Aout (updated : 31 Dec 2019)
Section distance :
13km
Height difference for this section :
+32m /
-29m
Section Alti min/max : 73m/83m
Report : Nav 15 / 1er Aout (updated : 31 Dec 2019)
Finland is 5.5 million people on a territory equivalent to France, it is often the impression of ghost villages.
It is a restaurant that also serves as a post office and we are far from imagining that we will come back for a lunch with Israfil, Tarja and Pentti.
The history of this package is too deleterious to tell here, but we should have picked it up two weeks ago at Heinola.
We arrive at the campsite, which is always so quiet that it seems empty. It's been exactly 32 days since we left half of our food here.
Israfil does not recognize us right away, but it is plumbing problems that are leaking his memory, I offer my help but at this time, he politely refuses.
I explain to him that we are going to stay for two days, so he makes me fill out the small usage form at the campsites, then when I offer to pay him right away, Israfil explains that he wants to offer us our stay because that, precisely, we have not negotiated anything on this subject! Immediately I understand that he is suggesting a relationship that does not require money to gain value.
I thank him and offer him to make images of the campsite and put together a clip that he can use as he sees fit, and also help him repair what needs it.
Israfil shows us the best place for the tent and a whole dialogue of intentions is established between us.
Very quickly, everyone understands what they can bring to the other and it seems wise to take the risk of trusting each other!
Israfil shows me the best of himself and I do the same because it is always good to meet humans who never judge the dark side of our psychology. Israfil inspires the desire to live, to be happy, to speak, to exchange, to be good, and to believe that misfortune is reserved for others and that they must therefore be helped.
Israfil shows me the best of himself and I do the same because it is always good to meet humans who never judge the dark side of our psychology. Israfil inspires the desire to live, to be happy, to speak, to exchange, to be good, and to believe that misfortune is reserved for others and that they must therefore be helped.
We are reorganizing the entire food stock and we will finally be able to eat chocolate, since the other half was stolen from us at the hut.
We are only halfway through the journey but the feeling that it will be difficult to leave from here already exists.
We will spend two days with Israfil making few pictures of these moments. This relationship doesn't need to be filmed. We introduce them to our films and they talk to all the Finns they know. Israfil does not wonder how long we will stay at the campsite and as we had planned to stay two days there and that I do not want to abuse his kindness, I explain to him that we will leave as agreed and return in 2 or 3 days, when the weather is good, to take pictures of the campsite with the drone.
I dismantle the entire electrical system because Israfil decides to buy us the motor, the battery and the solar charge controller! He clearly tells me that he will use them for his boats but that he also does so to support us in our way of traveling.
Israfil and Tarja offer to offer us so much that I refuse to accept everything. It happens so quickly that it is difficult to be able to be so nice ourselves.
The flysheet of our shelter does not make us impervious to emotions.
We spend a lot of time together and Amélie points out to me that this is the first time that she has seen me live such a relationship. Tarja also cannot help but point out to Israfil that our cordial understanding is fraternal.
The campsite is integrated into the forest. Every person who comes to Israfil always leaves with a smile, it is unstoppable.
The campsite covers 9.5 ha, there are cottages for 2 to 4 people, parking for camper vans, and tent places everywhere with all the sanitary amenities. It is certainly the cheapest campsite in the whole region. Israfil is a personality that a lot of people appreciate and some Finns come, daily, only to drink their coffee there and especially to be able to chat with him.
And he, he talks about us and shows our films to everyone! Our admiration is mutual, it is what causes this feeling of shared respect without frills.
Israfil presents Pentti, its retired neighbor who lives just across the road in front of the campsite, he regularly brings back fruit from his garden to offer to Israfil, who in turn shares it with us.
Most people only come to the campsite for one or two nights, each night the place fills up and some evenings count up to a hundred people !
There is a communal kitchen in the middle of the campsite and an outdoor fire pit for barbecues.
Go ahead, you will be convinced to have come.
We leave as planned with the desire to stay, but with the certainty of coming back when the weather is good, we will find a bivouac not too far from the campsite and come back to capture usable images.
We leave them without being able to forget.
We don't turn around, so much we leave with the certainty of coming back.