Wednesday, 9 November 2016

D-I-E cottages in Finland for free

Describe:

Last week my Czech friends came to visit me and travel a little bit across the Finland. The plan was to stay 4 days in  nature, sleep in cottages somewhere in a forest and do a lot of hiking trips. When I was packing my stuff I asked them, how much money will I need, because I had no idea how much does one night in a cottage cost. To my surprise, they said that accommodation in cottages is for free. I could not believe it, but it was really true!

Interpret:

My friends explained me, that there is a special webpage, where you can see map of Finland and if you are looking for example for a cottage where to spend night same as we did, you can just easily zoom this map, find particular cottage on a particular place and get all the information you need, like: how many beds are inside, if table, chairs, plates, mugs or electricity is there and so on. 
If you are interested, the link for the webpage is: https://retkikartta.fi/mobile/ 

Then it is just up to you which cottage will you choose to stay in, there is no booking, so only thing is to hope, that no one else will be there and at the same time. I could not believe, that this system works. But it really works, because that cottage where me and my friends were, was perfect! Everything what was written on the webpage that is inside the cottage was there.

I have never met with this system of accommodation before, we definitely don´t have something like this in Czech Republic and I think that it is not also in other countries. I was thinking that this system works here in Finland, because Finns really love forests, hiking and everything what is connected with nature.

Evaluate:

It is a pity that this system is not in my country or also in other countries, because I think, that if everyone could stay night for free somewhere in a nature, people would spend more of their free time by travelling, hiking and discovering new places, which could change their lifestyle into more active way.
I really admire Finland for this.

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