Naantali is a coastal tourist town. After waking at a reasonable hour the boys set off on an adventue spotting squirrels while I searched for them. Eventually I gave up and had a shower. On returning to the tent I found them son they showered to. Then we walked into town to find breakfast and an internet connection. We even found Ros on Skype so caught up on news from home.
There are cafes and restaurants crowded around the marina in the old part of town. From the marina you can walk across a bridge to Moomiland, a theme park devoted to favourite characters from local television. However, we decided to take the ferry to Vaski Island. This is set up as a pirate adventure where you have a map and a question to answer at each of 21 activities. These range from puzzles and logic tests to the rope slide, low pipes and archery. The boys favourite activity was the archery. They improved rapidly and after their fourth go were hitting the target. They did less well at the blow pipes where they didn't seem to have a strong enough blow to project the dart far enough. The rope slide is a flying fox where you sit on the sliding thing. The first time only the low rope was working so we came back at the end of the course and did the bigger rope as well. Both boys were excited about the rock climbing but I don't think they enjoyed it as much as they expected to. We caught the 17:15 ferry back to town. This was a motor sailed made to look like a single masted square rigger. The boys though that was an added bonus.
We stopped at a restaurant for dinner. Timothy was very keen to try the escargot advertised on one of the boards outside. So we had snails in blue cheese sauce and seafood pizza. Revenge for all those eaten seedling. On the way back to the camp site we found a supermarket and bought some things for breakfast and lunch. We got back around 8PM. I had only intended going out for breakfast.
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