1.5 km swim.
the live Mean Väyla broadcast goes out from a cafe in town; this is followed by a general retreat to Pressi for liquid libation; Antti’s Irish band, The Mountain Cows, plays at a local restaurant, they are quite Irish! the audience definitively Finnish! and then, much later in the evening, several hour of dancing (with Sanna!). but anyway, the whole weekend blends into itself after that. dates are relative, time uneven. and encounters are warm and languid.
there is the image of the long slow stroll up to the north end of the island, feeling the warming white night spreading into the roots of the birch trees, and re-radiating into the air through the waxing buds. a cup of hot tea, and reclining in the brilliant night Light.