Packing up
I slept in till nearly 08:00, and did a quick standing yoga session before heading up the hill to the main hall for breakfast.
After breakfast I alternated between being social and packing our stuff, which made for a pleasant morning.
Turku Castle
We left site at 11:40 and went straight to Turku Castle, where we spent around 1.5 hours exploring.
I took only a few photos
One of nice layers in the gneiss castle foundation:
A couple of a lovely table
One of a nice celing arch
One of a garderobe, because I need to send it to Aurelia.
And one of a black dragon who met a tragic end long before Drachenwald enacted laws protecting black dragons, poor thing.
1.5 hours at the castle barely scratches the surface of what we could have looked at, but we needed to get going so we would make it to the ferry on time.
Ferry trip
We made it to the Ferry Terminal in Vaasa just after 18:00, which is perfect timing, as 18:00 is when they open the gate to the waiting area.
We hadn’t bothered to pay for a cabin for the return ferry, so we just hung out in the bar and chatted as I made progress on fitting for my New winter coat. I managed to decide where, how to trim the body rectangles at the shoulder so that the arms will attach comfortably.
However, as I was feeling tired, I opted not to cut that seam, yet, but just basted over the final chalk line to show where I should cut later.
We arrived at the terminal in Umeå at 23:00, disembarked and started driving at 23:16, made it home at 00:36. We were too tired to unload more than the ice chest, which we emptied into the fridge, and our pillows which we needed.
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