I spend almost half an hour, some of it in the toilet. Now along the road to the northeast, to Suonenjoki. I watch the scenery with more interest as I do not often ride here. Lots of little hills which I attack with surprising gusto. The sky is getting much clearer now, that must have been the rain that the weatherperson was talking about.
Habitation thins out, farms disappear and the forest turns swampy.
Pedal and drink, pedal and drink. I enter an interesting region. The road travels along narrow ridges, steep slopes end in long, fingerlike, twisting lakes. Giant boulders speck the forest. I leave the province of Central Finland and enter the province of Kuopio.