The two first days of my travel
Hi all!
Finally being able to do my first blogpost, feels so good and I´m
happy to share it with you!
My journey started with traveking by boat over to Finland, it wasnt
exactly what I had hoped for but I got myself a long hard sleep doing
it. I slept for 10 hours almost in one go. This hasn´t happened in
years, thats for sure.
Arriving in Helsinki I had to set me up with neccesities like 3 day
card on the trams, sub etc, Prepaid phonecard (Kolumbus, also gives
you unlimited acess to internet for only around 7€) so when that was
done I took a taxi to the hotel. The hotel is lowbudget but totally
okay, I pay 85€ for two nights, the rooms have no own bathroom but the
ones in the corridor is clean so no worries there.
My first day, yes..... After a shower to freshen up I went downtown to
have a look around, and Helsinki is a nice and clean city. The
architecture reminds me of Vasaa and it was a feeling of coming home
to it.
My first observation must still be: What is it with Finland and
Japanese people. On my first day here, wherever I turned Japanese ppl
photoing and wlaking verywhere......I dont think there are so many
Japanese ppl even in Japan! Well I know it must be a touristwave or
so, but I was totally stunned. When I told Stefan (one of my Jaiku
friends) about it, he said he had never seen a lot of oriental
tourists so I might have been lucky?!?
My second observation is: The Finnish women! Well they say that
Swedish women are blond and slender, I say that this is true about the
Finnish women!
Anyway, my day continued with some minor shopping, got hold of a nice
hood that was on sale, and a nice pikeshirt.
At 3 pm I started to feel faintish, relized that I hadn´t eaten since
8am that morning. So me of to find food quick. I ended up at McDonalds
(the thruth is I dont like it, but they were the closest place!)
After an burger menu and then I was feeling alive agin, went to see an
modern art exposition, nice. The Senat building, also nice and then my
feet felt to darn tired so I returned to my room to have some rest (well, it ended up with
more than an hour of deep sleep....)
Day number two now. Woke up an hour later than I planned (note to self: set phone to autoupdate of time!)
Then I had an Message form Stefan that he will arrive in Helsinki bringing the phone.
So while waiting for him turn up I had some breakfast and rested.
When he turned up he invited me to come with him to the Nokia Building and
I was immeditly Into that! So finally I was able to de the Holy Grail fro all Nokia fans,
plus having an interseting and nice lunch in the house. (The salad was excellent!)
It was nice to finally met Stefan and I hope I will met him soon again!
So now I'm back with an N95 and can take good photos and such so until next time, C U all laterz!