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Day four - Tampere by day

nobody@vox.com(N95Expert) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:48:43 +0200

Today I have been doing Tampere, and for me it has only been an pleasure to explore this wonderful city! I have fallen in love a bit in the city itself, and also the friendly people here.
On todays agenda there were two inportnat thing to do: First a visit to see the fantastic steamengine, I cant resist old mechanics and this beauty was something else I tell you. The horsepower was 1658 when it was up and running, just check out the photos over at my flickr page! I spent a long time there thinking about the people working with it and how amazing it was. The engine was running the Finlays mill at the time from 1900 to 1955. A must see if you come to Tampere!
Second there is an Stone museum, and there I spent a long time. Wonderful. Amazing collection of stones. And the fossils is only them worth the price of the ticket!
After that over to an Wafell place recommended by Carol, I had an wafell with Goatcheese, strawberry jam and whipped cream. Nat a new combination to me, but it was delish really! And of course I had coffee with it! fter that I had to find a bus to take me to Pyynikki and the tower there, was told its one of the best views over Tampere. And it was wonderful, took both photos there nad slo did some bambusing (videos live) from the top. Great and fantastic! I was also told to have the cafe's donut and it was very sweet and good. Enjoyed the shadow there for quite some time as I was overheated after spending too much time in the sun. After that needed cooling down and resting a little I went by bus back to Tampere, the rest of the afternoon I spent in my favorite place in Tampere, the park near the waterfall.

Very nice place to sit and relax, watchin people of all kinds and sipping on a cold drink.
In the evening Carol turned up nad we went to see the tryouts to the Olympics at the stadium. Carol has workmate that competes in 10 camp(?) so thats why. Anyway it was also something diffrent for me to see so it was kinda nice.
Then we went to an Japanese restaurant and had a wonderfu; Sushi, and also Sake of course! A place to come back too and the Sushi was one of the best I have ever eaten!
Now I'm sittibg here in Carol's kitchen for the last night this time. And I hope to return here one day not too far away. Thanks Carol for you incredible hospitality and also for the plans you made for me and I'm humbled to have you as my friend! Thanks!!

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Day four - Tampere by day

nobody@vox.com(N95Expert) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:48:41 +0200

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Day Three - Helsinki Tampere

nobody@vox.com(N95Expert) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:35:11 +0200

This day I planned to go to Soumenlinna (Sveaborg) but got the directions wrong(Typical me?) so I decided the spend some time in the city core of Helsinki and go by tram for a bit. I love trams, you can see so much and its qutie comfortable. My thoughts about Helsinki is that I will soon return and see more sometime soon!
After eating and having icecream (More Ice than cream!) I decided to catch an earlier trian to Tampere, said and done. Back to the Hotel to pick up my backpacker and then away to the station. Got on the first trian, an Intercity train and it was a nice one. a lot of space for you, not at all narrow between the seats. I could even fit my backpacker on the floor and have space for my feet. And the prices on trains in Finland arent that bad at all, I paid 25.90 euro from Helsinki to Tampere.

Arriving in Tampere my friend Carol met me at the station and we went over to her place so I could take my soooo needed shower. Then we went downttown to met another Jaiku friend, Minna. I love Jaiku and my friends everybody is so cool and nice to met also in real life. So we sat at the restaurant Saha Terrace (Saha means Saw in Finnish) and I was treated to the most wonderfull Elk Pasta, was fantastic! Thanks both to Carol and Minna for a wonderfull evening with good food and lotsa talking and having a great time!
And sitting there enjoying the sun and the talk was exactly what this trip is about for me, meeting friends and trying my own powers to see what I can do.I'm now feeling as a much stronger person and feel more at ease with myself, this travel has given me new powers and now I know that the only limit is me for what I can do.

Today (Thursday) will be Tampere day and I will explore what Tampere is all about, some museums are planned and then a look around the city.

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Day Three - Helsinki Tampere

nobody@vox.com(N95Expert) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:35:10 +0200

Today (Thursday) will be Tampere day and I will explore what Tampere is all about, some museums are planned and then a look around the city.

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The two first days of my travel

nobody@vox.com(N95Expert) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:56:50 +0200

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!

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