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November 10th 2012
Finland: The country with a lost history... Tai Helsinki vao mua dong bien dong bang va tau di chuyen khong duoc ma phai co Ice Breaker lam vo cac tang bang tren bien de tau be qua lai duoc. Vi anh huong cua Nga nen noi day co nhieu toa nha duoc xay cat giong ben Nga chinh vi vay ma trong thoi ky chien tranh lanh nguoi lam phim o Hollywood My muon lam phim ve Nga phai dong tai Finland vi qua Nga khong duoc va Finland la nuoc giong Nga nhat. Nhu Film Doctor Zhivago duoc quay tai Finland. Tai sao nuoc Finland khong co nhung lau dai vua chua nhu da so cac quoc gia tren the gioi. That dang buon cho nuoc Finland khi noi ve lich su cua minh. Nhu ... read more
November 25th 2011
Jyvaskyla is a special place to visit for me. I have traveled there several times and continue to go once a year in the Fall. The city presents a great taste of Finnish culture as a medium sized town in central Finland surrounded by beautiful forests. The University of Jyvaskyla is picturesque sitting on the lake with the design of Alvar Aalto evident in many places. The bridge running across the lake is amazing as are the modern white sharp-lined buildings that seem to blend into the trees that surround them. If you want more Aalto you can tour his museum or visit some of the buildings on campus that he helped design. Also, check out the statue of the great Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi just behind the Aalto museum. If you enjoy exercise, like most ... read more
July 25th 2011
Day five Monday July 25th, 2011 near Jyvaskyla Today was the day for berry picking. The forest abounds in berries and many Finns spend time in the forest gathering berries to preserve for the winter. We set off loaded with buckets, berry picking tools, gumboots, insect repellent and water. About a kilometre from here is a great spot for blueberries. We spent a couple of hours gathering the small morsels of goodness from the branches of the low growing bushes. That’s where you need to have a strong back, as moving along bent over to gather the berries from calf height does require some stamina. Lacking in myself I found as I needed to sit down or stand upright many times just to stretch and rest my back and thighs. We gathered a bit over ... read more
life in a finnish summer cottage
Published: July 26th 2011Europe » Finland » Central Finland » Jyväskylä
July 24th 2011
Day three and four Saturday and Sunday July 23rd and 24th, 2011 near Jyvaskyla Family gathering. Almost all of my Mother’s 11 Sisters and Brothers, Their spouses and some of my cousins arrived for lunch. They made me feel very welcome and it was a beautiful if very noisy gathering. The sun was shining, the weather warm and food plentiful and good. I was able to meet and talk with all of the family who arrived, and everyone invited me to visit. It’s something we will attempt to do in the next week. There’s a lot of coffee drinking in my future – I can tell. Sunday . A day to rest. The morning came, drizzly and cool, Only two laps of the lake before running to the cabin for warmth. The waking times are getting ... read more
July 22nd 2011
Day two Friday 22st July, 2011 near Jyvaskyla (pronounced – Youh-Vas-kou lah) The light here has seriously messed with my head. I fell into an exhausted coma local time 9pm last night. It was still daylight. My body clock at that stage said 4.30am – nearly 48 hours on about 3 hours of sleep. I woke sometime later, feeling refreshed, looked out of the window and thought that dawn is breaking, I’ve had a good night’s sleep. Looked at the clock- 12.30AM. Went back to sleep, woke up. It was lighter, so I thought must be morning. No, 4.00am. Well, being awake, I thought that I’d do a bit of writing, I wondered about the yard and took about 100 photos of the lake in the early morning light with the mist gently rising off the ... read more
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January 4th 2010
Like I already told you before, I'm currently staying now in Finland and no big and magnificent trips are in sight. However, since I found this blogging thing pretty relaxing in Asia and I'm taking the photos anyway I don't see any reason why I couldn't post some of them here every now and then. Another thing is who even wants to see photos from "cold and boring" Finland - the land of polar bears and icebergs..? But I guess that's the thing I may can have an effect in the long term, or maybe I'm too optimistic. I just wanted to show you some quite nice winter pictures of last weekend in Kynsivesi's Pirttijärvi (Lake Pirttijärvi). My boyfriend's parents have a beautiful summer cottage there ( see the joke here ;), which is a really ... read more
January 1st 2010
Home sweet home and city, my beloved city. Although I have always loved travelling Jyväskylä has a still precious and special place in my heart. These pictures are taken during the last summer, the summer of 2009. There's not many of them but somehow everyone of these takes me back to the nice moments and places 3... read more
May 4th 2009
If you live a country like Finland, there is almost no option do you appreciate spring or not. Except those who suffer from allergies almost all the finns are great fans of spring and many things related to that. The Sun is finally shining and I could not be more happy about that. Especially after my time in Singapore spring feels great, it's like I'm getting my energy back. Growing flowers and grass, Eastern, birds, refheshing rain, umbrellas and the smell on spring inspires me the most. Although I don't draw and paint anymore (...) all the colors of spring kind of wake me up again. Onw thing I also like is the high heels and what would be more better reason to find my old loves again (and buy some new ones as well) than ... read more
The land of snow, churches, ice-hockey and VODKA
Published: April 20th 2009Europe » Finland » Central Finland
March 12th 2009
A few people told me that you only really visit Helsinki if you know people there. I don't know why they say this, I found it to be a beautiful city! Especially as it was still covered in snow, I feel it adds beauty and romance to it :) I love that they have trams (much like the green and yellow Melbourne trams), you can walk everywhere, there aren't herds of people getting in your way and they have the best lollies/sweets/candy EVER!! Monja and Linn (and Monja's lil bro who picked us up) met me at the airport around 8pm (when I had told them I was flying in at 6pm, whoops! luckily they checked the times, and didn't wait around all that time) and we headed to Monja's cosy lil flat right near the ... read more
March 8th 2009
Husky safari Finland March 2009 Day 1. On the 27th of Februari my Dad and I flew from Amsterdam via Helsinky to Kuusamo. From Kuusamo we had a drive from 1 hour (80km) We arrived in Saija around 22.00 where food stood ready and we saw our house that includes sauna, 2 beds, and all that we need. Day 2. Around 8.00 breakfast was ready, this time we meet Helena Karppinen who runs the Saija hostel. The first two days we have no programm. this day we went for a walk around the Saija location (a 4 km walk) when we came back around 12.00 and lunch stood ready. All food was so good arranged, a warm soup, bread and salad. After lunch we went for langlaufen, this was a new experience and we found out ... read more
