Kuopio, Finland Travel Blogs

Worlds Biggest Sauna
Mar 8, 2008 (3 photos)

I went to the world biggest sauna in Kuopio, which is a huge traditional smoke sauna with an amazing view over the vast lake (which was frozen) and I hole cut out in the ice to jump in after the sauna, which was extremly cold and a bit of shock to the ...

3 hulu travelers in the sauna!
Aug 28, 2007 (19 photos)

In Kuopio finding a place to sleep. Indoors as it really is getting to cold to sleep in my tent! So I decide to go to hostel, the first since the start of my trip. It was a great decision as I had the change to meet some great people there! Just after ...

More snow....
Apr 11, 2005 (6 photos)

... excited about snow. People don't seem to understand my enthusiasm, I'm told that after one long winter that will all change.. Kuopio is centered around the main town square which hosts a market hall and there are various outside market stalls. Kuopio is ...

Round trip in Finland - Kuopio
Oct 22, 2005 (1 photos)

... holidays. Don't forget to visit the market place and try out a piece of kalakukko, Finnish fish pasty. King Gustav III of Sweden ordered the establishment of the city in 1775. Kuopio is the 8th largest town in Finland with about 90 000 inhabitants.

Back in Kuopio
Oct 16, 2004 (20 photos)

... not really having a plan or knowing what exactly we would be doing and where. The first day, we went up the western border of Finland, Finland itself on the one side of the road and Sweden on the other one. We had a very nice view on the beautiful nature ...

Arrival in Kuopio
Aug 27, 2004

Well, Kuopio. 4 months here in Finland are lying in front of me now. A lot of interesting and different people from many parts of the world came here as exchange students as well. Our address from now on is Juontotie 3 in Kuopio, a student house, ...

The Drunkard's Walk, part 1: So This Is Love
Oct 9, 2008

... the city, I started doing some research on it. Looking back, I label that as a partial reason for my departure from Finland, first because when I checked this ticket, I shifted a bit my focus from solving the problem of unemployment to circumventing the ...

Henrys Pub
Nov 18, 2005

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Street bar 41
Sep 28, 2007

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On to Kuopio...
Aug 5, 2007

We made it to the house of our exchange family. We will use this as home base while I teach and travel.

Suunnittelua
Mar 15, 2009

Blaah, vielä 2 viikkoa. Plan yksinkertaisuudessaan: Lento lähtee Helsingistä ma 30. päivä, seuraavana päivänä ollaan jo etelä-Amerikassa. Galapagossaaret, Macchu Picchu, Cotopaxi.. Paljon muitakin paikkoja, joista olisi tarkoitus yrittää kertoa jotain sitten tässä ...

Kuopio - arrived
Sep 5, 2008

... . Although Shellie and I were too tired to really take advantage of them, preferring to just buy some water! What can I say, but Finland appears to have a lot of trees! And it is very green compared to back home in Australia. We also couldn't see any ...

Kuopio - Exploring and lunch
Sep 5, 2008

Exploring the town of Kuopio. A place with a hill large enough to house a ski jump! It appears Kuopio has hosted world championship ski jump competitions. Having never seen a ski jump, it was very impressive. We caught up with the brother of the friends ...

Työnkulma
Mar 10, 2006

Strange club, wonder if that a club at all, anyways Sakari Hietala from Tarot visited us, and two Japanese fans.

Rock cock
Aug 1, 2009

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Still Kuopio
Oct 2, 2004 (7 photos)

... important thing :) In the autumn break, I maybe (if our plans can be fulfilled) will go to Lappland, to the very North of Finland, and next week, there will be a trip to Tampere (a city southern of Kuopio). I've been to the Puijo Tower on Thursday, which ...

Tornio - Kuopio
Jun 19, 2008

Pas le d ecrire pour le moment qq attend pour utiliser le PC. Mais anectode... J etais dans un petit hostel a Kuopio. Dans ma chambre un St Gallois. Le soir je vais me brosser le dents et a se moment un tuyau d eau des WC pete ! L eau n arretait pas ...

Kuopiorock
Jul 28, 2007

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Puijonsarvi
Sep 18, 2003

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Puijonsarvi
Mar 7, 2008

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