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Travel Blogs from Turku, Finland
We are in Finland
... and Narpes to visit with relatives from Mom's side of the family. Will be spending a few days there and then returning to Turku to spend some time with Bodil and Reija. Our bodies are finally catching up to the 7 hour time difference. Will ...
Turku, a régi főváros
Reggel érkeztünk meg Turkuba, kicsit kialvatlanul, kávéra kiéhezve. A koffeinhiányt pótoltuk az állomáson és elindultunk várost nézni. Meglepően jó idő volt, olyan 0 és -10 között mozgott egész nap az idő. Az északi -20 ...
Arriving in Turku, Finland
Topi, our next host, wasn't around to let us into his apt when we arrived in Turku. So, we sat outside of his door and tried to get onto someones unsecured wireless network to send him a message. After about 15 minutes of sitting outside his door, ...
Turku
... a tourist visa. We left Uppsala on a Tuesday evening and boarded an enormous ferry in Stockholm that would be taking us to Turku, Finland. Our cabin was small, but was nice, although we had a good laugh at the fake painting of islands where the ...
Riding in the land of the midnight sun
... I had not seen a payphone for the life of me and couldn't call the number he had given me on Thursday. He said Finland didn't have payphones... what do the homeless do??? So he spent 20 or so minutes calling around Horseriding places to see if ...
Urpoilua!
Sain sitten yllykkeen kirjoittaa uuden päivityksen, kun joku kiva ihminen oli kommentoinut blogiani! Jee! A-hepatiittirokotus tosiaan teki hiukka kipeää ja käsi oli varmaan viikon kipeä sen jälkeen. Huomenna jäykkäkouristusrokotusaika aikaisin ...
Matkapäivä
Ensimmäinen matkapäivä Lähdimme aamuyöstä puoli neljän aikaan torstai-aamuna, juuri kesken jännittävän Suomi-USA jääkiekko-ottelun kohti Turun linja-autoasemaa. Mikon äiti, joka oli seurannut meidän kanssa väsymyksestä piittaamatta ...
Day 11 - Helsinki to Turku
... out of the Grand Marina today (but we will return in 2 days). First stop on the agenda upon arrival is a tour of a Turku church and Castle. Our hotel is right in the downtown core so we were able to have some lunch at local places, and then ...
Hitch Hiking for the first time
... make the Ferries that Steve and I will be taking from Turku to Stockholm, Sweden. I think he said that he moved from Italy to Finland 20 years ago, I'm not sure why. I assume for work. The first thing we both noticed about this man was that he lived his ...
Day 13 - Turku to Helsinki
Early morning checkout of the hotel and we all head to the arenas for our games. The older team played first in the championship game that ended in a win for our boys (8-2). A pizza place and local corner store received lots of business from ...
Pari päivää lähtöön.
Kääks! Enää 4 päivää lähtöön! Huomenna vien kaikki muuttotavarat mutsin kämpille Vantaalle ja sitten ei kai ole muuta hommaa kuin venailla lähestyvää lähtöpäivää. Lariamit ja muut lääkkeet sain vihdoinkin ostettua, kuten myös ...
relaxing on the farm
... one hour forward. After waiting for the outflow of trucks and cars below, I then go out on my bike, there is the fresh air of Finland! Along the road that leads me to the center of Turku, I ask directions, one of the few people I meet on the street early ...
Hottest Day of the Year: Finland 2008
... that looks much easier to do then it actually is. I could stay vertical on the board for more then are few seconds, I guess I need to work on my balance. Big loss in Turku on the hottest day so far this summer. It was sunny and above 80 the entire ...
Kaikenlaista säätöä ennen matkaa
No niin, elikkä täällä kirjoittelee 22-vuotias tyttö, jonka unelmana on ollut lähteä kiertämään vähän maailmaa. Enää ei tarvitse siis siitäkään unelmoida, koska viimeinkin olen oikeasti lähdössä jonnekin! Kolmen kuukauden päästä, ...
day 8
the day we got back to helsinki, we toured around the city, then took the train to turku... a historical city, that was completey closed when we went because everyone was on holiday-- celebrating midsummer eve... and yeah... everyone was just tired from ...
Viking Line
The ship bound for Stockholm is a great luxury. It has eight floors that alternate between restaurants, pubs, conference rooms, cabins, supermarket, discos, sauna, gym, does not lack ...
Day 12 - Turku
... racking up the shoe collection + ha! We are done early so next on the agenda is a tour boat ride thru the archipelago of Finland. A short drive to Naantali is where we all board a tug boat style of boat where we will receive dinner and tour thru ...
Jännittää
Pari tuntii enää ja sit lähetään kohti Helsinki-Vantaan lentokenttää. Meikä on ihan täpinöissä. Mietin vaan mitä kaikkee tän matkan aikana mahtaa tulla ...
The already Finished Finnish trip
... just write here so that people know they can ask me if they have any questions about Finland. I studied in Turku Finland for a semester at Abo Akademi University. I lived 4km from the school and town, and the public transportation is what I used, ...