Omena Hotel ( Omenahotelli ) Turku

... The coach journey was fairly non-eventful (but since Tianjin they all seem to be) and we reached the stadium around 6.30pm. Our coach had been decked out with flags from various people on board, so we were an easy bunch to spot. The other coach looked fairly plain in comparison, without a flag in sight from where I was sitting.
We all shared the various mathematical calculations for 'what happens if...' for all scoreline possibilities, and we were all ...

Matkustus tapahtuu aina itsekkäistä syistä. Niin tälläkin kertaa. Nyt lähdetään juhlimaan Memmun kolmekymppisiä Ilarin ja Memmun tyyliin. Rinkan, passin ja hammasharjan lisäksi varustelistalla :

2 x Housut
2 x Alushousut
2 x Sukat
2 x T-Paita
1 x Huppari
1 x Puolen metrin rauta kettinki

Eiköhän näillä pärjätä...

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." ~Lao Tzu

Caught the train from Helsinki to Turku which only took about two hours. They have very nice trains. Easy city to navigate. I'm going to check out the harbour and book a spot on one of the ferries heading for ALands. Unfortunately I can't go today because the ferries only depart at 0815 and 2015. So I'm staying in Turku today which is fine because I forgot that I wanted to see the castle. Now I'm just waiting for the hostel to open so I can drop my bag off. It's getting lighter every day.

... I enjoy the turn of the century town. Pretty place.

Back in Turku for the afternoon, I hit some interesting "museums". First was the Luoinstarmaki Handicrafts Museum which gets the international award for worst name. It is actually an excellent collection of buildings starting several hundred years ago, decorated in their respective timeframes and with a few people dressed in period costumes providing explanations.

Second, Alboa ...

... flower arrangements - which struck me as very cheap for the amount of work involved. Fruit seemed very cheap too. David bought a kg of gala apples for 1.20 Euro - about $2. They were small apples, but there were 8. I bought a (large) punnet of raspberries for 3 euro - about $A5. They were lovely raspberries too. Some fruit was sold by the litre - including plums & apricots at around $A2 per litre. Anyway after we'd bought some fruit to go with our pastries, and ...

I found Travel Pod after my trip to Northern Europe, but I thought I would 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, it was not bad at all. I also had a few travels from Finland, that I will post in other blogs. Have fun on your travels and be sure to check in!

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... yhteenveto "My Way":n säestyksellä (play it LOUD): "I've lived a life that's full. I've traveled each and every highway..." Niinpä niin: Turusta juna nytkähti liikkeelle ja Bangkokiin se lopulta periaatteessa vasta pysähtyi (tämän jälkeen jouduttiin käyttämään lentokonetta). Juna ja bussi olivat pääasialliset liikkumiskeinot ja kilometrejä tuli siis mittariin n. 25.000... "Regrets, I've had a few; But then again, too few ...

... now, i hang out with my family on a holiday where people get drunk... and i have an annoying hicky on my cheek. my eyes are bloodshot, so i spend most of the day with sunglasses on... we hang out in a park, where college students are picnicing outside, and smoking pot... away from everyone else... we trained back. i'm exhausted...

This part of the world is like nothing else in the world, it make you feel like you are at the top of the world. The air is so clean and the sky is so clear. The ferry ride was an overnight ferry and we had a cabin to sleep in. We woke up to the ferry pulling into Turku and it was so neat so see all these ...