Haluan nähdä muutakin (I want to see something else)

TIISTAINA 25. TAMMIKUUTA 2011 / Paavo, Pauli

Moi! :)
Mitä kuuluu? :) How are you?


So far, so good:) The hotel in Tampere has been booked - Omena Hotel :) Now I am still trying to find something in Turku and Helsinki - I can go for Omena as well but on the other hand I am tempted to try something else:) Yesterday I received a magazine from Turku and there was an advert of B&B http://www.netti.fi/~tuure2/en/. That could be something else... and I have got a link from Sonja regarding another, different type of accommodation: http://www.hbb.fi/ 


By the way Sonja - I have fixed the comment bit, you may post them now:)


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I had a great conversation yesterday about forests in Finland and what they can offer... and all the memories from my youth came to my mind... the smell of the wet soil... the feel of moss and birch in your hand... and all the mushrooms you could pick up: 
cep (herkkutatti / borowik szlachetny), 
chanterelle (keltavahvero / kurki), 
oyster mushroom (osterivinokas / boczniak)... 
well I used to go with my cousins to the forest early morning, after the rainy night, in a country side... the smell of the forest was great and this emotions that you may get lost:) Well I could, I am a city boy:) and you needed to be careful whenever you see the sunny spot on the grass... cos that could be a place where the snakes could rest and warm their bodies. So we had some berries: wild raspberries, blackberries and blueberries, proper blueberries, the small one, which grow on  little bushes and when you eat them your tongue and mouth become black:) yummy, yummy, yummy... in Finnish they are called mustikka... and they are used for a lovely mustikkapiirakka - blueberry pie. yummy :) I had one:) It was baked especially for me when I was in Helsinki last time - really nice:) I was even participating in a purchase of all ingredients:)

Picture taken by Tuomas Piippo


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RE: the title of this post :) please check: http://haluannahdamuutakin.wordpress.com/in-english/ That's a cool idea! :) Me, personally, I am fed up with adverts of Burger King or other junk food on the bus stops.