As it is cheaper to book early we today booked our flight back home to Germany. Even though we don’t like the company that much, Ryanair was the cheapest possibility. We are flying back from Tampere to Frankfurt Hahn. Date: 25.05.2011 Depature: 17:30 Arrival: 19:00

Saint Patrick (387–461) is the patron of Ireland. On the 17th March St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated. Normally not in Finland, but as ESN is quite active they organized a St. Patrick’s Day party at Monkey, a night club here in Turku. As we know three Northern Irish people who celebrate this day, we joined […]

… or playing ice hockey for a last time? Ice and snow are gradually disappearing over here. That makes us wonder how long the ice hockey place will stay open. As it is open-air we worry with every bit of snow and ice that goes away. That last game has been pretty intense at some […]

Tonight we went bowling. This has been like the first in years (at least it feels like it 😉 ) and it definitely the first bowling in Turku. Why did we meet? Well, see Dave (big guy with red hair)? It’s his birthday. He invited many people and asked them to invite whoever … that […]

Together with 5 other erasmus students we took the bus today to get to the island Hirvensalo just out of Turku (if you wouldn’t know you would rather say there is a big river that divides it from the main land instead of the sea!). Even though they just have a very small hill they […]

The shrove Tuesday (in Germany Aschermittwoch) is called laskiainen in Finnish. On this day Finns also celebrate some sort of carnival, just different. On this day, it is special to eat laskiaispulla. It is a sweet bun with cream and jam. But besides this, there were several winter ‘sports’ events today. We first went to […]

Now that we’ve already told you that we had a guest coming over we want to share a bit of what we did together. This is a story of a little roundtrip that took us from Turku/Helsinki back to Turku/Helsinki … Once upon a time (that was last week Wednesday 😉 ) there was a […]