Mari — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:31:21 +0000

Ulla: Du hast Gluck gehabt, dass du noch Schnee und schöne Wintertage gesehen hast. 🙂 Z.B heute ist es gar nicht schön gewesen und deswegen haben wir sehr, sehr viel Matsch. Und wenigstens ich würde gar nicht mehr auf dem Eis gehen. Komisch, ich habe nie gedacht, das auf dem Eis spazieren gehen eigentlich exotisch ist.

Ist Harald typisch Finnisch oder nicht… na ja, weiss ich nicht. Also die Ingredienze sind natürlich ganz finnische, wie Rentierfleisch oder Elch usw, auch Kartoffeln und Sachen aus Beeren, aber normale Finnen essen wohl so was heutzutage nicht. Also die sind alle natürlich Restaurantspeisen, keine normale Alltagsessen.
Die Atmosphäre in Harald soll “typisch” finnisch sein… von altertümliche Zeit. Und Harald ist auch kein typisches Restaurant in Finnland. Ich glaube, es gibt heutzutage 5 oder 6 Haralds, aber dies in Turku ist das Original. 🙂

Ulla — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:42:45 +0000

Hello, just back in Germany missing you and the snow a bit. Nice idea to show the trip this way. So in fact we had sunshine nearly all the time.And though you have to be careful in town walking on ice it was something special walking on river or on the sea. To Mari: Yes, we all wanted to have a look inside the church in Naantali but we were too late that day. Harald has wonderful food but sure something like elk is also very expensive. Is the food what you would call typically finnish?

Mari — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:59:58 +0000

Seems that you’ve had a nice trip and seen quite loads. A few comments…

Tampere & the tower which was closed: It must have been Näsinneula, right? It’s not closed because it’s too cold, but they are doing some yearly maintenance and stuff like that. It’s told at Särkänniemi web-page, only in Finnish, of course.

Naantali then. It’s not only because of Muumimaailma, but also because of it, that Naantali is very quiet at winter. Muumimaailma does a lot, but it used to be like that also before they built Muumimaailma. People living in Naantali used to say that it’s living only at summertime and is like dead at winter and that’s true. You should get back there in summer.

Did you see Naantali Spa too or you only walked around the old town of Naantali? You didn’t get to visit the church of Naantali? It’s very nice too. I don’t know if you are interested in churches, but if yes, I’ll try to find out if it could be possible to visit the church then when we go to Naantali together. 🙂

How did you like Harald?