At the main street which leads to the student village there is Posankka sitting in the grass, the pink mascot of the housing association which is supposed to be a mix between a duck and a pig even though we don’t know where to find the duck parts :). In anticipation of Vappu (we will […]

As usual ESN organized a great trip for exchange students. Together with the traveling company Aikamatkat Timetravels they offered us the possibility to do a seven day tour to visit St. Petersburg and Moscow between the 18th and 25th April. Monday 18th April At 14:00 o’clock a bus picked us up from the Turku bus […]

This entry is long overdue, but we wat to share it with you anyway … The weather has been beautiful again and we decided to ride to the harbor on our bikes. As the day before there were lots and lots of people on their feet around the city. Awesome, how busy Finland turns with […]

Our Finish friendship family told us that spring in Finland has arrived when the first flowers called “leskenlehti” can be seen. So here also this evidence that the spring is there:

The Mall Mylly is supposed to be one of Finland’s largest commercial centers. As it is only 9km away from where we live we thought it would be worth going there. So we took our bikes and started our tour. Arrived there we expected a few nice hours of shopping. But, we are in Finland […]

As people from Germany are telling us since a few weeks how nice the weather is, how often they barbecued already and how nice it is to be outside we were really looking forward to the spring in Finland. Even though that in a few areas you still can find a little bit of snow […]

As we will do a bike tour at the end of our stay here in Finland we were thinking of buying used bikes and using them already now instead of renting some from the tourist office just for the tour. After one week of searching we finally got two today. They are probably not the […]