https://upnorth.jhg-online.de One semester in Finland ... Wed, 18 May 2011 05:28:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://upnorth.jhg-online.de/2011/05/status-report-20110518/ https://upnorth.jhg-online.de/2011/05/status-report-20110518/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 05:28:22 +0000 http://upnorth.jhg-online.de/?p=567 status: green 🙂

todays program: starting bike tour through the Archipelagos; first day = approximately 70km

note: we know we have to report about a lot of things here, but right now we don’t find the time. We will be back on Sunday and hope to get by with our blog entries by Tuesday.

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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 just a bit of sunshine. At the harbor we decided to go a bit further. There is an island just behind the harbor that was formerly known as an island of villas and a recreation area for the rich (?) – Ruissalo. It has many foot- and bikepaths that you an take through the woods and over the fields, which makes it really nice to visit by bike. And we even got to see some toads on their way to a pond.

Verena on Ruissalo

]]> https://upnorth.jhg-online.de/2011/04/ruissalo/feed/ 1 https://upnorth.jhg-online.de/2011/04/mylly/ https://upnorth.jhg-online.de/2011/04/mylly/#comments Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:00:29 +0000 http://upnorth.jhg-online.de/?p=486 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 and “one of Finland’s largest commercial centers” doesn’t mean that it is big! We visited a few shops but did not buy anything and were ready in less than 45 minutes. As the ikea was quite close we than decided to have a chocolate and a cake there. On our way back we again visited the market at the river as we had to try this Finish crepe with marmalade and cream we saw the day before. It was really tasty!

]]> https://upnorth.jhg-online.de/2011/04/mylly/feed/ 2 https://upnorth.jhg-online.de/2011/04/got-bikes/ Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:00:25 +0000 http://upnorth.jhg-online.de/?p=469 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 best but definitely good enough for getting around.

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