Do people reminisce in Standard Definition?

Though it's not really yet turn of the decade at 2010, I started thinking of getting a video camera as a Christmas present for myself. Photos are great, but then again - holiday videos are a classic!

The 90's was analogue VHS, the 00's was getting to digital but in Standard Definition. Well, admitted, I mostly just have tens of brief video clips that are recorded with mobile phones.. they contain a lot of good memories though some of them are in terrible resolutions, even below 640 x 480.

I expect the 10's to be High Definition era for me - though we still have 29" 4:3 CRT television in the living room..



PS. Photos I upload for this blog are purposely shot with a mobile phone, that will not change. ;)

Chillin' time

Winter scenery is sure beautiful, but during this week it has been chilling -10 to almost -20 degrees of Celcius, brrr!

Hopefully there will be white Christmas this year..

Porvoo @ wintertime

Welcome to "the Christmas city". I finally found the railway station too I was looking for during my last visit in the summer.

Myyrmäki

When you're returning from the company Christmas party, it sure helps if you're navigating through environment you've lived before in.. (A ;) with a relief.)

Two new books

I can't wait to have a good chance to give these babies a test run in the streets of Tallinn! Free translation: "The hero traveller in soviet Tallinn" and "The hero traveller in Tallinn's trams and trolleybuses".. :)

Independence Day

It is soon time to light up a candle onto the window sill. Peaceful Independence Day, Finland.

Christmas market @ Tallinn

Had a brief stay in Tallinn. Still, as this my first trip abroad for quite a while, the break was long awaited and very nice.

Family life

A full month without update, sorry about that. Not much is happening on the travelling front, mostly because I don't have any money to travel at the moment - my old Toyota's maintenance is costing a lot. ;)

Finland has switched to autumn mode - leaves have fallen from the trees, temperature is sawing around zero degrees Celcius and it's pitch dark outside from about 5PM until 7AM.

Malta & Gozo (part 1)

With the HRC thing out of the way, it's time to illustrate some of my Maltese findings (so far) in more detail.

Malta Hard Rock Cafe

This is the official cafe at Bay Street mall in St. Julians area.

Hard Rock Bar @ Valletta

This is the "second" HRC place in Malta.

Bugibba

Greetings from Malta! This is a live update from McDonalds as they have free WLAN. :)

The Hawk's trail

I finally walked through this route nearby, and I found it to be quite nice. The weather has been really nice considering it's mid-September, in Finland!

Summer holiday - part 2: Liesjärvi & Torronsuo

During the first week of my holiday I've tried to keep myself going. On the weekend me & the kid went to see the old forests in Liesjärvi national park. Next time we'll climb up to Hyypiökallio.

Today I ended up to that area again, this time to the swamps in Torronsuo national park. Both of these national parks are located in Tammela, near Forssa and Somero.

Unfortunately, I didn't bother to check in advance that Tytyrin Kaivosmuseo (mining museum) in Lohja seems to be open mostly during the weekends only.

A fresh look

For my travelling partner. :)

Jyväskylä area

Admitted, for a moment I was thinking of a headline like "blood, sweat and tears" as a sort a reference to my earlier post.. But actually last week was quite nice. Sporty, vacation-like and.. simply nice.

Pictures here are from my Peurunka activities, then there is Hitonhauta also in Laukaa (10 km from Peurunka), Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo (Aviation Museum) in Tikkakoski, and Kallioplanetaario "3D movie theatre". Last one is through Peukkula's gates in Jyväskylä - it was already closed for this summer.

Peurunka, Laukaa

For the next five days I'm going to do sports, sports, sports. It's a thing called kuntoremontti, "health improvement" programme. It includes a lot of exercises, all kinds of fitness tests, and a few lectures too. And scenery couldn't be better - the sunset is from tonight, from the top of Multamäki hill hiking trail.

Getting here was also kind of trial of fire for my "new" car. Luckily it seemed to pass the test without any problems. :)

Valkosipulimarkkinat @ Kerava

This Saturday. The weather was really nice and fragance of garlic was all around.

The last picture is from today, there was Crazy Drivers Stunt Show in Mäntsälä. I would've liked to take my son there but I was already elsewhere.. ;)