Sunday, 17 January 2010

The Hawk's Trail - winter edition






I wore a heart rate calculator on my wrist, it estimated I burned over 1700 kcal.. Might be true as it took me more than three hours to walk through this 5 km route, partially due to the amount of snow. :)

Thursday, 14 January 2010

Winter look n' feel, version 3.0


I hope this view runs stable until March at least..

Monday, 11 January 2010

Biking, anyone?


Hmm I wonder if people who left these bikes are skiing these days..

On the way to work


These days it's really nice to stroll the half-a-kilometer distance from the railway station to my office taking a shortcut through the forest..

The Burger Quest



Things started when my wife mentioned she would like a cheese burger. My son happened to overhear, and of course he also wanted a burger after that.

So I set out to get takeway burgers from nearby hamburger place. It was Sunday night and to my annoyance they had closed just 10 minutes earlier.

I drove around in Mäntsälä - Shell, Juustoportti, R-Kioski, looking just for a simple plastic-wrapped prepared burger. Sure, all the places had a burger menu, but my budget was only seven euros while they wanted 15-20 euros.

Eventually, after wandering around with the car for 45 minutes or so and feeling totally frustrated, I remembered that there is a kiosk called Maja ("the Hut") in Mäntsälä. And of course they had just what I was looking for!

Another lesson for me.. if I want 24-hour service I should probably move to some bigger city..

An eventful winter weekend




On Saturday, we went to Lahti to see a hockey game. I must say I'm proud of how well the kid managed in overall through three rounds, overtime and penalty shootout, though he's only 2-years old. Too bad my team eventually lost.

On Sunday we went to Sveitsi.. directly translated to English that place would be "Switzerland", but it's actually also name of a nearby skiing slope in Hyvinkää.

The scenery is very nice at the moment.

Saturday, 9 January 2010

A real winter


Today it's -21 degrees of Celcius outside, and I think it's just great!