Earth Hour

I know, it's been quiet on the blog for the couple of months though I'd probably have something to share still.. Well, spring is coming on strong and the days are getting longer. But for once, yesterday evening was pretty dark for a while without the street lights. Which was nice, since it was the Earth Hour of 2012. :)

Matkamessut 2012

The mandatory annual visit to Matkamessut (the Travel fair) happened last weekend. We only had some two hours of time and it was packed with people, except for the last 30 minutes. Didn't manage to spot any phenominal offers, but they're still online for a while so I guess I'll keep looking.

Summer 2011 revisited, part #1: Breweries

I thought to make some more use of the ka-zillion pictures I took last summer.

Here are a couple of shots from breweries or restaurants servicing local beer I visited during the Bothnian Sea Coast Tour.

The breweries were:

Uusikaupunki - Vakka-Suomen Panimo
Pori - Beer Hunter's
Pori - Karhupanimo
Nokia - Nokian Panimo
I also drove through Laitila - Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas

It was a waste of perfectly good beer in the sense that I was travelling by car. In Pori, I could allow just to taste a few sips of the beer and couldn't even ask for any "doggy mugs" to take with me, as the Finnish alcohol law doesn't allow exports like that.

Sadly, not all places served their beers on half pint glasses either, Karhupanimo being the prime example, so I wasted a good deal of scarce money too. But I guess it was just for the sake of experience that I could report all about into here. :)

Folks, don't drink & drive, that's my motto too!

A week apart

Sometimes one week is all that is needed for winter to finally arrive! :)

The first picture is from the last week of 2011 and the second one is from the first week of 2012. And that's what we've been seeing ever since, luckily, even though the temperature tends to hang around zero degrees during the daytime.

Happy New Year everybody!

Feels good

2 be back the hood.. Though temporarily. ;)

Wroclaw

Had some business here, though only paid a quick visit. So, Wroclaw is another nice city I'm adding to my list of places I'm looking forward returning to on a better time.

Summer 2011 update 16/16: conclusion

Hmmm, seems I made a bit of counting error at some point of the way.. I'm already "out of events".. :)

Anyway, I had a nice time during summer of 2011 in overall. I wasn't able to accomplish anything major, mostly small domestic trips. And actually I didn't even have much of a holiday - I was spending most of the summer at home taking care of my kids, on a so-called "paternity month".

But not bad, given that I had two out of the following three - time, the kids & money (if unsure, please check past updates and figure out which of those I was mostly missing..)