Heureka!

Hello sweeties,

Today I had absolutely fantastic day. I spend most of the day at science centre Heureka cleaning the pieces of comb ceramic vases. So basicly my day was full of archaeology from comb ceramic era. Last summer I spend a day at archeologic diggings in Jokiniemi. There was one of the biggist comb ceramic area in Finland. The biggest in southern Finland. Anyhow, today was finally the day when we had opportunity to clean the foundings.

Soon I found out that it's really easy job to do. Basicly all you need is a toothbrush.

On this photo you can see all the tools I used to clean the findings.

This piece of vase I found last summer! I was suprised to see it front of me again!

 

 

 

After 6 hours of cleaning the findings I took a part a lecture about last summers diggings. I also heard a new information about upcoming diggings. I really loooooove to take part one in Hanko. There's diggings in nazi camp. From Hanko they moved around the Finland or back to Germany. Anyhow, since I am interested of WW2 and history in general it would be awesome to take a part the diggings in Hanko. If you are interested to know more about the diggings you can read a little something about it here: Deutsches Lager Hanko 1942-1944  On the same site you find more information about the comb ceramic diggings in Jokiniemi.

 

 

Till next time! 



Happy New Year!

Hello sweeties!

Hello again! I'm back home! I went to Estonia, Tallinn to celebrate New Year with my friends. We stayed there 2 nights. We arrived in Tallinn on New Year's Eve. First we booked in the hotel and the we had New Year's Eve dinner in a nice restaurant called as Kolm Sibulat, in English it's Three Onions. After the dinner we walked to the Freedom Square to see the fireworks. After the fireworks were quite tired so we walked back to the hotel for a drinks.

New Year's Eve menu

 

Happy New Year 2016!

 

 





Next day we had a walk in old town of Tallinn and lunch in medieval restaurant. After the lunch we walked back to the hotel and went to a spa. The best part of the spa was fish spa and aroma sauna. After spa we got ready for the evening. On evening we had dinner in garlic restaurant in old town. After the dinner we went to DM Bar. I loved that bar, it was all about Depeche Mode.

 

The Old Town of Tallinn

DM bar

 

 

 

Next day we woke up and had breakfast. After that we got ready to go back home. It was nice to spend new year in abroad. If I ever gonna spend new year in abroad I love to celebrate it somewhere else than in Tallinn. For exsample in London or New York.

 

 

Till next time!





Christmas market in Helsinki

Hello sweeties!

Today I visited Christmas market in Helsinki. In Finnish it's called as "Tuomaan markkinat", in English it would be "St. Thomas Christmas Market"
This year it was held for the second time in Helsinki's Senate Square, which I think is a perfect place for the Christmas market. Now there's more this Central European Christmas market atmosphere than for example 3 years ago. As you may have already noticed that I like Christmas for its atmosphere. And THAT is the only reason.

I went to the Christmas market with my friends, one of them took her 2,5 year old daughter to the matket coz our friend wanted to go to carousel coz she never been one. In the end all of us found ourself in a carousel. Personally I felt nauseated the whole time I had to be in carousel. When we got off this torture device we had something to eat, and that something was bratwurst and sauerkraut. Yes, it sounds very German. But hey, we love bratwurst and especially sauerkraut. I guess I could say we have a good taste. After the little snack we walked around the market. I bought some things there like honey, new earrings and sweeted almonds. Gosh, I love sweeted almonds. So yummy.

 

The Christmas market area.

 





 

Like I said, I felt nauseated :P

 

 



Till next time!

The ugly Chirstmas sweater party

Hello sweeties!

I got this fun idea about having a ugly Christmas sweater party. So I did invinted some of my friends to Christmas party at my place. Everyone had to wear ugly Christmas sweater. It was fun to see what kind of sweaters everybody had made. It was very fun evening. We even went to a local bar wearing the sweaters. People were quite amused when they saw us.
So here is photos the sweaters, I hope you will find them as amusing as we did.

Christmas sweater number 1.

Christmas sweater number 2

Christmas sweater number 3

Christmas sweater number 4

 

 

 



We added all the photos on our FB sites so our friends could vote for the ugliest Christmas sweater. Guess which one won it? Mine. I didn't felt very honoured when I won the competition but hey, I worked hard to make the sweater look ugly :P

Till next time!

A day off

Hello dears,

I had a day off today. In the morning I had dentist, which wasn't as bad as usually. Anyhow, since I had rest of the day off I wanted to do something. I decided to go in Nuuksio. You might remember that I wanted to go there again in autumn. I was a bit upset coz I didn't saw much autumn colors in Nuuksio. It was the one of the reasons why I went there today: to take photos of Finnish nature. Another reason was siberian flying squirrel reflector. It really looks like a squirrel hit by a car. Or what do you think?
 
 

I started my hiking tour from Haltia where I bought the reflector, I also took a couple maps so I wouldn't get lost in the forest. The route that I took this time was a new one to me. I was suprised how hilly it was. There was one moment when I felt like dying...it was really hard to get up the stairs.

My goal was to walk from Haltia to Haukkalampi and back to Haltia.

 

 

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When I reached Haukkalampi I took a few photos there and then walked back to Haltia.

 

 

 

It enjoyed a lot my walk in Nuuksio. I'm sure I will sleep well at night. Hopefully I won't fall asleep before Champions League match starts. Arsenal plays against Bayern München. When it is possible to see Bayern München playing in Finnish TV I won't miss my chance to watch the match.

Till next time!



 

 

 

 

 

 

 





The evening with the eagle owls

Hello dears,

Yesterday I went to see a football (soccer) match with my friend in Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Huuhkajat (the eagle owls, also know Finland's national football team). It was such a dull match. Most of time I was freezing in cold stadium and hoping to have a cup of Irish Coffee.
 
The match was part of Euro 2016 qualification. Unfortnally Finland didn't maked to the Euro 2016 this time. Actually, Finland has sad history with championships. Once I heard a joke that Finland gets to the world cup when hell freezes over, the same year Finland will also win Brazil 7-1.

Anyway, back to the yesterdays match. Finland played against Northern Ireland.  The biggest excitement was when Paulus Arajuuri made a 1-1 goal on 87 minute. It's a shame that Finland lost their match against Romania. Yesterdays match would have been different if Finland would have won it. But no, their played 1-1 match which meant that Finland lost their chance to be a part of Euro 2016.

 But hey, good thing that there's always Germany. There people actually know how to kick the ball and what's more important, how to make a goal and keep the ball away the own goal. I know who I will support next summer when I will dedicate a month for football.

Here is a few photos from the match.

Till next time!

Happy cinnamon roll day!

Hello dears!

Today is cinnamon roll day. (in Finnish korvapuustipäivä) So I decided to make cinnamon rolls (korvapuusti). My version of cinnamon rolls is a Finnish one. This is how we made cinnamon rolls in Finland. I hope you will like them :)

Ingredients

25 g yeast

75 g butter or 75 g margarine

300 ml milk

¹⁄₂ teaspoon salt

50 ml sugar

³⁄₄ teaspoon ground cardamom

750 ml all-purpose flour

 

Filling

100 g butter or 100 g margarine, room temperature

100 ml sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

For Brushing

1 egg, beaten for brushing

 

Then let's get started. This is what you need to do:

 

Crumble yeast into a bowl.
Melt butter, add milk and gently heat the mixture to 37°C.
Pour over yeast and mix until yeast has dissolved.
Add salt, sugar, cardamom and stir; add about 200 ml of the flour and stir.
Add the rest of the flour and knead dough by hand until smooth and elastic, and it no longer sticks to the bowl (this shouldn't take long) nor to your hand (which takes a bit longer).
Mix the filling ingredients together.
Lightly flour the baking board and turn the dough on it.
Roll dough out to a 40 x 60 cm square.
Spread the filling on the dough and roll it up tightly, starting from the longer side of the square.
Cut the roll in 3-4 cm pieces.
Use a finger or a spoon to press down each tip to form ear-shaped rolls.
Place rolls on a parchmented baking sheet, cover and let rise for 30 minutes.
Brush the rolls with beaten egg.
Bake at 225 C for about 10 minutes.

Enjoy!

If you gonna make Finnish cinnamon rolls let me know did you liked it :)

Till next time!