Happy birthday National museum of Finland

Hello sweeties,

Today I visited in National museum of Finland. They had open doors today coz today is birthday of the museum. It has been open for 100 years. Which makes the museum older than Finland. Finland became independent country in 1917. And also the company I work started their business in 1917, so next year we will have a big party at work. Anyhow, I should be writing about todays birthday hero; National Museum of Finland.

When I arrived to the museum it was full of people. But I was one of the lucky ones who had cake and coffee. I read on FB that 2000 first visitors will have cake and coffee. The cake was really good. It tasted a bit like Runeberg's tart , mostly coz I tasted bitter almond on the cake. After the cake and coffee I went to see exhibition about Jean Sibelius and it was brilliant. I gonna go to see it again some other day when the museum isn't full of people. One of the staff members said that the exhibition is really much bigger so I have seen only small part of it. The great part of Jean Sibelius exhibition was that visitors were able to listen samples of his music. There was one sample which I fell in love. I simply felt happy when I listened it. This musical master piece is called as "Violin Concerto" I hope you'll like it too.

This painting you can find also in Ateneum art museum.

Notes of Sibelius. German edition.

Belongings of Sibelius.

Trend from 20's, all stuffs are from Sibelius home.

Edgar Allan Poe's poem in German.

After brilliant Sibelius exhibition I went to see couple others exhibitions. I liked them too but not as much as Sibelius exhibition.

Old doll

 

This tall-case clock is just awesome!

"Perpetual motion machine"

Another old doll

Dinner is ready.

Throne from Porvoo Diet.

Harness.

 

If you're ever coming in Finland and Helsinki, I suggest you to visit National museum of Helsinki. There you'll learn a lot about Finlands history. Maybe visiting the museum helps you to understand better this melancholic nation.

Till next time!

Travel Fair

Hello sweeties,

This weekend I visited in Travel Fair in Helsinki. I went there with a friend who with I like to travel.  Basicly it was a bit like travelling around the world in a day. I found some really awesome destinations, domestic and foreign. I really liked the domestic area on the fair. People quite often forgets that there's lot to see in their homeland when they're planning a trip.

So let's talk about travelling now. As some of you might know, I love to travel. Usually when I have a vacation I pack my stuffs and travel. This year I wanted to find some cool destinations, mostly in Asia and Middle East. I got booklets about Bali and Jordan. Both places that I like to visit some day. I also got booklets about travelling in USA. I have planned a road trip in Route 66 with my friend quite a while and now we wanted to have some info coz we really wanna do that trip some day. O yes, I also found booklet about Rhine Valley, Germany. Another destination that I really loooove to visit. Maybe this summer.
 I also got booklets different destinations in Finland. For example Lapland and The Archipelago trail near to Turku.

In general I liked the fair. I got what I wanted and now I can start to plan new trips.

 

 

 

Till next time! 

Lux Helsinki

Hello sweeties,

This evening I went to Lux light carneval in Helsinki. This year it was awesome! Better than last year. This time all the artworks were the centre of Helsinki which was a huge plus. I had a nice walk in centre of Helsinki with my friend.

Here is a map of the festival area.

 

 

 

I have always liked Lux Helsinki coz it brings a little light to one of the darkest seasons in Finland. This year all the colors looked particularly beautiful coz we had a little snow on the ground. Actually it had snowed all day.

 

Here is my favorite photos from the festival. Enjoy! Let there be light!

 

 

 Helsinki Cathedral- the flowers

 Helsinki Cathedral-the girl

Helsinki Cathedral-the birds

Old Church Park. Looks spooky!

 Front of Ateneum art museum

Lanterns in Old Church Park

Park of Esplanadi

NoWhere?

 

The Cloud.

 

 

I hope you liked the photos from Lux. I had really good time, I saw lots of awesome artworks.

 

 

Till next time!



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!