You should be jealous! ...NOW WITH PHOTOS...

I WASN'T ABLE TO INSERT PHOTOS OVER THE WEEKEND, SO HERE THEY ARE...!   ####   Finland is beautiful!   I guess we don't have too many countries where in less than 30 mins drive from the city centre you are in a wilderness where you have deers, bears and so on. Yep, national park next door from Helsinki.

Some of you guys out there would recognize the view as you've had the pleasure - or should I say the privilidge - to visit. 

A weekend at a summer cabin can mean many things, but in the one I'm at it means also some work. 

Imagine a christmas tree. A BIG one. Times two. With a base of over 2 meters circle (...around the tree). A storm knocked one down and hence we put it in pieces and dragged it down from the forest about 50 meters down. Luckily no need to go uphill. 

Then there is a need to chop them into smaller pieces...

Well, after the sauna, swim in a lake that is still warm = ~17C, a great meal and a few drinks one sleeps great. Or at least one should. How could I get the host's mom to change these girly ones to something that woul do what they are supposed to do...?

Well, sleeping is a waste of time anyway...

Let's talk a bit about sports;

BIG hands for team Finland for kicking some Belgium arse yesterday on a basketball court. Luckily my main man Seba Bellin was not with them :o) Niiiiiice job guys!!!

Have a fabulastic weekend, enjoy the moment!

Dunkkaa Positiivisuutta - Stink Positive!

Tässä positiivisessa henkessä luettavaa viikonlopun iloksi.

http://www.positiivarit.fi/tassa_v__x___kilometrikorvauksia

...ajatukset ohjaavat sanoja ja sanat tekoja. Jos menee väärään suuntaan, vaihdetaan ajatuksia :o)

Loistavaa viikonloppua meille kaikille - Have a fabulastic weekend!!!

Hola Guapas y Feos!

I've been around Europe and a bit outside in 3 other continents. Not enough, if you ask me, but still I've seen some bits and pieces of the world. Again, not enough as I have less than 30 countries ticked off.

One of my favorites in Europe is Spain, that I had again a pleasure of seeing, feeling, tasting, and enjoying. 

I've been there both for business and pleasure and I love it - and have done my best to enjoy it every time.

You also get to see new things when you move around. This is something I didn't expect to see;

It's a bike that moves by pushing the mini skateboard -type pedals down. A bit like you would climb the stairs at a stepper you have at some gyms. Never seen one before...

This is from a toilet of a Spanish restaurant. I don't know why it had not made it's way up to the wall.

I'll share with you some more stuff later on so stay tuned. To check some of the older stuff, you can get to Spanish blog posts from here. Now I'll get ready for a basketball after a nice summer break. I know I'll be exhausted, but that's part of the fun!

Saludos!

Enjoy life! I know I will!!!

PS We've had quite warm in Southern Finland past days, even up to +25 C. Now it seems we go for +16-18 C... At nights the temp is going to be below +0C. For the US guys, that is the freezing point of water...

21 syytä ottaa perisuomalaiset...

Nyt kun monet ovat joko pitäneet lomansa tai lopettelemassa, on hyvä muistuttaa yhdestä perusasiasta:

Känni.

Kuumin sesonki on ohi, mutta jos joku haluaa jatkaa, olkaa tarkkana. Luin juuri kirjan lehtikeisari Urpo Lahtisesta ja voin väittää meistä valtaosan olevan amatöörejä. Hyvä niin!!!

Jos siltä tuntuu, ota mitä haluat ... tai sit vaikka känät!
Minä  en.

Compliments by Hesari. Tuplaklikkaamalla kuvaa, sen pitäisi suurentua.

Hölökynkölökyn - Kippis!

Helsinki - Stadi!

A short(?) while ago I had a chance to visit a penthouse terrace at Helsinki. The weather was not the greatest - I'd rather say it was grayest. Still, I gotta say Helsinki, Stadi, is fabulous.

As we don't normally get a chance to go to this place, I'd recommend to visit the terrace of Hotel Torni, the tower at Kalevankatu. Take the lift up and climb the narrow stairs up. I've written about it also earlier, remember to visit the toilet...

Regards from Andalucia, I'll talk to you about that and other stuff more soon. It's been too much fun to sit in an Internet cafe ;o)

Hasta la proxima, amigos... The Olympics still have some great stuff to come, I am myself waiting for the Sunday basketball final, where I expect to see Espana and USA!