Ice Hockey on a Billboard

As a paying spectator or TV watcher, would you prefer to watch an ice hockey game that is played on a billboard? I know I wouldn't.

...it's anyway too hard to follow the puck now and then...

Naturally the laws of economy play a role in pro sports, while there is still several levels to satisfy the needs & wants that the teams and sponsors have. I was veeeery surprised to see the new ice hockey ring of the Kärpät in Oulu, Finland. It is so "shocking" that even a high profile ice hockey blogger Puck Daddy a.k.a. Greg Wyshynski has taken a notice about it.

Also Finnish tabloid has taken this on their agenda;
http://www.iltalehti.fi/smliiga/2013072917307076_sm.shtml
http://www.iltalehti.fi/smliiga/2013073017308930_sm.shtml

Here is a pic via www.suomikiekko.com - make your own call...!

 

Kimi Räikkönen - Lively F1 Faces

 

Hyvä Kimi - Be as you are!

Sotamuseo Tallinnassa - War Museum at Tallinn, Estonia

This is an old article that might interest some of you who a) move around Estonia and b) are interested in history. http://www.hot.ee/vvmuuseum/

I've not been there myself - yet - even if I just spent some days playing tourist around Estonia. Another one to check out is the submarine in maritim museum in Tallinn. Check it out! http://www.meremuuseum.ee/

Estonia has got a LOT to offer, open your mind and check it out! Also Tallinn - before it becomes just another European city...

Pietari - St. Petersburg Next Door

From the top of the shop at Jätkäsaari, Helsinki I told about earlier, you can have also this view;

Since Russia and St. Petersburg is next door from Helsinki, you can take a ferry cruise there and back in only few days. No visa needed at least for Finns, some terms of course apply - like you are obliged to buy some tourist services while there etc... If you are interested, check out the site of the ferry line in the pic. I have no interest to market them further so figure out the rest by your self - or give me a call ;o)