Because the daily new confirmed Covid-19 cases started to escalate this Fall, reaching new record rates pretty much every day (this past Saturday 87000 new cases! ), the second lockdown was enforced starting 30.10. until the first of December. The rules are the same as during the first one. […]
The excellent news yesterday were that this confinement will end on May 11, unless there is a relapse. This means that we will be allowed to move without a certificate within 100 kilometers from home, and beyond that only for work or family emergency related purposes (with a certificate). Even […]
This is one final post of our trip from Marseille and Nice to Finnish Lapland and back to Nice, concentrating solely on food (some of it) we ate during our travels. We ate a lot of fish, especially in Finland since it is so good and reasonably priced. We did […]
The reason for this trip was that Tomi’s mother, and my mother-in-law, turned 80 this July. However, we missed the actual birthday, since we were attending the FIFA Women’s World Cup third place match on that day. Everything started when we bought the last minute tickets to that match. Then […]
End of the year is probably not the best time to visit Finland, when it is cold, grey, and dark there, and especially Northern Finland, where the Sun stays below the horizon all day. However, that did not stop us from enjoying our week before Christmas in Helsinki, Tampere and […]
It was only the second time we entered the lottery to participate in Berlin marathon and we were lucky. So, we took our training seriously; we started in early 2018 when there were more than 30 weeks to go, though because of traveling we took some weeks off or did […]
We made a day trip to Carcassonne to visit the old walled city. We were happy to be there early before the crowds took over in the afternoon. The downside was that after exploring the town, we had more than an hour to spend before any of the restaurants opened […]
Toulouse is called “The Pink City” because of the distinct orangeish pink bricks used in many buildings, … … and bridges. We spent six days in Toulouse where Tomi was invited to give a talk in a conference. Tei spent those days exploring the city and its parks. The city […]
This winter we have prepared quite a few slow cooking dishes, mainly with some sort of meat. Especially after we started to patronize Intermarché, which sells cheap cuts of meat for very reasonable price, sometimes as low as 6 euros per kilo. The downside is that one has to buy […]