Besides the concert in Tampere, this was the part of our vacation that I looked forward to the most: almost two weeks at Tomi’s parents’ house in Kangaslampi in North Savonia region in Eastern Finland. As usual, we had the house to ourselves since the parents live in an apartment […]
This Summer’s Interrail adventure took us first to Bergamo in Lombardy, Italy, via Milano Centrale. We spent two days in Bergamo before flying to Helsinki, where we spent two days as well. We had booked three nights in Bergamo, since our flight was in the evening and the late check-out […]
We spent two weeks at Tomi’s parents’ house in Kangaslampi. These weeks were the most relaxing time of our vacation/workation; we didn’t need to be anywhere particular, and we didn’t need to do anything special. We went for early morning runs, then worked through the day, watched tennis and athletics, […]
This Summer’s vacation/workation was a combination of train travel with an Interrail Global Pass, and flights from Italy to Finland and back. First, we took a train to Firenze (*) where we spent three days before continuing to Pisa by train, and flying to Helsinki. From Helsinki we took a […]
We spent the second week at Tomi’s parents’ house in Kangaslampi in Eastern Finland. Kangaslampi is another Finnish commune on the brink of extinction — the school was closed this summer. Its only hope is to cater to Summer tourism and visitors who have their Summer houses in the area. […]