I promice to start posting more photos once I get a better computer, but here's one to tide you over. This is my favorite of my photos from the Summer 2011.


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Åland Islands (Ahvenanmaa) was gorgeous. We went camping there last week (Monday through Thursday) with MM and Mary. Åland Islands is a big island or more like an archibelago southwest from Helsinki, between Finland and Sweden. The Åland Islands are pretty peculiar. They're autonomic and a demilitarized region due to historic reasons and the vast ( Read more... )

We're back from our week long trip to Ruka, about 800 km North from here. I went there with mom, her companion, his kid, Orasi, his companion and MM. Nydi had work so she couldn't make it. The first night home I was surprised at how dark it gets here in Espoo during the middle of the night. At least that's what it felt like after experiencing the ( Read more... )

Heh, I found a list of place names on my mobile that I wrote down on the trip South, back home, from Lapland almost-Lapland last... February was it? There are some ludicrous place names in Finland. I'll try to translate them to the best of my ability for my non-Finnish readers ( Read more... )

( Are there mountains in Finland? )

Our skiing trip went fine. I got some sort of stomach dicease today involving diarrhea, vomiting and a fever. Not very nice. I'm heading to bed now.

We're leaving tomorrow on our skiing trip up North, in almost Lapland. :p We'll be gone a week and I don't know, if I'll have Internet there. I have to sit in the car the whole day tomorrow. -_- I haven't done that in years.

My, I've gotten a lot of books on my books to read list. Thanks again to those of you who have already responded to my last entry. Keep the book recommendations coming.I've been continuing with my excercise regimen, mainly by skiing. Last Friday I skiied for 9 kilometers by myself, which was probably a first. On Satuday I skiied for about 5 ( Read more... )

I'm going skiing up North in a week or two with my family. It's actually not in Lapland (like I thought), but very close anyway (at least when you look at it from down here South :p). I'm not in very good shape so I'm trying to excercise more so that I can do some skiing there without being in too much pain afterwards. xp I skiied (cross-country) ( Read more... )

Finally a song that inspires me to write.

I've been listening to Kitaro's music today. I've recently watched some random episodes of this old Japanese documentary about the Silk road and they have Kitaro's music in them. It was just so nostalgic and I mainly watched them for the music. I'm positive that we have some of Kitaro's music on some old ( Read more... )