Journeying

These paintings were kept in cupboard for years. Luckily, they find themselves nice frame and nice location on the walls too. More

This is not a sponsored post entry but merely my experience perhaps could help you.

When you rent an apartment or a room, have you ever encountered that you are forbidden to do things as below?

• tenant is forbidden to paint any walls
• tenant is forbidden to screw or nail anything to the walls
• tenant is not allowed to fix or drill anything that penetrates the protective coating on the wall in the toilet and bathroom. [......]

These terms and regulations maybe quite common for rental house or apartment or room. We just moved from Turku county to Helsinki county. Yes, we have same terms and regulations for our newly rented apartment. In this apartment, we are restricted by these terms and regulations.

However, we are curious, previous tenants seem not care nor worry about these terms and regulations. They left behind many holes and hooks on the walls in living room, bedroom and worst in toilet. Of course, we can ignore these as long as we pay the damage repair later when moving out. But, will you do that? I really believe the invoice will be unbelievable expensive, well, don’t forget the 22% VAT here. More

My wife celebrated her birthday in Turku for the first times in her life. It just a simple celebration, no birthday party was organised, no friends were invited, just two of us. We went to Red Hot Chilis restaurant for Mexican food on Saturday afternoon. On the her birthday, I bought her a cake and prepared a slightly different dinner compare with what we used to have daily.

My wife said,

Several surprises have been received unexpectedly from my boss, KJ and friends in Malaysia. Hope that birthday is just like a day you can receive presents but needless to count your age.

Curious about the food? Have a look on photos. More

On next day, both of us left from hostel to the Helsinki International Airport at 5 o’clock early morning. My girlfriend will get on plane to Malaysia at 8 o’clock morning. Therefore, we have to take the earlier airport bus to Helsinki International Airport from the bus station near to Central Railway Station at 5am. Then, I will take express bus from Helsinki International Airport back to Turku. I have to say goodbye to my girlfriend. I miss her very much. I have no idea when I can see her again after this holiday. No, I don’t cry but nearly when she stepped in the boarding gate.
More

Today was the last day for our holiday at Helsinki. After have our breakfast at hostel, we walked to the Katajanokka district. Crossing the bridge near to the Kauppatori, the Uspenski Cathedral which built in the year 1868 is immediately us. There were many old and new warehouses at this district, some of the old warehouses were converted into restaurants or shops. This district is totally surrounding by sea; therefore, it was really windy during our tour. For this reason, we don’t spend much time at here. It too cold to us and made us felt uncomfortable. After a short walk at here, we decided went for our lunch.

More

On next day, we have our walking tour around the Senate Square. The area surrounding to the Senate square is near the coast. It was so windy until we really thought to give up our walking tour. However, we did continued but avoid walked to the area really near to the sea and made some adjustment on the tour.

More

We took tram for our tour today. The tram route 3T or 3B allow you to enjoy sightseeing places in the Helsinki with less money paid and less body energy used. We bought a day tourist ticket for this trip at the Tourist office. We on board the tram at the station near to our hostel then just followed the route look at the sightseeing places according to the 3T or 3B tram brochure. This one day tourist ticket allows us jump in to any route’s tram anytime between 24 hours without paying any more fees. Therefore, when the tram stopped at some station near to the sightseeing which we decided to pay a visit we just walk out from tram and went to it.

More

When we were arrived jetty at Market Square, we found that we still got time for a little walk. Therefore, we decided walked around the area near from the Market square. Still remember the brochures I mentioned before? You can get it from the tourist office or you can order them through email and it is free of charge. We went to those sightseeing places according to those brochures. From the Market Square we walked ahead to the Esplanade park. Buildings in Helsinki mostly are in 19th century design. They are beautiful, you can have a look on photos I attached here. For example, a restaurant we came across during our walking tour, Kappeli Restaurant. It was built in the year 1867 and has been extended and modernised many times. But, people here care about their heritage; although they extended it you still can see those 19th century design remained well.

More

Before I continue, do you remember the children photo I posted on my previous topic? Have you noticed their suit? Yes, that is Finnish winter suit for kids. It made of water proof, wind proof materials. This will ensure kids will not get cold while they are playing outside during winter. Do you notice their shoes? That is rubber boots. Boots made of real rubber, water proof and wind proof. It keep kids warm all the time. We felt that was special, maybe we never saw that before in Malaysia. However, my supervisor told me the other way round. You only can find this kind of winter suit for kid in Finland. Look at the photo again, see what is the different.

More

We followed the brochure that we got from tourist office yesterday began our tour from the jetty. Suomenlinna is a living district that is home to 850 city residents. So, don’t be surprised when you saw school, children play ground there. Most of the places were closed during winter. These places only open during summer, what a pity to us. We walked ahead to the Suomenlinna Museum which near to waterbus terminal at Artillery Bay Quay. There are several museums also but closed during winter. The Suomenlinna museum is located at the main island and it exhibits the history of the fortress from 1700s until now. You can see how the construction of the fortress, the dry dock, how the archipelago fleet built there and the daily life of the defence force town on the island.

More