Journeying

We left for Tampere on 6th January 2006 early morning by train. We chose train because it is much convenience to us. Besides, European train service is well established and we never try the train service in Finland yet, I mean us together. The journey from Turku to Tampere was about one and half hours, not too long on the train but nice. We have chance to have a look on winter scenery. However, I forgot to take some photos regarding this winter scenery.(Actually both of us were slept for a while at that moment)

We arrived in Tampere about 10 o’clock morning. Immediately stepped out from Tampere railway station, we saw McDonald. Now only we realized that we can’t found more than one McDonald in Turku city centre. We found Hesburger everywhere in Turku. My girlfriend likes the tomato souse at Hesburger. Our hostel, Uimahallinmaja or Hostel Tampere was about 15-20 minutes walking distance from the railway station walk along the Hämeenkatu.

After check in, we were so surprised the room we got. We reserved for a twin room with my Hostelling International membership card but the room was really big. After that, we start our journey in Tampere. We walked further up the Pirkankatu and then made a right turn to Sotkankatu and right turn to Satakunnankatu. We just walked straight passed the Amuri (the Finland’s first quarter entirely inhabited by factory workers in the 1860’s) until we arrived at Hämeenpauisto Park. The Hämeenpauisto Park was a one kilometers long park served as a firewall barrier to the city almost entirely comprising buildings during the year 1830. You can read more about the Hämeenpauisto Park at here.

Ahead to the southern side of the park, the Amurinlinna residential area was on our left. This residential area was built for the workers of the Finlayson factory in the 1950’s. The highest 14-storey building there was the home of the “cotton mill girls”. Unfortunately, our digital camera was running out of battery power start from this moment. We don’t have any spare. Therefore, we can’t take more photos after this.

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