Terve folks! (that means Hello in Finnish). I’ve been visiting Tampere, Finland for the last 10 days and I have 6 more to go. The purpose of my visit was to meet my boyfriend’s family for the first time. It’s been wonderful to experience Suomi (Finnish) holiday traditions with Henrik’s family. They have made me feel so welcome, that once in a while I slip Mom and Dad when I talk about his parents! :-p
I will upload my pictures intermittently.
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- Downtown Tampere’s frozen river with boats frozen in it
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- Downtown Tampere
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- Chevy in Finland??!
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- Pyynikki Park and Observation Tower
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- View from Pyynikki Park and Observation Tower
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- View from Pyynikki Park and Observation Tower
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- View from Pyynikki Park and Observation Tower
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- Cute Hansel and Gretel house in Pispala of Tampere
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- Standing on a frozen lake in our neighborhood
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- Neighborhood park of birch trees and snow and rabbits who eat the bark of trees
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- Reminds me of a George Winston album cover
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- Henrik being adventerous walking around the frozen lake. We started to hear cracking sounds at this point.
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- Henrik standing on the froze lake
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- These benches covered in snow made me laugh
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- Another bench covered in snow
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- Finnish ducks are still alive
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- The sun is setting at around 3:30 pm
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- Everything is covered in snow
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- More sun set picture
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- Henrik by the duck pond
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- Happy ducks
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- By the lake
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- Standing on the frozen lake
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- Famous Tampere bridge with neat statues Hameensilta
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- I call this the Salmiakki river because it’s black
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- Neat view of the river from a restaurant
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- Me standing in snow by Hameensilta
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- I just loved how cool this restaurant/bar looked!
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- Elif in the snow
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- Henrik taking the view in
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- Some knitters wanted to keep the railing warm! 🙂
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- The Mietinnen Family Christmas tree
December 29, 2012
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