As I mentioned
our next meeting was planned on 30th November. Unfortunately that plan got
cancelled because Mayu got sick, so we decided to postpone the meeting.
On 15th-16th December we had plans to go to Tampere for a short visit. We decided to buy the
train tickets beforehand on 11th December. We all 5 were supposed
to go to Tampere, but this time Jonas got suddenly other plans he had to do, so he couldn't come with us. But since we had made all preparations for the trip, the
rest of us decided to go and bought our tickets.
I went to
Tampere already on 14th and on the morning of the 15th, I
went to get Tiia, Mayu and Rika from the train station.
At first we
went to nearby super market to buy food for the weekend. We decided to eat
traditional Finnish Christmas meal. Then we headed to my sister’s place, where
we would all spend the night. We dropped our luggages there and ate before we
left to back the city centre. Mayu and Rika wanted to see the Christmas market
in Tampere so that was our first destination.
The weather
was really cold, I think it was around -15C and it was fairly windy too, but
the Christmas market had really nice atmosphere on it. We also went to another
smaller Christmas market in Stable yards, a little walk from the centre. On our
way we visited Tampere’s movie theater and I showed that not all movie theater
in Finland are similar as in Jyväskylä (to be honest, I don’t like Jyväskylä’s
movie theater at all..).
We also
took a quick view of Näsinneula from the Näsinkallio park. Näsinneula is the
high tower located in the amusement park of Särkänniemi.
Mayu and
Rika both like Moomins a lot so of course the Moomin shop was a must visit. When
we visited the shop, there seemed to be other Japanese in the shop. Seems like
Moomin’s really are popular with Japanese!
We finally
decided to move indoors and went to the shopping mall, Koskikeskus. We spend
our time checking the shops and around 6pm my sister came to pick us. When we
arrived to her house we decided to cook some food and bake Christmas tarts too.
Mayu and Rika also made these for us
I’m sorry
girls, I forgot the name of this dish. But they were really good and fresh! I
also served everyone Tampere’s special, black sausage! Seems like it was edible,
and maybe even rather good? I hope so!
My sister's friend also baked a reindeer pie for us! I think it was the first time for everyone tasting a reindeer pie.
And of course Christmas isn't Christmas
without Christmas chocolates!
This black
cat was also our entertainer during the evening.
We were all pretty tired so we went sleep quite
early!
On Sunday
morning around 10am we left to Vapriikki, a museum in Tampere. It has many
exhibitions and it’s very affordable for students with student card, only 3€.
It has many exhibitions, I think around 10. We spend few hours walking around
and I hope Mayu and Rika learned about the history of Tampere a little bit, as
many other things from Finland too. We also discovered a small Angry Birds play
ground in of the exhibitions! You could play the game for real. It was quite
fun.
The exhibition that I wanted to see most was The Mummy exhibition and it
was pretty interesting.
After going
around the museum we headed outside of Tampere, to Ideapark. It’s a big
shopping mall about 15 minutes drive from Tampere. So for the rest of the day
everyone spent their day going around the shops and looking for something
interesting to buy. There was also a gingerbread house contest going on, you could vote for the gingerbread house you liked the best.
Before leaving we went to eat Italian ice cream together.
Around 4pm
we started to get ready to leave back to Tampere, because Mayu and Rika’s train
would leave at 5pm. We escorted the girls on the train, and me and Tiia took
the next train at 8pm to Jyväskylä.
I had
really fun weekend, but it was too bad that the weather was quite horrible.
Maybe if we have time we can go to Tampere again on spring, so everyone can see
little bit different Tampere, and maybe that time with a nice weather!
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VastaaPoistaPakko kysyy, muistatko enää YHTÄÄN missä päin/mikä ravintola toi oli mistä sai noin paljon ruokaa vaan 500 yenillä? ;o Sori kun näin tungen tähän blogiin, en vaan tiiä kuinka aktiivisesti ton matkablogin kommentteja tarkistellaan enää :D
Kyllä mä edelleen sitä seurailen, josko uusia kommentteja tulee :D
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