Hello OBCZ-TeddysDen, Should have never left town..We've picked something like 300kg of apples today
(dad noticed he had free workforce at hand!), pulled up all the garlic and
onions and now I smell bad and my hair is full of leaves. We've just started
driving back home, but it'll take several hours before we're back in Turku :( Hope you've made some good findings at the antiques fair!
I've been there a few times and there's always something catching your eye...
Glad you liked Kerttu's food! They have a few other restaurants in town as well,
one of them, Ranta-Kerttu ("River bank-Kerttu") is quite close to the hostel,
right on the riverside along the Läntinen Rantakatu. Hope you have a great time in Helsinki!
Dear pippis, we've had a great time in Finland, especially in Turku,
with great weather, warm and sunny all of the time. The young girls
walked about the quay at the Aurajoki like in the hight of the summer
season, I myself had to take a jacket along in case of a chilly wind
from the sea...and yes, they kissed and hugged their beloved like
they do mostly on the planet, out in the open, on the benches there
at the riverside and also at the river banks - as it seems convenient
to them..I myself an elderly lady by now (still young at heart
though) watched and smiled and pondered and feed the seagulls with
the left overs from a Turkish wrap..I'm always astonished how quickly
they fly up to you if they see you waving with something, it seems,
they have their eyes everywhere; I love to watch the boats float by,
the jachts, but also the older boats which transport tourists or
locals at the end of the day for an evening turn. I took a long
stroll down to the river to the Castle, saw the beautiful old sailing
ships and further down the impressive canon boat from the Maritime
Museum.
The sun was setting and I had to be
back to see my friend Marja-Leena, with whom I went to the kerttu
restaurant, after we freshend up. She could well understand that you
had to go and take advantage from the good weather, she said:
„Everyone who can takes to the summerhouses on a weekend like this,
it might be the last time before a long winter..“ She also felt it at the antiques fair, there where less people than on other
occasions, but the people present there did not seem to mind, there
where many still and the food was good. And yes: the food at kerttu
was very nice, nice atmosphere and nice people (only the
bookcrossers were missing ;-)).
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| Restaurant kerttu in Turku |
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| nice red brick buildings |
After we had eaten at
http://www.kerttu.fi/fi, we
went back to the hostel (Marja-Leena had her car so we were close)
but before we left there was a pregnant women and obviosly not well,
she was with a man but went to to the loo by herself. We were already
outside, when Marja-Leena suddenly said: „I don't feel well about
this woman, I go after her and have a look.“ Marja-Leena herself
had raised 6 children, by herself AND worked full time, something I
can hardly believe but she said, that this was no great deal, they
had an au pair and a day nursery. I then asked her: „didn't they
sometime oppose in the early morning, not wanting to get up or
trailed to get dressed?“ Her answer was a simple „No“, but she
later added that her latest daughter sometimes trailed behind so she
had to hurry her. Such is life for a woman in Finland I was thinking:
six kids no man and a fultime job; but I doubt it, that this is the
overall tradition, even in Finland in the early 70ties. So when she
came back after a couple of minutes, she could report that all was
well with the highly pregnant young women, that she had another month
to go until the baby was due. Glad about this news we went back to
the car and to the hostel, where we had another good night sleep in
the womans dorm.
I left the books I brougth with me for
the meetup at the hostel, because I did not know what to expect at
the kerttu – I then saw that I could have left the books there at
the entrance among the flyers and newspapers but as it was no
official OBCZ, it was probably better to leave them at home.
And no, I did not make a finding at the
antique fair, I saw a tiny cow made by Arabia
http://www.arabia.fi/web/Arabiawww.nsf/fi/sisustus-_ja_lahjaesineet
for 85 €, which was too expensive for my budget I have to say. If there is a next time for in Turku I
do not know, I shall be going to North Karelia again next summer, but
if my friend is attending the antik messut in Turku again, I shall be there
again with her. Then we can try the other kerttu at the river banks,
as you are suggesting.
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| a very nice place to be in Helsinki... |
And yes, I had a great time in Helsinki
too. I stayed at the http://www.cheapsleep.fi/
which was the perfect place to be for me, as they have also a womans
dorm. There -by the way – happened the strangest thing that EVER
happened to me: A very beautiful young women with long black hair was
in the womans shower, IN HER DARK BODY OF A BATHING SUIT!!!!, she
hardly dared to show herself so I tried not to look when she slipped
out of the shower...I do not believe it. WHAT was this? She was
obviosly in a dorm with men, not with us women, was she with her
husband or by herself? I did not see her until I left....well, I was
thinking by myself: your learning on this planet never ends.
Now I have one last question: What does
one do with 300 Kilos of apples? I myself picked some from a tree in
Hattula, because noone else bothered to take them, lovely sweet
little apples, very tasty, I think I ate them by the dozen...I've had
a wonderful time in Finland, I chased books in thrift shops and
second hand bookstores and at the library in Kontiolahti I've found
wonderful classic books for 50 Cents, which I then registered in
Hämeelinnas library. Here are some of them:
this one I had for you in mind:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12135231/
And this one is very special:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12135230/
and finally:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12135145/
there is no Journal entry made
yet...(but I had to wait 7 long years once for a book I set free in
Dresden in 2004)...So next year it is my 10th anniversary
as manuma....
In 2015 I shall be going to the Oxford
Convention, maybe we meetup there?
See you around some day, some time,
wishing you an intense wintertime with great books.
From CH with lots of good wishes to you
and lovely Turku. So long and happy bookcrossing!
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