Erasmusitos in Finland

These two are the coolest looking interrailers I've ever seen!

In Lapland my interrailing friends experienced a lot of new things. Only after one week they were adapting to Lapland very well, as Elisa started looking like a Sami girl and Lukas a bit like a reindeer.
the Lapland survival kit in the summer time includes only one thing, and this is it.
Besides mosqiotoes we have also nice things, like art galleries
and museums.

Then there was eating

and eating in restaurants

and my favourite, going to the ice cream bar.

And Lukas' favourite: the night train from Rovaniemi to Helsinki.

I think the 12 hour train journey is too short, because as soon as you fall asleep you are already arriving to your destination. On a rainy day you can also sleep in the hostel, go to the cinema and do the sightseeing at night time like we did in Helsinki

without forgetting to take silly pictures.

And the sunniest day is always the one you have to leave the country, but that's applies also on other trips, not just interrail.

My first video!! it's filmed on the evening in Rovaniemi when we were admiring the midnight sun by the riverside

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Go to Gamla stan! The old town is your best bet.

It is good for walking, has pretty houses, has cafes and shops

..so everything!

Have a cup of fair trade hot chocolate in a nice chocolate shop.

Don't go walking in this part!

Go to walking in the Harbour!

Don't forget that the front of King's castle is not peaceful place for reading, because the king's horses have a show there.

Afterwards don't forget to step on the droppings for good luck.

Don't miss sitting on the steps of Sergels torg and having pastries.

While you are sitting you should try to avoid the performance of this man.

Looking at Summer pictures

Elisa, Lukas and Enric in Lapland

The firsts thoughts..they just arrived in Rovaniemi

In the bird tower near my home, next to my university.

First thing that comes in mind about the summer is staying in the Sonka cabin.

The best part of Sonka for me was going to Sauna and swimming in freezing lake!

The second best thing: Rowing in the lake

As you see we always divided the jobs fairly and evenly..

..so Lukas got the easy jobs like rowing the boat,

and me and Elisa sacrified ourselves for the harder labour, which was sleeping.

It's funny, you know that it's one of our first times going rowing,

because we are all wearing the lifejackets. Elisa, did you see the boat was called "siesta"?

maybe because it was a nice place to sleep siestas.

Picking blueberries. Lukas was right, they were tasting much better in August,

so they were not quite ready when we were picking them.

These are the pictures one of the many many photos where

they are posing for the news paper article.

Walking in Ounasvaara, in the center of Rovaniemi.
Walking in Saariselkä, 350 kilometers up north from Rovaniemi.

Looking at reindeers on the top of Kaunispää.

-Hyviä muistoja, huomenna suihkuun-

Dancing like a idiot, it doesn't matter

it's time to unwind tonight

Night out by the Hostiles

So we were working hard this summer, I almost didn't see Laura at all but when I did we tried to think only nice relaxing things to do. Yep, we choise to go to music festival: Ilosaarirock in Joensuu for three days.

The Slackers! A ska band straight from New York city came to Finland you know I just had to go and see them

The highlight of summer was not just seeing the Slackers, but when the guy behind me said "this girl can really dance" and I assummed the comment was for me, as I didn't see anyone else dancing there.
The fireworks
What the hell is this band? I don't know..there were so many bands I don't remember them all.

This one I do: Klaus Thunder & Ukkosmaine, stole our hearts away.

We went to saw all the punk acts of course: This is Aivolävistys (brain piercing)

Hehe, first I forgot write a text here..I thought everyone will just automatically recognise: Goon! They play amazing music called ska and I love them..maybe too much.

Why are they so good? I just saw them, but I just want to see them now again.

It was a long way to go there, over 15 hours travelling, so we were absolutely dead!

The other thing that was keeping me happy, was of course playing guitar..it just got my mind of work in a second.

-Our house in the middle of the street-

I would rather not go

back to the old house

Back to the Old House by the Smiths

(the Smiths have been in my record player too often)

I have a new home and I really prefer it to our old house. Of course the first days I didn't feel it was my home, but then I got used it really quickly. We are living on the top flour appartment. I think it's really nice place to live and it's just 5 minutes from my university and it has one of the best views over the pond.

Usually I just walk around the pond when I go for walk.

We spend a lot of evenings in the balcony, looking at sunsets..when all the sky and water is pink..it's so pretty.

Our family seems a lot smaller since Pontte started in the army in July.I seem him only during weekends, but then he is so tired that he just sleeps and in the evenings goes to party. He has finished the basic training and is now trainging for a officer(or something like that) and after christmas he will commanding and training others