Departure: JyväskyläDestination: Keminmaan

In the old times Keminmaan was more important than Kemi because of its water proximity. When the sea went down Kemi was founded and became the main place.

Kemi has the world's largest snow castle. You also can have a good time spending a night at the Mammut Snow Hotel where the temperature in the hotel rooms is a crisp -5 degrees, but you nevertheless sleep warm in a Ajungilak sleeping bag:)

Good Morning!

in Yllas Arctic Hill
Lapland
Lapónia

Lapland Lapónia

in National Geographic

During this weekend I'm going to Lapland. I'll be back soon:)

Have a nice weekend!

Russian Moment!

My neighbor brought me a russian beer from St. Petersburg.

Good Night.

Spy Museum

Spy Museum in Tampere

Spy Museum's exhibition gives a good cross-section about world wide espionage.

The collection includes items from western and eastern organizations.

From KGB we have spy cameras, a PSM-pistol which can pierce a bulletproof vest, an agent cape, a series of classified maps and a portable microfilm device from the 1980's.

Good Morning!

Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858
William Dyce

Doctor Honoris Causa

Tomorrow my Univeristy will confer the dignity of doctor honoris causa in order to distinguish Kofi Annan in Political Science, Law and International Relations.



Links:

New University of Lisbon

United Nations

Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing

Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing in Tampere

Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing presents workers' living conditions from the shared kitchens in 1800's to the 1970's.

The museum consists of five residential and four outbuildings. All of the former lie in their original positions as do three of the outbuildings.

Rupriikki Media Museum

Rupriikki Media Museum in Tampere

The Rupriikki Museum provides an insight into the history and the development of mass communications and sheds light on how news is put together. Rupriikki also provides real, up-to-date information about the media and information on the background of various forms of communications.

in Rupriikki Media Museum

Central Museum of Labour

The Steam Engine Museum is the home of the Sulzer steam engine that was used as a power source at the Finlayson Factory. This giant of an engine is the biggest steam engine ever used in Finland.


This engine was manufactured by a Swiss company called Gebruder Sulzer in 1899 and at the beginning of the 20th century it generated energy for the spinnery as well for the new weaving mill.


At the time the Finlayson factory was the biggest factory in Finland (3000 employees).

The Factory gained its energy rather equally from three different sources: water turbines, the Sulzer engine and other steam engines in the Factory.

Central Museum of Labour in Tampere