Beer Brewery

On Friday the guys were upto some beer brewing. Or bottling, as they had made the beer some weeks back. Now a few weeks of waiting, and in approx. three weeks time the beer should be good to drink.

Just in time for our housewarming party. ;-)

Yep, moving again in 9 days! Just two streets up from my current location. Not bad.

Good times.

x

Linda

My longboarding trip today

Rånåsfoss cruisin'

An accidental 20km in nearly 30°C heat and cruising in the wroooong direction as most hills were UP not DOWN.

Know better next time.

Came back from the trip with a smile and a burning shoe. The last hill was kinda tough and breaking on that bumpy asphalt, uhhh, hothothot.

x

Linda

Home sweet cottage, Finland

Need I say that 4 days is far too little time to spend in an environment like this?

Anyway, last weekend was spent visiting family and a few friends in Finland.

Time passed fast. Schedule were fully booked, like it tends to be on Finland visits.

Tummy was full of great food constantly. And new experiences were gained.

Also spent my last day, which was supposed to be dedicated for my little cousin + longboarding, in bed drinking hot juice and MSM. Yes, I got ill. Swollen throat, fever feel, head full of pressure and muscles all weak. Great way to end a short holiday, right?

The weather in Oslo (Rånåsfoss actually, as I came to spend my weekend at Ingar's parents house.) is great for once, so I'm off out for some longboarding..therefore - let the pictures speak:

day 1 was:

parents (+food), grandparents (+food), cousins (+food), birthday of cousin (+food), outdoor hottub, swimming and did i mention...food?

day 2 was:

wild strawberry picking, ants in my pants, swimming, Chris and Veera (!yay!), beachvolley, Sanni+Tuomas+Jussi, Varkaus pub evening incl. Reea+Santtu+Tommi+Henri, nighttime outdoor hot tub+sauna+swimming+bbq.

day 3 was:

Visiting family: we finally have a newcomer! a little baby girl! a little monkey! (unfortunately this means that in two years time I will be playing horse...I dunno if I'm quite looking forward to that part ;)

and Kuopio Rock -festival with our summer ex-change student, Marily. Nightwise was playing!

Unfortunately I couldn't take my camera to the area with me. Maybe I'll post some photos later if I get ahold of the pictures from our mini-camera that was with us.

I wasn't really 100% at the festival...guess the illness was kicking in!

Saw some old friends though, which was nice.

day 4, the last one:

Laying in bed till 3pm. Feeling like the end of the world was coming. ;-) Thought of heading to the bus station at midnight and taking a 5hours bus ride to the airport to make the 8am flight was not tempting.

Little by little I got some energy to get through the day, and later the bus ride. With an extremely low energy level I did cut Ingar's hair, watch everyone swim, enjoy the sunshine and try do some evening fishing (without the same success as up North of Norway).

Now back in Norway. Still coughing and sneezing, but feelin' betterrr.

Next week it is the Øya festival. I'm looking forward to it. Big time.

xo

Linda

Tenth Day pt.2 - The Cuba Diary

Day Ten: The rest of it

Continuation to this, the day trip to Western Cuba.

Once we arrived back to Havana, we headed off to the Coppelia ice-cream park which we heard had the beeest ice-cream everrr.

A guard came to us at the park and guided us to a kiosk in an other direction than we were going to. He informed us that there were separate kiosks for tourists and locals. Interesting.

We had two options to choose from: caramel and vanilla.

I wasn't interested in either, and veeery upset as my expectation of tens of yummy creamy delights was...well, not fulfilled. Sanni tried out the caramel one which she described as 'expensive and tastes of nothing special'. So that was that.

From Coppelia we negotiated a good price to the center of Havana on our favorite vehicle, the coco-taxi! Those rides were full of excitement and so much fun. Especially when we had half of our luggage with us the time we were traveling to the bus station haha!

We spent our evening walking around the streets of the old town, eating tasty churros for just a CUC, escaping the welcoming arms of young Cubano men, talking to a funny rastafari drummer who invited us to party with him the week after (unfortunately we couldn't make it as we were in Finland already then) and buying spirulina tablets for just 6CUC a package.

An evening walk by the Malecon, back to our hotel and a late dinner at an Italian restaurant next door.

After a long day, we were knackered.

xx

Linda

ps. Find Sanni's post of the day (in Finnish) here.