Added the new feature provided by Blogger: the videobar, which will allow the viewing of YouTube and Google Videos directly from this page. You can find it on the right hand side of the page. There's not much use for it so far, but if you want you can test how it works with one video clip from the first snowfall of the last autumn. I'll be adding more videos in the future.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The flight's been booked
Today we made the flight reservations. As we planned before, the departure will be on the week nr29 in July, on Thursday 19th to be more specific. The plane will take off from Tampere-Pirkkala airport at 15:50, land in Copenhagen where we'll catch the connecting flight after 3,5hrs of waiting and finally we'll touch down in Madrid Barajas airport at 23:30 local time. The cheapest flight operator came out to be Blue1, with the price for one adult incl. taxes coming up to 137€.
I have also made arrangements for the transportation of Rocio's and my belongings to Spain. A very friendly one-man company called Kulkurin Logistiikka will pick up the things from our doorstep in Tampere after halfway June and deliver to the location in Spain for 500€/2 m³. That's all the space we'll need as we're not taking any furniture or other excessively big things with us - most rental apartments in Spain come furnished.
In the meantime, we've lived through the Vappu - the Finnish Labor Day. It was a nice evening with some friends, beers and a night out in the city. The next day we went so see the Vappu market with it's balloons and all the people wandering in the streets and between the sales tents with their morning-after headaches - or in some cases the continuation of the previous night.
The aftermath of Labor Day
A couple of weeks ago we took a trip to Ähtäri Zoo, some 150km from Tampere, which gives a nice view of the most typical Finnish animals as well as of some more exotic ones, such as the snow leopard. Take a look at a few that we encountered:
The snow leopard
The reindeer
Owls
The moose (is loose)
The cuddly bears
...and two very wild lynxes!
And for a final note this time, a few tips for those interested in the price of everyday things in Spain. Two major Spanish shopping chains have their online stores in the following addresses, where you can see the prices of food, household products and some other consumer goods:
http://www.mercadona.es/ns/principal.php
http://www.carrefour.es/index.html
I have also made arrangements for the transportation of Rocio's and my belongings to Spain. A very friendly one-man company called Kulkurin Logistiikka will pick up the things from our doorstep in Tampere after halfway June and deliver to the location in Spain for 500€/2 m³. That's all the space we'll need as we're not taking any furniture or other excessively big things with us - most rental apartments in Spain come furnished.
In the meantime, we've lived through the Vappu - the Finnish Labor Day. It was a nice evening with some friends, beers and a night out in the city. The next day we went so see the Vappu market with it's balloons and all the people wandering in the streets and between the sales tents with their morning-after headaches - or in some cases the continuation of the previous night.
The aftermath of Labor Day
A couple of weeks ago we took a trip to Ähtäri Zoo, some 150km from Tampere, which gives a nice view of the most typical Finnish animals as well as of some more exotic ones, such as the snow leopard. Take a look at a few that we encountered:
The snow leopard
The reindeer
Owls
The moose (is loose)
The cuddly bears
...and two very wild lynxes!And for a final note this time, a few tips for those interested in the price of everyday things in Spain. Two major Spanish shopping chains have their online stores in the following addresses, where you can see the prices of food, household products and some other consumer goods:
http://www.mercadona.es/ns/principal.php
http://www.carrefour.es/index.html
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