Last weekend I was in Tallin. I liked it, quite a small medieval city, so we enjoyed the good weather relaxing a little bit. Only negative point was the quality of service in the restaurants (3 out of 3). Here you can find some photos of this trip.
We went by boat, so I took lots of photos from it.
Now, couple of typical postcard photos.
One thing which surprised me a lot was the huge quantity of good cars they had. There were plenty of BMW, Mercedes, etc. As far as I know, Estonia is still developing helped by the UE, so I don’t see where those big and expensive cars come from.
One particularity of the ferries which joing Stockholm with Helsinki or Tallin, is that they stop in Åland, allowing selling in the boat taxes free products. And, as alcohol has very high taxes in Sweden, you can see this kind of images:
Sorry for this short and late post, but lately my life is a bit crazy… For example, now I’m writing from Montreal… Soon, I’ll talk about this in the blog.
30th April’s night is Walpurgis in Northern Europe. Sweden is not an exception and many bonfires can be found everywhere.
But the weekend had some more news. 4 friends came to visit me (and Stockholm, by the way), so we did some tourism, and for first time I went quite far away in the Archipielago, were you can find small islands, together with huge cruises. O_o
And, to finish with this short post, two photos taken in the same position… Yes, the amount of boats is so high around Stockholm that you can find two petrol stations competing with each other.
This week, I had couple of hours free in Helsinki, and they were more than enough. As far as I could see, it is really beautiful the surroundings of the city: lots of islands and forests, but the city was not that beautiful.
I didn’t know that some of the big cruises in the world are built in Helsinki.
I knew that Finland was part of Sweden until beginning of last century, and that many people there speak Swedish, but I didn’t expect to see the street names in both languages.
* This post will be in english, in response to some comments to the previous posts.
* On thursday, it was the islamic New Year, which coincides with the spring. We went with some friends to celebrate it. Very funny party, including belly dancing, and persian dances. And also a great opportunity to know a little bit more about their traditions. Now, I know what a Haft sin table is and its meaning.
* We went back from that party by taxi. I think I already wrote about some taxi driver in this city, but it is really interesting to talk with them during the ride and listen to the stories of how they have arrived to Sweden, because all of them are foreigners. The irakian guy who has been living in Sweden for 15 years, and whose goal is to save an enormous amount of money to go the sunny and hot Dubai, where his brother lives. Or the other night’s driver, originally from Somalia, but with an incredible cuban accent and almost perfect spanish. He lived for 10 years in Cuba, and then he moved to the Scandinavia, first Norway, and now Sweden.
* Snow and cold (real on) outside. Warm inside. Lots of walking. Today I started running (next week I have a 10 km race). Hopefully, the weather will be ok then.
* The first guests brought some Leche Condensada, now I can drink Café Bombón at home. That’s one of the things that make me feel like at home wherever I am. 🙂
* Those who want to call me. Just click here, and put your fix number in the box. I like this idea. 🙂
* It is really amazing how Swedes follow Spanish football league. There are many more matches in the public television than in Spain! On the other hand, when I try to access to some football videos in El Mundo, I get this error:
