As we drove to Jyväskylä, the scenery changed: swamps appeared, there were more lakes and more birches. It looked quite similar to southern Norway.
In the city we met Ville and Kaisa, two couchsurfers who offered showing us around. Oh, be careful: self-service gas stations don’t accept foreign cards such as Visa or Maestro. Our Finns took us to a place with name that I’ve forgotten, though I remember the translation: “chicken mountain”. Continue reading
Even though I think that there are really a few things impossible for me, sometimes I have to give up. Or, as it is written above, postpone a dream until somewhere in the future. Continue reading
After playing 335 games on Polish tournaments, I finally made it to the top100, woohoo! Here you can have a look at it (I’m currently 73rd). Nothing to be proud of, really, but it’s nice to see that there’s been some progress since I started playing. Continue reading
If most Finish campsites are like our first one, I wouldn’t recommend sleeping in a hotel. I couldn’t ask for more. As soon as we parked our car, I ran to a sauna (an evening in Finland without sauna is a wasted evening, isn’t it?). However, it wasn’t the time yet to try a real smoke sauna, this one was electric and I couldn’t make it boiling hot – every time I put some water on stones, the vapor would vanish after 15 seconds. Continue reading
I’ll start with complaining. As I walked into one of compartments (I don’t know if you have such things in other parts of the world – most wagons are divided into smaller structures, each of which consists of 6 to 8 seats) I asked politely if there are any free places. Everyone started looking around (mostly on their feet), shaking their heads in random directions and trying to look like I-don’t-know-probably-there-aren’t. Continue reading
Last summer I went to Finland with my family and I’m going to write a few posts about that trip. I decided not to put it in daily order. I’ll start with sauna…
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We went to bed early and so we got up. I chose to make a 6 hour trip on Hardangervidda on foot but before that we had to drive about 45km to the starting point – Bjoreidalshytta. The plateau is impressive – it’s not completely flat, of course, there are hills here and there – but it’s so large, so much open space and Hardangerjokullen glacier visible to the north like a great, sleepy spectator or guardian. Continue reading
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Everything I love one can find in mountains. My opponent at Słupsk Scrabble Tournament had this on his T-shirt and I’m considering buying one for me. The road to Spiterstulen is paid 50NOK but driving it offers you unforgettable sights. At first there are these small (and even bigger ones) trees, some stones and little streams so it looks like a land from a fairytale. We have to stop two times because of cows crossing the road. At quarter to ten we set off for Galdhøpiggen… Continue reading
Being quite busy because of MIT application process and preparing to my final exams I had to give up blogging for a moment. Now I am back on-line, I have been doing a couple of interesting things worth describing, so the blog starts living again!
I was wondering what to do with my Goals since I wasn’t able to focus on them during my “break”. I will post on changes later.
Let’s start with the easiest. I even convinced my father to go! Women from blood-giving point were very nice to us, happy that we came not for any profit (except those 8 delicious bars of chocolate!). I donated 450ml – that’s usual amount – and I really felt I did something good to the world.
I think it was unusual day as there was seven of us – donators. Four soldiers (they have a week off when they give blood), an older man and us. I felt no pain, no weakness, I’m sure that I’ll do that regularly.