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Archive for April, 2007

Through Estonia

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Posted: 27.04.2007 @ 16:10 in Life, Traveling | No Comments »

We traveled through Latvia and Estonia last night. At the Latvian and Estonian border we had to get out of the bus and all our belongings were searched. We heard that some people had been turned back from the border. After arriving to Tallin we began to see what was the situation. Our guess about [...]

Labor Day

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Posted: 24.04.2007 @ 21:05 in Life, Traveling | No Comments »

We are going to Finland for Labor Day. On Thursday at 18.00 we hop to the bus taking us to Tallin. From there ferry takes as to Helsinki which we try to pass as fast as possible. After nice train trip we arrive to Oulu in the afternoon. All the way from Vilnius we shall [...]

Byrocrazy

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Posted: 16.04.2007 @ 20:32 in Life, Lithuania | 3 Comments »

Tänään oli mukava päivä. Aurinko paistoi ja lämmintä oli parhaimmillaan 19 astetta. Vielä ei kuitenkaan osannut lähteä tarpeeksi vähissä vaatteissa matkaan joten hikihän siinä kaupungilla kävellessä tuli. Hiki tuli myös päivän “askareita” suorittaessa. Tarkoitusenani oli kiiruhtaa aamulla aikaisin pankin kautta maahanmuuttovirastoon, jättää paperit virkailijalle, piipahtaa keskustaan ostamaan bussiliput Tallinaan ja ehtiä vielä kotiin syömään ennen [...]

Trakai

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Posted: 14.04.2007 @ 12:00 in Life, Lithuania, Traveling | No Comments »

We went for a walk, dinner and coffee to Trakai. (In the picture it’s our friend’s child, not ours )

Easter

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Posted: 10.04.2007 @ 12:00 in Lithuania, Traveling | No Comments »

For Easter we got visitors from Sulkava. We rented a car and headed towards sunny(?) Baltic Sea. How did everything turn out? Sunday We spent the first night about 50 km from the coast at farmstead. We woke up to go the Easter morning service to small church in tiny Zlibinai. Long waited (at least [...]

Easter decoration

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Posted: 05.04.2007 @ 12:00 in Life, Lithuania | No Comments »

I made some finnish-style easter decorations. Our polish friends had painted eggs for us and I took a picture of them with the Prison Break-birds and salt and pepper lambs.