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    • Vintage Ismet heater
  • Dried Herbs
    • Nettle leaves
    • Fireweed flowers
    • Fireweed leaves
    • Meadowsweet flowers
    • Meadowsweet leaves
    • Raspberry leaves
    • Milfoil powder
  • Jam and honey
    • Lingonberry jam
    • Chokeberry jam
    • Chokeberry-Blueberry Jam
    • Blueberry Jam
    • Blueberry Jelly
    • Funnel Chanterelle Jam
    • Nettlehoney
    • Chaga and Honey Mixture
    • Milfoil Honey
  • Mushrooms
    • Puhtipakuri Chaga Powder
    • Porcini Groats
    • Funnel Chanterelles
    • Sheep Polypore Groats
    • Funnel Chanterelle jam
    • Red Cep Groats
    • Hygrophorus Camarophyllus Groats

Hobbyhorsing in Helsinki

1/3/2024

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Helsinki is a good place for riding!

Our friends from Colorado spent 2 hours with us, enjoying and getting a lot of laughter from the people that saw us. 

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They wrote to us:
Hi Timo,

As I suspected but can now confirm, our hobby horse tour with you and Olga was our favorite activity in Finland! We are on our last night in Helsinki and you win the gold medal! 

Thank you and Olga both for an absolutely wonderful time trotting and talking and learning about Finland. We wish you all the very best and again, thank you!

Hugs,
Heather and Tommy

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Christmas event in nuuksio

3/12/2023

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In northern part of Nuuksio National Forest is a cozy small cabin "The Northern Village of Nuuksio - Nuuksion Pohjoinen Pirtti". During first week of december we had a traditional day of christmas stuff sales, sledge-riding and good food.
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Santa and mama Santa had a horse-pulled sledge tour - this is a real finnish tradition!
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Santa and mama Santa found one of the best male singers, mr. Jari Sillanpää visiting Nuuksio Northern Village.
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Mushroom picking in sipoo

7/11/2023

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Rather near Helsinki we have the National Forest of Sipoonkorpi, In late autumn there grows a lot of delicious Funnell Chanterel mushrooms.
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Funnell Chanterel mushrooms
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Funnell Chanterel mushrooms grow often in the moss
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After picking up some mushrooms, we had also Real Finnish Forest Food: Sausages!
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Church of kallio helsinki

23/10/2023

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We had a rare opportunity to climb up to the tower of Kallio Church in Helsinki
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Stairs up to the tower
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Round hole above the altar
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The same hole from above
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This is how it looks like above the internal roof of the church
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The church bells are operated with this drum timing machine. Bells play Jean Sibelius tune "A Choral Collection, Vol 2" 2 times a day.
Sibelius tune
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Mushrooms from sipoo forest

22/9/2023

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Rule number one: get to know the poisonous mushrooms
Rule number two: Pick only mushrooms you know
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These mushrooms grow rather late in the autumn, until they freeze and crack
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Hmmm... mushrooms
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Hobby-horsing in Helsinki

16/9/2023

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jillian Stewart from Australia riding a hobby horse in Helsinki
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If you don't try, you'll never know how ridiculously fun this riding is...
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GHOST CASTLE OF RÖYKKÄ

24/8/2023

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In Nurmijärvi southern Finland we found an old hospital building named Röykkä.
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This old hospital has served as pulmonary sanatorium but the previous owner town of Helsinki has wanted to ret rid of it. Look how beautiful architecture it has! 
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This building has been used as the home of the hospital doctor. Desigh by Helen Schjerfbeck's brother Magnus Schjerfbeck!
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We have heard rumours that in this tower wanders an old white-drobed ghost lady, searching for something that we do not know
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This old hospital building is located beside chrystal clear water lake
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Portugal and spain lighthouses

2/7/2023

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Finland's Lighthouse Society members planned to have a 2 weeks tour into the Atlantic coastline of Portugal and Spain.
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In Lisbon, Portugal they have a tram which can climb up the hills by tilting the cabin
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Tram service had an accident and we had to take a Tuk-Tuk to see some sights of Lissabon - driver droved like he lived there...
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Portuguese Bögö
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Portugal is a sea-farer country. They have built a lot of lighthouses on the coastline, here is the first we saw, the Santa Marta Lighthouse.
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Atlantic cost has completely different kind of flora than in Finland
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Lighthouse lamps
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Vigo harbour in Spain
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Vigo airport car rent office gave us a car that had scratches in the sides. Take always photos of the car when you receive it!
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After leaving Vigo, it was time to have some lunch in Santiago de Compostella
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Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
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The organs of Santiago de Compostella Cathedral had "Spanish horns"
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We wanted to log the geocache in the church wall, but this older man was muggling around. Finally I just took the container and logged the cache...
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This is the place whre the Santiago de Compostela walkers are ending their walk: FinisTerra beside the sea shore
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One German geocacher was found
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Icecream time!
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In Spain we saw food storage constructions standing on legs and stone plates
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Next lighthouse...
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Nice sunset
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Seawater farm for oysters or other mollusks
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Sea Fennel (merifenkoli, Crithmum)
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The oldest lighthouse in Spain was built by the Romans a couple thousand years ago
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Kaija and Arja at the Hercule park
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European Pea (Ulex europaeus), Euroopanpiikkiherne
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Here should be a geocache? Pretty hot to walk down and up
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Oh Yes!
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This site had also been a military cannon bunker
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And then, back to the basics!
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Many kind of seafood available
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 LOS CUBOS DE LA MEMORIA DE LLANES
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Kiiltokielopuu 
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Roof paintings in a cave
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Modern way of lighting a candle: place the donation and the candle will spread the light!
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Jesus Christ!
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One hour of walking down and 2 hours back...
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Canfranc railway station converted to a hotel
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Malesian group in nuuksio

23/6/2023

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I was lucky enough to be the gude for one Malesian traveller group in Helsinki.
​They wanted to go to Nuuksio, but as it was midsummer, I had to tell them that all services, including the restaurant in Haltia would be closed. So I proposed them that we go to Salmi area.

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Our bus driver was a member of Etelälahti caravan area club, so we drove there and had a nice walk in the Northern Nuuksio park.
Language education
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Team leader in Pikku-Parikas lake
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Summer tour to tallinn

18/6/2023

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Summer 2023 had better travelling opportunities and gave also more guided tour opportunities after the Covid 19 pandemic.
We had travelers from several areas of USA, and mostly often the weather was also brilliant.
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Old houses in Tallinn's evening
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Medieval old town walls and guarding towers
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Town wal gate beside "Fat Margaret"-tower
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During the soviet occupation many Estonians were arrested by the soviet secret police KGB and disappeared. Tallinn has a special museum to remind people of the russian way of security
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During one tour to Tallinn we were lucky to meet local old church Pyha Vaimu (Holy Ghost / Spirit) priest and also one of the bishops from Finland, mr. Matti Repo (brother of the author, by the way...)
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There is always room for a good beefsteak!
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Kruunuhaka tour in helsinki

5/6/2023

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Russian emperor Aleksander 1st has incorrectly been marked here to 100 years wrong year - writer is a Helsinki Guide...
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Oikokatu in Kruununhaka area
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I have seen the writing on the wall
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This Jugend style house in Helsinki was a site where secret jaegers were collected and guided to Germany to get military education
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Maurinkatu 4 street gate has a nice story - the name of the building is not Suomela!
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hms albion visiting helsinki

23/5/2023

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Hms Albion is a British ship supporting groups to land
Drummers performing on deck
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Equipment required to let the troops to land
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Vessel is equipped with self defencing barrel gun
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Please do not use Google translator. In stead of that, British Dictionary can help...
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original people in helsinki

15/5/2023

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Sometimes people say that we Finns are silent and somehow uneasy to get near. Of course we do have some, but most of us are very interesting persons...
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During the negotiations in Säätytalo, Helsinki, regarding fossil fuel use, we met mr. Tulipää (Firehead) - an exentric artist fighting against coal usage.
Artist Firehead - who is he?
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In Helsinki Arja met another interesting artist, Mr Markku "the Pig" Puustinen, that has created voice-producing art in Helsinki. 
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Waste water treatment in helsinki

3/5/2023

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We had an opportunity to visit the waste water treatment facility in Viikki, Helsinki.
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Waste water treatment process starts with sand and big particles removal 
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Some examples of the stuff people have flushed down the sewers
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Good example of the "not-belonging" stuff is butt-plugs...
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Mechanical grids are picking up unwanted things from the waste water
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Primary sedimentation and thickening
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All of the process is done underground
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Oxygen is added to the process so the bacteria can eat the waste
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Final cleaning is done with bacteria before the cleaned water is pumped to sea
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jautlandia at pielavesi

29/4/2023

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In center of Finland exists a special area for geocachers: Jautlandia. It is developed by mr. Jauhiainen, that builds wild geocaches with figures and technology. "None shall pass!"
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Some gems of Jautlandia include a nice grassmoving unit
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Mr. Jauhiainen himself beside his solar panel system
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Ari's solar panel system can be rotated to follow the sun and also tilted to get the maximum light
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Suomenlinna guide educ tour

18/4/2023

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Ferry to Suomenlinna
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Suomenlinna smaller dry dock
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Suomenlinna guides at the dry dock gate
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Suomenlinna dry dock gate is filled with water to keep it in place
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Suomenlinna bigger dry dock had some smaller boats still in
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Suomenlinna has a repair place for old wooden ships
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Old lighthouse ship is waiting to get repaired
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Suomenlinna's Rantakasarmi gate
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Suomenlinna's high walls have also an eagle-owl having her nest
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Tour  with a birthday supprise

11/4/2023

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We had a Helsinki tour to a family.
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Tour includes often a stop beside the cafe Regatta
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We had a stop at the Senate Square also
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Birthday supprise
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New water heater to gustafsvärn in hanko

2/4/2023

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Gustafsvärn is a lighthouse island in front of Hanko town. The sauna on that island required a new water boiling kettle, and that kind of thing was found at Helsinki fair centre.
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Teuva water boiler
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At the harbour of Hanko we loaded the new table and the water boiler into the boat going to Gustavsvärn island
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Water boiler in the boat
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And then off we go
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The new water boiler will be placed near the sauna
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After we got back to Hanko town, we visited the most southern point of Finland, the Hanko peninsula. During and after the second world war, this area used to be a prison. Now the building "might need some little repairs"
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It's rather long walk to the southernmost point, so rest is needed
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The southernmost point of Finland is a route for the migrating birds to come and leave. Part of the peninsula is thus restricted to only birdwatchers from the university
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Hanko area has many old air defence gun sites
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Tour to kemi town

22/10/2022

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We had rented a nice cabin at Viitasaari, near Huopanankoski.
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The nearest neighbours were on decent distance
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The lake view was beautiful, although the water was so cold in October that no swimming was even thought of
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But then, in the kitchen: what is this? Black rice?
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Wanna have some coffee?
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Town of Tornio has a nice salmon statue on the riverbank. This river is completely open, so salmon can migrate up to the little brooks 
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This statue is made of Tornio's stainless steel
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Tour to riga in latvia

4/10/2022

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Restored clock dating to 1924, serving as local landmark & popular meeting spot.
​Good starting point for geocaching in the town.

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Meeting local geocachers in the center of Riga
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In the center park of Riga they have a statue that has nearly as good figures as Havis Amanda in Helsinki
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We had an opportunity to visit a high tower based bar in the center of Riga
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View to the center of Riga
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Not Rin-Tin-Tin, in stead of that here is Mr Poo-Tin-Tin
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Slava Ukraini!
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Riga is known as a great example of Jugend-style (Art Nouveau) houses
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Jugend-style statue in front of the building
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Jugend-style house
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Jugend-style water closet
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Jugend-style vegetable slicer
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Jugend-style soup
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Jugend-style older house in Jurmala village
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Jugend-style Onyx
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Jurmala beach
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Old train from Riga to Jurmala: a noisy, banging and mourning type of steel box
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Riga has frienship with Bremen
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  • Guide helping products
  • Blog
  • Guided Tours
    • Culture tours in Järvenpää and Tuusula
    • Happiness with a Hobbyhorse - tour
    • Private tour to Porvoo and Helsinki
    • Private tour to Porvoo
    • Private tour to Tallinn
    • Private tour in Helsinki
    • Tour to Vallisaari and Kuninkaansaari
    • Private tour in Suomenlinna
    • Private tour to Hyvinkää Sveitsi Wilderness
    • Private picnic tour to Suomenlinna
    • Sipoonkorpi National Park
    • Hike in Northern Nuuksio National Park
    • Private walking tour to Suomenlinna
    • Day tour to Porkkala Taiga Forest by the sea
    • Winter and summer trekking tours
    • Tuusula Kellokoski Iron Works Tour
    • Tuusula Military History Tour
    • Culture tours
    • Heritage Sauna Services
    • Santa Claus visit
    • Private tour to Loviisa
    • Canoetour in Nuuksio lake Salmi
    • Fatbiking in Nuuksio
    • Dragonboat tour
    • Geocaching education
  • Products
  • Retro items for sale
    • Nokia Mobira Talkman NMT phone
    • Midi keyboard Evolution MK-249-C2
    • Mackie DFX-12
    • linguaphone English to Finnish course
    • Home Networking cabinet
    • Vintage Ismet heater
  • Dried Herbs
    • Nettle leaves
    • Fireweed flowers
    • Fireweed leaves
    • Meadowsweet flowers
    • Meadowsweet leaves
    • Raspberry leaves
    • Milfoil powder
  • Jam and honey
    • Lingonberry jam
    • Chokeberry jam
    • Chokeberry-Blueberry Jam
    • Blueberry Jam
    • Blueberry Jelly
    • Funnel Chanterelle Jam
    • Nettlehoney
    • Chaga and Honey Mixture
    • Milfoil Honey
  • Mushrooms
    • Puhtipakuri Chaga Powder
    • Porcini Groats
    • Funnel Chanterelles
    • Sheep Polypore Groats
    • Funnel Chanterelle jam
    • Red Cep Groats
    • Hygrophorus Camarophyllus Groats