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    Tour to kemi town

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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

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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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    Survival games at Kuusijärvi

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    Survival games do include first aid rehearsals
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    First aid rehearsals: prepare for a support for a broken bone
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    I really would like to see him walking with that packet
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    Survival against the weather conditions: build a rain and wind shelter
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    Shelter ready!
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    Tour to western estonia

    We were curious on finding out what kind of lighthouses are on the western coastline of Estonia. So we boarded us to a freight ship at Vuosaari in Finland and sailed to the Muuga harbour in Estonia.
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    Waiting for the car queue to get into the FinnLines ferry
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    Haapsalu town has an old bishop's castle
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    Old bishop's hat
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    Bishop's castle in Haapsalu town
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    Rather frightening illustration of the hell and the destiny of sinners
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    The coastline waters of Haapsalu are very shallow and on certain stormy winds from south the water level may rise several meters.
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    Keskmise teelehe (what? A Jahubanaan? Soikkoratamo)
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    Soikkoratamo plant lives here on wild
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    Murakas, a Blackberry or Karhunvatukka
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    It looks like a pizza but it is not. In local restaurant we had something for the night
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    ... and a terribly fat bulldog was begging under the restaurant table
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    Haapsalu used to be a spa city for CCCP tourists during the soviet occupation. Now all the trains in old railway station are rusting
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    Then it was the time to start ferry journey to Hiiumaa island from Rohukyla.
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    Estonian language sounds the same as Finnish... Älä viskaa roskia toilettipottaan
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    Long and narrow sandpeninsula Orjaku Saar
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    And finally we reached the end of the peninsula... I really thought about going for a swim
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    Kõpu Tuletorni - one of the oldest lighthouses in the Baltic
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    Ristna lighthouse
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    Old Soviet tower that was used for far-sighting to the Baltic Sea
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    Soviets were really afraid of being attacked by someone - Germany? Sweden?
    The same Peter the Great's coastal fortress can also be found in Helsinki: Krepost Sveaborg, Suomenlinna
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    Old Soviet abandoned military sites facing to the Baltic
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    Viinaköök, the moonshine spirit factory, nowadays a hostel owned by a Finn
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    Old Soviet nuclear powered lighthouse - hopefully the Beta-M radioisotope themoelectric generator (RTG) has been removed...
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    Tahkuna Tuletorn, another lighthouse lighting the Baltic
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    Tahkuna Tuletorn
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    Back to the mainland, Rohukyla Tooraku accomodation. We were the only visitors at that late autumn time
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    After leaving Rohukula, we spotted an old Soviet fighter plane military base
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    Beside the road to Tallinn, we saw also an old ruin of a manor house
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    Back in Tallinn, we visited art museum KuMu (KunstMuseum). A painting by Estonian artist Lembit Sarapuu
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    A painting by Estonian artist Lembit Sarapuu in Kumu museum
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    the greatest happiness is to grow up and learn at the neukkula school - yeah, right
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    Our happiness is guarded by neukkula army - oh shit, what a lie
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    Neukkula army - oh shit, what a lie
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    "We are on the side of peace and guard it" - oh shit, what a lie again
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    "The atom bomb is not a secret any more"
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    And the other side of the coin of the happiness - thousands of Estonian people were seized and tortured in soviet prisons, deported to Siberia without any possibility to get back home. This is the way of peace the russians are providing
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    A door in the Patarei prison
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    "Do not believe provocative things you hear and REVEAL the whisperers and gossipers!"
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    Mr H: "The scum of the earth, I believe" and mr S: "The bloody assassin of the workers I presium"
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    Unfortunately I am not able to read kyrillic...
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    Poster of Lev Trotsky, the creator of the Red Army, who repels the invasion of the Poles and opens the way for the revolution to spread to the West
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    "we will destroy the kulak as a class"
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    Siemens Action day 2022 at pohjoinen pirtti in nuuksio

    Siemens company personnel wanted to have something other type of activity than the normal canoeing on a lake. We proposed them "how about if your team builds an insect nest" - that sounded funny and different, so it was accepted.
    The activity was provided at Pohjoinen Pirtti in Nuuksio National Park.
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    "but I have never had a hammer in my hand!"
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    Insect nest parts had been ready-done, so it was easy to just bang them together
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    And these are some of the results!