Yesterday-morning (Saturday 6.3.2010) the Myllysilta bridge crossing Aurajoki in Turku started to crumble. Didn't have time or inspiration then to go look but since the weather was good we went for walk with Riikka and took some photos. Go over to Flickr for geotags and snarky commentary:
Kind of sad to see that there hasn't been that much discussion about Myllysilta on twitter and other social media and even photographs were far and few between yesterday. New pictures are flowing in now though, like the below video by my friend Thomas, but citizen journalism in Turku needs a wake-up call I think :).
Once again I have been out traveling around Finland. My grandmother is too old to travel so we had to come to her in Rovaniemi. Ended up traveling almost 2000 km's for Christmas:
I spent the Christmas with my own closest family, my grandmother and my brothers wife and her parents. Christmas is more of personal time when we put away our cameras but during the travels I took a bunch of pictures with my Nokia N900. Being online via 3G all (most) of the time meant I uploaded the pictures in real time and using Flickr's geotag-support could show where I was going. Friends on Twitter and Facebook in turn could comment (and make fun) of the travels. Here are the results, click on over to Flickr for the full on geotagged and mapped experience.
Its my grandfather's "puukko" or actually "lapinleuku". It has been polished and sharpened at the Marttini factory so its ready for another lifetime of use. The lapinleuku is, as you can see, a large finnish knife but also an important tool in the North. As a child I sat in the car as my grandfather put a reindeer, injured in a car-crash (not ours, we stopped to help), down with this knife or a knife like it. It, and other knives like it (which my brother and sister got), have been his trusted companions in the wild when fishing and hunting in his beloved Lapland.
Finally getting around to post this, I spent a long first weekend of december in Oslo, Norway, visiting one of my very best friends. The weather wasn't the best but the trip was awesome nonetheless because it was more social in nature and I've seen Oslo before in a better light.
Here are some pictures taken during the trip, click to go to my flickr-page where I have described the pictures more in detail and commented on the stuff: Pictures from a previous and much more sunny visit are also on flickr, here:
