after ladakh it was time for another new holiday experience. since nina was currently searching for a job, it was rather unpredictable when she will get her next job and thus her next holidays. then a rather spontaneous offer came along: a trip to finland and to the north cape with her parents, beate and robert, and us. that sounded like fun (and also interesting), so we opted in. robert is currently a lot in finland, mainly work related. to see a little more of finland he suggested this trip. also, nina's parents got tickets for the "pori jazz festival" from the company he is regularly visiting. soon a rough schedule was worked out, and thanks to nina planned out more in detail. turns out we will be with nina's parents for one week, then we bring them to the airport and spend another week on our own to explore a little further. so another holiday trip with a little more planning and fixed targets on our route; interesting and unusual. day 01 started very early for nina, beate and me, as we had to get to munich to get our plane to helsinki, departure at 06:00 o'clock in the morning - brrrr. robert was already in finland and would fetch us in pori from the train station. to get to pori we had to take the train, first one to tikurrila[01-02], then the second one to pori via lempäälä[03], tampere, and nokia[04] (yes, the company is named after this particular town). the train had wifi on board, but that's just what i expected in finland. after about four hours of riding trains we got of in pori where robert was already expecting us. another novelty was an airbnb accommodation. since the pori jazz festival seems to be the big event in this town it is always fully booked this one week of the year. we phoned our host and soon liisa arrived on a bicycle, gave us the key, showed us the room. we thanked her for her hospitality, left our luggage there, and went to the surrounding area[05-64] of the jazz festival, as the tickets were day tickets for tomorrow. then we tried some crispy fish[57-58] (we think it was deep fried sprats), with salmon, potatoes and vegetables. pretty good stuff, especially all the fish. so far pori is a lovely town, full of life and people. robert said, it is usually more of a ghost town once the jazz festival is over again. too sad, and currently hard to imagine. there are cafes, pub gardens, and outdoor activities everywhere. finish is still a strange language to me, even after the third time being here. although so far all my scandinavia trips touched finland was mainly for transit or visited because it was close by. but this time, the focus is mainly on finland. time to get this country a little better. the weather today was a warm 20°C and it was sunny all day long. track for day 01.