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Fri, 15 Jul 2016 day 02 in scandinavia, finland (0 comments)
today we slept long, then got up and had breakfast from a k-supermarket. we were searching for a cafe or the like, but could not find one for quite a while. the streets were empty, and no cafe spotted. so we decided to try the supermarket.
once we were finished and left the store, turned around the corner the street was full of life again with lots of cafes, and a street festival[03-07] (or something like that). grrrr... if only we had known or had taken that one more turn. oh well...
actually the street festival looked more like a mixture of health, fitness, age, provisions against aging, awareness raising topics.
then we met with nina's parents and drove to "cupori", the company robert is currently super visioning. there we got a private tour through the premises and the factory buildings. we did not take our cameras with us and took no pictures for the sake of trade secrets. the tour was pretty long and very interesting, showing how copper pipes of different diameters, thickness, and lengths were produced. unfortunately all the workers were already gone, so there was no machine noise, but also not much to see in action.
then it was time for the pori jazz festival. again we did not bring our cameras, so only mobile photos are available. first artist was joss stone[08-10], then richard ashcroft[14-15] (yes, the "verve"-guy), and ms. lauryn hill[18], who seemed pretty grumpy and not in a good mood.
since it was raining[12,17] all the time since we arrived at the festival area, we were pretty soaked and cold after hours standing around. nina's parents had access to the vip area, but nina and i had to get a warm place somewhere else during the performances. a big can of bear beer[11] ("karhu" means bear) was not exactly helping to get warmer, but it was good (and also - as one would expect from scandinavia - very expensive).
but besides rain and a grumpy lauryn hill the mood atmosphere was all friendly and shiny happy.
after a short stroll through town, where we found various other little concerts in front of pubs apart from the main festival, we arrived at our airbnb accommodation again. today the weather was about 20°C again, but with lots of rain, especially in the afternoon and evening when we attended the festival.
track for day 02.
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