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white, green and red…

  Renovation started today. Our bedroom and my room are empty and waiting for the big change. 🙂 Even if our whole weekend was mainly moving our stuff we had time to have long Nordic walks in fresh air!   WHITE Poor Wood anemones were freezing yesterday, it was windy and not very warm…  

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a weekend full of work and fun…

  This Easter weekend was warm and sunny here in Helsinki! We had time to remove more wallpapers and Nordic walk in fresh air!     It was hard work to remove this wallpaper…old paper and glue, argh. But it’s almost done!                       We had

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did you know this about the Atlantic Ocean…

    The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world’s five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean). The Kiel Canal (Germany), Oresund (Denmark-Sweden), Bosporus (Turkey), Strait of Gibraltar (Morocco-Spain), and the Saint Lawrence Seaway (Canada-US) are important strategic access waterways. The decision by

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let it snow, let it snow…

We’re getting more and more snow in Finland! 21.11.2010     21.11.2011     21.11.2010 at 11:30 am     21.11.2010 at 11:30 am     21.11.2010 at 11:30 am     Ruttopuisto / Plague Park, Helsinki, Finland 23.11.2010 at 3:38 pm         Katja Öhrnberg and the same park 1.9.2009   Paula

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photos of the weekend #24

Summer in Helsinki, Finland Just about landing to Helsinki airport.. 20 people before me – buying a travel card… Parliament of Finland (shot from a moving bus) Helsinki is surrounded by sea… New beginning…

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The Gulf of Finland…

…is beautiful!Here’s a link you can see what’s the weather like right now. If you sail straight ahead you’ll end up till Estonia. Here you can read more about Gulf of Finland in Wikipedia. Today I’ve been shopping salami, bacon,brown filter bags (200/packet) for our coffee maker(in Casa I found only Melitta bags, white, only 40/packet

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greetings from Helsinki, Finland!

Hi everyone!It’s really beautiful here right now – fresh, summer green everywhere, nights are bright and people are happy!Here’re a couple of pictures – too busy to post more now. I have to go shopping and then have lunch to my mom’s, yummy – I don’t have to cook! and later I meet a friend…

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Al Azhar Park Cairo, Egypt

Citadel Tour Egypt:  “The creation of the 30 hectare (74 acre) Al-Azhar Park on Al-Darassa, by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, came when his highness the Aga Khan decided to donate a park to the citizens of  Cairo in 1984, out of the Islamic belief that we are all trustees of God’s creation and therefore must

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