Showing posts with label matka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matka. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Moments in time - Gdansk - Warsaw - Krakow - Auschwitz

wooden crane
Gdansk - wooden crane
As I promised I share now few moments in Poland with you. There were differend feelings during our days in Poland. Beautiful old buildings - or lookalikes like in Warsaw. Warm people - great friends. Unbelievable heat. Coolness of big park in the heart of the capital city. Wonderful coffee moment in cosy street. Sound of beautiful music from synagoga. Wonderful bookshop. Movement of wings of butterfly in silence and in warmth of the sun. Such a big experience as country itself. Are you ready? There's plenty to see.

wood carving
Gdansk - at Pikawa cafe - wood carving

house
Gdansk - beautiful buldings

Warsaw
Warsaw - center of old town

old town
Warsaw - old town

new buildings
Warsaw - tall buildings


Warsaw - park

bird _ peacock
pretty guy
Kuten lupailin tässä muutama ruutu tai useampikin tämän kesän Puolan matkaltamme. Ison maan vieraana koimme elämyksiä - pieniä ja suuria. Kolme erilaista kaupunkia. Tulen muistamaan tämän matkan kyllä. Samalla toivon, että mahdollisimman moni - jonain aikana ja jonain päivänä - antaisivat pienen hetken elämästään niille miljoonille, joiden elämä pirstaloitui tai päättyi käsittämättömän ja äärettömän vihan uhreina. Puola oli mielenkiintoinen matkakohde.Varsova jäi kaikkein vähäisimmälle huomiolle - on siis kenties syy miksi palata ja kantapää oppimäärän perusteella voisi todeta, että perussanastoakin voisi ensi kerraksi harjoitella. 


krakow church
Krakow - in the heart of the city
krakow
Krakow - at ulica sw. tomasza - wonderful cafes and restaurants
Krakow - it is cafe camelot - we sat in the window
It's funny in Krakow - you can walk streets without noticing that there's plenty of cool and interesting places and things in the corridors and inner wards. Be brave and get there. I found galleries, interesting shops like Lulu, bars and much more.


Krakow - camelot's neighbor - concept store lulu
Krakow - Calik gallery - my x-mas tree got one peguin

Krakow - kazimierz - jewish town
Krakow - charming
Krakow - font love
Krakow - foodie goes charoset
Krakow - so precise
Krakow - we are art with diana arbus
Sometimes it is hard to understand why we the mankind learn so slowly the good things but the bad things need to grow only one second. 

Poland
butterfly in auschwitz
Book to read: Night by Elie Wiesel - I read it in a train from Krakow to Berlin. And you know I'm not a good reader at all. But I couldn't stop reading.
 

Monday, April 9, 2012

Pääsiäismatka - Easter road trip


This is a photographic essay of our Easter road trip to see our moms in Western Finland. We found lovely grove and rapid and I found out that my mom's orange tree is 47 years old and that it has grown from fruit seed which was bought at a grocery store in 1965. I was amazed. I knew it was quite old but 47 years that was surprise. Spring in Finland is just beginning. We have harsh light and it reveals everything which has been sleeping under the snow.


Tämä on kuvaessee matkasta äideille pääsiäisenä. Kevään kova valo paljastaa lumen alla nukkuneen luonnon, joka on heräilemässä uuteen kasvukauteen. Äideillä on hauskoja harrastuksia. Toinen keräilee kiviä ja toinen maalailee posliinia. Ja itselleni yllätyksenä tuli, koska olin täysin unohtanut, että äitini olohuoneessa kasvava appelsiinipuu on 47 vuotta vanha. Se on kasvanut vuonna 1965 kaupasta ostetun appelsiinin siemenestä. Hullunkurista. Todellakaan en voisi kuvitella, että nykypäivän kaupan hedelmien siemenistä kasvaisi yhtään mitään. Ja aika hurjan hieno onnistumisen tunne on äidilläni ollut, kun on saanut siemenen kasvamaan. Puhuimme, että ensi kerralla voisin ottaa oksan puusta ja yrittää kasvattaa siitä uutta puuta. Voi olla mahdotonta mutta voihan sitä aina kokeilla!


Willow in the sun




























Snack





























Run-down old gas station. Or it was before big chain of stations.



Pines and the blue sky with sweet clouds.






Run-down house next to the road. I wonder what kind of history it has.





Pheasant's feather at mom. She also collects stones.






























Old-fashioned lace in a window at mom.





Barn in the middle of field. In Finland you can see a lot of barns 
when you are driving through the countryside.
































Barn close-up





Coltsfoot - first spring flower





























Someone's road to home





























Red is the color of the countryside






























My love and power lines































Our destination -  Mommola rapids





























There was a grove next to rapid. Beautiful.




Mom walking with her green colors




Mommola rapid





























On the way back mom's place -reflection of us and the road





























Mom's hobby - porcelain painting. Rose vase and below there is the table cloth made 
by mom's auntie. Crafts run in our veins. 




Orange tree. My mom has grown it from an orange seed bought at a grocery store.
It's very old tree because the year when the orange was bought from grocery 
store was 1965. So orange tree has been in my mom's living room 47 years.
It has lot of  thorns - oranges are safe.




On the way back home































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