Saturday, October 25, 2014

First and second day in oslo

Yesterday I left Helsinki at 7.15 and was after a quick 1 h 30 min in Oslo gardermoen airport.
   The flight went really well and I was exited to meet my host befor meeting up with my friend Yuka who was coming with a later flight from Bodö.
   My host lives in Skullerud, about fifteen minutes from the central railway-station by subway.
Jan, my host, was kind enough to agree to host us for the whole duration of our stay, even tough he is away from Friday to Sunday.
   I got the keys and went back to the railway station to meet up with Yuka.
I think think that the people are really kind here and I feel relieved that I can get by with Swedish though they do speak excellent English as well.

   It was a bit glum on the first day because of the light rain but we went around a bit to see the Domkirke church a short walk from the station.
   We didn't really do much that day except for catching up with each other in Starbucks.
Today we had a chance of seeing more of the beautiful city. We went around the city on foot so we could see more of the city. We went to the national museum for art but decided not to enter today since it is apparently free of charge during Sundays, so if you ever travel to Oslo on a budget then that is one good place to go!

We walked through the spikersuppa park near the national theater  and walked to see the City hall (Oslo Rådhus). It has some artwork frescos/wooden artwork on its walls on the outside. There is also a very particularly cool big clock. We walked to the port from there and went to see the Akerhus festning (Akerhus fort). Oslo is very scenic and beautiful during fall. The trees had nice color and the weather was gentle and sunny today. A perfect day for a walk and sight seeing.

From there we went to see the Opera house which is an absolutely stunning piece of architecture!
   Oslo is a very convenient city to traverse on foot or by means of public transport and it really feels like a kind and open city.

Later on we retired to our hosts apartment to eat and tomorrow we will go to the park with the famous stone sculptures and stone sculpture pillar. Also we will go to the national museum for art and the rest we will decide tomorrow.

Cheers
Robert






Monday, October 6, 2014

Going to Oslo ->

Hi guys, long time no blog.
So I have confirmed my next location and it will be the scenic and beautiful country of Norway, which will be my first time visiting there despite it being a neighboring country to Finland.
The span of my stay will be 5 days 4 nights and I will be staying in Oslo.
   I am securing a place for me and my friend Yuka from the Couch-surfing community and I am really looking forward to this trip.
   I hope that the weather is permitting and that we have clear skies during our stay!

Stay tuned for my upcoming posts on blogger and Youtube!
Cheers!
Robert

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

TravelersPOV moves from Helsinki to Vaasa!

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So the time has finally come that I have to take and move out from beautiful Helsinki to the lush and vibrant city of Vaasa.

I will start my studies there and will be checking out the places there for you guys!


Cheers
Rob

Monday, May 19, 2014

Summers starting in Finland soon

Summer is soon upon us and that means some traveling inside my own country.
Now for me this is not something I have usually blogged about but since I want to bring out some cool things about my lovely quaint little country, I will do my utmost in order to do some justice to Finland.

The trees and grass are looking fine and green already and today we had 27 °C as the max. temp. in the country. So we are indeed moving towards summer Y'all !

Also I might be uploading soon some new Youtube videos so go and check out my channel : TravelersPOV!


Cheers
Robert

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Long time no Blog !

Hi'ya peeps !

So I have a question that I would like YOU to answer. . .
Should I start V-logging and blogging about my country, Finland?
You can leave a comment telling me what you think or comment my video on Youtube.

The main thing is that I get some response ! ;)
youtube vid

Cheers !
Robert

Friday, January 3, 2014

Tons of fun at Madame Tussauds

So today we went finally to Madame Tussauds! 

Me, Molla and Martti woke up 11-ish in the morning and had a small breakfast before we were off. We had booked the tickets to Madame Tussauds online the night before for 27£. This was a wise choice since upon arriving we found a monstrous queue in front of the place, but since we had already bought our ticket we got into a special, much faster, queue. 
    We burnt a good 3 hours inside Tussauds and took SO MANY PHOTOS. It was loads of fun!
There were dolls of Jim Carrey, Brad Pitt, J-Lo, Michael Jackson, Johnny Depp, Queen Elizabeth etc. 

We were feeling a bit peckish afterwards, so we went to meet up with our two other friends to go to grab a bite together. 
   We went to a mall to eat at a restaurant called Nandos (Great place specialicing in Chicken dishes).  It is so frigging good! 
   Afters doing some more shopping we retired back home.


Thank for reading!
Cheers 
Robert   

Thursday, January 2, 2014

New years eve and day in London



So Yesterday  didn't quite go as planed. It was then when we were supposed to go to Buckingham Palace, London tower etc. but the women folk took their sweet time at Victoria's secret and other similar shops that we decided that we would not have time to go to any of our planed places so we skipped them and went to eat and shop for some groceries for the party.
   We then headed back to the apartment where me and my friend Leo made some delicious burgers and roast potatoes for the whole gang. The evening continued with more eating and drinking and lastly we went up to the rooftop to watch the Fireworks.

The Buckingham Palace 
The next day we woke up to FINALLY go to see Buckingham Palace, the Big Ben, the winter wonderland etc.
We walked around so much and had a GREAT time, with the little exception of China town where we went into a cafe and there was so many people hugging space so that we had to sit in a cluster.
"Our friends are soon here" was heard a lot. Honest to God I felt like I would loose it there.

The Buckingham Palace must be a lot better at 11 a.m. when they are doing the change of the guards, because when we were there it was already long in to the day and it didn't feel so special.
   The Big Ben on the other hand WAS worth going to. They even happened to be having a parade that we had time to catch a glimpse of.
   From there we went to London Eye and China town before eating and heading out to the Winter wonderland.

They were truly two successful days !

Cheers!
Robert