Meeting points

Oulu, Wien, Bratislava. And a twist. 
All once or twice (or a lot!) seen with memorable experience. 
Because of the people, they all claimed a new tour.

Switzerland came to Oulu
Oh cool, Switzerland was nearer than never before! A very good friend of mine from my past Swiss-time works for  Polar in Oulu. We didn't do anything special, but everything will be special with a good friend. We either hadn't that much time, but jehei, the weather was on our side and the light is maybe the best thing in northern coutries right now, so it kind of gave us extra hours. And not to forget, special thanks once again to my night host for familiar bed.

Trees make the roof for us. Vienna

Wien. Wein? Wine!
Two hungry girls from Finland are here for some food. The only wine we actually "drank" here, was just rice boiled in white wine. The titel was just so catchy, hehee. Jep, from Oulu to Vienna. And now I had my regular travel mate, SpongeBob, with me and we were visiting our most kind friend Sissi and her amazing family.

Two years ago we saw Vienna for the first time, but then and even now, there is still a lot to explore. This time we spent our time in forests, eating Sushi and local desserts, and visiting the fun park Prater. This thursday was a catholic holy day Fronleichnam (celebrated just in Austria) and that evening the city offered an open-air concert on back yard of the castle Schönbrunn. Nice. 60 000 people, and no loudspeakers. Well, picknic and atmospheare were the point.

Bratislava old town

Bratislover
After 2 nights to the dark side? Once passing by Bratislava, we "saw" the city for 4 hours and felt a bit sorry for our friend, let's name her Kenwood, who was moving there. Luckily, we were so wrong, 'cause Bratislava isn't the dark side but we became bratislovers.

The Ristikäsi travel section was completed with FolkeWest (not the real one, but our friend) and was ready for new experiences followed by Kenwoods man Mr. Bald (he is not bald, his last name just refers to that). Our trips only took us to old times: middle age festivals on the yard of castle Rotenstein. Nice one with horse shows, costumes, knights and food. And to the old city of Bratislava, which was cosy and lively. So good to be in Europe! We followed the food (and drink) theme to the food festivals at the very end of my visit. And what was same as ever, was the heat on our trips and our sense of humour (the best thing!!).

Future interfering?
And the twist. I applied a priest job before we took off and got the infomation on the road, that I was invited to the interview! The challenge was then to be in 2 countries on the same day. My life seems never getting boring. New plan, new flight tickets back to Finland one day before our holiday end. I think the interview went well and afterwards back to the airport to get my things, which where in the luggage of SpongeBob. And of course, have to keep the extreme on and travel back home through the light night. I just moved to a new nice flat (5th address in Jyväskylä within a year), but for how long?

Tuomiojärvenranta, Jyväskylä

Edit: I got that job!! = God interfering, jee!

Extra: learning new words througout the week

Jucken. A german word for itching (mosquitos!)

Kampi. A finnish word for crank, which is a part of a bike.

Rävö. A finnish word for bungler or duffer. I think it is just used in particular families.

Org/arg/oarg. A german word to describe that someone is negatively way incredible.

Botel. A hotel in a boat.

Pozor! A slovak word for watch out!

Páska. A slovak word for tape (like Scotch).