Day trip to the Kingdom

This is the first time in my life I've taken a day flight to Sweden and back. No matter work or tourist this city is always lovely! Tried to official ice cream Nobel price receivers get at the Noble museum and went to se Vasa again, already 3 years since last time. Fantastic sunny day.

So true! Lund, Helsinki, Espoo, Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Stockholm and Tokyo all feel like my homes and in most of them years spent! 

Founder of Stockholm Birger Jarl

Noble museum 

We had the same ice cream Noble prize winners get. Super good! 

Restaurant Blue Door 

Coolest candy shop in Old Town 

We want candy! 

View from Gondolen 

Vasa Museum 

Little Iron Boy by the Finnish church 

Big Square in Old Tow 

 German Church in Old Town 

By the bridge to Djurgården 

Inside the Royal Palace Church 

Pellinge - Island life

2 relaxing day out in the archipelago. No cars, no other people, just sound of few boats passing and wind breeze. This is what Nordic summer is all about!

Taking the car to the ferry and then our boat final 10 km 

Perfect! day we had 

Peeling potatoes have never been easier than with these gloves 

Feast! 

Second day: BBQ 

Blue!! 

5 am morning fishing 

After 33 summers spent here I managed to first time in my life go out to Klovharun. Klovharun is Tove Jansson's little island that has 1 house on it and it in the middle of the ocean. If the wind is strong it's a very difficult place to get to. Really cool though and worth going to ! This kind of place you will not find elsewhere and besides it's the mother of all Mumin characters.

Landed! 

What an amazing place...to live here 6 months without power, running water or people. You can rent this by the week but need to apply why you want to rent it. 

Edge of the world 

Tove Jansson! 

Herro 

 A poets desk 

Kitchen 

Was also nice to go to sauna, chill and eat way too much home-food. Good to be here and good to have a bit of vacation away from everything else.

Kaj got to meet his cousin Neah for the first time!

Borgå old town  

Back in Finland!

Landed in Tokyo around 8 pm and got home just before 10 pm. Time to pack and fix the house up before we leave Tokyo for 1 month! Can't wait to come home and spend some time in the north and also have Kaj see beautiful Finland during the summer. Although I'm not really sure how much of a summer it will be, temperature about 15 degrees and rain is to be expected. First 2 days in Espoo were fantastic, lot of good food and gorgeous sunset riverwalk.

Lot of stuff with us! 

 Sökö ocean side walk 

Summer don't get much better than this 

I used to spend so many summer evenings on these cliffs about 15 years + ago. We used to drink way too much beer, cider and crap awful sweet wines. But hey, I guess that's what stupid teenagers do. 

I just realised what a beautiful view we had! But when I think about it, didn't pay attention to the view before. We just came here because it was a clear space and no one would bother us here. So much you change in 15 years....

I found my Twin Peaks...Which is a FANTASTIC serie! Re-watching season 1 & 2 and looking forward to start with the all new season 3 that was just released 

 Morning jog in the forest

 and some outdoor Viking Gym with that :) 

 Went to have brunch and next to the restaurant there was some art. This one was called Friday Bacteria 

 I named this "Shattered Dreams"

Fantastic! (but rainy) Boracay

This year we had very bad luck with the weather compared to last. Was raining EVERY day except the last one but we got pretty wet at the company pool party instead. Few days BioGaia training and some great Filipino food. After this it's holiday time for me back home in Finland, will be a loooong flight back.

No straight flights to Boracay so need to transfer in Manila

Transferring terminals in Manila is time costly and the cram you in a tiny bus

After arriving to Caticlan airport there is an additional 2 bus transfers + boat transfer

Very busy traffic between Caticlan and Boracay bringing in tourists

 Hello Savoy Hotel! 

Free Willy

 Rain rain rain but at least we got a glimpse of the beach 

 Cleared up a but after a few hours 

Cool cave

Gigantic seashell

 Streets of Boracay, tuktuk is the way to transport

 Men ahead !

 For dinner they ordered a whole pig for us, bon appetit 

 Ugly fish 

 Walking around the beach in the night 

 Fire dancers 

 Shop till you drop 

 2 days BioGaia training 

 We now have 128 sales reps for BioGaia in Philippines! 

 Putting sales practice into action 

 Had a bit of sunshine and went to Puka beach for a few hours, nice break from work! 

 My kind of coffee break from the office 

Sea can't be feeling too good here, loads of dead corals

Station 2 at Boracay always crowded 

 But after sun came rain again, flooooood! 

 Last day our partner organised a fantastic dinner and pool party 

 Party still went on until very late, and very loud. Earplugs did the trick to sleep 

 Rain...again. Now a looooong way back to Helsinki! First a switch in Manila then a 8 hour stop in Tokyo to pick up my stuff & family. Wish we were in Helsinki already...