Cookie travels

Despite the holiday, our side trip in Turku, Finland was not bad after all coz as I list down the sights explored, there were quite a number of them that I was surprised. Somehow had it been a more prepared trip, I could have seen more of the inside and not just the outer view. More so as I was doing some posts about Turku, I realized that I missed the Sibelius Museum and Ett Hem Cultural Museum nearbythe Turku Cathedral, including the Great Old Square and the Brinkkala Mansion where the Christmas Peace declaration is read every year which is located near the Tuomiokirkkosilta (Cathedral Bridge). The point is I was already in that area but I still missed it. Actually I was on ‘the other side of the river’ enjoying the glass-building Turku City Library that’s why I didn’t pass those. Maybe someday our family might come back to Tukru.

When you travel to United States for a holiday be sure it’s somewhere during Thanksgiving so you won’t miss the shopping event in the United States known as Black Friday. Black Friday falls on the day after Thanksgiving probably anywhere in the last week of November. You can check your calendar for the exact Thanksgiving Day. Now let me tell you why you shouldn’t miss this shopping event. You can save a lot of money when shopping for Christmas by purchasing items during black Friday coz of the deep discounts given by retails stores. Shoppers are just so in the shopping mood here even your boss will give you a day off despite its being a non public holiday. What’s up for grab? There are door buster deals, wherein items are sold at a very low-price for the early birds who can come to their store as early as 5am or there’s the loss leader for items sold at cost or even at a loss.

On the other hand, this might not be a good idea for you if you are a shopper who wants to enjoy a hassle-free shopping experience coz Black Friday shopping is a chaotic shopping encounter. You have to wait in line outside the store at a very early time, experience shoulder-to-shoulder customer traffic, jammed store aisles, crowded and busy elevators, the rush and the grabbing of hugely discounted items, you are lucky if you get that item you want, not to mention the hunger, stress, and sleepiness. But here’s the good news, you don’t have to experience all these in order to enjoy a Black Friday sale. At Black-Friday.net you can still purchase Black Friday items. It’s online so it’s hassle-free. Their consumer friendly website enables you to plan your holiday shopping and also offers email alerts so you will know when new Black Friday announcements are available. Remember shopping here is hassle-free.

With the exception of Turku Castle, the rest of the sights in the downtown area were explored on foot. So here are some sights in Turku that we were able to see: Turku Cathedral, Turku City Theatre, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Paavo Nurmi Stadium, Turku Castle, Turku Art Museum, Turku City Main Library, the market place, the bridges along Aura River (link to the five bridges along Aura River), and we also passed by the Forum Marinum on our way from the port to downtown area and back to port. I also took photos of buildings and houses depicting the architecture in this city. I will be posting in the weeks ahead each of these sights so keep visiting.