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My family who recently visited us in Finland can’t help noticing the price of commodities in this Nordic region. Their comment: expensive! But still we shop especially for souvenirs, dine and taste Finland’s coffee. When we toured Helsinki, we sat down inside a shopping center for a cup of coffee and my dad was shocked at the price of their cappuccino. It depends on the coffee shop actually.

There’s another kind of coffee that travelers can try. This one is good for the health coz it has over 150 different antioxidants per cup plus a total of 200 active nutrients. If you take a cup of coffee which has the secret ingredient Ganoderma or reishi think about the following health benefits you can get. It will make you feel younger and alert, and also, reduces mental and physical fatigue, supports and modulates the immune system, and rejuvenates at cellular level. And unlike complaints from other coffee drinkers about lack of proper sleep due to coffee, this healthy coffee on the other hand gives you a good night’s rest, just what travelers need. What’s great about this coffee is, as a whole, it improves your overall performance for another day of walking and touring.

We reached Satakunta Museum a few minutes after 5PM and it closes at 6PM during summer. So we had an hour to explore what’s inside the Satakunta Museum. The entrance fee for adults cost 4 Euros while for children 7-17 years old it costs 1.5 Euros. After purchasing our tickets, we were given a guide (manual not a human guide) in English. It was helpful coz we found out that the captions inside the exhibition room are in Finnish.

There were two exhibition rooms we had to visit. One room with three floors contained the permanent exhibition Satakunta - ‘Born in the Embrace of Water’. The other room is located at the ground floor and focuses more on the history of Pori since 1558. Frankly, even with the English guide or booklet, we were sometimes caught in a time consuming situation where we had to figure out which artifact and display it was referring to.

To be continued…

A few years back, our family went to Philippines for a holiday. A beach trip is always looked forward whenever we travel to this country. Thus our itinerary included a trip to an island with a beautiful white sand beach. The beach I’m referring is not Boracay (the most popular tourist destination located in Panay Island) coz we were in Cebu City that time, a city located in the island of Cebu.

Anyway to continue, I remembered my nephew and niece arguing about who would get a cell phone signal in that remote area. Each of them had a different cell phone provider, so it was really a good thing to find out. We could get some comparison. They went out of our holiday home and set on foot to another nearby area searching for a signal. It would be better if their providers had cell towers near that area coz the convenience of calling from a mobile phone and being reached in any particular area is proven to be convenient.

In connection to cell phone signals, there are cell tower leases to take into consideration. There are also several services that wireless landlords can consult when it comes to wireless industry. They can range from Site Promotion, Rent Continuation, Wireless Lease Audit and Appraisal, Wireless Lease Management and Negotiation, Telecom Advisory, Cell Site Remediation and Physical Site Audit. Wireless landlords can tap into the years of experience of companies in the wireless industry.

You may be aware that I was away from my blog for some time. Naturally, I have a lot of back logs in my posts. Well, those trips I had will be published sooner or later. I choose later to be safe.. . But at the moment, I and young sis are preparing to go the Satakunta Museum here in Pori, Finland. So for now I bid my blog a short ‘nakemiin’ (bye in Finnish), then I’ll be right back to echo what’s inside the museum.

Isn’t it tiresome to tour a city by just walking? When I and family were in Helsinki, for a day tour, we walked most of the time. We started our tour at the historical center and then Uspenski Cathedral up to Sibelius Monument. In fact, my sis’ toes began to face some discomforts later in the afternoon. Blame it on too much walking and an uncomfy shoe. A comfortable shoe is really a great trip essential especially when on walking tour.

Blowfish Shoes emerges into the market with an array of casuals, sandals, and boots for women to choose from. Their new line of Blowfish Designer Shoes has already captured the market in Europe and Australia. Not to forget that in America, women are now enjoying the look and comfortable feel of Blowfish Women’s Shoes.

As I browse their website, blowfishshoe.com, for a casual shoe that is comfortable enough when walking around the street, I think I found one. How about sporting their black or dark brown Sweetart model as you tour the city? At a price of $39, this style is made of soft canvas uppers, with a button closure and an elastic rounded cuff for easy wearing on and off. The flexible rubber sole sounds great for walking. Nice shoe to buy.

a holiday home in Catalonia: stone barn with outdoor pool near medieval village and beach

Spain is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe during the 1990s according to Wikipedia. And it is the top travel destination for Europeans as indicated by Expedia. Barcelona, being Spain’s second largest city has many interesting sights to welcome their visitors. Ciutat Vella, the oldest town in Barcelona is one of them. You can spend days exploring this huge city, from their historic architectures to their sandy beaches.

For accommodation, you can book online from one of the 84,000 self-catering holiday villa, apartment or home holiday rentals across Europe, USA and worldwide provided by holiday-rentals.co.uk. You can choose from any type of Barcelona holiday apartments: a cozy studio type, a penthouse with roof top pool, a luxury apartment with huge terrace, or a spacious apartment in the heart of the city. And if you plan to head off to Catalonia, you can enjoy your stay in one of the holiday apartments in Catalonia where a sample photo is provided above. There are lots of apartments to choose from, including family friendly apartments in Spain. So if you are looking for a holiday apartment in Spain, holiday-rentals.co.uk is there to serve you.

This post will be more on my travel photos at Jazz Street, selected ones, coz some photos have already been posted in my previous 43rd Pori Jazz Festival articles.

I previously mentioned that I visited Jazz Street three times. Although it was more on souvenir shopping but I did walk around Jazz Street and took some photos. The scenes were almost the same scene everyday except for a pouring of more visitors as the day got closer towards the end of Pori Jazz Festival (with the changes in musicians and bands, for sure). The most number of people I think was during Carlos Santana’s concert last 18th July, Friday and perhaps the weekend that followed.

Here are some of Jazz Street scenes at 43rd Pori Jazz Festival:

entrance to 43rd Pori Jazz Festival venue, less people the night before opening week

Jazz Street hours: opens daily, 11am to 12 pm

unwinding at a bar and coffee shop

bar and coffee shop overlooking Kokemaenjoki River

a pose with restaurant boat behind, great ambiance for dining

there were portable toilets distributed around the area
so no pee problem at all

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I’ve been thinking many times…well, it didn’t take a hundred times or more to wake me up with a light bulb shining brightly over my head telling me that ‘hey why not use title case in all your titles?’ Oh yeah, why not. They are titles of my posts. So here goes my Tittle Case. I have started it in fact in my previous post. Have a good day…

I went to the Helsinki City Museum last week and I really appreciated the artifacts and the paintings on display. I was on tour actually in Helsinki that day with my young sis, dad and mom. My young sis is what you call an art lover. There was one painting that caught her attention as we moved around the museum. It was a colorful reddish painting depicting a fire in Helsinki during that era. After our museum tour she also wanted to go to the gallery of Finnish architecture but then we didn’t have much time as we had this task of touring most tourist attractions in a day.

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