Kokkola is really a place worth visiting if you’re planning to come to Finland. Kokkola, or Karleby in Swedish, is one of the oldest town in the country. Sadly, Finland doesn’t have many historical buildings due to the numerous fires that repeatedly burned them. Since the buildings used to be built so close to each…
In this little post we wanted to share with you a few shots we took some evening ago. Sometimes we do this kind of things: going out in the evening, having a walk together, hand in hand. But you know it already. We are romantic and firmly believe that small things are what counts in…
Did you seriously believe it? No, because, I would have really wanted that my lasagna would become beautiful, but instead they turned out to be something like these:
So here comes the cake! I created it for the first time for our wedding anniversary. I wanted to cook something special so I asked Klaus what would he like to have. Well, you have to know that in Finland there is a dessert called mansikkakakku (strawberry cake) that consists in a bottom (ready made…
True, strawberries, if not the wild ones, cannot be found growing spontaneous in nature. Still, I’d like to include them in this periodical (Finnish nature presents us) because, due to Finnish climate, this berries are particularly tasty here. Why? Well, during summer darkness doesn’t reach us up here and this boosts strawberries growth in an…
Last week with Klaus we spent some days in Helsinki, where one of his sister lives. I’ve been in Helsinki before, other two times, but this time we had little bit more time to visit the city. So, now that I know the city little bit better, I can tell that the Finnish capital has…