I was so excited to show him where I live now, what Finland and Turku is like and to see what he would think of everything here.
We played for tourist in Helsinki, I showed him around in Turku and brought him to all of my favorite spots here. Seeing him in my new hometown and watching him get amazed by all of the things that Turku is offering and typical Finnish stuff, was like seeing myself on my first days here in Finland.
For this post I thought it would be fun to let him write a little, to get a look at what he thinks about Finland and his feelings about me living in this city.
Today
is the day I finally fly to Finland to see my girlfriend after a period of two
months. This is what I have been looking forward to for so long, it is finally
time to see her again. She has
already told me so much about Finland and shows a lot of pictures so I know
quite a lot about the country itself, about what I can expect and about what it
looks like. She talks almost as
much about Finland, things she does and Finnish habits as she talks about
food,so that is a lot!!
After a nice flight of over two hours from
Amsterdam to Helsinki, I finally arrived. I walked out of the airport to my bus
stop and the first thing I thought was 'fuck it's cold' we are not used to warm
weather in the Netherlands but this was a big difference. After waiting a few
minutes for my bus, it arrived, and it was time to travel by bus to Turku. Aniek had already told me that few people spoke
English, and now it was time to experience this for myself. I asked the driver
if we had a bus switch, to which I received the answer in Finnish.. Of course I
did not understand this at all, so I just sat down while waiting to see if we
had to switch busses. After a few minutes of
driving the bus stopped, luckily there was a Finnish woman who spoke English
and told me that I had to switch busses to Turku. After a ride
of 3 hours I finally arrived in Turku. Aniek told me that she was still on the internship at
that time, but when I got off the bus she was waiting there for me, this was a
such pleasant surprise and I was kinda confused but so happy to see her! After walking a few minutes we arrived at our hotel near
the city center, the hotel and our room were very nice. In the evening we ate
italian in an Italian restaurant, the food was delicious, after which we went
back to the hotel with a feeling of satisfaction. The next
day (Saturday) we went to Helsinki for a day, Helsinki is one of the most
beautiful cities I have seen, especially the buildings were very beautiful. She
took me to the Senate Square in Helsinki which was super nice, then we went to
the food hall (Hietalahden Kaupahalli) where we ate typical Finnish delicacies,
‘Korvapuusti’ what a cinnamon roll is, and another sweet
bun, this was so delicious! After this we enjoyed the city, after which we
closed the day with pizza, of course.
On Sunday we went to
her favorite place in Turku, a beautiful lake with a lot of view,
Littoistenjärvi. I understand very well why this is her favorite spot, it is so
beautiful and soothing. Hereafter she showed me the center of Turku, which was
also very beautiful with beautiful old buildings. In the evening we ate a kind
of tapas at Pincho Nation, which was very tasty but very expensive.
Fortunately, after this we went with a satisfied feeling to the hotel, where we
could enjoy together to finish the weekend, the day after I unfortunately went
home again. Finland was a very nice and fun experience,
Aniek and Finland, thanks for this!
Aniek, Kaipaan sinua ja rakastan sinua.
Nähdään!
Niels
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