T in die neue Woche

This store has an odd Chinese style roof here in the Helsinki region.

The company’s name used to be Hong Kong, but the new owner seemingly did not buy 

the brand’s name or just wanted a change. Anyway the new name is Rusta.

I had hard time to translate rusta. It is a playful expression of doing or making a bit of this 

and a bit of that at home. The store has a garden market in the summer

and sells all kinds of home & hobby products, decorations, carpets, curtains, shampoos...

Their old name and logo.

They have weekly offers, printed and online, and at the moment

they advertise for example: The summer starts at Rusta.

 

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Happy Finnish Spring?

World Happiness Report has announced that Finland was again - for the 4th consecutive year - 

the happiest country in the world. The ten happiest countries are: Finland 🇫🇮 Denmark 🇩🇰 

Switzerland 🇨🇭Iceland 🇮🇸 Netherlands 🇳🇱 Norway 🇳🇴 Sweden 🇸🇪 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 

New Zealand 🇳🇿 Austria 🇦🇹. I agree, Finland is a good and peaceful country, but our climate 

could indeed be better. At the moment it is snowing wet snow. 

On Thursday I visited the charming gift shop Koiramäen pajutalli and this is how it looked: 

Still a lot of snow, but clear sky and sun and very sharp shadows. 

This used to be a normal farm house with stalls and sheds painted in red, which is typical Finnish. 

It is a lovely place to visit any time of the year and I always admire their huge trees.

Easter decorations were displayed in the white main building. Due to the pandemic 

me and my husband were the only clients. So sad.

As we were the only customers, we could admire in peace their lovely Easter items.

A great assortment to every taste. I found these royal chickens so cute!

Wishing Happy Weekend!

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Day of Kalevala & the Finnish Culture

Today we celebrate Kalevala and the Finnish Culture. The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of 

epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and mythology.

I have shared before these photos of the Finnish National Museum, but in honor of Kalevala once more.

It is an impresive building opened in 1916 and designed by the architects

Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen.

The museum's entrance hall ceiling has ceiling frescoes in Kalevala theme, painted by 

Akseli Gallén-Kallela. The frescoes, painted in 1928, are based on the frescoes painted by him 

in the Finnish Pavilion of the Paris World Fair in 1900.

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Flower Power

In the same building as my local supermarket there is also a florist shop 

called Kukkanen / Small Flower / Florecita.

I love to admire their flowers and bouquets. This is what I saw this week.

I nearly bought this special Streptocarpus, it was so beautiful.

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Furry Friends of PetPoint

I have posted about these cute furry friends before, but once more!

The owner of the local pet shop PetPoint has these wonderful dogs 

- white Samoyed Marlon and huge Newfounland Puntti.

Every time we go grocery shopping, we look if they are in the shop and 

my husband buys them treats. Puntti is big as a brown bear - but so cute & gentle.

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T in die neue Woche

I always admire this house during my walks in the neighbourhood.

Grey walls and white lists look so fresh.

We have a LOT of snow as you can see on these photos.

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Tracing The Shadow of the Wind

These are old photos from Barcelona and someone of you may have seen these before. But I wanted to honor Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) who died in June 2020 of cancer. I have read all four books of his series of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books and in 2017 during my visit to Barcelona I participated to a guided walking tour which followed the routes of The Shadow of the Wind.

This city is enchanted, you know Daniel? 

It goes under the skin and robs the soul, and you don’t even notice.

Esta ciudad es bruja, sabe usted, Daniel? 

Se le mete a uno en la piel y le roba a uno el alma sin que uno se dé ni cuenta.

We were about twenty admirers of Zafón who were guided by our charming guide Cristina to the venues of the book. In addition to me, there was a Chilean lady, other participants came from different cities of Spain. Our guide Cristina took us into the moods of the book by reading excerpts from the book both in English and Spanish every time we stopped.  The Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar is important in the book, so a few photos of it. 

I did not know then Nova and her T in die neue Woche challenge - so this is what I have got!

In Barrio Gótico there is a small bookstore, which has kindly kept the fountain pen 

coveted by the novel’s Daniel on display at the window for 12 years.

 

 

 

La ciudad de vapor was published in November 2020 posthumously.

It is a book of 11 short stories a la gothic mysticism of Zafón ❤︎

 

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New year's prayer, not a resolution. 

I'm praying for courage. - Susan Sonntag

New Year's Greetings!

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