Showing posts with label Finland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finland. Show all posts

Naantalin Aurinkoinen (Turku, Finland)

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Naantalin Aurinkoinen is a small chain of cafes in Southwestern Finland, mainly Turku and it's suburb of Kaarina. The name means "the Sun of Naantali" -Aurinko means sun, and Naantali is a nearby town known for it's lovely sunshine, even spawning the local idiom "to smile like the sun of Naantali".

The cafe and bakery has a wide variety of goods, from fresh bread and the Finnish favourite 'new potatoes' to pizza, pasta, salad, hotwings, and panini sandwiches. The pastries looked the most tempting to me, though, and I picked the Mansikkajuhlawiener (strawberry pastry) because if you go to Finland in the summer you should eat strawberries at every opportunity.


Photo: Liisa's shot of my Mansikkajuhlawiener.
It was five times more delicious than it looks.



Photo: The storefront of the Kaarina branch I visited.
Looks sweet, doesn't it?


Their website is only in Finnish, but your mouth will water just looking at it: http://www.aurinkoinen.fi/fi/

No Google Map this time, because there are multiple locations. This page on the website shows all the addresses: http://www.aurinkoinen.fi/fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=30

Photos: Finnish Seagulls (Scandinavia 2008)

Thursday, November 5, 2009


Finnish Seagulls I

Where: The Archipelago Sea, Finland
When: Evening, July 8th 2008

This photo is something of a joke. Since I grew up so far from the sea, I have a certain liking for seagulls. I took dozens of pictures of them in Finland, to Liisa's amusement and disbelief. Yes, I know they're flying rats and all of that, but I love the grey and the white and the way they cry. For me, the sound is shorthand for, "You're far from home."



Finnish Seagulls II

Where: The Archipelago Sea, Finland
When: Evening, July 8th 2008

This is one vicious little seagull. I don't even know how his wings are moving like that.

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