porvoo, sunday 30 december 2007

we are at this very cozy cafe by the river on the porvoo shore. after our long walk in tallinn yesterday, and after realizing that the day would be gray and rainy today, we were too lazy to come all the way to this medieval town 50k away from helsinki. we're glad we dragged our lazy asses all the way over here. the town is very small--we probably saw the entire old town in less than 2 hours-- and very pretty. the walk along the river with old red swedish-style wooden houses would be incredibly enjoyable in the summer sun.

pipi takes over:

we also saw sunlight for the first time in three days--it's quite incredible what sunlight can be when you don't see it and it's cold as hel(!) outside. met this finnish woman while walking around and she was telling about the town and how she liked india because people were friendly and that "life was on the street." she added that the finns were shy and not talkative--no shit! she also had a chinese HAIRLESS dog--in the middle of winter in finland. poor perro was freezing.