Vacation!

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 1:33 am

This week I'm having my long-awaited vacation, starting today!
Not very long, but a week far away from internet, computers, synthesizers... and anything like that.
Instead, I'm going to rent a motorbike and explore the beautiful, windy roads of Finland

I will ride of of these "beauty and beast combined" bikes, Ducati : http://www.ducati.com/my2002/ducatiMode ... e=750Sport

I wish you all happy pulsaring and great summertime

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 2:29 am

Hey! Have a nice trip

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:27 am

Ducati

wish you a good road ! lots of fun and be back safe !

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 4:39 am

Ducati are my dream motorcycles...

I'm dreaming of a Monster 990 (is that the model name?)

Yeah, drive safely...And i wish you a nice vacation trip! you lucky...

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 5:08 am

Enjoy

You do live in a very beautifull country. I have been there 4 times. Are you going north for a 24 hour with sun experience?

Last summer (a bit too late) I went of an improvised trip with my girlfriend. We had these scanrail tickets (pay once, and get free train rides for a fixed number of days in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark), and we had some days in spare.

So a Thursday afternoon we left Lappenranta - not knowing, where the next 2 days would lead us

We went a few stations West (to the town, wich has won the "Most borring town in Finland"-price). This is, where the train tracks cross each other. We looked at the timetable and to our surprice we found 2 trains going to Rovaniemi (I am sorry, that I spells Finnish towns so bad). For those, who does not know Finish geographics - this is at the Northern Polar Circle. Rovaniemi has the second most Northly train station in Finland. The fastest train would take about 12hours. We decided to go there

Here I should note, that my bag is fragile to being fixed in a narrow position for a long time. In Danish trains 5 hours is tough to me, but those old Finish trains are extremel comfortable. Swedish S2000, Dutch Tallys, and French TGV (this is a guess, I do not remember the name of the good trains in France) and Danish i3 trains can in no way compete with the comfort of these nice old trains (unfortunately, decisionmakers find them to old, and they are being replaced with newer less "body friendly" trains

Rovaniemi. Now, where to put our back packs? The bus station has lockers. But the bus station closes at 6 o'clock in teh evening

Well, it was our only option, so we where forced not to leave center of town too much. Nice river, they have up there - and a nice market. We *hyggede os* (Hygge apears to be a unique Danish word - realy sad to the rest of the world, that you don't have this word. But it is a nice word). Most of our time went with practical stuff - back packs storring and getting food. And in the evening, the air got moist, so our idea of sleeping outside was dumped. We too the evening train back.

All in all we traveled 30 hours to be in Rovaniemi for 9 hours

But it was a good experience. I would like to go there again some time.

So spoimala: Have a nice trip - the beauty is out there. Even though the IMO nicest woman from Finland now lives in Denmark

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:31 pm

I'm back! No accidents, no speeding tickets

The Ducati was just wonderful - that doesn't surprise anyone but I just wanted to say. It was so much fun!

Immanuel, you wrote the names of our cities pretty good. But I have never heard about "Most borring town in Finland". What may that be?
I didn't go to north, I went to west instead. The first day I visited Helsinki (the biggest city in Finland) and went to a music store and was very happily surprised: not only could I find a bunch of interesting keyborads there to try hands on (Access Indigo 2, Novation K-station, Waldorf Q, Nord Modular and many more (it isn't usual to find these "rarities" in local stores here")) but there was NOAH EX too!
So, one day went pretty fast there

I've to admit Minimax sounded FAT and I somehow started to like the machine... but still, over 2000euros is too much until they fix the "problems" discussed in the another thread.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 7:24 am

The borring town is between Helsinki and Lappenranta - where the train goes North. At the train station is an old train (the ones, that burned coal) on a little hill. Actually my girlfriend and I had a nice walk in the town, wich was not ugly - atleast the part we saw.