Some pictures from Vienna

Feels like cuba! http://www.floridita-cuba.com/ <-- thats the original one. Been there! =)

Yeah! Aki is huge abroad

Art

Monument for those Austrians who fought and died for Russia..weird..

Another palace and another yard

Another palace and another yard

Another palace and another yard

15-16.11 Vienna

I better finish my blog even for my own sake also. After Linz I was heading to Vienna. The first really cold days od autumn hit there. At this point I was grateful that I had carried other jacket with me all these weeks. Even though it was only about 0 degrees, fog and mist made the weather feel very cold. Hey, Im a weather reporter now a days!

I pity the fools who have had to spent their lives in the small and damp palaces of Vienna ;) There is three palaces in Vienna and I went to two of them. Whoaaah. Hell, the gardens were huge. Im now starting to realize the magnitude of this royal thing back in the days. I wish we could have something even close to that in Finland and I dont meant that I would like to live in a kingdom, I just would like to have that kind of buildings and gardens. Fortunately they have managed to avoid shelling during the wars.

And to you Christmas fanatics, go to some big city in central Europe and be amazed. In Vienna only there were at least 5 different Christmas markets full of sweets, Christmas decorations, hot wine and everything you can imagine. Theres a couple of photos from one of the biggest, but I would had to have taken the picture from helicopter so that it would show the magnitude of the market.

Christmas market

 Christmas market

Christmas market

Vienna

Vienna

Old Roman ruins in Vienna´s old city

There was sun also in the sky

Some inside humor to my nerd friends in Finland. Köö!!!

Theres the palace. Do I really need to walk all the way down there.

A view from the palaces front balcony

The palace

art from the yard

The birdies had only this small hole where to swim since the rest was frozen. Poor birds. 

Art

Yard

Still in the yard

This was supposed to look old right from the beginning

To summarize Vienna. Nice place. Gotta go back during the summer someday. If you love palaces, go there.

Finland

Folks, Im back in Finland. I know that theres still some blogging to do and I will do it some day but now I just wanted to tell you that Im back at home. To be honest it feels a bit strange. Eventhough it was only a 2,5 months it feels like a lifetime and in the same time it feels that I only left Järvenpää (my hometown) yesterday.
Thanks to all you guys who commented my posts. Also greetings and thanks to all of those people who I met during my journey, to all of those I spent time with, explored the cities, drank, ate, danced, sang and played. You made the trip worth doing it!

Now Im just figuring how and when I can travel again...

Yours: Teemu "The Crazy Viking" Paananen

10-14.11 Linz

Ok folks, theres not so much to tell you about my visit to Linz. Linz is Austrias third largest city but my reason to go there was purely to meet Daniel whom I met twice in Scotland. My stay there was 3 days of partying in a row and then 2 days of recovering. Clubs, pubs, underground clubs, you name it, we did it.
But hey, I have never eaten so good bacon and ham than in Linz. We went to market and bought two different kinf of ham and some salami and they were f*cking amazing. Daniel also had some great bacon in fridze already, delicious. This stuff with a loaf of fresh bread for breakfast with some eggs and I was in heaven.
We share a similar kind sense of humor with Daniel, and this was our theme song fot the whole weekend. To be honest, girls around the city didnt really understand this one when we sang this ;)
We also watched all three Austin Powers movies.. Groovy!

Dont know who the man in the front is and dont care. In the background one of Daniels friends

Me, D and a chick

And again.

Monty Python humor...

Me and D.

Linz

A sequence of pictures

7-9.11 Cesky Krumlov

The real and original Budweiser is made in Ceske Budejovic and the city was on my route towards Cesky Krumlov and Austria, Linz. Those are the reasons I decided to stay there for a night. Richard (from Prague) said to me that the place is worth 2 hours including a meal but I wanted to see my self. I spent one hour in Budejovic and hopped to a train again and went to C. K.
Richard had recommendet this Krumlov house-hostel in C. K. and there I went. Nice, cosy, small, just the way I prefer.
In C. K. we had a really nice group of people. The first evening I spent alone just watching some movies and having a nice medieval dinner but next day I met Jeremy (New Zealand), Iain (Canada), Simon and Anna (Ausralia) and we hung together the next couple of days eating some rabbit and pheasant, drinkin locar beer in very shady restaurants and pubs with some witty humor.
The town itself was beautiful, small and beautiful. It goes without saying that theres a castle and a old town center. Its difficult to imagine that those cobblestone streets used to be asphalt only 5 yers ago. Damn communists!*

Cesky Krumlov by night

A park.

I might have a torn in my ass...or then again not.

C. K.from the castle tower

The play was a huge hit!

I just think its funny...

Me and my pals.

Ribs with horseradish. Traditional Czehk cuisinse.

Posse

Iain likes cameras!

Miaaaoooowwww. Shes a cat burglar.

*They wanted to tear everything old down and build concrete blocks. Thank god they didnt succeed everywhere, but still too many remarkable historical towns in former Eastern bloc was demolished in the name of communism and concrete. Having now seen a few of those cities (Prague, C. K. Bratislava, Ljubljana), it just makes my blood boil. Period.