Travel: Will There be PJs?

Tampere Tourist

Getting hot and cold and sweaty.

Railway station — image by author

Apart from the BookCrossing convention, I had no reason to visit Tampere, Finland’s third largest city — and the biggest inland city in all Scandinavia — beyond the normal traveller desire to see everything in the world.

There was a fair bit of beer drunk, I took a sauna, and participated in the local Saturday parkrun. I’ll touch on these things, though if you are really into parkrun, here’s my full post with more pictures than you probably want.

My Visit to Tampere parkrun — So Much for the Finland Spring Weather!

After the Helsinki city tour concluded, we looked into the new library — a startling contrast in its ultramodern architecture and massive open spaces. Signs proclaimed that the building was open to all and if you just wanted to hang out and never even look at a book that was fine.

Then back to the station, where we retrieved our bags, had lunch in an Italian joint just off the platform, and awaited our train.

I’ll say it again. The Finnish railway system is superb. Frequent trains…