The world heavy weight boxing title fight comes to Finland for the first time. It takes place on the 30th of May between Valuev "the Giant" and Chagaev "the real champ" in Hartwall arena. If you are a boxing fan you don't want to miss this one! In the current press conference there is a lot of debate of whom is the current champion, they both claim the title, but the undisputed champion will be decided on the 30.5 @ 19.
The big celebration during Easter in Finland is not eating eggs and candy, it is getting in a car and driving 5h to Tahko, which is a skii resort during the winter months. It is not so that the Helsinki people are such avid skiers which makes them make this pilgrim voyage for a 4 day stay, but it merely that the Helsinki nightclubs are either closed or then empty. Tahko is however packed with all the party people from Helsinki plus a few skiers probably from Turku. The past time during g the day tends to be strategizing of how to make it to the top of the hill for the best day time bar, Pehku bar. Walking to the top takes between 20-30 min depending on how well your shoes can adjust to snow and steep hills. Other options includes getting a ride with a snow mobile or the not recomended option renting skies or a board. The night is easier. Most people tend to go to Piazza, which coincidentally happens to be the only place in Tahko, which happily is a big place. As everyone is staying in cabins, hotel rooms or cottages there are always after parties. After 4 days of the same daily routine, we are all exhausted celebrating this religious holiday. So if you have no plans for this weekend, maybe Tahko is the place for you. More live reporting during the weekend if my iPhone charger is packed.
The betting is on! The old Bronson club gang goes betting on the horses. So far we have only figured out how to win money for the drinks, so if we to broke we at least got drunk.
Ok, to give u the end score, we all lost massively despite all the favourite 4legged creatures won. Personally a won 0.40cents on on a 5€ bet and l feel l like a winner!
Jaajo's guaranteed we drink for free by betting 10€ per race ended up us, surprisingly betting 10€ per race and drinking for 5€ per race, and ending up winning 209€ in total with a stake of probably 400+ but it felt it like we wereall winers,so at least loosing 5€ per raise plus personnel bets of 50-100€ per race so it was very close to being on serious plus...
Ok, did not end up going home, but ended up in playing poker in Kallio and was bouncing between owing people a few hundred to being able to buy a few rounds of shots tomorrow. Well at the moment up a few trays of shots, so life is good, but l will be tired tomorrow:(
The plan to go for a visit to my friends wine cellar got cancelled by a pre-booking and then trying to get 5 male friends to go to Kämp VIP evening, was not too favourable received. It was like trying to get girls to join for a VIP night at Gentleman's club...well we ended up in motellet and went crazy on the shots and mojitos and we blame it on Jaska, who had a birthday! Well need to be sharp for tomorrow as l have a 4h lunch with Martin and we will go for the works, champagne, wine and at least 3 courses and the for After Work and then off for the Circus show! More tomorrow!
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I'm a bit late with this one this year but on Sunday, the first snow began falling in Helsinki :) Of course, it's all melting now, but while it lasted, we've had a lovely few days of city center chaos with roads blocked, cars buried and people slipping over all around the city!
Starting from today, Helsinki-based band 'the Firsts' will begin a promotional campaign of themselves by placing beer mats in random bars around Helsinki and beyond!
I'm not really finding so much time to make posts now that I'm self-employed but it seems my Wednesday mornings still give me a chace to head to town for a coffee!
I haven't been to my favourite coffee shop (Kaffe Centralen) in a while, it's a little too far away from my studio so I've had to make do with the morning coffee offers at Roberts & Waynes.
If you're a coffee lover you probably already know about the deals, but for those who are not in the know the morning deals are:
• Waynes - All coffee half-price before 10.00.
• Roberts - Cafe Latte 2.70€ before 11 (normal price 3.70€).
