Plans and pics

In the coming weeks of my holiday, I am going to…

…read
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (at least start it),
Penguin’s The New History of the World (bits and pieces),
some Finnish contemporary literature (open for suggestions)
Thrillers (Michael Connelly, Ilkka Remes etc)
The newspaper
The info package about my exchange year

… watch
The second season of my favourite TV show, “Six Feet Under” (see above), on DVD
A movie with my free ticket

…meet
Friends at my home
Friends at their home
Friends outside

…get to know
More choral music essentials (Finnish and foreign, secular and sacred, accompanied and unaccompanied)
More symphonic music (Mahler, Beethoven...)
More bars and restaurants in Helsinki

AND!
Play the harp until I can’t make out the strings from each other anymore.
Start running around Töölönlahti again.
Go to sell stuff I don’t need at the flea market.
Spend hours at Akateeminen Kirjakauppa (particularly the travel section)
Have breakfast or a late drink with a book in Café TinTin Tango
Go to Ireland with Mikko (check his new website on the sidebar)

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Yesterday, a record-breaking 30 people visited this blog! Thanks for reading everybody. Here are some pictures I took yesterday!


Damascus World Cup - Football fever grips the city.

Evening in Damascus, with Mount Qasioon in the background.

Two beauties waiting for me in bed.