While Daniel was visiting I went with him to some favorite locations like the open air museum, Suomenlinna and the Finnish natural history museum. While there I tried to take photos of things I had never seen before. It was a good challenge and I enjoyed going to these places with Daniel.

Old cabin door.

A hidden owl hunting a mouse in the bear exhibit.

Now for a travel update:

Tomorrow, Aug 6th, I am heading to Paris, via Oslo, then to Narbonne on an over night train. From there we will be spending two nights in Carcassonne before traveling and staying a night in Andorra. Then off to Spain to stay with friends and travel across the country only to return to Helsinki on Sept1st. Hopefully we will get Portugal under our belts as well. Once back in Helsinki we only have a few days to settle before Dom's sister comes to visit for a few days. After that my brother is coming to visit the same day, Sept 19th, Dominique flies to Australia and then he and I tour Helsinki, Tallinn and off to Iceland on our way back to Canada. From there its a whirl wind of action until I fly out to Australia on the 15th of October.

So I just wanted to say, I am not sure how often I will be here to update the blog, but once I am back there should be a lot to talk about!