A lazy Saturday at the city

The renovation took a day longer than originally anticipated (by the renovation company, I was sure that the timetable would slip, and thus Sanna planned to stay in Taivalkoski until Sunday). There were four guys working hard from the morning, and I decided quite fast to venture to Helsinki downtown for spending some time there.

The day was a lazy one. I didn’t have any agenda, just a couple of to-do items. I just strolled from one shop to another, trying to find something worth buying for. It was nice to see a few new shops, such as Furla and Marina Rinaldi among — hopefully these are signs of a boom…

I also tried the newly opened OpenEspa WLAN network that provides free Internet access around Esplanadi park. Despite a few hick-ups, I could read my mails without problems. Altogether, I sat an hour in Café Strindberg, reading Wallpaper, browsing the net with my Mac and enjoying viewing pedestrians. I felt wierdly detached from Finland for a while, as people around me were talking in several languages.

I and a friend of mine had a good sushi lunch in Ichiban, and finally I headed back home. The renovation was over and they had cleaned the places a bit — surprise, as usually the place is a mess after renovation.

The rest of the day was spent in cleaning and organising our stuff back to their original places, and coding a web 2.0 service. Today, Sanna and Aapo will be back and the evening is reserved for the family.