Not the largest castle, but beautiful nonetheless. With rich history and a colorful history. The second museum we visited for the day.
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Museum #1 – Hämeenlinna Prison Museum
A long days program was planned with four museums to visit. This is the first one we went to and it was Hämeenlinna Prison Museum.
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Alcatraz #1259
Like previously mentioned on the blog, I’ve always been intrigued by Alcatraz. As I was lucky to get to visit in 2019, and after reading the book I bought from the book store there, I later on ordered another one. This is it it.
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Program changed to summer cottage
As the first week, and second week Monday was a lot of running around, we decided to calm things down and head out to the summer cottage.
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Sea Life aquarium – Helsinki
The new week started with a visit to Sea Life. Like last week, the program to come, was a surprise for the kids.
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Vacation week #1 with the kids
Due to the long summer holiday for school kids in Finland, and the fact that my wife had to work two specific weeks in July, it resulted in me having the kids for two weeks on my own during the weeks. So how would I entertain them?
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Elämää Lönnebergassa – Livet på Lönneberga
Roughly translated; Life at Lönneberga, is what one could call home farm, or small farm. There are some of these in the greater Helsinki area, but they are definitely not to be confused with a Zoo. This is the third I’ve visited, and in my oppinion, it’s the best of them.
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Involuntary new tech
I’ve used Fitbit “semi” smart watches from May of 2016. Since then I’ve had to updated product now twice. So why did I update this time?
The road to a smarter home
First smart appliance was a vacuum robot, and that was taken into use in September of 2017. November of 2019 a Google Nest Mini smart speaker was added to the mix. Second appliance was added when our new washer/dryer was connected to the home network in January 2020. Fourth thing was a Google Nest Protect, that was installed in November 2020. Now, the next thing has been taken into use.
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Does additional Apple products help?
In late January I wrote on my embarkation into the Apple ecosystem, with the switch from Windows to macOS, and from Dell XPS to Apple Macbook Pro. Could this switch be enhanced with the switch from Android to iPhone?
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