It's been non-stop around here and I feel I have driven all over Tampere, but still can't tell where I am going. I haven't really had a chance to take many photos, so I am disappointed with that, but hopefully I can make up for it over the coming days.
So today I bought a map after two days of navigating without one, and today I got lost
I'm pretty sure it was because I didn't have my navigator Frances (pictured with the map) with me at the time. I was feeling pretty confident and that's when I got myself lost. This is definitely the land of too many k's (it seems nearly every word has multiple k's and at least 20 letters. For example, here's the route to the restaurant where we walked for supper today: Yliopistonkatu (road our hotel is on) to Tullikatu, to Itsenaisyydenkatu, then Rautatienkatu and then Verkatelitaankatu and finally Aleksanterinkatu. If you haven't picked up on it yet, katu means street.
We've learned that Tulli means customs, but somehow we see it everywhere for parking, so we figure it also means toll, so we'll take the leap and guess it refers parking fees?
The only saving grace after being lost was that in the morning when we left for the day, Frances put a pylon in our parking space so people wouldn't park there....and it worked. Otherwise, I wouldn't have had a parking spot. So my navigator still helped me out in the end!
I'm hoping Day 4 will see me encountering fewer adventures and more atmosphere. Although when the team is on the ice, the atmosphere is truly electric.
What's really strange is that it's only mid day at home and I've completed mine.
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