The meal looks delicious. There is no snow in the bottom picture ??? All cleared away or just there is not any ??? My internet connection is very flaky today, going in and out at random. Have to type this quickly before it goes away again.
Cheers

Morning fellows

Kind of early spring here, what comes to weather. More like ordinary May, all snow gone some time ago and +5'C (+41'F).
Kind of early spring while days are still kind of dark.

Anyhow, breakfast on local "red neck" tavern.
Place is not really real red neck tavern, it is more like splitting image what most peoples (locals) would think local red neck tavern would be like. Kind of same kind of ideology as Simpsons (TV-series) would present picture of US-family.
When I was I kid myself, did spend many summers on my very good childhood friend home farm (his father was real local farmer) so this really does not work with me, but generally here was concept:

Place is carrying name of some Belarus origin land transformer device, and there actually was even one of those inside.
I think there is something like 17 horsepower engine on it, so it was really used on 1950 or something last time.



Tables where separated with chicken wire, walls were covered with water based paint, instead of napkins there was just plain kitchen paper rolls on tables. So there was some components that I did claim as original, like that saw finished wood surface.



Well, my favorite.



Some dark bread, it did have this kind of very dark syrap / sweet candy kind of taste.
Basically it is 74% of sugar ( http://www.fineli.fi/food.php?foodid=1009 ), but for some reason this black bread taste like it would be more like 90% of sugar. Cannot say why, but it just have this very candy like taste.



Then the main dish, pydee
Basically it is ham, bacon, sausages, eggs, all that kind of stuff that goes directly to your artyries and make your doctor to gasp.
Poi it was so yummu

Nice pictures. You have a good eye for architectural details. Weather has been somewhat springlike here finally. We had about 8 in(20cm) of wet heavy snow a few days ago, but then a few days in the 40's F(5-7C). A little cooler this weekend, back below freezing for a couple of days. Enjoy your beer.
Cheers

Afternoon fellows

Just got back from nörth, spend weekend there on Indie-festival.
Honestly, one hour and painfully noticed that I have just grow out from that genre for good.

Indie scenario here on Thule is very well supported by cities and governments.
Literally I can say for sure that this tiny group of hobbyist is getting 60k€ per year from EU, if they show indie-movies. Another 65k€ from government of Finland, facilities from city, etc.
So they can play around a lot and sure they have manage to create something really nice.
On this tiny city where time stand still, there is preserved hundred seat movie theater from 1950 on very original form. Well they have digital projectors etc, but hall it self has been untouchable for half decade. It is very nice on its on forma.

Took this picture from hall, please do not mind my knee on pic. Did try to hide cellular, another vice I probably would been beaten with baguettes or something.



Seriously, I did have cultural shock on very begins. When I sat down, I was cross-fired with truckload of cheap tobacco and garlic odor. There was cliche amount of a-bomb presented before any movies.
Did not let that bother me, just jump (litteraly) couple of rows and found some privacy. Even it was tiny theater, there was a plenty of seats to pick up.

Then the movies started and found myself again from noncomfy-zone.
No matter how much I did try to enjoy movie about Chinese ski jumber doing virtual practicing without skies, I just could not.
Luckily I was well loaded so did not suffer any major damage, but sure did decision to close festival from my behalf after one hour.


Did some shopping and notice this odd universal tourist-price-level phenomenal.
Finland is propably one of the most expencive place to be, if your tourist.
Did roam around local shops and did get myself two pair of shoes and three shirt with 70€ (90 US$). So Finland is actually very cheap place to be what comes to these rural areas.




Still raining snow up there.

Some more local food stuf.

Those two black surfaced white body pieces on twelve o'clock are local cheese, made out from beestings and burned on oven.
It is called bread cheese and it explain jelly on plate. Those goes together very well, because bread cheese itself have equal amount of taste as styrofoam.
Horny item below is also local specialty, called hapankorppu which seems to be so rare that there is not even own article about it. It is subform of crispbread -> sour crisps.
But this fellow actually has very own taste itself, somewhere between salty and liquorice. This item has actually identity of it self what comes to flavour.