Back in Finland

After one day in Bucharest (38 degrees hot, one movie - Cassandra's dream - and some short shopping), we are now back in Finland: 11 degrees in the evening when we arrived, only about 18 promised during the day... Well it feels good though to be back here.

Monday shopping and saying good-bye

On Monday we spent the morning shopping: we bought the gifts for the ones in Finland. In the afternoon we visited grnadma again and then said good-bye to Andrei-Luca and the rest. My father saw us off to the railway station... a night ahead in a sleeping car to Bucharest and then a day in the capital before returning to Finland.

Bye-bye Satu Mare!

A grilling trip on Sunday

On Sunday, we went on a trip 45 km from Satu Mare in Valea Mariei. We were some 15 people there, family mostly, cousins, uncles and aunts, nephews and so on. Not too hot, just perfect for a summer day out. In the evening we went bowling with Darie, Lucian and Raluca.

More playing with Andrei-Luca

We spent almost the whole Saturday in the company of Andrei-Luca, my nephew. We played with him and also took a walk with him in the pram through the park in center of Satu Mare. He was so curious about everything, looking around all the time... watching the birds, the fountains, the flowers, the people around...

Visiting grandma

After Andrei-Luca has entertained us on Friday morning, in the afternoon we visited grandma in Hrip, a village 15km from Satu Mare. We picked some plums. This year the plum crop was outstandingly rich, the trees were overloaded.






I also found an older picture of mine since the times I was a student and wearing beard. During those times, once traveling by train, the conductor in the train thought the reason for my half price ticket was me being "retired"...

By train to Satu Mare

We traveled over 20 hours by train to Satu Mare. We left Neptun around 13:00 on Thursday and reached our destination on Friday morning around 10:30. The journey was quite pleasant as we had a first class compartment with 2 beds in a sleeping car. Today around noon we visited Anderi-Luca, my brother's son, 9 month old.