Poking around

Since we drive Emma to her basketball exercises every night on weekdays, we often hang out around Tampere with Sami the dog for two hours instead driving to home and back in between. I love that idle time, especially on beautiful days like this. The downside is that evenings are really short at home...

We followed Finland's FIBA world cup match via mobile live scoreboard and what a thrilling match it was. With a deficit of just two points, (67-65 loss to New Zealand) Finland narrowly missed a chance to advance to the second round of the men’s basketball World Cup in Spain.

Today flags flied high in memory of Continuation War - the first time. It was 70 years since the end of the country's Continuation War with the Soviet Union. Finland declared an end to military operations on September 4, 1944, followed by the Soviet Union one day later.

The Continuation War was fought between June 1941 and September 1944 at the same time that World War II was waged. Finland dubbed the conflict the Continuation War to clarify its relationship with the preceding Winter War fought with the Soviets, and which began in 1939 when the Soviet Union invaded Finland and ended one year later in 1940. The Soviets however, framed the later conflict with Finland as a struggle against Nazi Germany and its allies.

In the picture is a view from Palatsinraitin silta (360° view) bridge over Tammerkoski rapids between Finlayson and Tampella areas. There is a tiny Finland's flag on top of the old factory building, as you can see...


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