Dubai Or Not Dubai
Jul. 17th, 2008 06:37 pmLife can be weird sometimes. Currently I am sitting in an internet cafe in Finland's third largest city, sipping Twinings Earl Grey Tea (a little taste of England) and waiting for Hiru to finish work. Eighteen degrees has never felt so cold...
Other points noticed in Lupe Shoots:
1)![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wolfie_uk will be delighted to hear about the prevalence of Salty Dog crisps in Finland, particularly the poor puns on the packets. These are the crisps with a bark with every bite although when I went through the bagel hole earlier, they weren't selling them there.
2) There's a supermarket here call KKK Supermarkt. I was looking for white hoods but sadly they were nowhere to be seen.
3) Hesburger is a national chain of hamburger restaurants similar to our Wimpey. It's great to see a national burger brand challenge the American super giants and they appear to be winning as there are 3 Hesburger restaurants in Tampere alone and they are branching out into Sweden. Still, McDonalds and Subway are as ubiquitous as ever. I will go to Hesburger but Finnish is unlike any language I know so I can't translate anything on the menu. Being vegetarian, this causes a massive problem and this is why I went to McDonalds today (you can always judge a country on what you can get in McDonalds). It was no different to home - in fact they didn't even serve beer - but they do a mint swirly ice cream thing that I don't think we can get back home. Hesburger, meanwhile, sell bagels.
4) The Finnish national tabloid Iltalehti has, as its logo, a dog scribbling furiously on a notepad. It's really sweet :-)
5) The town of Nokia is on the western outskirts of Tampere and I think it is the place of Nokia mobile phone fame. I'll check this out and get back to you (unless any of you guys know...).
6) The Finns, like the English, seem to have succumbed for the virtues of concrete in the Fifties and Sixties. There's a lot of that around here and it looks even more drab than it does back home.
( Stable Table )
Other points noticed in Lupe Shoots:
1)
wolfie_uk will be delighted to hear about the prevalence of Salty Dog crisps in Finland, particularly the poor puns on the packets. These are the crisps with a bark with every bite although when I went through the bagel hole earlier, they weren't selling them there.2) There's a supermarket here call KKK Supermarkt. I was looking for white hoods but sadly they were nowhere to be seen.
3) Hesburger is a national chain of hamburger restaurants similar to our Wimpey. It's great to see a national burger brand challenge the American super giants and they appear to be winning as there are 3 Hesburger restaurants in Tampere alone and they are branching out into Sweden. Still, McDonalds and Subway are as ubiquitous as ever. I will go to Hesburger but Finnish is unlike any language I know so I can't translate anything on the menu. Being vegetarian, this causes a massive problem and this is why I went to McDonalds today (you can always judge a country on what you can get in McDonalds). It was no different to home - in fact they didn't even serve beer - but they do a mint swirly ice cream thing that I don't think we can get back home. Hesburger, meanwhile, sell bagels.
4) The Finnish national tabloid Iltalehti has, as its logo, a dog scribbling furiously on a notepad. It's really sweet :-)
5) The town of Nokia is on the western outskirts of Tampere and I think it is the place of Nokia mobile phone fame. I'll check this out and get back to you (unless any of you guys know...).
6) The Finns, like the English, seem to have succumbed for the virtues of concrete in the Fifties and Sixties. There's a lot of that around here and it looks even more drab than it does back home.
