Sat: Rainy. Special trip to old market for lunch (otherwise we would have stayed back the whole day). Bought roasted chicken for dinner, again! Self-imposed reduced diet on account of waist gains.
Sun: Sunny despite forecast of thunderstorm. Yay. Train ride to Iittala, famed for glassware... turns out all the fame is concentrated inside one shop. Ate, shopped in the one shop, returned. Simple and pleasant. Got a nice notebook (paper-and-glue, not electronic) for myself. Contemplating writing all my future blog posts in physical handwriting and then scanning them in.
Mon: Took metro to Hakaniemi to visit the market. It really did feel like a precarious ride with shady people around you. Market wasn't much more exciting than the old market. Pizza at Rosso was pleasant, though. Lovely, refreshing walk along the river back to central station, and a bit of shopping. In order to gain tax refunds, your entire tax-deductible purchase has to placed be in a hermetically sealed bag. What a system. Greek dinner somewhere near the hotel and called it a day.
Tue: Last lunch at old market. Realizes vacation was over as soon as we arrived at Helsinki Vantaa and had to endure loud Cantonese talkers. For a moment there I was utterly ashamed of my dialect.
