Big boat for a small river

This boat has just been brought from Saimaa, the largest lake in Finland. The Seinäjoki -river is a small river so this boat is not going to sail on it. Some local daring entrepreneurs will restore it as a restaurant boat and anchor it somewhere near this place.  They will be busy, cause the plan is to get the restaurant open by midsummer, June 21. I will post more photos as things evolve.

Finnhorse - Suomen hevonen

This is a statue to honor the Finnhorse breed. A horse breed developed fully in Finland. The breed has played an important role as a draught horse and had a lot of responsibilities in the finnish wars. The text in the statue says "Suomenhevonen Suomen Puolesta 1939-1945". "Finnhorse for Finland 1939-1945".

The largest padlock?

These are padlocks on a fence of a bridge. Does the size of the lock represent something?

Taxi headquarters

...not exactly. This is an old rest house for taxi drivers. It's old, but still in use.

This is not a lake

This is the Kyrönjoki -river flooding. What I've been reading this is the biggest flooding for many years. This is really a field and if you look really closely there is a barn standing in the middle of the water.

 This road cannot be taken. At least with a normal car. 

Spring

The blog has been on a winter break. I changed the main topic to properly describe the nature of it. It doesn't have daily photos, so maybe the name should be plain and simple "Photos from Seinäjoki". Maybe I will find some time to dig up the camera and take some more photos soon.

Seinäjoki Neon Lights

I believe this is the corner of our city where are the most of the Neon Lights. There is even a large screen with advertisements.

Frami F ready

Happy new year! This is the entrance of the new extension of the local technology center, Frami. The newest building is called Frami F. People will study business there. As you can see the surface is extraordinary. I'll take some "whole building" shots later.

Christmas trees yet available

Some people have a tradition of stealing their christmas trees from somebody's forrest. Well that's not legal. Here you can by one. I guess it will cost about 30 to 40 euros to get one. I'm not really sure, cause we are privileged to get our christmas tree legally from a relative's forest.

Santa's train

This train took a group of people to Koskenkorva. Twice today. It is the Santa's train. You can see him stepping out of the train. Actually this is a train maintained by the Haapamäki Museum Locomotive Association. This engine is called "Pikku-Jumbo", "Little Jumbo" and it was built in 1947 by Tampella. Below you can see it leaving he station.

White trees

 Cold weather tends to make the birches look all white. It's been -20 degrees celsius few days and about -10 when I took this photo. I quess you could say it's winter now.

Christmas tree of Seinäjoki

This is the official christmas tree of Seinäjoki. Behind it you can see the tower of Lakeuden Risti church.

Independent Finland 95 years

95 years ago, on 6 December 1917 the Parliament of Finland adopted the Declaration of Independence. We have a national holiday today. Finland Independence Day.

Itikka deleting finished

As I wrote before the company which was demolishing the old meat factory Itikka was called Delete. Well now the deleting is finished. Below you can see the "before" photo. Not exactly from the same spot, but I believe you will get the idea. I don't know if they will spare that much of the chimney. We'll see.

This is the same site from a different point of view. You can see the tree behind the sign on the right in the photo below.

The local transport regenerating

The operator of the local transport of Seinäjoki is changing in the new year. It has been operated by Veolia and will now be operated by Härmän liikenne. Veolia is a bigger company, operating in other towns and cities too. Härmän liikenne instead is a local company from Härmä, not far from Seinäjoki.

The local transport here hasn't really developed in the last 20 years. This change would maybe give a possibility for that.  However there was some kind of mixup in the competition and everything can still go back the way it was. That would mean Veolia would continue.

Härmän liikenne branded their buses as "Komia liikenne" (Komia transport). "Komia" is a finnish dialectual word for handsome and it is used in the marketing of Seinäjoki area.