Travels: Belfast

Belfast is so very near to Dublin in the Southern Ireland and yet so far. What that? Well, the mentality of the Northerner compared to the Southerner is miles apart, in almost every way. Where the Dubliner and the rest of the population in the south are laid-back, witty, fatalistic and not-so-terribly efficient in whatever [...]

MISTY RIVER – Photos

These photos are part of a set taken by me on an extremely cold day; some of the photos are in the morning of that day when the sun was rising,and the others later in the afternoon as the sun was setting.
River with the Fallen Tree in Grays

Mysteriously other-worldly scene
Mist is rising off the River

White [...]

Travelogue to Dublin

“In Dublin’s fair city, where girls are so pretty,/I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, /
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow, /Crying, Cockles and mussels! alive, alive, oh!”
Source: Think Exist.com
The Irish are quick as a flash in inventing brilliant nicknames to anything and everything. There is a statue on [...]

Lapland, Tornio Valley and Childhood – Part3

Riihele at the age of around 4 in Ylitornio, Lapland.
Now I will say a few things of the war called the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden, and other wars and also, other things about the life and culture in the Tornio Valley – as seen through my eyes.
So – that war [...]

Lapland, Tornio Valley and Childhood – Part2

The Tornio River unites Sweden and Finland – Övertorneå and the neighbouring Finnish town of Ylitornio lie on opposite sides of the river, which also makes the border. This mighty river provides countless opportunities for fishing and recreation. It presents the amazing spectacle of the spring ice break-up, that I mentioned in the Part 1. [...]

Memories: Sweden

‘Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.’
Oscar Wilde in  “The Importance of Being Earnest”
This fabulous scenery – taken by me – is a small town called, Öregrund, which is situated in the archipelago that lies in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden. This gives you an [...]

On The Occasion: ROMANCE

ROMANCE is the SCENTED, DELICATELY
PERFUMED OIL
that keeps the story going on
and on and on….

Romance is the mutual appreciation ’society’
exclusively given/shown
to The Loved One by The Loving One.

Romance, in the long run, is the very thing
that will keep/smooth the ride with its
valuable [...]

Incidents and Such Like ~ Ski Jump

The fact of the matter is that Donald Duck and I share the same predicament in being persons for whom things happen – whether one is looking for them to happen or not!! Sad things, mad things, glad things, do roll out in a never-ending roller coaster.
This incident happened in Lapland, where I was [...]

Elements of Me: Mum’s The Word!

“If you bungle raising your children,
I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
I very much agree with her on that. It is the most responsible job and thing that one has in this life, whether one is the mum or the dad. It is equally important to be a wise [...]

Travels: My Kind of Ireland

“In Ireland, the inevitable never happens
and the unexpected constantly occur.”
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy*
This Travels Story is going to be My Kind of Ireland as it is very much a beloved home to me and it is also the country where I have lived the longest time in my life. Here is my very First Impressions [...]