Debbie Program, Jyvaskyla, Finland
In August of 2003, Gary Santerre, John Stangle and I went to Jyvaskyla, Finland for a week. After our trip there, we spent a night walking around Helsinki and eating at a Russian restaurant.
John flew home and Gary and I flew over to Copenhagen, Denmark for a night out and then to the Danish island of Bornholm, just south of Sweden in the middle of the Baltic Sea.
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Gary and I working in Finland, at Jyvaskyla, about 150 miles north of Helsinki in the center of the country.
Me sitting in a bar just beside the canals. We were past the old Courthouse near the center of old Copenhagen. We walked down the Stroget, Europe’s longest pedestrian shopping
street. We had a big beer, and another and another and then found a place that served good food. We took the bus from our hotel, near the airport, to the old center of Copenhagen
Gary Santerre having his big beer near the Copenhagen canals
Sadly, Gary died Dec 30, 2005 from complications due to cancer. He was always fun and had a big smile on his face. I thought of Gary as a good friend.
Walking around the old part of Copenhagen. It was a wonderful day and the everyone was out strolling around town. These pictures are all of the old downtown Copenhagen on or near the Stroget.
I must have thought it was going to rain but it turned out to be a beautiful sunshiny day
A week on Bornholm Island – SALICON
Gary and I flew to Bornholm, which is a Danish Island in the Baltic Sea just south of Sweden and just north of Germany and Poland. We stayed there one week and had a rental car. We flew into and stayed in a town called Ronne.
Our last day we drove in a complete circle around the island, seeing the old Viking castles, windmills and strange signs. We ate beer and drank pickled fish until we were sick of that stuff
We were driving down the road on Bornholm Island and I yelled “Stop”. I needed this for my unusual picture collection. Is that sign pointing at me?
Looking at some old Viking castles – these were all built up high and had a good view of all ships passing to the north or south of the island.
This island was also used in WW2 by the Germans who built some large gun turrets. We saw these but there was not much left to see.
