Hi, we're here at the Malteesian islands, the first thing that catches your eyes is the language, here is an example, english and malteesian about smoking.

I'll be back with more stories when I'm back home due to that our internet connection is a bit pour and breakes every now and then.

Lasse

Vacation!

Velho and Velhotar is going on a short vacation to the Maltese Islands with a few friends of ours between 28/4 - 7/5 - 2008.
Our intension is to explore the islands and some of the historical anicent remains found on the islands.
We're hoping for good weather during our stay, we'we learned that this time of the year there should be around 20-25 degrees Celcius during the days, and around 15-18 degrees during the nights.
We intend to explore the islands by buss ans by foot, and hopefully we will have a whole bunch of new photos to post at the Velhola site after our journey.
Because of lack of direct flights our gang has to stay overnight at Bremen in Germany on both the flight out and the flight back, so with a little luck there might also be some photos of the Old Town of Bremen coming up on the Velhola site.

Your Lazy Blogger

My best winter!

Hi everybody,

The media is going hot about global warming, so who cares?

Well I do! I've been waiting for this to happen since I was a kid, and finally it seems that my dream's coming true.

- I hate winters.......
- I hate to have to clear the drive path to my house from snow...
- I don't need winter at all!!!


This is the second winter in a row, when it's really no winter at all, it's kind of On/Off winter, one day we have snow, and the other day it's gone. The temperature is above zero degrees centigrade allmost all the time, I love it.

Well I do know about all the backsides of global warming, and we do not want them, or do we????

I guess that to get rid of the winters that I hate I most probably need to relocate to somewhere south, and start hoping that the Global warming STOPS in the north.

Your Lazy Blogger.

Late summer vacation

Been a while since last entry, that's why I'm the "Lazy Blogger"

At last we could leave for a mini vacation, and the destination was the southwest part of Hungary. We had rented a villa in a little nice town by the name of Zalakaros, known for their termal spa, but the spa was not the reason for us.

We always had fancied to see this part of Hungary, the south we already knew, because of our many visits to the area around the town of Pécs in the Baranya county.

The Zala county was new for us, and we found it very beautiful. We made tree different trip by car, the first one was driving around in the Zala region, the second one was driving south to the Pécs area, showing it to a friend of ours, that never before had visited Hungary. The last trip we made was driving around the lake Balaton, Balaton is the largest lake in central Europe, and known for it's beaches and spa's. The pic is taken on the shores of Balaton in a small place called Balatonberény, near the southest part of the lake.

All our stay we had really nice weather, around 20-25 degrees C during the days, and around 15 in the late evenings.

Everything comes to an end, we had to return back home, and when arriving back to Tampere Airport and finding out how cold it is, we nearly jumped back on the plane to return south.

Hi all,

The lazy blogger is back after a summer filled with all kinds of carpenter works. The blogger have been helping the son of my beloved engaged woman with his villa project, and also made some restaurations on our own house.
The picture shows the west end of our house, where the whole wall has been replaced with a new windshield and the covering outher surface.
The problem of this summer has been that it has not been many days when it has been possible to paint the wood needed for the job, it has either been raining or otherwise been unpossible to paint due to being at other places those days not raining. All in all the task has taken over a month to fullfill, but now it's done, one forth of the house. The rest will require the next three years if the weather conditions remain the same,

Midsummer

The midsummer is over, Velho and Velhotar spent a few days during midsummer at a villa situated in the archipelago of Uusikaupunki on the west coast of Finland.
The weather was excellent and the company also, we were 14 persons present during those three days.
During the days we done some small fixings to the villa, during evenings there was the traditional finnish sauna and barbeque food with the whole gang sitting around the fire into late night.

The lazy blogger is back

Since last writings, we'we been having a short vacation near Sorrento in Italy in the end of April.
We had lovely weather during our 10 day stay, and we also made a trip to Matera an old south italian town where people was still living in caves on the first half of 1900. The place was simply amazing, we can recommend it to anyone travelling in Italy.
Now when we're back home, it has also started to warm up and the summer is coming, so there is a lot to do in the garden, that'll keep us busy for a while.

Lasse