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  Cracow in December

  The week before mother's funerals we were in Cracow. The weather was cloudy, even rainy at times.The hotel was tidy but very basic. The location, however, just outside the old town and near the railwa...

  13.12.2018 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Busy Times I

  Early in the week I was on an excursion to Estonian museums, from the brand new Estonian National Museum (ERM) to Lennusadam. Both are very impressive from an architectural point of view. Eesti Rah...

  25.11.2016 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Pernaja Photos

  After Berlin and Amsterdam - Pernaja (Pernå in Swedish), now a part of Loviisa, was the object of our excursion. We visited Pernaja Church, built in the first half of the fifteenth century, and Malmgå...

  11.09.2014 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Amsterdam Photos

  A lovely city I wish Peter the Great had never visited... A couple of weeks ago I was in Amsterdam for a long work-related weekend, rushing from museum to museum as usual: Rembradthuis, Stedelijk M...

  16.12.2013 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  A Berlin Excursion

  I was on a museum excursion with co-workers again, after a spring of removal and reorganization, to Berlin. Obviously Berlin is an interesting city for almost anyone to visit, but I have always had ...

  16.06.2011 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Excursion to Swedish Manors

  Last week an excursion took me again to Sweden in connection with the commemoration of the Finnish War 1808-09 and its consequences. We visited Elghammar Castle, Julita Manor, stayed in Dufweholm Ma...

  21.10.2009 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  A Tourist in St. Petersburg

  Earlier this month I was in the rainy St. Petersburg on a short bus trip organized and subsidized by the Union of Museum Professionals (MAL). The travel programme: 3.9....

  07.09.2009 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Michael in Malvern

  A meeting of European Michael students and a channelling retreat took place on the 5th-8th October 2006 at The Dell House in Malvern Wells in England, a three and a half days out of this reality. It w...

  12.10.2006 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Expedition Åland

  The National Museum of Finland made a three-day excursion to the subarctic archipelago of Åland last week, paid for by the Maija Syrjänen Fund. Our mission was to survive five museums, five churches, ...

  04.09.2006 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  Savonlinna 2006

  I finished my summer holidays this year with Tannhäuser at the Savonlinna Opera Festival. It was my first time, not a bad experience as a whole, although the town of Savonlinna isn't particularly attr...

  17.07.2006 | Kommentteja 0 | Magpie's Feather

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  A Day Trip to Another Reality

  Last Saturday I visited Uuras, the home of my maternal family, off Viipuri (now Vyborg), with a group of relatives. My mother, as one who has lived there, was persuaded to come along to act as a guide...

  19.06.2006 | Kommentteja 2 | Magpie's Feather

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