TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

tiistai, maaliskuu 23, 2004

2:42 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Back at Lasipalatsi. I ran into Ossi and Juha having a meeting with Pixelache organisers in the cafe after I went downstairs from here yesterday - I love it when you're in a new place and already randomly running into people you know.
Last night had a spare hour before dinner at Sophea's, so decided to have a swim at the Yrjönkatu Swimming hall. Luckily it is swimsuite optional, so bathed nude with lots of other ladies. Increibly lush 1920's classical building, with huge columns, gorgeous tile work, private cabins upstairs, and lovely old wooden lockers with wire mesh, also had a sauna.
Activities with public nudity are alway fun, after spencer tunick experience with 5,000 other people in melbourne at 5am on a winter sunday morning. that's us on the front page of http://www.spencertunick.com/

On my way now to video the matinkaari bridge behind the arabia factory - woke up too lage to get to porvoo, and one of the locative media people is interested to com e with me, so think I will leave it to next week.
Have a new phone and sim card - mobile no + 358 417 006 117 from outside helsinki and 0417 006117 if you are here.

A friend told me a joke when I asked about the main cultural differences between finland and australia:
what is the difference between an extroverted Finn and an introverted Finn?
An introverted Finn stares at their shoes while talking to you, and an extroverted Finn stares at your shoes.

Told it to Juha this morning and he laughed, said that in summer people are much happier and more friendly. I also asked do I look funny? People keep staring at me. He said, diplomatically, you are very ... colourful. Well, yes and I guess I get that at home too.

Back out into the drizzle - no snow today, sadly - will hopefully catch up with the signal process people at helsinki railway station in about 15 minutes. Doing an escalating public intervention with mobile phones, sound and I'm not sure what else exactly.