Oxford Polymeet

[Drogue]

Tampere's quite nice, seemed like a lovely city

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Well why bother, no one seems to be bothering

I'm coming! And SS is too - is that not draw enough?

[Provost Harrison]

I'm afraid not even you can negate a whole Stewart Spink

[Snotty]

I had assumed we were still on for this?

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by duke o' york

Have you tried the Lake District and the Highlands yet? If you fancy Snowdonia, and are pining for the fjords more Finnish territories, then they're definitely worth a go.

I'm not trying to find Finland in the UK. I'm more into seeing both urban and rural places. Nature tourism isn't my ticket. I'm however tempted to see Snowdonia, Scotland, Cornwall, Isle of Man (well, maybe Wight too) and the Lake District due to their nature. Or should I say the life around there. Haven't seen too much of the typical English countryside (I hate to use clichés, which this resembles more or less), so that's why renting a car is pretty high on the shortlist for what to do next time I come there. Not to mention there's still plenty left to see in London. There's lots of places I'd like to visit there, so I bet you can expect to have me roaming around there more than once in the future.

All right, I don't know what Tampere is like, but am willing to bet it's better to visit than Tampa.

Well, depends on how high your expectancies are and what you want to do and see. Overall I bet not many are interested in seeing the "Manchester of Finland" (comparison based on how there's a waterway running through the city and the history as an industrial city), as tourists mainly anyway care to see the capital and the most typical attractions, which are mainly in Helsinki. Brits however seem to tend to fancy more flying with Concord to Lapland for a quick peek at jolly Santa, reindeers, heaps of snow and... and... well, seeing "extreme" winter conditions (yeah, very extreme when down in the South it's good if we even have any snow for Christmas). Or at least Santa Claus tourism has usually been what Britons are mostly interested in Finland.

If you want to see a different Finland than what appeals to the common tourist, I'd rent a car and drive around, as well as visit other cities beyond Helsinki. Also the archipelago in South West is worth seeing, as well as Åland. It's abit against backing your own country, but frankly I'd underline that the Finnish Lapland doesn't differ that much from Norway or Sweden, so you could just as well experience it there. IMO Lapland isn't the best part of Finland, eventhough the official tourism policy is to especially promote the nature of Finland. I'd rather combine it with also some smaller Finnish rural towns or seeing the other large cities.

[Zopperoni]

Originally posted by Snotty
I had assumed we were still on for this?

It better be, I'm not flying over for nothing!

[MikeH]

I can't make it, I have a friends birthday thing on the saturday.

Feel free to pop into Reading on the sunday on your way back or something Zopper/PH?

[Dauphin]

Does this mean I have more of Drogue's floorspace?

[Gibsie]

I bagsy any more free floorspace pls~!

[Provost Harrison]

Gah! I still haven't phoned the DB...

[Solly]

I'm still in ! get there midday for a solid day of hardcore drinking

[duke o' york]

[joke]Then afterwards we can go and beat up some eco-protesters! They won't be very tough with no iron in their diet. [/joke]

[duke o' york]

Can I just point out that Newcastle are playing Everton on the telly at 5ish on Saturday evening, and that will give those of you who are interested the chance to mock me relentlessly, and those who aren't interested the chance to ignore us and talk amongst yourselves.

[Drogue]

It's not eco-protestors, it's animal rights. However on the 25th there's the Pro-Test march, students *for* building the animal testing lab. Because students don't want alzheimer's

But yay! Of course we're still on!

[Solly]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Can I just point out that Newcastle are playing Everton on the telly at 5ish on Saturday evening, and that will give those of you who are interested the chance to mock me relentlessly, and those who aren't interested the chance to ignore us and talk amongst yourselves.

Who do you support? We need a pub with that game on.

PS Warrington 6 Salford 24