Winter activities

On the evening of my birthday we went sledding on a bob,
that was a lot of fun :-) Of course we had to dress well. Here are my French flatmates Anne-Sophie and Mathilde and I in our winter equipment. My gloves (self-made by Juho) in the Finnish colours and with my initials kept my hands warm!












We went to a nice slope, but already the way was great :-)
Like children we pulled each other on the bob. Of course, we also had a snowball fight!








Fortunately I had taken my ice skates from Germany after the Christmas holidays. In the stadion in our part of town you can now skate where usually people run. A car even removed the snow from the track. This was already a nice place to go ice skating, especially when the sun was shining, but...






... skating 7 km the frozen Baltic sea was even more spectacular! A 7 km long loop on the ice in the western part of Helsinki was cleared from the snow. That was a special experience!











When we were cold after skating, I prepared Bratäpfel (filled apples from the oven) with vanilla sauce, a sweet German winter speciality. In my opinion, Bratäpfel are a good example of typical German food, better than Schnitzel and Würstchen...