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MEETING NUMBER 3

Conversation about snow, winter and best places in Tampere.

It’s been a while since we´ve seen each other because we all had friends and family over and/or been away in the autumn break. To get back we had lunch at TAMK on a beautiful snowy day, which automatically opened our conversation. It put us all in a Christmas mood and we continued to imagine our trips to Lapland. Our main talk was about recommending things and places in Tampere since we all get new visitors in the upcoming time and due to wintertime you can not stay outside for too long.

Restaurants and Cafés:

  • Kaffila – Place where we had out first meeting, we are all still in love with it!
  • Pizza Napoli – we had a different taste. Chiara tried it and didn’t like it at all & the Spanish girls liked it 😀
  • Others mentioned: Poke, Burgers & Friends & a good cinnamon bun spot

Other things:

  • Lightshow of Tampere
  • Icehockey match – we all agreed on the fact that we are more used to “hooligan”-style fans in the fan block area (no we don’t like hooligans it scares us)
  • Walk through Finlayson area
  • Sauna (we like to adapt to the finish culture)

Vocabulary:

  • christmas – navidad
  • cold – warm – frío – calor
  • snow-nieve
  • white – blanco
  • boots- botas
  • socks-calcetines
  • wintercoat -abrigo de invierno
  • sibling – hermano
  • only child- hijo único
  • street- calle
  • the walk – paseo
  • lake – lago

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