Judith Van Herreweghe

Autumn 2013
Home Country: Belgium

“Pori day” is something like a celebration of the whole city. And we started that day with a walk through the city center which was full of market stands with typical Finnish food, clothes, and other stuff. We continued by going to some museums in Pori such as The Satakunna museum and the Arkki museum. The first one was about the history of Pori.

The last one was about the nature, the animals and the parks in Pori and in Finland in general. Unfortunately there were no translations, so the explanations about every animal were in Finnish. Too bad, but it was quite nice though. Especially for the child living in all of us. J

Then we went back to the market square, Kauppatori where a competition was going on; a very typical Finnish one. And the goal was to throw a basket as far as you can. If I remember right there was a man from Tampere who threw his basket around 15 meters. Nice throw!

Besides it was a beautiful autumn day. The sun was shining, the leaves of the trees were yellow, orange and brown, such a nice composition to make you feel happy.

To continue our trip in our student city we went to the central church of Pori. It is representative of neo-gothic style. The building was completed in 1863. Inside the church you can notice an art nouveau style with beautiful glass paintings. And the chandeliers are impressive as well. Upstairs we had a nice view over the whole church and we could see the organ in detail.

After that we walked along the Kokemaki River to the park, Kirjurinluoto. We took some crazy pictures at “the beach side” and enjoyed the beautiful weather again. After all we went home after a really nice day.

It was nice to be a tourist in your own city.

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