Looooong table

What are they up to back home in Finland? Not too far from where my parents live they are busy breaking world records. I got the news already yesterday but was to busy to post. My friend reported that it had been made official by the Guinness Book of World Records: the longest table is in Nagu and it measures 163.58 metres and 5 millimetres. My friend who was involved with the arrangements of this event told me that it took them 7 hours just to arrange the chairs around the table!

Just to put the whole event into perspective, the are where this event was held has a population of approx 1500 people. So an event on this scale is quite something!

At our place we were keeping things a bit more low key and had some friends over for dinner, there were 8 of us around the table.

I Finland, närmare bestämt i Åboland, så håller sej folk sysselsatta med att bryta världsrekord. Vad annars? Igår rapporterade min kompis att det nu var officiellt, världens längsta bord finns i Nagu. Bordet mäter 163.58 meter och 5 millimeter och rekordet har bekräftats av en officiell domare för Guinness Rekordbok. Min kompis var med om att arrangera detta event och hon berättade att det tog ungefär sju timmar att ställa stolarna på plats!


Samtidigt åt vi middag med några vänner i betydligt mindre skala, vi hade 8 personer vid bordet.

Istanbul

I thought I'd share some more photos from Istanbul.

Här kommer lite bilder från Istanbul.

Grattis mamma!

Ett stort grattis till min mamma som fyller år idag! Här är ett par bilder av hennes vackra blommor. Jag har inte ärvt hennes gröna tumme.

A quick note to wish my mum a very happy birthday. These pictures are of the flowers that she grows. I have not inherited her green thumb.

Istanbul: Blue Mosque and Hagia Sofia

Istanbul must be one of my favourite cities in the world. It blew me away completely with the architecture, history, scenery, the people and of course the food!

Here are some photos from our very first day in Istanbul, we fit in a visit to the Blue Mosque (it is actually called Sultan Ahmet mosque) and Hagia Sofia in one afternoon!


Istanbul kom snabbt in på min lista över favoritstäder. Det är en stad som verkar ha allt, arkitektrur, historia, vackra vyer, vänliga människor och jättegod mat förstås!


Här kommer nu några foton från vår första dag i Istanbul, vi besökte den Blå Mosken (som egentligen ska kallas för Sultan Ahmet mosken) och Hagia Sofia på samma eftermiddag.

Mosque with water views
Utsikt över vattnet från Blå Mosken

Ceiling
Insidan av taket

Hundreds of people visit the Blue Mosque daily
Dagligen besöker hundratals människor den Blå Mosken

Tainted glass windows
Fönster i färgat glas

Hagia Sofia is located right opposite the Blue Mosque. The building was initially a church, then converted into a mosque and now it is a museum.

Hagia Sofia ligger mittemont den Blå Mosken. Ursprungligen byggdes den som en kyrka, senare ändrades den till en moske och nu är byggnaden ett museum.

I love places that oooze history!
Man kan rikitgt känna historens vingslag på såna här ställen!

Can you believe that these are tiny pieces of ceramic put together to this mosaic?!
Många av mönstren in taken består av små porslinsbitar ihopplockade till den mest otroliga mosaik!

M for manual

This month I am taking my first e-course ever. For me e-courses are brilliant as there's not much by way of short courses for (expat) women over here.

The course I am taking is called Photo 101 an is taught by Nicole Hill-Gerulat at Nicoles Classes. I am hoping that this course will give me a better understanding of my DSLR camera and I think that in the first week if the course it already has given me plenty of new knowledge! Previously I used to shoot in Av or Tv mode (semimanual), but during the course we are asked to take the step to fully manual.

I just need to get on with the homework though, I am a bit behind since I spent the first week of the course in Turkey...

2287

We are back from our holiday in Turkey and I MAY have become a little bit trigger happy. Today I transferred all the photos to my laptop, all 2287 of them... I know already that not all of them will be awesome, hence also the number of pictures taken!

I'll share more with you over the coming days, because right now Blogger seems to be having some issues...

Turkish Delight served for breakfast

There is an app for that!

I've only had my iPhone for a few months and I have to admit that I am hooked! More so than the phone, it's the apps that I cannot live without!

There seems to be an app for everything; internet banking, currency exchange and even an app that helps you find where it was that you parked your car!

Blogger announced a few days ago that they have launched a new app iOS users (was there ever an old one?) and I downloaded it straight away!

So right now I am writing from the Abu Dhabi airport (uncomfortable chairs), just because I can. I am on my way back to Saudi Arabia after a 10 holiday, but more on that in a later post!