TravelAinu

30/10/2016

Hamburg, GERMANY

Around the world in one day. This is a must see in Hamburg! Almost 15km (real) of railway, airport where aircrafts land and take off, erupting volcano and a lot more. Found a small Finland too with sauna and Sibelius monument 😂

02/08/2016

Our kids just love Viiru/Findus and they laughed so much watching this. Good kids theatre in a really nice atmosphere! Worth to visit!

Viiru-kissa ja ukko-Pesonen jatkavat seikkailuja lauantaina 6.8. klo 14 TeatteriTalon pihapiirissä 🎭

02/08/2016

Aurich, GERMANY

Nice, Nice and Nice!!! De Baalje swimming pool in Aurich was so nice and easy to visit with a wheelchair. Right after the cashier you had the privat changing rooms. Plenty of place, lockers in reachable height, full length changing table (!!!) and adults size pool wheelchair to borrow. The room was connected to the shower/toilet room and the shower had also a shower chair and a straight access to the pools. (And at least in the women's showers there was for small children a highchair for showering!) At the pools there plenty of choices to choose. Our kids (including dad) favourite was the outdoor pool with a wave making platform-thing. The waves were according to our kids at least two meters high 😄 The only negative side I could say is that it was really crowded. But who can you blame - it is a nice pool!

https://www.debaalje.de/

21/06/2016

GERMANY, Bremen

Celebrating (Finnish) school end at Universum Bremen. Science center full of things to do and the kids just love it. (Compare to the Finnish Heureka). This time we didn't unfortunately have enough time to explore the outdoor area and the shows, but we'll be coming again this summer ...for the third time Ainu recommends this place highly
Universum offers Family tickets (2 adults with their own kids) for 40€, kids under 6yrs are for free. Otherwise Adults tickets are 16€ and children 6yrs on/disabled/students pay 11€.
There are several places to eat, but you're also allowed to bring your own food with you.
Wheelchair friendly place ♿

https://universum-bremen.de/?lang=en

20/01/2016

I think I mentioned the following thing already in the summer when we last used the ferries. Always check different country pages for the best price! And it applies to all companies. The difference can be even hundred euros!

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/matkat/art-1453190125422.html

15/01/2016

You don't always need to leave home to travel. Day spent in space. Todays program was to watch the spacewalk live from youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDh4uK9PvJU

09/01/2016

Näin juuri! Nooran renkaanjäljillä yritetään mennä

http://www.hs.fi/m/ihmiset/a1452222333883?ref=hs-mob-extra-kapea

09/01/2016

Konstanz, GERMANY

Finally reached todays destination. We booked just a normal double room and got one of the two corner rooms where you have a wide view. The hotel doesn't have their own parking place, but we managed to get a parking place from the market place next to it. And we were lucky enough that it wasn't a market day

The hotel is wheelchair accessible with an exception of one step at the main entrance. But maybe they have a ramp for it or will help with lifting.

09/01/2016

Rheinfall, SWITZERLAND

Now that we fell in love with waterfalls why not make a stop at the biggest waterfall in Europe. Rheinfall is located in the northern part of Switzerland, couple of kilometers away from Schaffhausen. Unfortunately it was raining and foggy and taking the photos just with my mobile I couldn't capture the beautiful turquoise colour of the water. But can you see the amount of fish there is in the water?!

http://www.rheinfall.ch/de/

09/01/2016

Breitnau, Schwarzwald, GERMANY

Hiking in amazing scenery! Ravennaschlucht is a side valley of the Höllental (Hells valley) and through it runs the Ravenna mountain brook with waterfalls, The Great Ravenna Fall (bottom left) being 16m high. There use to be several water mills on the brook. One of them is the well preserved Großjockenmühle (top right). Because steepness of the Ravena the water was run over the roof to the water mill. 😃
At the beginning of the hiking route (Or at the end -you can also walk the mountain down.) you walk underneath the 37m high Ravenna bridge. The bridge was built 1927 and it survived the massive bombings of World War II, but was then bombed down by the retreating German soldiers. However the bridge was rebuilt right after the war and is till in use. The Höllentalbahn (train) drives between Freiburg and Titisee offering amazing views with normal train prices (Around 5€ depending of the length of the trip.). I'll attach a nice English article about the train route below.
Next to the parking place there is the Hotel Hofgut Sternen where even Goethe and Marie Antoinette stayed. You can also visit nearby St Oswald's Chapel.

http://europeforvisitors.com/germany/freiburg/hoellentalbahn.htm

07/01/2016

Schwarzwald, GERMANY

Here's a small saga to read and better photos:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirschsprung_(Black_Forest)

07/01/2016

Ribeauvillé, Route des Vins D'Alsace, FRANCE

What a nice picturesque old town. Nice morning walk in the city with traditional breakfast with croissant and a bit of a wine tasting. Not too bad of a start for the day. Even the light rain didn't bother us.

Ribeauvillé belongs to the towns of Route des Vins D'Alsace (Wine route) which is 170 km long. Would be a nice road trip in the autumn when the wine has been just done, the leaves have beautiful colours and there are the new sweet wine to drink with the Flammkuchen.

On the road again, we've got busy day planned ahead 😄

http://www.alsace-wine-route.com/en