Above you see the marina in Nagu
Here above is the old church. You don't see many churches of stone up at our latitudes but here in "the wealthy south" they are common.
This is typical Finnish humour, the name of the local store is "Nagu Korv och Spik" (fi: Nauvon Nakki ja Naula) which means "Nagu Sausage and Nails" in english. The name refers to the versatility of their operations.
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Hello Hans!
Oh my dream is to build a log cabin...in Oregon.
Someday maybe!
I will have to check out your friend's blog.
Pretty church. My favorite part of visiting Europe is visiting churches (and I don't even go to church anymore- go figure!).
Sausages and NAILS??? OKAAAAY...
Thanks for stopping by my bloggie!
:)
Glad you enjoyed the pics.
Take care,
Suexx
Vi som är vana med våra stenkyrkor tycker att era träkyrkor är så fina...
Gärset är alltid grönare hos grannen? ;)
Milli,
Precis som du säger, gräset är grönare, kyrkorna är större och vackrare, landskapet är intressantare och sammanfattningsvis: allt är bättre nån annanstans än hemmavid... :)
Borta bra men hemma bäst, eli va?
Men nog hade ni en trevlig utfärd
Hi Hans,
It looks like a lovely place to retreat to. Is that where the photo came from on Rachels? Nice photo. I can now put a name with a face. :)
I am so happy to hear your check up was a-ok. Good news.
xox Grace
Hi Grace,
No, my photo is shot at our summerhouse, in Ingelas blog there is a recent photo shot of me and our host during this trip to the south if you want to se a fresh picture.
I don't recommend... :)
I went over there, and only viewed beautiful photos.
Well now, I wish I could read Swedish or Finnish. I'm still not able to read Ingela's blog, but the beautiful photos need no translation!
I want to visit that store! I can only imagine what items come between Sausage and Nails!
The church is lovely. It must have quite the history.
Thanks, Hans!
Grace,
Beautiful photos are Ingelas' trademark!
Dale,
There is plenty of stuff inside the store between "sausage" and "nails" :)
The churh is not that old one could expect this type of stone church to be. It is built in the 18th century. Many of the old stone churces in southern Finland are from the 13th century or even earlier.
Christianity was brought to this part of Finland by Danish/Swedish kings and their knights in the 12th century.
Up north where we live a hundred years later. So it did not spread at internet speed back then :)
If you find something interesting in Ingelas' blog you can simply write a comment and ask for an explanation in plain English
Hi Hans, what a beautiful marina! Do you have a boat these days? The weather looked just perfect for a bit of cruising ;-)
I like the shop too. I must take another look at Ingelas blog as well...lol...sausages and nails. It sounds like a South African trading store to me. Maybe that far north is not so different from that far south ;-)
The church too is very sweet. Are the ones further north wooden? I seem to remember that on Maria's blog, she showed us lots of pictures of wooden homes and buildings in Finland.
Hi Val,
Yes, I have a boat but it is not anything as fancy as those in the marina in Nagu.
It is a small dinghy, 21 ft, built in 1960. I had a new 20 Hp diesel installed last year so it is still going strong. You can see a glimps of in the second picture from the top here:
http://oh6my.blogspot.com/2007/08/summer-07-some-pics.html
We used to have a similar shop in Bjorko as well, they had everything from horseshoes and nails to planks and bricks via sausage and lemonade :)
Now they have close to nothing in there...
Yes, very much so, but you can find ones built of stone here up north as well but mostly in the old larger cities, not in the smaller parishes on the countryside
We had an old country corner store that used to advertise:
"Peacorn, Popnuts, Chewing Can and Gumdy"...
Hans, I looked at the photo of your boat. I love it.
The area reminds me of our cottage country here in Canada. My old stomping ground.
Is that the sea or is it a body of fresh water?
Dale,
It is the sea, I could drive my boat from here all the way across the Atlantic to the Lawrence river and into the Great Lakes if I was brave enough :)
Or drive down and around the Cape Horn and up to Vancouver...
You can find the place on the map if you put in DECIMAL latitude 63.3664 and longitude 21.1861 on this page: http://atlas.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp
Zoom out and you will see how our summer house is located in relation to the rest of the world.
Hans, that is ever so cool! I'd like to find the coordinates where I live.
I wonder if it would be shorter from here to where you live via as-the-crow-flies over the top of the world...
Hi Dale,
There are many web-maps where you can look up your coordinates. Here is one:
http://www.satsig.net/maps/lat-long-finder.htm
Or you can use a GPS receiver of course :)
GPS receivers for Lap-Tops are cheap nowadays.
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