Culinarium in Slovakia

Winter holiday is over and I am back in Finland,therefore is the time to start blogging again after a long break.I have spent beautiful two weeks in my homeland,met my family and friends,visited the capital-Bratislava and our highest mountains-Vysoké Tatry and naturally,took a hundreds of pictures that you are up to see.I was so lucky to get a new camera from Pukki ( haha guy who brings presents in Finland) so I can take this blog to totally new level :))

   The best of Slovak cuisine-strapačky,bryndzové pirohy a bryndzové halušky 

   (http://veronikine.blogspot.fi/2013/11/back-to-traditions.html recipe here)

Our first steps leaded into a Slovak pub,which is a restaurant offering traditional Slovak meals,located in a heart of Bratislava.After a long time,I enjoyed my fave food in a cozy place and could hardly move after I ate all that I ordered :)

    The bridge SNP or UFO bridge (most slovenského národného povstania)dominat since 1972)

A building of the National council and river Danube in a background (budova parlamentu a Dunaj)

   Bratislava castle (Bratislavský hrad) 

Both pictures above are taken the same day,but after a grey cloudy morning sky got brighter and sun showed up from behind clouds for a while.It was really nice to see familiar places once again!

    The original Irish coffee served by native Scot speaking with lovely scottish accent

                            Guinness,oh how i love this beer-I could easily drink it instead of water!

 Wandering in an old town of Bratislava,you always

 find a place you haven´t seen before ;)

   An fabulous grilled pork ribs in a fancy place-Barrock restaurant,where you can eat like an animal!

    Wall decoration in Barrock´

    Controversial commercial ( Fajčenie neškodí zdraviu-Smoking/blowing is not harmful :))

    Evening details (that photo would be so much better without a random guy with a plastic bag)

    And wooden Bethlehem-symbol of Christmas

I hope you enjoyed my post,and appreciate better quality of pictures,though I still have to learn how to use this new thing ;) *pictures also from http://www.bratislavaguide.com/barrock

15 days until Christmas

Okay.All right-my plan didn´t work :P I was quite busy last five days,so I didn´t get a chance to sit few minutes behind the laptop..therefore I did not post anything since last Wednesday.I apologize :) And I didn´t manage to take any proper pictures(screw me!!)

Thursday 5th

 I went to burn my ass off to the gym :)) and later in evening I was babysitting Kasperi and Vertti.We    

 had much fun together,playing hide and seek and baking ginger breads and decorated them with loads 

 of sugar paste and pearls(I got suspected that some of the decorative past ended up in Vertti´s mouth,he just could not keep his hands of it :)

Friday 6th
The 6th of December is Independence day in Finland.Every market is closed,so you better buy your milk one day before,if you don´t want to drink a morning coffee black :) That´s what happened to us.

Later in a day,family meets for a dinner-I celebrated itsenäisyyspäivä,how they call it,with my boyfriend and his family.We had a glögi,which is form of a wine,heated up and served with almonds and raisins inside the cup.Mäti-salmon eggs with sour cream and rye bread,as an appetizer,then smoked salmon,turkey,reindeer ham,liver casserole with butter potatoes and all the different delicious food.I love Finland when it comes to traditions and cuisine <3 Some day I have to make a post related to this topic ;)
 

After our stomachs got fulfilled,we trundled ourselves to the sofa and watched the official parade,with Finnish president Sauli Niinistö-shaking hands with hundreds of people..that has gotten quite boring at some point,but I didn´t want to be rude,so I watched it until the end :P

These are Duudsonit- Finnish jackass,and what they wore at the parade :)) I adore their jackets!

Saturday 7th
Right after breakfast I went to a ´cave´ with my Brazilian friend Benoit,climb some walls.I only started about a month ago,but I really got into it,it´s kind of addictive sport.And great workout for shoulders and back.

*to be continued

.and for compare,winter in Slovakia

walk around

    .my first winter/spring in Helsinki