Enjoy a delicious meal by the fireplace at the Piazza Food Factory at Scandic Tampere ... more
City. While parents dine at this popular restaurant children can have fun in Sigge’s play corner.Most standard rooms at Scandic Tampere City offer a French balcony. A...
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The Scandic Tampere City is a modern hotel set by a lake in the city centre, next to the ... more
train station on Hämeenkatu, Tampere's main street, offering a variety of shops and restaurants on the doorstep. This seven floor hotel features 127 air conditione...
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The Scandic Tampere City is a modern hotel set by a lake in the city centre, next to the ... more
train station on Hämeenkatu, Tampere's main street, offering a variety of shops and restaurants on the doorstep. This seven floor hotel features 127 air conditione...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
The hotel offers 8 meeting rooms with conference facilities for doing business and ... more
wireless Internet access at no extra charge. Guests may relax and dine in the bar and restaurant. This air-conditioned, 7-storey hotel offers a total of 263 rooms, a lobby with 24-hour reception and check-out service, a hotel safe and lift access. Guests may also take advantage of the room and laundry services and bicycle hire. Those arriving by car may park in the garage for an additional fee. Check-in time is at 2 pm. Check-out time is at 12 pm.
Advantages: Good size and weight easy to clean Disadvantages: None
+*+*+*+ Coffee Tamper +*+*+*+
Not a lot of people will know this but a coffee tamper is an essential piece of equipment to make a good espresso, and a good espresso will lead to a great cup of Cappuccino, Latte and Mocha.
First you need a roaster to roast the green coffee beans, that's right coffee beans are green before they are roasted. The fresher the beans the better the coffee and you can not get any fresher than roasting your own.
Second comes the grinder and no ordinary grinder it has to be a burr grinder as no other will do. Coffee looses its quality within hours of grinding so best to grind just before making the espresso.
Fourth you need the 15bar pump driven coffee machine this pushes the water through the ground coffee at high-pressure and for the perfect espresso the water should take between 23 and 27 seconds ...
Advantages: Small heart in big city Disadvantages: (road to Turku !)
Awww.. Finally I will give my all to this. Really, this is my baby and I hope you will be gentle with it.
As some of you know I'm from Finland and from Tampere or Manse as we locals say. Funny I still see myself as local even I haven't live there for last? (God) nearly 10 years. As most of Finnish cities Tampere got its Swedish name as well, it Tammerfors.
But before I can start my review I have to say "Moro" (Tampere language and meaning "hi").
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City is situating between two lakes, Lake- Nasijarvi and Lake- Pyhajarvi in southern Finland. Tampere is the third largest city in Finland, and the largest city outside the Greater Helsinki area. Its part of Western Finland province, 173 km north from Helsinki and it have nearly 200 000 ...
Winterangel76 12.03.2007 (03.04.2007)
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Tampere is the third largest city in Finland and the largest inland centre in the Nordic countries. Currently there are over 200,000 inhabitants in Tampere, and almost 300,000 inhabitants in Tampere Sub-Region, which comprises Tampere and its neighbouring municipalities. It was also the most attractive city among Finns who plan on moving. At it's my home town, well...use to be..I was born in there.Tampere is also big university city withing two universities, University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology
Tampere was founded 1775as a market place around Tammerkoski river in 1775 by Gustav III of Sweden and four years later, 1779, it got its full township status.During the later half of 19th century Tampere had almost half of Finland's industrial labour. The town's industrial nature in the 19th and 20th centuries gave it ...
