This hotel combines new and traditional features to ensure that your stay meets all of ... more
your business and leisure needs.The hotel and its restaurant, the Tammer, together form a unique service entity with an ambience enhanced by the style of the 1920s. ...
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The Sokos Hotel Tammer is one of the oldest established hotels in Finland. The hotel ... more
values its traditions but combines the old with modern efficiency. The hotel and its restaurant give a glimpse of the splendour and elegance of the 1920s. The hotel ...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
The Sokos Hotel Tammer is one of the oldest established hotels in Finland. The hotel ... more
values its traditions but combines the old with modern efficiency. The hotel and its restaurant give a glimpse of the splendour and elegance of the 1920s. The hotel ...
Information:
Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Probably the best hotel in the city and region Disadvantages: It doesn't have to satisfy hordes of world travellers with ultra high standards.
A summer stopover.
1 Let's deal with the location first of all.
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We were to land in Finland's Tampere airport - the home of Ryanair flights from Dublin. Our first week was to be spent in the East of Finland, quite close to the Russian border, in Hoilola. Several maps I consulted did not include that metropolis, the nearest habitation of note being Tuupovara, where Finnish rally motoring has its home.
The nearest major centre in which I could locate a hotel chain is in the city of Joensuu, the capital city of the region which has lent its name to the whole area.
Though the area stretches roughly over 1300 km2, it's total population is under 60,000.
I was somewhat comforted regarding my ignorance of the city and area by a quote from the mayor of the city - " No-one just wanders into ...
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 !)
city central and spend later many nights partying in clubs and bars in Tampere. Tampere is well known as University City. Tampere got two universities, University of Tampere (UTA) and Tampere University of Technology (TUT) last on located in Hervanta. Each university has over 10,000 students. In Tampere you also got opportune to study music or become as police. There is lot of suburban areas around city central even peoples looking for houses bit further side of Tampere. Pirkkala (where Tampere airport is) is one of there up coming areas.
Tampere got many shopping places in city central and bigger super markets near by city. In city central there is 3 shopping mall's. Koskikeskus by Hotel Ilves and Tammerkoski-rapids, Tullintori (other side of Railway station) and new Ideapark near Tampere (Lempaala). But most of small and well known shops ...
Winterangel76 12.03.2007 (03.04.2007)
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