Here we have two pictures from the 'crayfish party.' We were able to taste both the native noble crayfish and the introduced signal crayfish. Both were cooked and served with lemon and dill. I do not enjoy dill, but the lemon was nice...unfortunately I don't like crayfish either, so I had one of each to compare, and that was it for me! They tasted basically the same. The native seemed to have a nicer texture. But, I only had one of each, so who knows.
Below, our host, Japo (wearing glasses), and friends dish up some native European crayfish:
Meanwhile the non-native crayfish were already neatly arranged and waiting:
The next night we were all invited to the city hall for a delicious meal and schmoozing with the local political leaders...riiiight. Anyway, here's a shot of the city hall of Kuopio. The square in front is a market during the day. Everything is packed away at about 4:30pm. There is a small outdoor stage visible as well, I never saw it used.
Inside was wood panelled (lots of wood in Finland) and had stencil-looking painted decorations. And there was a beautiful light fixture. Behold, the beautiful light fixture:
Outside the city hall is this interesting statue. There was no plaque, so it seems not to be any kind of memorial, but simply art. There is supposed to be water flowing out of the man's cup into the 'stream' below, but it wasn't turned on. I liked it anyway.
Here's a statue just for Dan. In fact, it might as well be a statue OF Dan. A boy, frolicking in the water, clutching some fish. He is also naked. The building behind him had a variety of shops - butcher, cafe, souvenir shop, yarn shop, etc. I believe it was formerly a school? Not sure.
Well, that's it for the photos. I didn't take too many. There are some action figure ones but they will be deposited later in their new designated blog.
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