Tampere, Finland!

Quick Note: all the photos from Tampere are on my photo site under Finland.
So I was expecting a lot from this place. All I ever heard from a group of Finns in Stuttgart was how so good Tampere was --- I had to go see it.
I was pretty surprised, It was a really nice place. It was interesting how they incorporated nature with the city center. There were trees everywhere, and a 10 minute walk from the center of town brought you to a lake. That's pretty cool. The city isn't enormous, but for Finnish standards it's a good sized city. In Tampere I stayed at Krister's place on his couch (best couch in Tampere :) ). Their school apartments are so much better than anything back home, or Stuttgart for that matter. Huge room, good sized bed, kitchen, patio.. nice. So in Tampere I visited Krister, Perttu, Ville, and Jaakko again after Stuttgart. We had a few good nights there (some of which I don't exactly remember), but I really enjoyed that city and I thought it was more "finnish" than Helsinki as they say.