I drove to Tampere to spend a few days there. I have arranged for the house to be watched and the flowers to be watered. The local go club did meet after all despite it being the Midsummer weekend and most people being away from home.
The long red building on the left was built in 1956. It's called Kiinanmuuri (=the Great Wall of China). In sixty years, the apartment buildings have changed a lot. The modern ones tend to have large balconies whereas those built in the 1950's tend to have very small ones and the spaces are quite cramped in other ways, too. Kiinanmuuri is still a very popular place to live in. All the hipsters want to live in it.
This is how a game of go looks like when counting points at the end is done. All the prisoners have been used to fill the territories of the players from whom they were taken and the territories have been arranged to be easier to count. White won this one by 3.5 points (black gave got 0.5 point compensation for having the first turn).
After the games, I went to buy medicine for heartburn. It was because of what I ate and the one beer I had. When I got to the pharmacy, a clerk started to tell me about medicine for chronic heartburn. That topic was of no interest to me because mine was acute and caused by having eaten a couple of slices of pie with a quark topping made by my mother. Pharmacies in Finland tend to be overstaffed and pretty expensive. That's because the industry is very heavily regulated. You need a permit to run a pharmacy and they are scarce. Also, medicine you don't need a prescription for cannot be sold anywhere else but in pharmacies. I think most of them could and should be sold in supermarkets. There is no reason not to because anyone can stack up on those as much as they like anyway. Only prescription medicine should continue to be sold only in licensed pharmacies. One of the reasons pharmacies are regulated is that they are responsible for the availability of drugs in their area. The availability of certain drugs can be a matter of life and death.
Hämeenkatu, the main street. The light rail construction work has been taking a long time. After dropping by at a pharmacy, I went up to Näsinkallio to take a few golden hour pics.
Näsinneula observation tower
Roller coasters at Särkänniemi amusement park
Siilikari lighthouse
A UFO?
