Bars in Tampere

Here will be some information about bars in Tampere city-center. If you like some bar especially, just add another child page here.

Most of the bars in the center of Tampere can be found close to the main street, Hämeenkatu, or in couple of blocks distance from the main street. More detailed information here uk.holidaysguide.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-139226-tampere_restaurants_and_bars-i

Cross-country skiing

Ski tracks in Tampere

The ski tracks on the Tampere map http://mski.wmdata.fi/tampere/

All the lights are on from 6:00 until daylight and from sunset until 23:00.

Around Hervanta:

around lake Suolijärvi 4.3 km with lights
Suolijärvi - Euromarket in Koivistonkylä 5.5 km with lights
connection to this from the Lukonmäki 1 km with lights
to Taivalpirtti 13 km
other tracks 7.5 km and 10 km

On the beach of Suolijärvi there is a building with showers, WC etc. (called Urheilumaja in Finnish), open mon-fri 9-21 and sat-sun 10-20. This is where the tracks officially start, but of course you can start anywhere.

At both Lamminpää and Julkujärvi there are same kind of buildings.
2,5 km with lights, start also at parking place of Horha
Horha - Julkujärvi 8 km with lights
Julkujärvi - Lamminpää and Metsäkylä with lights

Kauppi:

That same building in Kuntokatu 5, open every day 8-21. In Niihama there is cafeteria and wc, you can also "barbeque" outside your own sausages.

All the tracks are with lights:
2.6 km, 2.2 km, 4 km
Kauppi - Niihama 4 km
Niihama - Rustholli 6 km
Niihama - Halimasjärvi 4 km
Halimasjärvi - Olkahinen 3.5 km
Leinola - school in Linnainmaa 1 km
Halimasjärvi - Leinola 2 km
In Leinola a track of 2 km without lights

You can look at the map on the www-site of the city of Tampere
http://www.tampere.fi/ytoteto/kami/paikkat/tre/index.html

Unfortunately on the english site you cannot find these routes on the map. (There are, however, many other interesting maps:
http://www.tampere.fi/ytoteto/kami/paikkat/tre/index_uk.html)

I think that from Kauppi you can also find connections to outside Tampere - and if they are not long enough, you are very fit indeed!

At Kaukajärvi:

around lake Isolampi 2 km with lights
Kaukajärvi free-time center - Vehmainen 5,5 km with lights
Kaukajärvi - Taivalpirtti 20 km

At Ikuri:

Virelä - Lamminpää 3 km with lights
in Virelä 2,5 km, 5 km

Near Lielahti and Lentävänniemi:

Suomensaari 0,8 km with lights

At Rahola – Mustavuori:

3 km with lights, start from the end of streer Korvenkatu

At Tesomajärvi:

Tesomajärvi - Lamminpää 3 km with lights

At Pyynikki:

3 km with lights

At Peltolammi:

around lake Peltolammi 2,5 km with lights
connection to Multisilta 0,5 km

This might help you a bit!

Fishing

Finland offers numerous possibility to go fishing. You can fish with a simple rod and few worm in any lake without getting a license. This is part of "Everyman's rights", which allows you to freely walk through forests, collect berries and mushrooms without asking the authorisation of the land owner.

You will however need a license if you want to go cast-fishing, fly-fishing or net fishing. First you need to pay the national licence (20€/year or 6€/week). You can pay it to this bank account Nordea: 166030-101496 and then print the receipt. Then you need the regional license (27€/year or 6€/week) To pay this license, the bank account for the region of tampere (West Finland) is: Länsi-Suomen lääni 166030-106602

However you dont need to pay the regional fee if you are only going to fish in rivers, they have their separate license which are between 5€ and 15€ / 24h.

Hervanta has few smaller lake like Särkijärvi, Hervantajärvi, Suolijärvi.
For river fishing you can go to:
Lempäälä (20km, 5€/day, 50€/year)
Viiala (35km, 10€/day)
Siuronkoski (45km, 7€/day, 70€/day)
And few other places... http://www.kuhamaa.fi/kosket/

Fishing without a license is punished by a 80€ fine.

Ice skating

So what you need is pair of skates and enough socks for the skates. The combination should be _tight_ when tied up. And it makes life easier if you can't twist your ancle much to sides and the blades are sharp.

And have enough clothes which you can easily remove as skating might be warmer to do than you think. You migth think that a stick would help in the beginning but I'd say it's better without after first minutes, otherwise you lean against the stick too much and never trust yourself.

You can buy skates from all the sport-stores, basic pair is ok but you should try them on first and compare with some more expensive - you get what you pay for. If bought second hand it might need sharpening, and if really old they might not really support your leg and it makes skating quite hard so try them out!

[Note info about amounts is from January 2005 so those could have changed..]

In Sportia 10 they have second hand skates, adult sizes and the guy said quite a lot too. Place is Sammonkatu 60, Kaleva. (http://www.sportia-10.com/fr.html)

They have junior sized skates also in Hockey Service Oy, Väinämöisenkatu 21, Kaleva. They don't have any adult sized.

And one place more to check is Sammon Vapari - Kaskitie 14, Kaleva.. (again =). Not too many male adult sized, biggest is 42 1/2. For juniors and girls there is more to pick from.

And if you're really (really) lucky you might find some from fleamarket. I wouldn't count on it.

Kyykkä

Kyykkä is a traditional team sport originating from Karelia. The basic idea is to knock kyykkäs (small wooden cylinders) out of your own game-square by throwing karttu (stick, resembling baseball bat). Drinking is essential part of the game, because otherwise it is quite boring game. Some teams start drinking before the first games which start at 8:30 in the morning. Referees can and have to be bribed, it can really turn games around.

Every February around 3000 students gather to Hervanta, Tampere to play this game and to figure out who is the World Champion. 512 team places in open class and 64 team places in women's class are usually sold out in 2-3 hours after the registration starts two months before the event. And after the games there will be The official Kyykkä party downtown Tampere. This is a happening you don't want to miss!

Rules of Kyykkä

Nature sights

From this article you can find some nature sights if you’re interested to go back to nature. You could need a good dictionary, since I haven’t have time to find all information in English. You can use this dictionary: http://mot.kielikone.fi/mot/ttkk/netmot.exe?UI=figr at TUT’s computers.

Around Hervanta is a lot of forest and I usually walk the paths made by wildlife and the forest is full of those. You can find a good map in English from http://www.tampere.fi/ytoteto/kartta/map.php. There you can measure distances and plan how to get back from the forest. Here is the Hervanta naturepath quide in Finnish. I can’t find the English version, but I hope you manage with that http://www.hervanta.fi/ie/pdf/luontopolut.pdf.

When there is enough snow you can ski nearby the lakes of Hervanta (Särkijärvi, Hervantajärvi, Suolijärvi), since there is a lot skiing tracks. You can find more tracks from http://www.into-club.org/intopedia/living/freetime/cross-country-skiing

One nice place is at Hikivuori nearby that is also Haiharan kartano and its park. What I can remember there is a beautiful view from the top of Hikivuori to the lake and the cliff is very deep. At the park you will find a small pond and the birch wood around it looks best in spring time.http://www.tampere.fi/ytoteto/kartta/map.php?x=2494500&y=6817786&px=2.0&txt=Hikivuori+and+Haiharankartano.

Another place is Kauppi people’s park on coast of Näsijärvi. There is jogging track along the coast. There is great sunset by sitting on rocks. http://www.tampere.fi/ytoteto/kartta/map.php?x=2489756&y=6822562&px=8.0&...

The most of you already have been at Pyynikki, but you can go again to there. There is an old observation tower and it’s a conservation area (luonnonsuojelualue). From link below you will also find more conservation areas. There is also the English version, however there is much more information in the Finnish version

http://www.tampere.fi/ymparisto/luonnonsuojelualueet/index.html

http://www.tampere.fi/english/environment/greenareas/parks/index.html

http://www.tampere.fi/ymparisto/luonnonsuojelualueet/index.html

than in the English version.
http://www.tampere.fi/ymparisto/luonnonsuojelualueet/index.html
http://www.tampere.fi/english/environment/greenareas/parks/index.html http://www.tampere.fi/english/environment/greenareas/parks/index.html .

More guides and information about areas and paths you will find from this link, http://www.tampere.fi/ymparisto/luonnonvirkistyskaytto/index.html, it’s only in Finnish, but you will understand at least the pictures and the headlines with the dictionary. Look those pdfs at least those include nice maps and pictures.

Use the map and the dictionary, so we will meet in a forest.

Ps. General knowledge about the Finnish nature and the national parks, the other protected areas, trails etc. A day trip to Aulanko would be a good idea. http://www.luontoon.fi/default.asp?Section=4973

Newspapers in other languages

In case you want to read some news -not-in-Finnish-only-, you can do it in the library of TUT. There is so called resting room "Huili" in the opposite side of the information desk, and there you can find at least Frankfurter Allgemaine (or something like that:), Herald Tribune and some Swedish newspaper, too! They are for free, you just need to stay in that resting room while reading those:) BTW, the cheapest coffee automate of TUT is also at the same room;)

There is in library of Hervanta (in the same building with Kantri Star) a lot of books in English, France, Spanish, Swedish etc. You can lend books from the library if you have a library card of the city of Tampere, and that is free of charge! You can keep the books for free for about 4 weeks. If you forgot to return your books, they are going to charge you A LOT!!

Main collection of foreign novels and literature is in the main library Metso in end of Hämeenkatu (other end than the railwaystation). There is also a newspaper reading room in keskustori in small building a bit after the old church.

Another comment:

Actually penalty is not very big. It is possible to ask in city library access code for internet and you can renew your books thru internet. It is possible to renew (max 5 times) and reserve books via internet. You can also search the library database via internet.

http://kirjasto.tampere.fi:8000/Pallas?formid=form1&ulang=eng

It is possible to search TUTCAT (university library) database via internet and using u'r barcode on student card (or library card) to renew u'r loans time.

http://tutcat.csc.fi

Sauna rules / guide and vocabulary

1. Finnish people are born in a Sauna, feel free to ask them whatever
questions you have about Sauna Culture.

2. Sauna is meant to be hot, keep in mind to close the door.

3. Throwing too much water on the stove will cool it down too much and
ruins the sauna experience of other students.

4. Close the door as soon as you have gone through it. Keep the door
closed.

5. Glass bottles are not allowed in sauna (or the dressing room) to
avoid broken glass and feet injuries.
Please use a plastic cup whenever you are in sauna. (You get cups from
the sauna)

6. Sauna is a place to enjoy and have fun. If you are not enjoying
yourself there you can leave, no one will mind as Sauna is not a contest
of who can last the longest there.
At the same time, sauna is also about respect, don't try to roast your
friends...

7. There is a turn for ladies at beginning of the night. And for ladies
only! It is followed by men's turn (about 30-60 minutes) and then mixed
sauna for the
rest of the night. Usage of swimming suit is not recommended (not really
comfortable to wear with so high temperature) but acceptable.Whose turn
it is can be found out by asking the organizers and not by peeking into
the dressing room.

8. Sauna is a place where men and also women can enjoy without being
harassed. It is therefore not allowed to enjoy someone else's (or your
own for that matter) bodyparts (staring/touching) even if you have been
drinking too much. Breaking this rule will get you kicked out of the
sauna and banned for all international events! Behave!

9. We are not paparazzis, we are smart. So no cameras (No videos, or
photographs) in sauna or the dressing room. Breaking this rule can also
get you the same treatment as rule number 8.
10. Leave the place as you find it. The place will not be cleaned by
cleaning service, but by your fellow students, so don't make a mess and
the items at Teekkarisauna are donated by student organizations, so do
not take anything that is not yours home.

11. Oh yeah. Close the door!

12. Sometimes there is singing in the Sauna, feel free to join in. You
will find songbooks from the sauna (5 €). And remember it is not about
the tune, but the volume of the singing!

13. Have fun!

And not all finnish saunas work like teekkarisauna, in the sense that
not all saunas are for parties. So in other saunas too, behave. And if
someone cannot find teekkarisauna, here is a map
http://www.tut.fi/public/yhteystiedot/maps/karttaKams.html

Teekkarisauna is on the top.middle in the map.

Sauna words in finnish to english:

Sauna = sauna
Löyly = the water you throw on the stove
Kiuas = the stove
Ovi kiinni! = shut the door!
Lisää löylyä = more water on the stove ! (order)
Nyt lauletaan! = now let's sing!
Vasta/Vihta = branch of birch-tree that you use for whipping yourself in
the sauna (feels good. not used in teekkarisauna, forbidden because it
makes a mess)
Saunaolut = saunaBeer
Löylykauha = the big spoon you throw water on the stove with
Laude = the seating in the sauna
Ylälaude = upper laude
Alalaude = lower laude
suihku = shower
vesi = water
Perkele, se ovi kiinni! = shut the door fast! ;)
Kuuma = hot
kylmä = cold
Makkara = sausage
Grilli = barbecue
Sinappi = mustard
Ketsuppi = well you know...
Koskenkorva = original finnish spirit (also refers to a location in
finland and means "I touch Ear")

My own sauna algorithm goes like this:
clothes off ->shower->open door->go in-> close door->sauna->throw
water->enjoy sauna->sing->throw water->sing->enjoy sauna->cool
off->shower->put on a towel->go and take beer->cool off and discuss
about the political situation of the middle east->back to sauna->->open
door->go in-> close door->enjoy sauna.***->shower->drying
(towel)->clothes on -> Feel like a new man (or a woman)


*** is that I usually take about 3-4 rounds, but this is only an
example. You can improvise as you want :) and you dont have to discuss
about the political situation of the middle east ;)