Woke up a little later than planned, had a decent breakfast at the hostel, gout our luggage into the luggage room to grab later and headed out. Walked past an outdoor market where more traditional objects are sold. Was interesting and we ended up buying a traditional Finnish pastry with potatoes called Karjalanpiirakka. Turned out to be pretty good!
There is a self-tour they offer that is going around the city on tram 3T and they highlight what's interesting and if it's worth getting off to check out more. Took about an hour and all of a sudden it was noon.
Got to Savotta and it was such an adorable place! We got to sit in our own little space in the wall and was all underground. Some very interesting dishes on the menu as well. Could get reindeer, bear, lamb, veal, vendace, and much more. Eugenia got reindeer soup and I ended up getting vendace (little fish) in hopes of just getting the meat. NOPE!! Came out with little 2 inch fish all stacked on top of each other, tails and all. They were nicely fried though! Ate only a couple, after picking out the spine, but they were too fishy tasting for me, so I couldn't eat too many. Also ordered Glögli, which is a traditional warm sort of cider beverage. Tasty as well! Ordered apple pastry and homemade lingonberry ice cream for dessert....also very good!
Got out of there and ran in to Stockman's lost and found in hopes of finding my lost mitten, but with no luck, we headed to the hostel, grabbed our bags and went to the train station. We were extremely short on time to catch our 3:12pm train, and after missing the tram stop to get to the station, we thought we would miss it. With 10 minutes left, we grabbed a tram back from the stop after the station and practically ran to catch the train! Luckily, we made it!
After a few short snoozes each, 4 hours later we arrived in Kuopio! We found someone in the tiny train station to see if they knew how to get to our hostel, which we knew was about 2km away from Kuopio's center. All anyone told us was that we would have to taxi. Therefore, we needed cash and there was no ATM in the train station. We hunted one down about 3 meters away and also found a pizza place to eat dinner. After probably another hour, we went back to the train station to catch a taxi at the "taxisi" area where they line up for people to come. Twelve Euros and a ride up a hill later and we were at Puijo Maja Hostelli. It was amazingly beautiful and it had recently snowed, so all of the trees were covered in white!
There is also a tower called Puijo Tower that Kuopio is known by and we would head up to the top on Saturday night. We were pretty much the only people around, which was sort of weird. Just a couple weeks shy of when it gets really busy with Santa and many winter activities. Got our keys and made it to our wonderful room with 2 beds, a refrigerator and a toilet and shower. Didn't do much for the evening and eventually went to bed.
There is this huge story of how Santa comes from northern Finland and if you try to argue with any Finns about this, they'll argue right back. There is a whole city in the Lapland (northern area) of Finland and here's the whole website and the story for the Finnish Santa Claus: http://www.santaclausvillage.info/eng/story.htm
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