A visit to Finnish disappointing blunderland of Tampere, day 2

I had to change the title. I'm disappointed. The birds are less friendly in Tampere than in my own city. I would have assumed a city like this would have urban, friendly birds, but they are pretty much assholes. At least most of them.

We overnighted in Tampere and thought we'd visit Tampere Kauppahalli, the largest indoor market hall in nordic countries. As we're poor and we paid for 24 hour parking in one place, we didn't want to pay new parking fees, so we decided to walk to the market hall.

One of the buildings we passed was Tampere orthodox church, also modestly known as Church of the Alexander Nevsky and the Saint Nicholas.

The orthodox christianity is also known as "Russian christianity" in Finland, as the historically eastern Europe has been orthodox and western Europe catholic.

Now returning to the rude motherfucker birds. These are Bohemian waxwings like I photographed earlier, photos found in this post but these birds were super easily scared.

They flew off even without me being nowhere close to them.

My local birds are braver than these.

However, I could hear a bird singing in the trees. It had a really nice sound, so I spent a good amount of time to spot it. My wife was complaining that she's cold, but that's what you get for not wearing enough clothes in the winter. D'oh.

Here we go. This is what I found!

A fieldfare. It's not an extraordinary beautiful bird, but it has a really nice singing voice.
I can just imagine what it might be singing.

"Haha, waxwings are pussies! I'm not afraid! Waxwings are pussies!"

The church of saint field nicholas santa fe marina (or something like that) looks much better on the front.

Also, the waxwing assholes flew back to the rowan trees when I left. They were happy and eating the damn berries. Even two hipster-looking douchebags could walk almost next to them and take photos with their crap smartphones AND THE BIRDS DIDN'T CARE.

They were only afraid of me. Goddamn birds.

I'm the master of fear.

We took a detour through a standard shopping mall and met Santa on the way. He looks old, but also fed up.

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Forgot to take the photo from outside of the hall, but found this from Wikipedia and it appears it's OK for me to use the photo like this. Perfect. This is what the Kauppahalli looks like.

We were greeted by a stall selling a ton of vegetables. Not only local ones, as I can see some of the price tags are mentioning "Spain" as the source. But still, it's a nice way to pretend that you're supporting small, local farmers.

We found like ten cafe's from the area, none of them was too special. This was our favorite, as it had something different to offer - a selection of delicious looking cakes.

It isn't all about local crafts, cakes and all. They had a very... traiditonal (???) looking vitamin shop. This is what market halls are for. Your daily dose of vitamin C+D+E with some Omega 3!

A shoestore, with a nice selection of different shoes. I was in the need of dancing shoes, but they weren't selling any of those. They rarely sell dancing shoes in "real shoe stores" either, so can't blame them.

I had to take one photo "normally" to give you a better view on what it looked like on the inside. In this photo, most people were looking away, so I thought it's safe to post the photo on Steem. The whole market hall is oldish style and you can see how it continues far away. There were three "streets" with stalls on both sides, a lot of restaurants, cafe's and bakeries.

A drink store! Mostly different kinds of beers! There is a lot of small breweries in Finland, but as most Finns drink only cheap bulk lager, the craft beers aren't an profitable business for all. However, a store specialized in craft beers might be successful?

Now this is a my kind of shop. This is a bakery and you can see the dough rising in two boxes.
Super cool that they put this on view.

Or hopefully this is a bakery and that's not old soup they're going to sell to the customers.

The only meat store we noticed in the Kauppahalli. They're selling fresh AND canned meat. Here you can see...

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Bear meat and reindeer meat.

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Bear meat. I'm surprised.

This is not only for bear meat, but mostly pork and beef in different shapes. I'm assuming I could get a kilogram of beef with the same price as I could get a can of bear.

They're also selling cold smoked reindeer, as you can see in the middle. 100 grams is 7,60€. You need to be rich to eat Rudolf the Reindeer.

Before we left, I took a photo of this penis drawing map. It's divided in at least 174 sections, but not 174 stalls as some restaurants, shops etc. were large enough to take at least 6-8 sections.

No more birds. I wish there were more, but there wasn't. I miss birds.