The City of Tampere

Prerequisite Formalities

I realized yesterday that, because I have fallen so far behind in staging the chronology of my time in Finland, I would have to sacrifice a hefty bulk of my current time to post everything I would like to before returning home, which will be within the next two weeks. It suddenly seemed ridiculous to sacrifice my sweet, real-time life of the present, to the already burned, digitally preserved, Internet life of the past. I kept it up though, fading each day a little more into the monitor of my computer, both re-living my year and being a little more non-existent in my surroundings. But, after a dozen or so lost hours, I have more-or-less finished with my photos and will lay them out, all at once, as chronologically as possible.
This post is what I intended in November, a personal photographic representation of the city of Tampere to accompany whatever scraps of historical misinformation and whimsical description I could muster. These photos actually span the first few months of my year and continue to the last few weeks, though they are not laid out in order.

Following this entry will be a semi-chronological re-cap of my year, as there were trips I took, which I had planned to post photos of from the start and never found the inspiration to organize.

I will conclude with a very up-to-date post, which will portray my last 3 weeks, which I have spent in Sweden, land of the free, home of the brave. After that (and my return home) I will either start a whole new blog and link it to this one, or continue here.

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