Nordic travel fair

I have been unexpectedly busy these weeks... but I actually did write last week and almost finished my post but my internet connection went off and my text disappeared mysteriously. It didn't even autosave =_= I was so annoyed that day that I didn't start writing my post again hence this got delayed alot.

Anyway, as you know I visited Matka2017 (Nordic travel fair) on friday(20th) and saturday(21st) with my friends (on friday with Anniina and on saturday with Annina :P ).

On friday we headed up first straight to South-Korea's booth and in there picked up couple brochures and talked to one presenter a bit. She was friendly and got some travel tips too~
Then we just went around to see what everyone had to offer.

I actually honestly don't remember much that left really amazing impression because I felt the fair was much more smaller than last year. And last year was smaller than year before... so I feel like rather than evolving and becoming bigger this travel fair is getting smaller every year <_<

Well anyway, I went on saturday again with my friend even if I felt like I went through most of sections on friday and didn't really find but couple interesting things. Surprisingly on saturday I talked with lot more presenters and found more stuff to bring home than on friday. Strange huh? Maybe most memorable thing was that I won a gift card to furnishing store and actually got to choose one piece of furniture! Like I never win anything and now I won a big prize xD But I gifted my prize to my grandmom, I got to choose only specific things which I didn't really need and thought my grandmom would need it. So I send photos to my grandmom and she loved the furniture and next time she visits our home she picks it up~

But let's continue~ So I got more out of saturday than friday. Still, my mom's one sentence what she said to me can summarize my travel fair experience all up: "is that all?". She said that to me when I came home on friday. I had only small bag with couple brochures when couple previous years I arrived home with big heavy bag full of stuff.

So a message to organizers: try and make it more bigger again next year, return to golden age of travel fairs~ Please? :D Also, again this year I would have hoped Great Britain would be there which hasn't been there for couple years now and couple other countries like Germany and Ireland would have been great. I know Ireland had like golf tourism booth in there but I would have actually liked Ireland's booth as a country, not some specific area of tourism.
Also from Asia section I hoped to see Singapore (was disappointed again). And I would like to see New Zealand someday, it's one of my dream destinations but I haven't seen it represented in our travel fair.

All in all, I was a bit disappointed again this year like last year. I had fun with my friends but my afterfeels is that I ask myself what I got out from it and can't answer.

Here's couple photos:

I can't promise when next post is up because I'll be super busy meeting with friends this and next week and preparing my trip to Korea. I'll may be posting after my trip next time. (I'll be in Korea from 18th feb to 4th march). I'll hope everything is going to be ok because there has been a strike warning for some airport staff so it means flights might be cancelled or delayed. Currently the warning has been given only to specific airlines (lucky Finnair isn't among them) but security check might be badly crowded as some staff will be away because of the strike...
So wish me and my friend luck and that we get to Korea on time~

Nordic travel fair / Matka 2017

Hello guys~

Sorry for this quite short post. I've been sick for couple first weeks of January and been busy for the rest of the days and I'm also quite busy this week. Luckily, I've been feeling healthy for couple days now, finally all my symptoms are gone and I can happily attend the upcoming Nordic travel fair in Helsinki Messukeskus. I'm going to be there on friday from about 2pm until 6pm approximately and then on saturday from 10am to when I start feeling tired lol.

I am obviously interested in South-Korea's booth and maybe will ask some travel tips where to go in Seoul for a traveller who's seen all the biggest sights and wants something different. You can find South-Korea in 7h140.

I'm also interested seeing Japan's (7e140) and Taiwan's (7h120) booths. You can clearly see I'm more into Asia travelling xD

On friday 'Welcome to Japan – Nihon-buyo, traditional Japanese performing art' at 5pm to 5.30pm in TUI stage sounds interesting and so does 'Tokion matkavinkit (travel tips to Tokyo)' at Royal Caribbean stage from 4pm to 4.30pm. I'm a Japan fan also and I can reveal now that I'm planning a trip to Japan possibly in latter half of this year. Though the trip would include more like Kioto and Osaka than Tokyo but I'd still spend couple days in Tokyo. I visited Tokyo in 2012 and I discovered it's really not for me. But I've heard so much good about Kioto and Osaka and Kioto has been one of my ultimate dreams to travel to since like 2004 :,D

Anyways, on Saturday I'm also interested TUI stage program about hearing current travelling trends (from 2pm to 2.30pm) and then almost right after it, is #matkastoori final from 3pm to 4pm where audience vote from top3 (previously chosen) travel stories which are the best.

If you're coming and see me, come and say hi^^~ I would really appreciate meeting anyone who reads my blog :)

I will blog my feels and stuff from Travel fair next week but I will be posting photos to my instagram from Travel fair on friday and saturday. My ig is @lattebean_

If you want to see photos from travel fair in instagram, just use #matka2017, remember to include it in your photos if you're in there and post to your ig^^