Comments on: Antti & Anna - the Most Adorable Brother/Sister Blog Duo Out There! http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/ Slow food, no drama. Antti & Anna, Finnish siblings blog about food. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:45:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Anna http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-313 Anna Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:25:51 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-313 Hi Ivonne I received your e-mail just before racing to the airport (actually, we ended up missing our flight, but that's a different story...). My friends live on the Younge / Eglinton area so some of your restaurant suggestions were right on the money, and I also enjoyed your favorite cookbook store. I left my laptop at home to get a mini-break from work, so I was off e-mail - too bad I didn't have your phone number - I would have enjoyed your personal tour! Let's do it next time: I love Toronto so much I'm pretty sure I'll be back soon. And let me know if you happen to come to New York this spring. Stevi, Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for your kind words! Eszter, Meidänkin ensimmäisistä tappeluista alkaa olla kolmekymmentä vuotta ja viimeisistä niin vähän aikaa ettei kehtaa julkisesti kertoa ;) Hi Ivonne
I received your e-mail just before racing to the airport (actually, we ended up missing our flight, but that’s a different story…). My friends live on the Younge / Eglinton area so some of your restaurant suggestions were right on the money, and I also enjoyed your favorite cookbook store. I left my laptop at home to get a mini-break from work, so I was off e-mail - too bad I didn’t have your phone number - I would have enjoyed your personal tour! Let’s do it next time: I love Toronto so much I’m pretty sure I’ll be back soon. And let me know if you happen to come to New York this spring.

Stevi,
Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for your kind words!

Eszter,
Meidänkin ensimmäisistä tappeluista alkaa olla kolmekymmentä vuotta ja viimeisistä niin vähän aikaa ettei kehtaa julkisesti kertoa ;)

]]> By: Ivonne http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-312 Ivonne Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:03:43 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-312 Antti & Anna, I have run out of English words to describe you so I shall say it in Italian: Siete simpaticissimi! I loved those photographs! Anna, I know you were supposed to be in Toronto at some point and I sent you an e-mail ... I hope I didn't miss you. I would have loved to meet you (or I would love to meet you if you're still in Toronto). If I did miss you, I hope you had a great time in our fair city. Antti & Anna,

I have run out of English words to describe you so I shall say it in Italian: Siete simpaticissimi!

I loved those photographs!

Anna, I know you were supposed to be in Toronto at some point and I sent you an e-mail … I hope I didn’t miss you. I would have loved to meet you (or I would love to meet you if you’re still in Toronto).

If I did miss you, I hope you had a great time in our fair city.

]]> By: stevi http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-310 stevi Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:56:59 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-310 You look beautiful. The pictures on your blog are awesome (i mean all of them, not just the baby photos :)). You look beautiful.
The pictures on your blog are awesome (i mean all of them, not just the baby photos :)).

]]> By: Eszter http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-309 Eszter Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:53:03 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-309 Ihanaaaa, jatkakaa, vain, ihan kuin näkisin itseni ja veljeni tappelemassa 20 vuotta sitten. Oops, 30. No mutta joka tapauksessa, thanks a million for this sweet personal touch to this blog. Ihanaaaa, jatkakaa, vain, ihan kuin näkisin itseni ja veljeni tappelemassa 20 vuotta sitten. Oops, 30. No mutta joka tapauksessa, thanks a million for this sweet personal touch to this blog.

]]> By: Anna http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-300 Anna Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:35:04 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-300 Actually, you broke *two* of my teeth. And those were not baby teeth - just highly visible front incisors. And have you forgotten the episode when you almost killed me with a spade? Actually, you broke *two* of my teeth. And those were not baby teeth - just highly visible front incisors. And have you forgotten the episode when you almost killed me with a spade?

]]> By: Antti http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-296 Antti Sun, 09 Apr 2006 19:27:29 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-296 Thanks, Pille. For everything ;) Perhaps I should add the picture where I'm running with a hammer. Not after Anna, I hope :) I think I only knocked off one of her teeth, whereas she mastered the skill of skarring my soul. I'm still recovering. Last time I visited Tallinn way back in 2000, I also stayed in the Olümpia. No recollection of the floor, but well below the 26th I guess. Next Wednesday I'm heading back to Tallinn for a meeting, and hopefully I have time to go to one of the restaurants you suggested. Thanks, Pille. For everything ;) Perhaps I should add the picture where I’m running with a hammer. Not after Anna, I hope :) I think I only knocked off one of her teeth, whereas she mastered the skill of skarring my soul. I’m still recovering.

Last time I visited Tallinn way back in 2000, I also stayed in the Olümpia. No recollection of the floor, but well below the 26th I guess. Next Wednesday I’m heading back to Tallinn for a meeting, and hopefully I have time to go to one of the restaurants you suggested.

]]> By: Pille http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-295 Pille Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:42:54 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-295 What a cute pair:) Glad to hear that I wasn't the only one blessed with a violent sibling - though my sister didn't knock out any of my teeth, just took a bite off my back:( Re: nudity - for a long time I kept a picture of me and 14 girlfriends in a sauna (hotel Olümpia, 26th floor) on my wall here in Edinburgh. That caused huge excitement among my friends (and may I add, it was a very decent picture, nothing too obvious - although it was clear that we were all naked:) What a cute pair:)
Glad to hear that I wasn’t the only one blessed with a violent sibling - though my sister didn’t knock out any of my teeth, just took a bite off my back:(
Re: nudity - for a long time I kept a picture of me and 14 girlfriends in a sauna (hotel Olümpia, 26th floor) on my wall here in Edinburgh. That caused huge excitement among my friends (and may I add, it was a very decent picture, nothing too obvious - although it was clear that we were all naked:)

]]> By: Antti http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-294 Antti Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:21:45 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-294 Oh, I'm definitely expressing the utter joy!!! Just taking the first steps of a lifelong friendship with a bath tub ;) What comes to the picture, Anna and I knew some readers, especially the Americans, might find it a bit risqué. Here in Finland, where literally everybody goes to sauna in what God gave them, nudity is pretty much a non-issue. Oh, I’m definitely expressing the utter joy!!! Just taking the first steps of a lifelong friendship with a bath tub ;)

What comes to the picture, Anna and I knew some readers, especially the Americans, might find it a bit risqué. Here in Finland, where literally everybody goes to sauna in what God gave them, nudity is pretty much a non-issue.

]]> By: Alanna http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-293 Alanna Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:03:19 +0000 http://www.taikinapoika.com/2006/04/09/authors/#comment-293 Ai so brave, you two ... everyone has pictures like these but who puts them on the Internet??? ;-D But I'm trying to figure out if Antti is SCREAMING to get out or LAUGHING like crazy?!! Either, way, he's looking LOUD! Very fun -- So nice to have Finns blogging in English. My Finnish is way too old except to do more than work through ingredient lists ... perhaps the food words come back so easily because it was in the kitchen where I learned to speak. When I was last back, it was to visit my Finnish "mother" after learning of her Alzheimers. At first she didn't recognize me. But over the kahvipoyta (sorry, no characters ...) and laughing over puolukka kakku or something similar, she looked at me with big eyes and said, "Alu, se Alu". So once again ... it was food that created connection. "Alu" Ai so brave, you two … everyone has pictures like these but who puts them on the Internet??? ;-D But I’m trying to figure out if Antti is SCREAMING to get out or LAUGHING like crazy?!! Either, way, he’s looking LOUD! Very fun –

So nice to have Finns blogging in English. My Finnish is way too old except to do more than work through ingredient lists … perhaps the food words come back so easily because it was in the kitchen where I learned to speak. When I was last back, it was to visit my Finnish “mother” after learning of her Alzheimers. At first she didn’t recognize me. But over the kahvipoyta (sorry, no characters …) and laughing over puolukka kakku or something similar, she looked at me with big eyes and said, “Alu, se Alu”. So once again … it was food that created connection.

“Alu”

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