And it didn’t actually go so easily, for many reasons (and most of those still unknown to me) there were huge problems to book new flights with Star Alliance (mainly SAS) and especially the connections to Finland. Tampere has never been an easy destination for people outside of Finland but these problems were much more than just recognizing the airport code. In the end I just suggested re-routing us through Hong Kong and London. In the end, the long-haul flight from Hong Kong to London was surprisingly with Cathay Pacific, which was a nice surprise that they approved that. It brought at least some certainty to the long-haul and also certain level of service guaranteed.

After all, we arrived to Finland, just after traveling about 39.5 hours totally including all the time spent in the different airports. Traveling can be such a fun thing.

Greetings from the Mount Laoshan near Qingdao. After all we decided to climb along the path and see what comes in front of us. And what we found, very nice sceneries and few wedding couples having their photo shoot day. The weather really changes quickly on the mountains and if we wouldn’t be reading the clouds (or at least one of the more experienced hikers in our group) then we might have been caught on the rain, now we just managed to see the rain under the umbrella during the lunch break.

So, everything starts with small steps, this trip with small Cimber airplane. Other updates from Tampere-Pirkkala airport are that the roadwork is still going on in nearby highway making sure you need to be extra careful reading those signs, I almost missed an exit while driving here. And security check was extra difficult today.

Look at the following example, it is a pre-commercial telling you that something is about to change in the world.

Who could not like that kind of nice, peaceful but at the same time exciting commercial? The next commercial in the line actually showed the product already.

The same continues with some other companies, take a look at this example, which actually recreates an old game in the real life:

Or here is one very funny commercial but it works very well and you will be smiling after seeing that:

Coca-Cola has always been good at this, how to create an idea inside your head about the product. How to present the product in such light that it will make you feel good about it. And good about the whole company.

By the way, the first commercial was a pre-commercial of the new BMW 7 Series sedan. The second commercial followed the first one revealing the new car, the commercial is now live in many BMW web sites. BMW surely knows how to great some great commercials promoting the whole company.

And here is the instructions and the really nice tool to get the SIM card holder opened.

Actually I was so excited that I opened the package right away and took the pictures later. Hehe. But it is truly a nice experience, the phone, which is very fast and has the usability to help you to use it without too much learning. Actually the manuals, which came with the phone are really thin and I didn’t even open them.