Päivä #1: ostokset, valmistelut + Airisto – Nauvo

Posted on 28.6.2020 by Petri Hollmén

Meillä purjehdus = hyvä ruoka. Siksi viiden viikon reissuun valmistaudutaan huolella. Perjantaina haimme jo Kupittaan Citymarketista kuuden laatikon tilauksen kaikkea mahdollista. Sitä ennen olin täytellyt veneen pilssiä jo vissyllä, oluella, limppareilla ja UHT-maidoilla.

Tänään päivä alkoi kierroksella Turun ykköspaikoissa: Grynin leipomo Forumissa, Kalapojat kauppatorilla, Sorrin vihannestiski torilla, Reino Jokisen lihaliike hallissa ja Herkkunuotta myöskin kauppahallissa.

Sorrin loistava vihannekset ja helteen hellimä puutarhurinrouva.

Kalapojilta matkaan lähti graavilohta, kylmäsavua ja silakoita.

Herkkunuotta oli kierroksen päätepiste, kuten näkee jo tavaramäärästä!

Kävimme Julian kanssa ostoksilla sähkö-Vespalla ja taas oli Vespan kuljetuskyky testissä! Näillä eväillä pärjäämme hetkisen. Varsinkin, kun ensimmäiseksi illaksi suuntaamme Nauvoon ja l’Escaleen.

Jälleen kerran Vepsa Elettrica näytti kykynsä kuormajuhtana!

Itse fillaroin veneelle loppuperheen tullessa autolla. Hiki virtasi pelkästä seisoskelusta – fillaroinnista tai veneen lastauksesta puhumattakaan. Vesisuihku laiturin hanasta helpotti hetkeksi.

Itse purjehdusosuus oli lyhyt, vajaa pari tuntia. Tunnelma oli välimerellinen. Leppeä, 4-6 m/s tuuli kuljetti purtta mukavaa tahtia ja lämpötila oli täydellinen – jopa varjossa.

Tästä se alkaa – viiden viikon reissu. Muita kohteita ei olla vielä päätetty, mutta Nauvoon piti tulla perinteiselle aloitusillalliselle!

Nauvo oli täynnä kuin ammuttu. Olimme varanneet etukäteen sekä poijun että pöydän ja lyhyen uimarantavierailun jälkeen suuntasimme l’Escaleen. Jälkeen kerran ruoka oli taivaallista. Itse söin kampasimpukat alkuun ja pääruoaksi kokonaisena savustetun siian uusien perunoiden kera. Kala suli suuhun, samoin kuin perunat.

Albert tilasi pääruoaksi ankanrintaa. Hyvää!

Jälkkäriksi oli maistettava paikallista tislettä, Castalosia, joka on Calvados-tyyppinen viina. Kahvin kanssa oiva pari! Tyttären omena-kaurapaistos upposi vauhdilla, samoin kuin Creme Brulee ja jätskikin pojilla.

Yllätys sinänsä – satamasta löytyi tuttuja! Ismo ja Mirka tulivat kylään nauttimaan mansikkamargaritat alkaneen loman kunniaksi.

Tästä se kesäloma alkoi! Tervetuloa matkalle mukaan 🙂

Tämä oli hyvä aloitus!

Pete

Last days in quarantine (23.-25.3.2020)

Posted on 25.3.2020 by Petri Hollmén

I’ve been too busy to write here daily. Things are happening quite quickly in the society and the work. We try to react and plan our actions as well as possible. I have to admit that planning for the future is really hard at the moment. Few years back we were able to predict our future in business quite well for the coming 12 months. Now we are struggling to predict for the next 12 days.

Life in quarantine has had certain routines:

Wake up 7.30. Way too long in bed going through the news and social media. Breakfast.
Work starts 8.30. I’m sitting alone in my daughters room (I don’t have a desk at home nor at the office) and having online meetings back to back all day.
Lunch around 12.00 with my family
Work continues until 17.30 – 18.30
Sauna (every night!)
Dinner
Some work, blog, emails etc.
Off to bed around 22-23. Sleep around 23.30-24.00 (too late, I know!)

Repeat.

I haven’t been doing any sports during the last two weeks. Feels strange, but I didn’t want to tease the virus.

Yesterday we had something special: we were tested again in drive in test station. They are developing a 15-minute quick test and needed corona positive patients. Luckily all the family got tested and now we are waiting for the results. Hopefully all the family would have the antibodies and we could live pretty normally from this day on.

Drive in test station.

15 minute test is taken from your finger

Quarantine proof photo shoot for Yrittäjälehti on Tuesday.

I spent yesterday evening on a project that hopefully helps one local company to do some business during the epidemic. I built an order form on our platform Lyyti for home delivery for the local fish store, Herkkunuotta. So, if you live in Turku (or within 20 km range from the market hall), go and buy some fresh fish already today! Best in this delivery is that you can also order from one to three bad jokes with the delivery. For free! Go and check: www.lyyti.in/herkkunuotta

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Last day and not sad

Today is the last day of my 14-day isolation (one day I was self-quarantined). Time has passed actually pretty quickly. But we are still happy that tomorrow we are able to do our groceries by ourselves. Thanks for everybody who helped us during these two weeks!

Tomorrow we thought to evacuate ourselves to the summer house. All of you judging this decision without knowing better, let me explain:

We are healthy and not spreading the virus anywhere.
On the way there, we do the shopping at the same store where we would do if staying at home.
Our summer house is in the next town – not 1000 km from home. It’s only 55 km from our home, actually. An hour with a car.
In case we would for some random reason get COVID-19 symptoms, we would go to the exactly same hospital than if we would be staying at home. So we would not bring any extra pressure to any small town hospital.

I know many small cities are afraid of bunch of remote workers invading the area and possible bringing the virus and flooding the small hospitals. This is not the case with us and I wanted to clarify this.

Before taking off to the summer house, I should have a video interview to the States. Local news site, CNET, is making a story about the Oura study. I’m happy if I can help! I wan’t to emphasize that I do not have any hidden agenda with Oura. I’m just a happy customer and volunteer to help if they are able to create an algorithm to spot the COVID-19 before actual symptoms. Every single day with less social contacts matters.

Quarantine blog is over and out. Take care and stay safe!

Petri

9th day in quarantine

Posted on 19.3.2020 by Petri Hollmén

Three last days have been hectic at the work. 12-14 hours in front of my laptop and speaking on the phone. Luckily things start to settle a bit.

Today I even had some empty slots in my calendar and time to go through my backlog. Reading emails among other things.

Kids are trying to get back to rhythm with school. There’s a big difference between 9 and 14 year old kids – at least in terms of workload. 9 year old was done with all the task in an hour and 14 year old worked all day. Best home work for the 9 year old was: clean your closet! And he did it 🙂

We are not running out of food yet, but still we needed some refill. Specially for the fresh stuff, like salad etc. Luckily my twin brother Kimmo was able to do the shopping for us. Thanks for help!

Local stores are wramping up their home delivery operations. And that is excellent news!

Since we are not able to shop at the local Market Hall (which is my favourite place to shop normally), I was super happy to hear that Herkkunuotta (fish shop) were able to deliver to our home. We ordered fresh shrimps, salmon for sushi, mousse made out of white fish roe and archipelagian bread. Today was a fish day!

Also my favourite Gelateria (Italian icecream shop) Nuvole started deliveries today and Angelo brought us some kilos of his specialties. Cioccolato, Fragola, Vaniglia and Stracciatella!

Around 17.00, as I was about done with all my meetings, I made a mistake and laid down on my bed to check emails.

I woke two hours later… lack of sleep during the last few days, maybe!

As I walked downstairs, I found the rest of the family gathering for the dinner. They prepared the best sushi dinner one could imagine! And for the dessert: Italian icecream.