Monday, June 5, 2023

400K

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  This is not about the U.S. retirement investment scheme 401K. This is about my car reaching a respectable level of 400 thousand kilometers...

Petnička pećina

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Petnička pećina is an old but abandoned show cave in the limestone rock hills near the town Ваљево ( Valjevo ), Serbia. While only 600 meter...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

More parts falling off

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Parts falling off (while driving). More car stories in the Planetskier blog series at  Blogspot . The photos and text (c) 2023 by Jari Arkko...

Kalemegdan bunker

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  In the Kalemegdan park / Belgrade Fortress there's also a bunker. This is a bunker Tito ordered to be built, and it was constructed in...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Burg Hohenzollern

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It is an imposing, massive castle on top of a high hill. Worth a visit! Here's the website and the wikipedia article . As my friend Mar...

No sauna power for me

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  "The sauna is only open until 10pm". But I was coming in later, so I wanted to know if I could use it in any case. They said I c...

May 1st at the Finnair Lounge

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Wow. Munkkeja (donuts). Traditional May 1st delicacy. Then, in the air I had received a nice upgrade. Here are the meal and sky views: For m...

Trust me, it is NOT a watertower

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It does look very weird. For some reason I thought it was a water tower. It is in the town of Oberreid in the Black Forest area in Southern ...

Only crappy parts with this car

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While I was away , they replaced the door with a used one from the car wreckers. It is dark so hard to see, but initial reaction at home is ...

Leaving the car, hoping for a fix

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I'm going for a business trip, and I'm dropping the car off on the way to the airport. Let's see ... this could be expensive ......