Mikkeli Links

Return to Main
Link to our Web Page
Up One Level
:: Europe :::: Finland :::: Eastern Finland :::: Localities :::: Mikkeli ::

Mikkeli Links

Hotelli Nuijamies - Provides a summary of room and conference facilities, restaurant menu and booking form.

Mikkelin Ravirata Oy - Trotting track with event results and contact information.

Mikkeli Distrcit Student Housing Ltd - Offering property rental to students and holiday accommodation. Includes news, accommodation information and contact details.

Mikkeli Vocational College - Secondary education college offering courses in the natural resources, technology and transportation, business and administration, catering, health and craft sectors. Includes information about international projects.

Visulahti Travel Centre - Provides information about the theme and water park, motor track, vintage car exhibition, camp site, holiday cottages, wax museum and restaurants.

Raijan Aitta - Linen mill in Majavesi offering yarns and textiles. Also provides holiday accommodation. Includes photos and visitor information.

Varustamo Erkki Montonen - Offering sight-seeing and lunch cruises from Mikkeli harbour. Includes itineraries and timetables.

Mikkeli Photographic Centre - Exhibits contemporary Finnish art photography. Provides a summary in English.

Ballet Mikkeli - Annual international ballet festival held in October. Includes photos and ticket booking information.

Mikkeli Maraton - Includes course map and application forms.

Mikael School - Residential state school for children of all ages who are deaf, hard-of-hearing or have various language disorders. Provides a summary in English.

Wild Canoe - Canoeing centre with information about routes, services and prices.

Terti Manor - Offering holiday accommodation, restaurant and function facilities. Includes history and an enquiry form.

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. -- Richard Bach The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Mikkeli If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Mikkeli "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control futur I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Mikkeli True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Mikkeli Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Mikkeli Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Mikkeli In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Mikkeli If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Mikkeli Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Mikkeli "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Mikkeli And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Mikkeli It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Mikkeli Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Mikkeli In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Mikkeli Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Mikkeli We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. -- Cybi "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Mikkeli I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them. -- Sydney Smith "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Mikkeli If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Mikkeli A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time Mikkeli Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Mikkeli "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs To love another person is to help them love God. -- Søren Kierkegaard Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Mikkeli Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Mikkeli
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |