Christmas dinner at Tuorla

A nice wintry evening for our festive Christmas meal at Tuorla Inn in Kaarina. A good crowd of 14 old and new members got together to enjoy a British-style meal with crackers and a taster of Christmas pudding, too.

Tasty food, a friendly atmosphere and lots of humour and laughter made it an occasion of Christmas cheer for everyone. With these pictures we want to wish all our members

A Merry Christmas

and

A Happy New Year!

As always, the rest of the photos can be seen in our web album.

Wine tasting in Tampere

On a cold, cold Friday evening a small group of Turku Finn-Briters set off to visit the Tampere society for 'Wines for Christmas' tasting and Christmas party in the comfort of a nice minibus.

Along the road, our new British member David told us on organic wines with tasters of a Chiliean and Italian organic wine. It was very informative and certainly gave us food for thought about our carbon footprint.

In Tampere there was a good crowd to hear Gerald McAllister tell us about 7 different wines for the Christmas season. Among many other things we learned the 5 important s's of wine tasting: scrutinize, swirl, sniff, sip and spit/swallow.

The German sekt recommended to go with Christmas pudding was the ladies' favourite.

And some Tampere-Turku socialising got going as well - especially 'in the back row'!

A good time was had by all. Thank you Tampere society for inviting us, and providing all the wines and nibbles, too. Welcome to our beer tasting in January!

Some more photos can be seen in this web album.