Kitee, 04.06.2011

About one week ago I have been in Joensuu with a friend and I decided to go by train to Kitee. But since we arrived too late in Joensuu and I missed my train, my friend drove me to Kitee, which is about 40 minutes (by car) away from Joensuu. There we met my friend, who´s living in Kitee for a coffee and my german friend drove back to Joensuu, since I had to do some things in Kitee.
I had a really nice day in Kitee, it was the perfect weather for driving and walking around and to take some photos.

Not so many people live in Kitee actually, but Kitee itself is quite big from the ground. It has a little town, but you can find everything you need there and the surrounding is so beautiful!

It´s the typical finnish nature there and it´s so silent! I like the silence in Kitee, since you can be alone and just being in the nature, without stress, hurry and those things.

I remember when I was in Kitee in March, and everywhere has been snow and it was so cold!

But I like Kitee in winter AND in summer! :) It´s a really small, but beautiful town!

In winter I walked with my friend over the frozen lake and this time we just stopped with the car in front of the lake and watched and took photos. It was such a strange but also great feeling to remember that you walked over the frozen lake 3 months ago and now you can see the dark blue colour of the lake and no snow or ice anymore.

I always enjoy the beautiful scenery there and it´s just so relaxing!

Especially when you usually go to Joensuu and just make a stop in Kitee or go there for a few hours, it s so different! Joensuu is a really nice city too, especially in summer, but it´s a big city, so a lot of people live there and it´s full everywhere mostly.
The weekend we have been there were the graduating parties of the students, so it was really full everywhere and it was nice to relax in Kitee a bit before. :)

This photo was taken at Kitee´s church. There´s a way around the church and it has a really beautiful garden there!

It was so hot on that day that my friend and me needed to buy something to drink before going there.

When I´m in Kitee, I always visit that church, going to Kiteenjärvi lake or some other lake, going to buy something in Kupiainen and driving around with my friend. :)

The thing I love about Kitee is that you can see so far, what you can also see on that photo! Again I have to say, it´s so relaxing! :) And of course BEAUTIFUL!

In Kitee there´s also a small baseball stadium, where Kiteen Pallo plays really often home games.
On the 31st of May there has been a home game of Kiteen Pallo and I would have liked to go there really much but since it´s always a longer way to travel from my town, then also a bit expensive and since it was a tuesday it was impossible for me to go there. :(

But hey, they play more often there and one day I´ll go there for sure! I have also heard now that the intro of the home games of Kiteen Pallo is a compilation of song number 11 on Nightwish´s new album "Imaginarium" and of course it would be interesting to hear that. But just because of that I cannot go there. Too expensive and too less time at the moment, so I´ll have to wait until the finnished album gets out or until they put some songs (test-hearing) on their website or facebook.

I wrote a lot now about the church in Kitee ...

 ... and here on the left side it is. :) It´s a really beautiful church! I have never been in there unfortunately, but I have seen that church in winter, in spring and in summer, so a lot of times and it always look beautiful!

Especially this photo I took the last time, I like really much! Blue sky, green grass and trees ... what do you wanna have more? ;)

                                               I can say that KITEE is always a visit worth! :)