Right dear hearts, I have been gone a while due to unexpected computer problems (My dad uses Windows, need I say more) but am back with a vengeance. Meet Spårakoff, the Helsinki round-tour pub tram. Isn't she lovely? She goes round the city and serves pints of beer. The name is a play on words, spåra being Helsinki slang for a tram (roots in the Swedish for tram, spårvagn. The a with a funny circle above it is the Swedish o) and Sinebrychoff being Finland's eldest brewery (at least one still functioning, methinks...?), whose beer is called Koff. English speakers found it hilarious, for some reason, to place an order for "4 Koff" at pubs...
Friday, July 21, 2006
Spårakoff
Right dear hearts, I have been gone a while due to unexpected computer problems (My dad uses Windows, need I say more) but am back with a vengeance. Meet Spårakoff, the Helsinki round-tour pub tram. Isn't she lovely? She goes round the city and serves pints of beer. The name is a play on words, spåra being Helsinki slang for a tram (roots in the Swedish for tram, spårvagn. The a with a funny circle above it is the Swedish o) and Sinebrychoff being Finland's eldest brewery (at least one still functioning, methinks...?), whose beer is called Koff. English speakers found it hilarious, for some reason, to place an order for "4 Koff" at pubs...
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