Tämä on kuvablogi venäläisturistien surkeista pysäköinneistä kotikaupungissani Lappeenrannassa. Tämän blogin tarkoitus ei kuitenkaan ole väittää, että kaikki venäläiset pysäköisivät surkeasti tai että kaikilta suomalaisilta homma hoituisi täydellisesti.
Lappeenrannan ja Pietarin välinen etäisyys on alle 200 km. Lappeenranta on venäläisturistien pääasiallinen kohde ja täällä tapahtuu enemmän tax free -myyntiä vuositasolla kuin Helsingissä. Vain noin 70 000 asukkaan kaupungille tällaiset vierailijamäärät tarkoittavat, että turistit ovat hyvin näkyvä osa jokapäiväistä elämää. Tämä tarkoittaa myös että näiden kuvien kaltaiset tilanteet eivät ole mitenkään harvinaisia.
Toivon ettei kukaan vedä liikaa herneitä nenään tästä blogista, vaan ymmärtää kuvien huumoriarvon. Useiden pyyntöjen vuoksi olen perustanut myös rinnakkaisblogin jossa esitetään suomalaisten epäonnistuneita pysäköintiyrityksiä. Tämän blogin löydät osoitteesta http://finparking.blogspot.fi. Myös sinne voit itse lähettää kuvia muiden ihmeteltäväksi.
Lopuksi... Jos satut löytämään itsesi kuvista toivon, että onnistut paremmin ensi kerralla. Helpoin tapa välttyä kuvasi julkaisulta on pysäköidä kunnolla vieraillessasi Lappeenrannassa :)
A few years ago I noticed here in Helsinki that the cars parked wrong or even arrogantly are mostly big and expensive. So no matter their nationality the rich people tend to act in such manner. We should understand them as they know they ARE better that we.
ReplyDeleteIlta-Sanomat wrote about your blog's visitor numbers - still you haven't clicked earning buttons from your blogger backend. Don't you like money :-) LOL
ReplyDeleteI don't like ads, and I think the visitor numbers will drop to a more reasonable level anyway after the dust settles. So it's not that big a deal.
DeleteYou should make some kind of "Learn to park" -stickers in russian, and sell those in this website. People of the bordering towns could put those on wrongly parked cars' windows.
ReplyDeleteI see you speak very well both, russian and finnish language. In the news I read that you are programmer or something, so did you learn russian for work purposes or what?
ReplyDeleteI don't speak Russian actually. I got some translation help from a friendly visitor.
DeleteThank you for this blog and attempt to solve the problem!
ReplyDeleteI hope it will help step-by-step to reduce amount of such cases and teach people from my country to respect each other and follow the rules. And hope that some day, the normal human behavior, will come back to Russia and I’ll not shame myself when I see Russians abroad.
I really sorry for all of us and hope that someday the only difference between us will be the language and jokes :)
In St. Petersburg parking is a real problem and some habits learned there out of sheer desperation seem to creep to Finland as well.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, in SPb civilized drivers often leave their mobile number visible on the dashboard so that the driver whose way is blocked can dial the number and ask the car owner to move his/her car. That's a very nice idea. BTW, this is not a common practice in other Russian cities, after all, St. Petersburg IS the cultural capital of Russia...
It would be nice to make a blog, explaining to tourists how to use some of your devices. I mean: how to pay for parking in the parking machines, how to setup a parking clock, how to buy a ticket for transportation, and much more. For many Russians, it is a problem, because in Russia there is no payment system as an automaton. And about the parking clock is not heard nothing. Almost all machines, only information in Finnish, no English (or don't find, how to choose it). A few days ago I have long been trying to find information, how do I buy a ticket on the metro and trams in Helsinki for two days, and how to use it. Thanks guy named Jarmo, who saw my problem and helped to make it. Well, when you go to Finland with those who have already been there and knows it all, but if you are one, then many things become key problems.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you add a small section to this blog concerning the most basic rules of parking in Finnish, English and Russian. It may not influence many people, but we people copy behaviour of others, so a few additional good examples can go a long way.
ReplyDeleteIn the end I would like to say to Russian visitors (apologies for missing cyrillic) Dobra pozholovat v Finlandii! Priezhaete tschashe otdihat u nas.
I've received quite a few requests like this. So I decided to add a section for just this. Currently only English, but I should have the translation shortly!
DeleteBad driving and parking by the Russians raises a lot of bad blood here in Lappeenranta. Driving in the middle of two lanes is really a common sight and so are U-turns. Don't make U-turns in Finland! Don't drive against traffic on a one-way street either! Using emergency signals is illegal unless you really have an emergency going on in your car!
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