Nadir is an old friend from Tampere. He had never visited us in Oulu. As he was going to meet some friends in Pietasaari, he decided to visit Annikki and me in Oulu.
Nadir arrived in the evening of Saturday and we had a great meal at the Goreme Pizzeria in Ranta Kastelli. We chatted on a variety of topics till well past midnight.
In the afternoon, Nadir joined us at the CHAFF meeting. After the meeting I took him around Oulu and he was surprised to see how the City of Oulu has developed.
Later in the evening I put him on the high speed Pendolino train back to Tampere where Nadir is doing his Doctorate in the field of Solid State Physics.
Both of us were shocked to see this just outsisde his compartment.
I wonder why the Railway and City Authorities have not removed this offending sign, especially as the City is making such a noise about the cartoons from Denmark and the cartoonist, Ville Ranta, from Oulu?
Ville was a small boy living in the house next to us in Kampitie (8A) a few years ago.
Now he is a young lad and appears to be a very good cartoonist. But he landed himself in hot water for some clever cartooning he did about the controversioal subject of depicting Prophet Mohammed!
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