If you are wondering why this post comes out five months late, I have to let you know I broke my phone and some of the pictures were inside it. It took me five months to get fixed :D Anyway I hope you like this post.
I had booked a hotel for Tracon in December, but because of the coronavirus the event got cancelled. I could not get the money back from the hotel, so me and Sade, with whom I had booked the hotel, went there.
At Friday we went to the hotel room, left our things there, and went for a pizza in Kotipizza which was right next to the hotel. Even though Kotipizza is not one of my favorite pizza places, it was pretty good. Then we went to the Majava bar, which is a rock bar and it was about 50 meters away from our hotel. The bar was not the best rock bar I've ever been to, but the atmosphere was great and the people were super nice. Many people came to talk to us and asked if there was an event in Tampere. One of the guests there told me she had seen other goths in Tampere, which was interesting to hear. Sade was lovely and offered me few drinks, and I had great time. The bartender even made me few drinks out of his head, when I asked a sweet drink. After being few hours in Majava, we went for Thasherie. It was a nicer bar, but unfortunately bit more expensive. Because of the coronavirus, I have not been in any bars this year and it was my first time this year when I was drunk.
At 2AM, we went back to the hotel. I had planned that we would have gone to Kuroineko, a gothic shop in Tampere but we had no time. At Saturday I checked out where the shop was, and it was only few hundred meters away from our hotel. So we went there, and I bought a cat top from Banned that glowes in the dark. The shirt was super nice and only cost 23 euro, as it was 20% off. Then we went to the café Purnauskis, a cat cafe in Tampere. It was super difficul to find, and when we got there, they were fully booked and we could not get in. We had a appointment at 5PM, so we had one and half hours for nothing to do. So I decided to go to Urumi, which was just moved in Tampere. They didn't have much to sell, as they only moved there a week ago, but they had Ramune, few prize figures and plushies to sell. I had my eyes to an Umbreon plushie, but like anime plushies always, it was very cute and I'm not really into super cute plushies (and Umbreon is supposed to be black, the plushie was more dark grey). They also had a nice Harry Potter poster and a Mewtwo mug in their web site, but did not have them in the shop. The poster really was not a must have, but the mug was nice. I will likely not buy it since I have million and one mugs. I bought a Hatsune Miku prize figure, that cost 35 euro.
Then we went back to the Purnauskis café. I was really surprised when they had an entrance fee of 5 euro. I have never been in a café with an entrance fee. The café was also really expencive. I ordered a piece of cake, and it was 6,50 euro. Coffee cost 4 euro. But the atmosphere was super nice, and the cats came to me and let me pet them. One even jumped to our table. When we left, there was a bit drama: one of the kittens had climbed up to a tree that were in the café and could not get down. The employees had to climb on a chair to get it down. But the kitten got down and we could leave. It was a nice experience, and even though the café was expensive, we had fun.
We also went for a restaurant called Shanghai, which was a Chinese restaurant like you could guess. This was my second time ever in an Asian restaurant, first time being in one when I was in Popcult Helsinki 2019. I ordered chicken with Chinese button mushrooms and rice. It was a very nice dish, and I really liked the place.
At Sunday we really did nothing. We basically got up and left. We were not hungry, so we decided not to eat there. But I really liked our trip. We had Onnibus when we got there and left, and even though Onnibus is cheap, I really did not like to sit there for two hours. The leg room was so small and had to put my legs in the corridor because they did not fit behind the seat. Overall the trip was good, and even though Omenahotelli is a pretty bad hotel, it was in a good location, since the Majava bar and Kuroineko were right next to it. I might take it for next year's Tracon.
