Annikinkatu stone kiosk

I might start a blip series called 'backstreet curiosities of Tampere'. This small stone kiosk was, according to this link, built in the 1920s, and operated as, well, a sales kiosk until the 1970s. It was, understandably, popular with children who wanted to buy sweets. Closed for a few years, it was renovated and now hosts art exhibitions and such like in the summer. We've only been here in the winter, so I've only ever seen the kiosk closed. These days, the standard and ubiquitous kiosk is R Kioski, where we would recharge our tram cards in Helsinki and where we now collect our key for the Airbnb we like to use when we arrive in the station in Tampere. There's one on practically every corner in busy parts of towns and cities. It only sells things that are unhealthy. I've never seen anything with a positive food value for sale in an R Kioski. Continuing the theme of unhealthy things, it also sells lottery tickets and often houses a few coin operated (well, in Finland, probably card-operated) gambling machines, of the highly addictive type. And weak mass-produced beer, of the type that is not so highly regulated in terms of sales outlets.

I had a useful day, finishing the first read through of the proofs, and then getting on with some peer review bits and pieces in my office, before finishing the day with a trip to the gym to use the elliptical for half an hour or so.