According to a forty-year tradition visited the guides from Umeå colleagues in Vaasa.

First Advent weekend 2013 visited nine authorized tourist guides from Umeå Guide Association colleagues in Vaasa. We have met every two years since Umeå Guide Association was formed in 1973. We were warmly welcomed by the ferry ride, which was clearly better than in the past with the new ferry. On Saturday, we were guided in CA Setter’s Holy Trinity Churchin the English Gothic style from 1869. The church can hold 900 people and has three interesting altarpieces, Albert Edelfelt Adoration of the Shepherds, RW Ekman, First Communion and Louis Sparre Jesus’ entombment. Guided made ​​Margit Sell Berg, Chairman. In the crypt served since rice pudding and ham cooked in the Vasaa-Korsholms guides. The association has nearly fifty members. Umeå Guide Association has, for the past and guide the program last school year, twenty-three authorized active tourist guides.

In the afternoon, we were guided on Tikanoja where President castle’s art treasures now displayed because the castle renovated. In the evening there was little Christmas party, vasa guides had made ​​a rich Christmas dinner. Umeguidernahanded Västerbotten and Berghems flatbread to its numerous hosts. Games, contests, singing and raffle were part of the nice party.
Vaasa The guides would of course come up visit during the Capital of Culture year. Early Sunday morning ferry went back.Next year will be the return visit in Umeå.

Birgitta Bäckström, secretary Umeå Guide Association

Forty years of tradition, Umeå Guide Association hosts for the Vaasa-Korsholms guides. Other Advent weekend visited nineteen guides from Vaasa Mustasaari Umeå Guide Association. We have met every two years since Umeå Guide Association was formed in 1973. However, it is five years since they last visited Umeå Guide Association when the ferry was canceled precisely on the days planned last year. Arts Campus, especially the Institute of Design, taught by one of the students in the current guide training, department head at the Institute of Design Alakörkkö. The fourteen guide students also attended the showing of coffee at the residence in the presence of Governor Magdalena Andersson. This was followed by visits to Gammlia Christmas markets and traditional Christmas party at Culture Cafe Pilgatan. Before the guests were guided in bus around the new Umeå to the ferry by authorized guide Eva Sigurdh were informed at the tourist office of the Capital of Culture year by two other authorized guides, also the directors of Umeå Guide Association, Kaarina Honkanen and Valter Linghult. In two years go Umeå Guide Association to Vaasa with new ferry.

Birgitta Bäckström, secretary Umeå Guide Association

Umeå Guide Association and the Vasa-Korsholm guides have for many years been visiting
each other every two years. It is now five years since the last Vasa guide the visit in Umeå since last year’s planning came to nothing for the ferry did not go. Nineteen Finnish colleagues expected the weekend 7-9 / 12th
The planning includes visits to the artistic campus along
with the current guide price, tour and coffee at the residence as well
Gammlia Christmas market and the Christmas party at the cafe culture Pilgatan. Before the ferry going back
on Sunday our guests information about the Capital of Culture 2014 and a guided
bus tour. In two years we are going to return visit to the Vasa. Umeå Guide Association now has twelve
active members, then we should be twice the number of authorized guides.

Birgitta Bäckström, Secretary, Umeå Guide Association

Good day! I am one of the participants in the current program guide. We are a beautiful, well-mixed bunch.We are different in ages, professional roles and interests of a few. The training is ongoing especially Tuesday evenings where we meet, drink coffee, talk and discuss but of course we are deepening ourselves in Umeå in many different aspects. So far, we have had several different elements. How about a piece taste of KH2014: how is it in the process, where are we and where do we want? We have also had guest Marianne People’s Daughter (says curator Västerbotten Museum), where the importance of telling a story emphasized. We have been on study visits Norrland University Hospital and Medical History Museum and taking note of developments in health care. That in itself is quite incredible! Tonight it’s off to the regiment. In a few weeks we shall to the Arts Campus for living us into the world. You can imagine that I appreciate this mix!

History is not only the city fire in 1888, but also kings, industrial development, the military, etc. There are many other things that develop and create a city. I’m very happy that I can learn from history and to get a deeper understanding of what might happen tomorrow. My plan is to stay in Umeå my whole life (I am 80-baby boom so many ears, this sounds certainly very sad hehe) but that is precisely what makes me extra interested. I want to learn more!

Tinna Jonsson

Today I guided a group of Estonian entrepreneurs on a tour of central Umeå. Perfect weather with bright sunshine and no wind. Umeå showed itself from its best side. The group had many questions and wondered especially about how a king could motivate people to live in a city that did not exist before. However, simply laid out the blocks on an empty field and said, Now this is a city. They also wondered how Umeå managed to grow so rapidly recently. What were / are correct? It is exactly these kinds of issues we guides love to answer. How does the story together with what we see here today? What was it that made that a city could grow up here and become what it is today? Exciting huh!

Lena Söderlind Pettersson,
authorized guide