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In an alley off the main street, the painted windows here defy casual stickybeaking but
conceal a pleasant interior. The food's for meat-eating people with an appetite; big burgers
and choose-your-weight steaks smothered in sauce, alongside some Mexican options.
Good service and free corn chips add points.
Information
Kajaani Info
TOURIST INFORMATION
Helpful tourist office in the town hall building.
Getting There & Around
Finnair/Flybe flies daily from Helsinki. The airport is 8km northwest; a
bus
(
www.akyllonen.fi
;ticket €5.50)
runs from the kauppatori via the Kajanus hotel to coincide
with flights. It's about €20 in a cab.
Kajaani is Kainuu's travel hub. There are daily trains from Helsinki (€84.30, 6½ hours),
via Kuopio, and services on to Oulu.
Paltaniemi
Paltaniementie 851;admission free; 10am-6pm mid-May-mid-Aug)
in this village 9km northw-
est of Kajaani was built in 1726, and has some of Finland's most interesting church paint-
ings: rustic 18th-century works full of life and colour that enliven the roof and walls.
Above the entrance, symbolically representing the dangers of life outside the church's pro-
tective bosom, is a vivid scene of hell, covered for years to avoid offending parish sensibil-
ities.
Alongside the church, what looks like a woodshed is the
Keisarintalli
, the best avail-
able local accommodation (moved from Vuolijoki) for Tsar Alexander I when he toured
Finland in 1819.
