We had a questionable honor of being invited to Helsinki for work-related reasons in late November. It is the time of the year that people living in Finland don’t particularly enjoy, griping all the time about darkness and the drab weather, but even less us expats consider a prime time […]
The reason for this trip was that Tomi’s mother, and my mother-in-law, turned 80 this July. However, we missed the actual birthday, since we were attending the FIFA Women’s World Cup third place match on that day. Everything started when we bought the last minute tickets to that match. Then […]
End of the year is probably not the best time to visit Finland, when it is cold, grey, and dark there, and especially Northern Finland, where the Sun stays below the horizon all day. However, that did not stop us from enjoying our week before Christmas in Helsinki, Tampere and […]