Finland Rocks
Posted on August 27, 2005
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I am back aboard Lufthansa flight 776 from Frankfurt to Singapore, blogging again from 30,000ft…although at this stage my enthusiasm for it isn’t real high. Aside from the poor service, I just want to get home and see the family. This is one leg (11 hours or so) of about 30 hours non stop travel back to New Zealand from my last port of call Vaasa, Finland…which brings me to the real point of this post.
Finland is cool.
This was my first time, and while I didn’t get to explore Helsinki at all, I really enjoyed the few days I had in Vaasa. I was there for work of course, but I still got to experience some fabulous Finnish hospitality, sauna in a lighthouse (both a regular and a smoke sauna), swim in the sea separating Finland and Sweden, and that same night we got a display of the northern lights (apparently unusual for this time of year).
On top of this the country is very green (parts of it reminded me of NZ), and without exception everyone I met was really friendly. Finland is totally a place I would like to spend some more time. The only way I could have been more impressed would be if Nokia had called up to invite me for an exclusive all access tour of their operations…that would be neat.
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