Wahaay, it’s great to be back!! I know I’m in Ireland coz my train to work this morning was late. Finland is a strange country, where public transport runs on time, to the second! One ticket will get you a bus, tram, metro and even a boat.
You can even make money while you’re drinking, you get 15 cent back for every empty undamaged beercan that you push through a machine that is in every supermarket. We made the grand total of €43.20 during our week in the cabin not including plastic or glass bottles.
I was able to drive from Helsinki centre to the cabin 200km away and not only did I not have to apply the brakes in traffic, I didn’t even have to change down a gear. In a recent election one party said that they were going to reduce tax. Sound good? They LOST!!!
NO squandering of public funds on poxy tribunals in Finland and money is used where it’s needed mind you, the Finns do moan a bit. They moan when their train is late, if you park facing the wrong way, if you’re taking too much time at the machine in the supermarket recycling many, many empty beercans but they do have some great sports, wife carrying, naked anthill sitting and sauna championships, the latter of which we took part in and managed to stay in at 105 degrees Celsius before running out and taking a dip in the lake.
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It was sounding exactly like Switzerland there, right up to the naked anthill sitting. In Switzerland you have to be naked AND play the alpine horn. The Finns are wusses!
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