Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Quite a long way from Cairo

Lots of miles from Vietnam.
Spent the last couple of days in Finland, which has been significantly warmer than London this weekend. In fact, it hasn't snowed in the south for three weeks. Even Moscow is experiencing a winter heatwave of +7 degrees. This hardly constitutes climate change, but the Scandinavian experience is a little weird without snow.
The country came across as pretty quaint, without wishing to sound too snobbish about it. Wooden houses and birch forests (keep all those children in check), very sparsely populated, with lots of homemade Christmas trinkets being sold in outdoor markets; all contributed to the sense that you had stepped back in time 50 years.
Do you know what the two most popular Finnish names are? Matt
& Gloss.

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