The grand summer 2012 tour of Finland | Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.

For the first time in my life I took 4 straight weeks of holiday during the summer, and for most of that we stayed in Finland. We visited Porvoo, Nummi-Pusula, Parikkala and Nauvo, so one can say it was a grand tour of south, east and west of the country. The weather was mostly rainy, but it was still a great holiday. The pictures, as usual, in Flickr.

Southern Finland at midnight in the summer solstice

Solecito y humo del sauna — Sauna smoke and sunlight

Reno cambiando de ropa — Reindeer changing clothes 😉

Summer holidays are a perfect excuse for good food: Taco de birria con consomé

Excursión a la playa del lago — Unbeknownst to me before I moved to Finland, lakes can also have beaches 😉

Nothing else to do in the train — In long train rides you will find plenty of lonely pensive males in the bar drinking beer and watching the landscape go by.

Heroes of Ladoga landmark. Before World War II the northwestern shore of Lake Ladoga was Finnish territory.

Musings from a child of globalisation.