After the winds, grey skies and industrial smells of Rotterdam, it was a pleasure to be back in Finland yesterday evening. It had snowed a lot over the weekend so it took almost two hours to drive back to Somero from the airport, but the scenery was so pretty that we even stopped on the way just to admire the snow which was sparkling on the trees. I know it is a cliché to say this, but you always appreciate things more once you have been away from them for a few days.
Over the last few days I have had several emails from Finns living abroad at the moment, and every one of them has said how they are missing the Finnish winter....especially the snow.
In fact there is so much snow here at the moment that we were up at 6.30 this morning trying to rescue the car as it had got stuck and wouldn't move from our drive. But we managed in the end, and it still looks lovely and bright, so here are some pictures taken this morning in Somero in case you are feeling homesick!
I have now renamed our English Conversation Group (which was never a catchy name) as the Somero English Club. We have very few rules....but I have asked anyone who travels abroad to send us a postcard so at the end of the year we can look back on all the places we have collectively visited. Today we received the first one, and it arrived from Kyösti and Maritta who were on holiday in Fuerteventura. Thank you! I hope you can tell us all about your travels in our class tomorrow evening.
Snowy regards to you all from Somero!
6 comments:
Wonderful pics Jody! Our city decision-makers should be grateful
to You for making free publicity of our town Somero. I hope you are well enough after your terrible cold to lead us again in our "Somero English Club" tomorrow
Hoping
manu
Perhaps we don't allaways notice how beautiful city we have.
We need "refesh" persons like Jody to remind it to us.
Antti
ps. See you tomorrow evening
Maybe Maritta and Kyösti think now that variety is the spice of life... so huge is the difference between Fuerteventura and Finland at the moment.For a Finn the seasons are something to look forward to!
Heikki
We love nature of Finland, both of us. Sometimes it´s good to travel out that one can realize how nice and beautiful is place we live, and how frendly persons is around us.
Fuerteventura is beautiful on its own way, but very windy. I think so that speed of windy were variable between 5 to 12 m/s, it means from half speed of moped to full legal speed of moped. (duoring two weeks).If You have driven moped, You see the point.
We both love to travel also, we are interested in different kind cultures, peoles and nature.
Kyösti
Keep on travelling! If we just skip the sustainable development..as an individual person one still has the freedom to decide what to do and how to use the time.A couple of years ago you headed to South America and we started to tour the southeast Asia at the same time - something to remember in a rocking chair!
Heikki
I totally agree Heikki, the only thing we can keep forever is the memories of what we did when we were still young enough to do it! We need to make the most of every moment and make sure that we have lots to look back on when those rocking chair days arrive!
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