Eyes on Finland

Am writing this with eyes staring at me. On one side there's Virpi and on the other side this curious giraffe that is just looking at me with one sideways eye. Talking about eyes, today's "Pearls Before Swine" had a joke on them.

There's snow here in Tampere. On Tuesday, we landed in Helsinki, and there was practically no snow on the ground. We were driven to Hämeenlinna and it all started to look much more wintery. Yesterday, as we were waiting for the train, it started to snow. Our friends were already saying that they should tell the weather forecast authorities when we're arriving in the country so they could adjust their forecasts correctly. In the summer it is always sunny when we come, no matter how many weeks it has been raining before and in the winter, it starts to snow.

Hämeenlinna is a very nice little town, which has one of the few really old castles of Finland. I took some beautiful pictures of it with the sun shining yesterday.