South Korea/Finland - Week of August 3, 2025
Hei. Terveisiä Kuopiosta! Mitä kuuluu? Hello. Greetings from Kuopio, Finland! How are you? Welcome back to another week of what seems at times to be a blur of adventure! Finland has a strong sense of familiarity to where I grew up in Lac la Biche, Alberta , Canada. Being here, in Lapland, feels like being home so I have had to be more vigilant to draw out the uniqueness of being in this part of the world. Sort of like being in Canada with an European flavour - cobblestone streets like you'd find in Montreal and Quebec City. There is similar vegetation and landscape with plenty of rivers and lakes. The locals I've met are equally friendly and helpful. Happy tourist! One important difference is that I've traveled much further north in Finland, to the Arctic Circle, than I have in Canada. This is the furtherest point north in the Northern Hemisphere I have been ever! So much easier to travel to the Arctic Circle in Finland than Canada. Oh yeah, there's also reindeer her...