Just stepped out of a Taxi in Helsinki. The taxi driver was a total legend. He works when he needs to and lives the dream as much as his money can afford him to. A true believer of acquiring money to realise your dreams. He is off to Panama in a couple of weeks for 10 weeks of surfing on the pacific west coast.
Surely an ideal way to escape the bitter cold of the Finnish winter!
There is a reason that so many Fins love to indulge in the extreme.
Be it getting in a Sauna naked, then running down the garden having cut a hole in the frozen ice at the bottom of it, and jumping in, or engaging in some serious vodka drinking activities, or rallying through the barren icy roads in the wilderness.
This reason is primarily down to climate, and a culture that has been born from it. A land of extreme temperatures, has given rise to a nation of extreme people.
However despite this, alot of them seem as calm, measured - chilled like the frozen tundra that surrounds them.
Almost apparently devoid of stress. Perhaps in a country where the number of Saunas almost outnumber its 5.2 million population, there is something to be taken from the philiosophy of - a sauna a day will keep the doctor away.
That coupled with a couple of shots of Vodka!
Cheers......
Surely an ideal way to escape the bitter cold of the Finnish winter!
There is a reason that so many Fins love to indulge in the extreme.
Be it getting in a Sauna naked, then running down the garden having cut a hole in the frozen ice at the bottom of it, and jumping in, or engaging in some serious vodka drinking activities, or rallying through the barren icy roads in the wilderness.
This reason is primarily down to climate, and a culture that has been born from it. A land of extreme temperatures, has given rise to a nation of extreme people.
However despite this, alot of them seem as calm, measured - chilled like the frozen tundra that surrounds them.
Almost apparently devoid of stress. Perhaps in a country where the number of Saunas almost outnumber its 5.2 million population, there is something to be taken from the philiosophy of - a sauna a day will keep the doctor away.
That coupled with a couple of shots of Vodka!
Cheers......
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