It's funny how I never thought that I'd be the one not feeling excited about my upcoming birthday. As my friends started turning 25 I felt like I was still 23. I always thought I'd have my life in order by now. I thought I'd be fully independent by now. I thought I'd be strong [...]
Summer plus road trip equals fun, right? But when adding a huge puppy to the calculation it becomes more stressed than fun. Like I insinuated in the last Throwback Picture Attack, we were traveling the last two weeks. This was not a vacation per say. Arto was working the whole time, which left me on [...]
Last week I talked about missing the city, but there are a lot of things that I feel are better here on the countryside, in a small village and in Lapland. These things are starting to become a reason for me to hesitate moving back to city ever again. Every day here feels like a [...]
Ever since my internship at Svanstein Ski ended, we’ve been planning on moving away from Sweden. We’ve looked for houses/apartments (and I have been looking also for jobs) from Rovaniemi so we could still be in Lapland, but it seems that the prices on terraced houses are pretty high there. We also thought about Jyväkylä, [...]
Living in Lapland has been so far amazing. Living in Lapland has been so far amazing, though activities tend to change, when the snow melts away and snowboarding is no longer a option. Like I told you, I miss summer nights in the city: sitting on the bar terrace with friends and listening to [...]
I feel that I cannot say that I miss Finland, since by car Finland is only 30 kilometers away, actually just across the river and everyone here speaks Finnish (at least to us). Do not get me wrong, still this has been a great cultural shock for me and I do miss Finland. I have indeed [...]
We’ve had the most exciting (and exhausting) week. We finally got the puppy! Remu is a mix of Rottweiler, Finnish Hound, German Shephard, Bernese Shephard and English Setter. He is going to grow strong and weigh about 40-50 kilos. Despite the headline “The Powder Puppy”, he hates the cold. Today was the first time he spent more [...]
