Return to the Dark Side
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The sequel (From Russia with views)
Return to the Dark Side · 01.05.2022I had sorted through my photos from the recent trips to Russia and divided them in to two blog post drafts when the Vladimir Putin started his...
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Return to the Dark Side · 24.04.2022In NZ I was slightly baffled because of some people’s deep love and affection towards their semi-automatic rifles. This became apparent after the Christchurch mosque shooting when the government very quickly and...
Overdrive
Return to the Dark Side · 21.03.2022In British-civilized countries greeting each other is a very different form of art than it is in Finland. In Oz or NZ the question “How are you?” ain’t a question at all. In Australia I arrived to work...
The heart of darkness (which was meant to be ...
Return to the Dark Side · 12.03.2022I do have half a dozen barely begun or half finished blog posts (or photo collections) in this blog and another dozen in the one I have been writing...
Shut up and ski for hours
Return to the Dark Side · 05.03.2022Monday morning. Red eyes looking back from the mirror. General tiredness and some aching here and there. Hangover? Nah. A great weekend out there and doing it – so lets add to the...
Quinzee (make and break)
Return to the Dark Side · 01.02.2022Decided to make a quick dash to Pukala recreational forest the other weekend – in on Sunday morning and out on Monday straight to work. In addition to doing a bit of recce of places I...
Winter warrior
Return to the Dark Side · 06.01.2022Before the holiday season commenced the weather warmed up to more enjoyable figures for outdoor activities – up to around minus fifteen degrees centigrade. Until the 22nd of December there weren’t any...
Episode IX – The Rise of Passport
Return to the Dark Side · 12.12.2021As described in the earlier instalments (Episode IV A New Hope, Episode V The Bureaucrat Strikes Back, Episode VII The System Awakens) getting a...
Twenty three below
Return to the Dark Side · 07.12.2021Proper winter weather arrived a couple of weeks ago. Temperatures have been constantly at least ten to fifteen below even in the south and this winter’s record cold was measured far north in Muonio this morning...
A great country with great tolerances
Return to the Dark Side · 01.12.2021Popped in the friendly eastern neighbour the the other week. Some days were spent once again marveling the in the most ways different culture,...
Winter has arrived
Return to the Dark Side · 28.11.2021Temperature has been hovering between six and twelve degrees below for some time and this looks like to continue for at least another ten days. The direct effect – being cold when outside – is easily solved...
The steps of will (develop into Jääkäri L tor...
Return to the Dark Side · 22.11.2021Combination of push biking to work and back over the Ohope hill, mountain biking and tramping in New Zealand bush resulted in a sort of increased...
The greyest day of the year
Return to the Dark Side · 19.11.2021November is creeping on. Sun doesn’t get very high over the treetops before it starts diving down again. Of course most days one doesn’t get to see that friendly yellow ball at...
We wanted the best, but it turned out like always
Return to the Dark Side · 24.10.2021Last week while I was preparing for my first work related trip abroad it caught my eye that the Finnish “Ministry for social affairs and...
In the hunt for wilderness
Return to the Dark Side · 23.10.2021In the sunny Bay of Plenty it was way cool to have an abundance of bush at your doorstep. You could choose between Waioeka (39 200 hectares) or Raukumara (115 000 ha) conservation areas,...
Bureaucrats not in your service
Return to the Dark Side · 08.10.2021Two weeks have gone since I wrote the first chapter of praise for the Finnish national religion – blind belief rules and mindless obeying of...
Bureaucrats at your “service”
Return to the Dark Side · 24.09.2021One of the many things I wasn’t keen at all to meet again was the Finnish bureaucracy – and for a very good reason I’ve found out...
To beer or not to beer
Return to the Dark Side · 28.08.2021Germans know how to make numerous things better than anyone else – for example many of the world’s beer types. Perfect the product over time (like a few hundreds of years) and...
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