A post for the sake of posting
I sort of felt I should refrain from posting anything until I made a "back from the US!"-post with a million pictures, but what the hell. I'm at work at the gallery right now, not exactly bored, but due to the fact that most visitors like wandering the gallery by themselves rather than having me stalking them, I make myself busy, but sort of
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Weeh for discovering things about your own country! I've felt a bit like that working here. It's like a different universe. Russia is basically a walking distance away and it's very interesting to see how it influences everything just a little here. The nature is just breath taking, too. And the people are so different! It's great \o/
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Damnit, can't escape the camera face! >_< Having Russia as the only "proper" border country (with a border that stretches the entire length of one side, that is), the influence on the areas close by really are noticeable. Just things like street-signs being in Finnish and Russian rather than Finnish and Swedish, the shops so obviously catering for Russian tourists; these were the main things I noticed.
As for the nature, it really is pretty! And probably would have gotten prettier the further north one goes. And I sort of finally saw the connection with Salpausselkä (the ridges), how it stretches across the country. The suddenly changing geography on the ridge in Lohja/Nummela that's always fascinated me with it's lake-landscape suddenly felt logical when I saw how it continues and shapes the landscape ^_^ Err. *geography-gasm*
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