When I was out yesterday wandering the explore in Helsinki City I heard an explosion. A deep rumbling roar that could only have been an awful event or mining. I found out what it was today. It was underneath the Finnish parliament building.
Yesterday it was blue skies; today it has rained all day and a rainy day is a museum day. National Museum of Finland for about 3 hours and a museum on life at sea. And a guided tour of the Finnish Parliament. But this is no Westminster. Finland has only been a democracy since 1917 and the Parliament building is relatively new and is all art deco with marble floors and stairs and tubular steel furniture, even in the Commons. They have PR here - England beware! Their current stystem has 8 main parties and the government is made up of a coalition of 6 of them. How on earth do they get any business done? And the government bureaucracy is growing too, hence the need for more space, hence the mining and explosion.
I love tea... EG me.
Finnish tea is weird. A mixture of black tea, lemon and tar. And it tastes like it. And says it on the packets. Apparently they use tar in several foodstuffs. There is even a tar licquer...
Big ship to Russia tomorrow. Gulp!!
I wonder if Russian tea has vodka flavours...
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