Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Suomi

One small step for me, one giant leap for my ego.
I walked all the way from Sweden to Finland, after a night train ride from Stockholm, sitting next to a Thai, who couldn´t speak any English, and two drunken French blokes... It actually took me 15 minutes and apart from a sign, saying Sverige and Suomi on each side, it was really hard to tell where the border line was because right behind the sign there´s a big shopping mall, which seemed to be half Swedish and half Finnish.
Suomi by the way is the Finnish word for Finland. In Norway and Sweden I had hoped to understand the odd word, but upon reaching Finland I gave up on that. You could just as well be talking Russian or Chinese to me, I wouldn´t get a single word.

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