We've now made it for half a year here in Suomi (Finland) and we're doing okay. We've just had a brief cold spell with temperatures under 20F and so our canal has a thin layer of ice over most of its length. This may be the extent of our first Helsinki winter. The canal picture was taken at 4pm and still plenty of daylight so we're happy. We're gaining about 5 minutes and 25 seconds of daylight each day now. I don't know why the gulls like to sit on ice but they do, lining up in formation and hanging out in the sun.
Below are a few more pictures from tonight - one is a small park in the center of town, with a nice statue from the 20s of a female javelin thrower, with an idle fountain that should be flowing in a few months, and the other is a fellow metro traveler in costume - why? We don't know. Such is life here - we see odd things and then later discover what they were about - although snowmen on subways may be an anomaly.
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