Following the recent launch of our first Swedish language site, Worfolk 18 is pleased to announce the launch of its first Finnish language site too – Alastomat Kotirouvat.
One of the drinks I missed most since I stopped drinking alcohol is Rekorderlig. It’s like Kopparberg, but a lot nicer, there is more of a fruit taste in it. Luckily, when you are in a country full of alcoholics, they cater for such a niche.
Alkoholiton is Finnish for alcohol free. It’s amazing! Devastatingly, since returning to the UK I had a search around on the internet to see if anyone imports it, but it seems not.
Now that I am self employed, I hate holidays. It’s fine to say, well I budget for that in my earnings, but when it actually comes to taking time off and doing the maths surrounding it, it’s very hard to make that decision.
Therefore, given I was forced to take a four day weekend for the Jubilee, we decided to fit in a cheeky trip to Finland to go see Elina’s family.
As if I didn’t hate flying enough, it turns out Finnair were running a new programme trial in which instead of feeding us, they didn’t feed us. Rubbish,
I had previous met her mum who provided us with a warm welcome and some amazing cooking. Indeed, she cooked so much that we ended up having beef and chicken for breakfast the next day too! I’m hoping it will become the new traditional Finnish breakfast.
It’s a really beautiful country and not called the land of a thousand lakes without good reason.
We had to drive through quite a bit of forest to get to the lakes. No wonder Finland produces so many rally drivers, it was ace.
On Monday we went to Turku, one of the larger cities where Elina went to university. It was mostly full of sex shops that offered live shows and a river that you would never want to drink from, but was nice never the less.
Then, in the evening, we travelled up north to Rauma so we could eat at a restaurant that served reindeer steak.
It was a lovely traditional restaurant, and the food was excellent.
After a long day of adventuring, Moomintroll was very tired.
Thank you so much to Elina’s mum and brother who put us up for the three days.
To make Christmas feel a bit more like Finland, Elina and I made a ginger bread house.
Another great thing about meeting Elina’s mum was she had even brought me some presents over from Finland! Apparently, each year the reindeer shed their antlers, and then people collect them up and turn them into useful things like bottle openers, stopper and cork screws. It’s the cycle of nature beautiful.
