tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24900977.post4047746099758874975..comments2024-01-26T23:15:06.335+02:00Comments on Northern Light – chilled thoughts from the top of Europe: Finland doesn't work (4)Toby - Northern Light Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14342195033125549912noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24900977.post-41791294326148937192010-02-27T13:29:31.714+02:002010-02-27T13:29:31.714+02:00Sorry Toby, it seems like I was passing on false o...Sorry Toby, it seems like I was passing on false or misheard information. As you say, there have been worse winters as recently as the 80's (see http://tinyurl.com/s0rrY).<br /><br />But I should point out that my three hour journey was during normal weather conditions. And, I'd swap London's permeating dampness for minus ten and snow any day!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24900977.post-42764992594989777762010-02-24T23:30:13.857+02:002010-02-24T23:30:13.857+02:00:-) I'll see your 3 hours and raise you my col...:-) I'll see your 3 hours and raise you my colleagues 5 hrs that it took her to get to work and back on Monday (normally 1 hr each way).<br /><br />Where did you see 80 years? Hesari says since 1970 today and I was shovelling snow with my neighbour last night and he said in the 60s when he was young "it was like this every winter!" which I thought was rather sweet. Just spent 2.5 hrs shovelling snow off my roof.Toby - Northern Light Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342195033125549912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24900977.post-75640579070700431952010-02-24T22:39:48.958+02:002010-02-24T22:39:48.958+02:00While I take your point, freezing points indeed, i...While I take your point, freezing points indeed, it should be pointed out that this is the longest period of below-zero temperatures in Helsinki for 80 years. And having travelled from Finland back to the UK today, I have to say that the 35 minute bus journey to a well-maintained Vantaa Airport compared to the three hour slog from Heathrow back home on cold and crowded public transport, stuck in interminable jams ... I think Finland still has some way to go on the general crapness stakes. <br /><br />And if they put winging in the Olympics...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24900977.post-69127552924685290692010-02-23T08:53:24.299+02:002010-02-23T08:53:24.299+02:00Strangly reasuring this. Call it scahdenfruede if ...Strangly reasuring this. Call it scahdenfruede if you like but it's good to read of wintery ineptitude in Scandinavia. My experience until now hs only confirmed the stereotypes: Finns getting on with life in the -20s, speeding along snow covered roads with their knobbly tyes, technique perfected by years of weekend rally driving. Meanwhile British cities grind to a halt, cars abandoned in mid commute, mass sleep outs in village halles, all in 2cm of wet porridge that the fins probably don't even call snow.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17113976429882261890noreply@blogger.com