Northern Light – chilled thoughts from the top of Europe

"Let it be one cheerful rational voice amidst the din of mourners and polemics." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1840. A Brit-in-Helsinki's blog about global politics, climbing, cycling, things that annoy me and other bits of life. But not necessarily in that order.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Dark times: November bikepacking on the Ilvesreitti (Lynx route), Häme, Finland.

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Bike packed for bikepacking. Swollen stream from the autumnal deluges behind Hillbilly country The older I get, the more I can...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

Marmot Basic Work Glove: a review

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As noted before, I've long taken an interest in the 'outdoor sports' equipment industry: as a climber/hiker/mountaineer/cycli...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Watching Syria from afar: some thoughts on reading the Crisis Group's report "Tentative Jihad"

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Photo Freedom House via Flickr/Creative Commons I've long been interested in the extremities of politics in all directions. In the l...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Trail riding and avoiding cold toes

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After a family walk this morning in one national park east of Helsinki ( Sipoonkorpi ), the weather was still so good in the afternoon, t...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Mud and gears and rock and roll(ing over it)

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Autumn colours Bike with bags I apologise to Joel because I think my phone is playing up - he tried calling me Saturday morning to ...
Friday, October 05, 2012

Terrorism, cliche and teapots.

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A friend tweeted a link to Stratfor article called " Terrorism Tradecraft " to me, asking for my thoughts on it. There's no wa...
Monday, October 01, 2012

Mountain biking in Komio

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It started with a tweet. Peter from Yeti Rides noted he had found an interesting blog: another Finnish fat bike aficionado who has started ...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Alpkit in operation - kayak touring in Southern Finland

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I haven't been blogging much recently, but when writing up my last post noticed I had uploaded a bunch of photos last summer from a kaya...
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