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Boats

29 Thursday Sep 2022

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Sunday 14th August 2022 ko 18:30

Finland Miesten Kakkonen Lohko B

HJK KLUBI 04 4 (Haggström 21 Ezeh 69 Toivonen 76 Vuorinen 84)

VJS 3 (Nyholm 24 Mehmeti 82 Oila 90)

Att 324 at Bolt Arena, Töölö, Helsinki

 Entry €15 (approx. £13.28)

After our rather frantic first day in Helsinki, we deliberately slowed down for the rest of our stay in Finland’s capital. We took a leisurely tram ride to the Market Square, and then took the ferry (included in the Helsinki public transport pass) over to Suomenlinna. The island fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, like so much in Finland has a background in being Swedish, Russian, and Finnish. It was good to have a gentle stroll around the place knowing we only had one time we had to keep to, kick off in Töölö. Continue reading →

Gauges

27 Tuesday Sep 2022

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Saturday 13th August 2022 ko 17:00

Finland Kansallinen Liga

FC HONKA NAISET 1 (Sutela 56)

HPS NAISET 1 (Nurmet 66)

Att 332 at Tapiolan Urheilupuisto, Espoo

Entry €5 (approx. £4.48)

There was a certain symmetry in Robyn and I linking a trip to Helsinki to a return to a post-pandemic Stockholm to see friends that we hadn’t seen, in some cases for 4 years. Sweden did rule over Finland from the 13th century until 1809, and to this day you’ll see signs written in both Finnish and Swedish, the latter is still an official language.

Given my connections to Sweden, and the notoriously difficult to understand Finnish language I did find it difficult to pick up even a few words of Finnish, it was so much easier to use the Swedish I already knew. As Swedish statistician Mads put it, ” You call the country Finland which is in Swedish, but call the capital Helsinki- which is in Finnish!” Continue reading →