I grew up in Perth, Western Australia. This is a city where the temperature has, to my knowledge, only fallen below freezing once (to something ridiculous like -0.2C, if my memory serves me correctly), and we are much more accustomed to having hot summer days over 40C (well over the century, for my …
Finland
The weirdest place I’ve ever bumped in to someone I knew
I attended my 20th high school reunion last week. I missed the 10th since I was living in ... hmm, I guess it was Japan at the time; I was at the 15th, but it was very soon after I'd moved back from Germany and to be honest, I was still feeling totally out of the loop, I didn't talk to many people …
Santa sightseeing: Visiting that Christmas guy in Finland
Me and my mate Santa Claus go back a long way. I certainly remember being very excited about his visits as a child, even though my parents never got that elaborate with reindeer footprints or other "evidence" of his visit, beyond the fact that the beer we left out for Santa had been drunk (although …