Frankie's Adventures and Misadventures : Free Ride

I think I have three regular or semi-regular readers of my blog now (RIP Hank) and I think the three of you know ( or semi know) that I am painfully aware of the human experience. These painful observations now have me observing Finland. Here is what John Prine and I could write about so far:

· 98.68 percent of Finnish words have two K’s in them and when they go crazy they sometimes have 8

· 98.01 percent of Finnish people have tattoos

· 100 percent of stuff and shit here is expensive

With working in Iraq and then Abu Dhabi I was hoping to get a break from the heat and of course the pits of hell are cooler than those places in August but there is still a heat wave here so take that global warming nay-sayers.

No surprises here. It is pretty much what I expected. Organized, clean city with nice smelling locals. The big adventure today was going to Suomenlinna:

Here is how they describe it “The Great Wall of China, the Acropolis in Athens, the Grand Canyon, and Suomenlinna”. That might be a bit grandeur but it is worth a visit and there is a nice boat ride to get there. It is an island fortress to fend off their rowdy neighbors of yesteryear.

You can see the Russian influence on the architecture here as well as the cuisine because they put dill on everything which works well for me because I swear by the two damp balls of John the Baptist I love dill. But I am convinced the national dish is Thai food.

And holy moly some of the people are fair here.

I was talking to one dude and said sorry about the death of your brother but man o man you are an awesome guitar player and he said feck off gringo I am not Edgar Fecking Winter. Not sure why an older Finnish gent called me a gringo but I seem to hear that a lot.

Onward