Happy Holidays to all GG&J posters!

[finnbear]

Heh heh, interesting at least. It's appr. as big as Great Britain, but only some 5 million people.

We have Lappland where the sun don't go down in summer at all. It's sunny 24/7. There are people who still earn their living keeping reindeers. Reindeer casserole is very good. If you ever come to Finland, I cook it to you.

Santa Claus lives in Finland, in Korvatunturi, in Lappland.

Spaceship that just went to Mars, have finnish technology.

Nokia has built a GSM phone with camera and GSM phone with game console. Most people here own a GSM phone.

EDIT: I almost forgot Nokia has also build a GSM phone that have television in it.

Finns drink a lot of booze. We only have one booze shop, Alko, owned by our government. We have villages where nearest Alko is 20-30 miles away.

Prices are high. Especially booze price (and cars). It will go down next year, but at the same time Estonia goes to EU. At summer time you can go to Tallinn from Helsinki in 1 hour, almost. Slow ship takes 4 hours. In Estonia all prices are cheap. As EU citizen you can bring anything you want from other EU country and custom can't even search you - except if they think you have done the crime. They can't use that as excuse, because you can sue them in EU court. You will win.

This is a crazy country, but I love it. I'm an patriot. Every winter I want to move somewhere warm. Some day I even might do that. But I will come back every summer.