Sunday, June 10, 2018

Nordic Notes

Fun fact: Finland has designed ~80% and built 60% of the world's icebreakers, and here are four now.
The Finnish Päivälehti media museum is the only thing in Finland that we saw that wasn't in English. Regardless, we learned that journalists used to sit around drinking Aquavit, as shown.
In Tallinn, we learned about Neanderthal brains in the Health museum.
And about ships in the Maritime museum.
They were disposing of an extra fake torpedo.
I wasn't very good at big gun aiming.
Of course, we visited the most unusual cucumber shop to get some unusual cucumbers.
Barry posed in random places on the street.
Here, he's trying to demonstrate how the road blockers are clearly birds.
In Finland, we observed a very high proportion of blond people.
Barry was going to take a picture of a bunch of blonds behind his blond beer, but the he got distracted by real life.
There seemed to be a movement against Scottish terriers.
And there was a handy cage for pandas.