Camping Trip in Nuuksio – Or How To Get Insulted into Productivity By Your Subconscious

August 11, 2012 · Posted in Art & Entertainment, Books & Comics, Cabin & countryside, Life · Comment 

I’ve been a little bit here and there throughout the summer, and after a week of hard work and even harder carousing I finally managed to gather together my camping gear scattered around by the move, buy the things I had lost, and head over to Nuuksio National Park to relax. As it turned out, it was a trip of surprising productivity.


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Midsummer Island Trip Feat. Kids, Bugs & Pancakes

June 23, 2012 · Posted in Cabin & countryside, Life · Comment 

This year I decided to hit the eject button and escape to the Eastern Finland for the traditional Juhannus midsummer festival. Instead of partying in the city or having a fancy barbecue with pals what was in the books was a couple of days in a tent in an island with two of my oldest friends, Juha and Jere, and Juha’s three elementary school age kids.

Not quite The Midnight Sun. Well, 10pm sun anyway.

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Photo update: ‘Shroom Trip

September 4, 2011 · Posted in Cabin & countryside, Life · 1 Comment 

This Sunday I got some badly needed wilderness therapy when Susi, Jere, I and Jere’s pal Maria went to pick some mushrooms in the forests northwest of Espoo. I had prepared myself mentally to just getting a few good photos, but after a few hours in the sunny autumn forest we walked back to the car with bags full of black and ordinary chanterelles, boletes and other assorted mushrooms. The last couple weeks have been quite taxing, and a trip like this was just what the doctor ordered.

 

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