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Originally Posted by Dowly
Dont know about Helsinki, but the city I live in, a small ~25,000ppl city in the eastern Finland doesnt have that happening. The vacations are arranged so, that there is ppl to fill the spots always.
But as for the "life in nature", I've been going to our summerhouse as long as I can remember. It's on an small-ish island, with 25km to the nearest town. Oh the peace and silence there is, fracking love it!  And yes, sauna is a big part of it, me & my brother usually heat it up in the middle of the night (we are for most of time the only ones still awake, tho drunk as monkeys) and spend hours there, occasionally going for a swim or get a new beer. Wouldnt change it for anything.  |
I would have had a hard time believing it or would have assumed they exaggerate, if I only would have read it and if they would not have filmed the city, and showed pictures from the streets: and there were all the houses shut off, shops closed, and simply not a single man moving around in the streets. There were the interviews with doctors at the hpsital telling the numbers I repeatded, and with a ministre who currently was doing the ministies of two of his colleagues as well. there were no interviews with the shop owner, because they were not there
80% of the inhabitants, they said on TV, are moving out in summer holidays, and even take no cellphones - not even Nokias! - with them, being totally unreachable for any kind of communication, mail or telephone.
when I travelled myself a lot ten years ago, I also only had minimal expedition luggage, and we were sometimes alone in some desert - like wilderness. sometimes I felt as free as I never felt before and never felt again since then, during my private journeys. when I worked with those correpondent crews, it was different, of course. the mere nature of the job reminded me constantly that we were strangers in a strange land, with a hardware-coded uplink into the complicated life of civilisation. Tjhatz summer in the woods idea definitely is for me. I am a forest-lover anyway.
