"If you want to see snow and a real winter, Helsinki is the wrong city."
This is what I was told by plenty of people "here in the south" when I arrived here in autumn. But this winter seems to be an exception. We have sooo much snow, many really cold days and the baltic sea is frozen.
However, I usually still go by bicycle, but sometimes I have to wheel my bike. Sometimes it is ok to bike on the even snow. But also excavators shovel the snow from streets, pedestrian ways and bike paths onto trucks which carry the snow away. At the roadside the snow piles up to 1.5 or 2m!
This warm winter equipment is necessary because...
... it was -22°C, as this thermometer which I pass on my way into town proves.
Who does not remember where he left his car will have difficulties finding it under the snow...
... or the bikes!
Marco is standing in the snow up to his knees!
I am so tired of hearing that the wheather is bad in Germany all the time. The people here are so used to convience. I wish they would adopt the Finnish attitude in repect to winter.
AntwortenLöschenDamn, I really feel the urge to come back, but I looked for cheap flights and it didn't seems to work out for me. Sorry...
Have fun you guys.
Jan, you must come back! I think Manu and Marco told you the same. I found Tampere-Bremen with RyanAir for 60€ including both directions!
AntwortenLöschenThis winter is really amazing and beautiful. I don't want to complain at all (only biking is a bit difficult). Instead I am enjoying the coldest winter of my life :-)