Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com

Finland 🇫🇮 just won over the USA 🇺🇸 in the semi final in Ice Hockey World Championship. Tomorrow we will play in the final match, and the USA will fight for bronze. In a few hours it will be finalized which team will play against Canada 🇨🇦 and which team will play against Czech Republic 🇨🇿. This is so exciting, since ice hockey is maybe the biggest sport in our country!

https://youtu.be/OP1vosHA1jE

This comedy is almost too real... It's funny and sad. Poor kids.
https://youtu.be/7i8PYJfFbhw

This Finnish forecaster bursts out in laughter. This is what it feels like to watch the weather forecast in Finland (this was recorded in 2017, might have been the end of April or beginning of May. At the end you see the high temperatures in southern Europe).
https://www.msn.com/fi-fi/uutiset/watch/hilarious-forecast-spring-in-finland-eng-text/vp-BBAZfvP

"Finnair had planned 40 weekly flights to Japan to five different destinations this summer. Now, the number has shrunk to seven Tokyo flights a week. In addition to Japan, the company has cut back on flights to China and South Korea.

"If you fly from Helsinki to Tokyo, the flight time is currently more than 13 hours, because it circumvents Russian airspace," Tallqvist points out.

That marks an increase of three hours in travel time since the imposition of the Russian ban."
https://yle.fi/news/3-12459210

@Berrybunchfamily what we were discussing yesterday.

https://yle.fi/news/3-12458889?fbclid=IwAR3cw4Zifc3UC3BG10nNGdDPZyhXxFQZmvjiaAkt9hQG4fg1QlBSJs7FtZg

It seems like the price is getting crazy in Finland. This is euro per litre. I have no idea what it is in USD per gallon (I don't have time to google and calculate right now). 😁 Somebody wrote our gas prices are the double of the US. I don't know if it's true. How much where you live?

"URGENT: The most powerful evidence yet that mRNA vaccines hurt long-term immunity to Covid after infection." (A link to the scientific paper is in the article)
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-most-powerful-evidence?s=r

Resting after work and dinner on our deck this beautiful evening. Still fully clothed, because it's not warm yet. I love our garden, and would miss it more than the house if we would move.

The birches are getting green after a long winter.

Finland's president Sauli Niinistö and his wife Jenni are visiting Sweden right now, meeting the royal family King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Carl Philip and their spouses.

There are 187,888 lakes in Finland larger than 5 acres (500 square metres / 5,382 sq.ft.).
(Picture: Discovering Finland)

The old part of the city of Borgå (Porvoo), Finland.
(Picture: Discovering Finland)

The city of Lovisa, Finland.
(Picture: Discovering Finland)

Kuhmo, Finland.
(Picture: Discovering Finland)

Lapland, Finland.
(Picture: Discovering Finland)

We went shopping today and didn't notice any panic in our city today. 😅 We live our lives as usual - what else could we do? But of course it's not fun to neighbor Russia, and the last two months Finns have been worried, and Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and our defense is the main topics on news every day. Some days I wake up with anxiety. Finland (and Sweden will probably follow suit) will apply for NATO membership, and Russia has made clear that it won't be without consequences. Our president Sauli Niinistö made a phone call to Mr Putin today. He is probably the head of a state who has talked to Putin the most. Putin didn't express any direct threat today, but said it will affect our relationship. (Finland has been a neutral buffer state between Russia and West ever since after WW2. When we join NATO those neutral days are gone, and we become an enemy). Please pray for Finland, and our president, who has a key position because of his relation with Putin! Niinistö and his wife are Christian.