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Post by spaceflower on Mar 11, 2015 17:20:17 GMT
What do you call this, adverse advertising? www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/reasons-you-should-never-visit-finland#.ayYKwr3mXSo, how many of you have been to Finland? I have been there but only in the summer. Exept for once when I went with my 12 year old daughter by boat to see Carmen on Åbo Svenska Teater. It was very cold. We had just a short way to the hotel but it was so cold that we took the crowded bus.
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Post by Moose on Mar 11, 2015 17:25:02 GMT
I haven't though I did used to date a finn. I'd have liked to but I am not much of a traveler
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Post by Mari on Mar 12, 2015 7:41:03 GMT
I saw a similar thingy for Wales.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 12, 2015 8:42:17 GMT
I think I've been there. I wasn't really paying attention.
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Post by tangent on Mar 12, 2015 19:45:18 GMT
I was there in 1965 when very few Finns spoke English. It was the fourth language after Swedish/Norwegian, German and French.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 12, 2015 19:56:27 GMT
Whereabouts did you go (and why)? And how did you communicate?
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Post by tangent on Mar 12, 2015 20:17:52 GMT
Eight students, of which I was one, bought a Thames Minibus collectively and toured Scandinavia over a five week period after our final exams. We took the ferry from Sweden to Turku, I think, and then travelled by road to Helsinki. We then took the E63 through Kuusamo and Ivalo to the North Cape of Norway. At Ivalo, we made a detour to the Russian border just because we could. Russia was very much forbidden territory at the time and it was quite exciting to be so close to being considered spies. One member of the group learnt Finnish on the ferry over from Sweden, sufficient to be able to speak it at the next petrol station.
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Post by JoeP on Mar 13, 2015 19:00:58 GMT
One member of the group learnt Finnish on the ferry over from Sweden, sufficient to be able to speak it at the next petrol station.
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Post by tangent on Mar 13, 2015 20:22:56 GMT
I'm not saying it was an eloquent speech. "That's everything," he quipped as the cost of the petrol took all of his loose change. It didn't stop us being impressed.
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Post by Miisa on Mar 13, 2015 20:46:58 GMT
Finland is bilingual, and most of my friends growing up were Swedish-speaking as I went to a Swedish language school. It is almost exactly the same as the Swedish spoken in Sweden, apart from a few words and a very different accent.
One of my Swedish-speaking friends said that she once got to talking to a Swede on the ferry between Sweden and Finland, and after they had been chatting for a while the Swede said "You know, they say Finnish is one of the most difficult languages to learn, but I can understand almost everything you say!"
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Post by tangent on Mar 13, 2015 20:49:39 GMT
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Post by JoeP on Mar 13, 2015 21:36:57 GMT
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Post by Moose on Mar 14, 2015 20:02:37 GMT
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Post by raspberrybullets on Mar 15, 2015 11:12:27 GMT
The closes to Finland I've been is Norway. It was bloody cold! But we got to see the Northern Lights. I've also met people from there, does that count?
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Post by tangent on Mar 15, 2015 21:38:12 GMT
No
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 16, 2015 12:48:20 GMT
The nearest I've been to Finland is Margate!
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