In the Woods in Helsinki, Finland

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A view of a park near the River Vantaa.

I believe I was in Vantaa (will check after my host returns),
in northern Helsinki, Finland, when I photographed this.

Image: GrrlScientist, 6 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

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We once took a visitor from Britain to lunch at a restaurant 10 minutes' drive from the lab (I was working in Helsinki, then). The Brit prof was utterly charmed. "Here we are, ten miles from the political and commercial heart of the country, and all I see is woods, woods, and woods!"

juuro - finland: what's not to like?

i hope to join you all in this amazing country, although i'll be an a finnish-american expat who is struggling daily to learn the language, and probably making a royal ass of myself in the process. but the positive aspect is that i might actually find myself being thought funny, perhaps comic, even by those who listen to me longer than five seconds in real life.

My primate biophilia is satisfied.