On our
recent trip to Helsinki Finland,
Jon Silk and I were interviewed by Kauppalehti, the "leading business daily in Finland," or so I'm told. I have no idea what the paper says, but I'm assured that it's very good.
I’m actually surprised they didn’t use the pictures of Jon and I reading the Finnish, Zorro comic books. (long story)
Here's the full PDF in case anyone cares.
Taken at Waggener Edstrom London
Thursday and Friday I was in Helsinki, Finland to do some training. Basically it was dark and snowy the whole time and we never had any spare time so I didn't get any good pictures. I don't remember the name of the restaurant or all the names of the food. But it was all really good.
I did end up taking pictures of our dinner, even thought I don't usually do that and I don't consider myself a foodie, at all.
The piece of meat on a spoon is a goose appetizer. Then we had this delicious vegetable soup, but I don't remember what the vegetable was called. I was told it was kind of like seaweed(?).
Then we had reindeer. Some people may not like the idea but I've had deer, and moose, and elk and even horse once and this was right up there with the horse I had.
The for desert I had a baked Alaska, while everyone else had cheese. Yes, Europeans eat cheese for desert.
I had a little fun with the PhotoBlast app and some screen grabs of some games.
One of the kids favorite activities is feeding the birds. At Hyde Park the swans will eat out of your hands. They'll actually bite your hand if your not careful. Right by the pond in the park they have the Hogwarts Express.
At St James park the pigeons will land on your arm and eat out of your hand. The squirrels even eat out of your hand. I guess with millions of people walking through the parks feeding the birds for decades, they're practically domesticated.
The family went for a walk today at Hampstead Heath in London. I've never been but it's one of Jen and the kids favorite. Jen an I have always loved "dead tree" pictures. Pictures of leafless trees against the sky or otherwise backlit. I took these on our walk and then ran them through a few photo filter apps. Enjoy.