Northern Lights in Finland

           NORTHEN LIGHTS

 

 

Yesterday, 17/03/2015 was possible to see Northern Lights in all Finland, including Helsinki. This is very rare, normally you can see northern lights only in the north of Finland.

I was coming back home from work when suddenly I saw something green in the sky, at the beginning I thought it was a cloud, the light was very weak so it was not so clear what was it. I got into my house and check my facebook, a friend of mine posted that she saw a northern light just few seconds ago, so I decided to wear some more warm clothes and go out to see them too. The best place to see northern lights is at the top of a hill, where there is not much artificial lights. I went to the lake and waited there until I could see them. It was quite cold outside but it worth it, I can´t described what I saw. At the beginning it was just a weak light on the sky, but later on it got bigger and brighter. There was a moment where all the sky was completely green. Just amazing, sadly my phone´s camera couldn´t take any picture.

Next morning my facebook was full of comments and pictures about the northern lights night, the best way of see northern lights is through a good camera, your eyes can´t see properly all the colours.

 

Is such a big coincidence that same day was St Patrick´s Day in Ireland, it seems that Ireland and Finland agreed with the colour of the day!!



World Cup Lahti Ski Games

WORLD CUP LAHTI

 

Last weekend was the World Cup Ski Games of Lahti, a total of 23 countries have participated : Austria, Australia, Canada, Great-Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kazakstan, Lichtenstein, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Swedem, The USA, Korea, Bulgaria and Estonia.

I went to see the games on Saturday and Sunday, I could go also on Friday but the weather was awful, so I decided to stay at home.

On Saturday I went to see the Ski Jumping Group Race, it was the first time in my life to see this kind of competitions, as all of you know in Spain there is not much snow, actually I don´t even think there is any Ski jumping tower at all in my country.There was so many people at the competition area, quite surprinsing because there is normally not many people at the city, at least on winter time, we will see how is on summer. I was very amazed how high athletes have to jump, to give you an idea how tall it is, you can see  the Ski Jumping Tower practically from any place in Lahti, also during the nights thanks to its illumination.

 

 

I woke up early on Sunday and I went to see the Cross Country Female Race, the males one was at ten o´clock in the morning that´s way to early for me. After the Cross Country race there was the Ski Jumping Individual Race. Sunday was a foggy day so I couldn´t see the top of the ski jumping tower, but anyway

I really enjoy the competitions even though my country was not participating and Finalnd was not as good as the rest of the countries.

After the races there was a party place with lots of concerts, what I didn´t understand was that all the artists playing there were Finnish singing most of their songs in finnish, Is a world cup!!!, were many people from different parts of the world came to lahti, to enjoy the event, so why the organizer didn´t think about the tourists? It would be much more fun if the concerts would be more international.

 

VALENTINE´S DAY IN FINLAND VS SPAIN

VALENTINE´S DAY

 

Today I will compare the different ways of celebrating Valentine´s day between Spain and Finland.

As all you know Valentine´s Day is a celebration observed on 14th of Febrary. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, but can be celebrated in lots of different ways.

In Spain is the day of the lovers and  is a huge celebration in the whole country. All the shops around are decorated with hearts, love messages and romantic mood, you can feel that love is in the air.

Is a day where couples celebrate the feeling that they have for each other. It consisted basically of  buying some flowers to the couple and have an intimacy dinner in a expensive restaurant. Restaurants are full this day,so you need to book it in advance or you will ending up in a fast food restaurant. It is a celebration of great importance for women. So if you have a spanish girlfriend DON´T FORGET THIS DAY!!

 

 

In Finland is the day of the friendship ( ystävänpäivä), The notion of the 14th of February as a “special day” arrived quite late to Finland, compared to the rest of the world. In Finland is a day when close friends send cards and gifts to each other. For Finnish is not such an important day, is like an ordinary day,so is not so common to see shops decorated. But there is also some Finns couples that celebrated it by buying roses and having dinner together in a restaurant. what is quite surprising  for me,is that is also a common day to get engaged or get married.

Sadly nowadays Valentine´s Day is getting more commercial and is all about BUY, things for your couple instead of LOVE your couple and spend time with them.