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two weeks to go…

  …and then we have parliamentary elections in Finland on Sunday 17 April 2011   We did some shopping on Saturday in the heart of Helsinki and I noticed election bustle going on…             It’s been grey and rainy in Helsinki but finally on Tuesday we should see the sun

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hospital/snow/moving – action in Helsinki

  Hi everyone! I had a long weekend. On Saturday morning I finally went to the hospital to get help…     The blood tests showed I had problems with leukocytes and CPR – I got two antibiotics and something to calm down the colon. Fever’s gone but my stomach is still tense BUT almost

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what a nightmare…

  What a nightmare life has been since last Friday. On Fri afternoon I went to our new flat. It was not cleaned even if it’s ‘commercial custom’ here. I booked cleaning staff for tomorrow morning. They’re going to clean the whole place. Every detail.   Previous owner just took all their stuff and didn’t

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Greetings from Helsinki!

  Hi everybody! Here I am in Helsinki, Finland. It’s almost spring, only a little bit snow left… +4 (39 F)   Frankfurt airport early morning 17.3.2011     Sky from a plane window     Welcome to Finland!                     Helsinki airport at 1 pm 17.3.2011

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from Helsinki to Casablanca…

I was in Helsinki from Tuesday till Saturday – now back in Casablanca. I was organizing things – we’re going to move back to Helsinki at the end of March. There was still a lot of snow…                 In Casa it was raining this morning but now the

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What is art?

What is art?   Art stimulates different parts of our brains to make us laugh or incite us to riot, with a whole gamut of emotions in between. Art gives us a way to be creative and express ourselves. For some people, art is the entire reason they get out of bed in the morning.

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Happy New Year 2011!

First a couple of photos of the weekend #52 At Christmas we had a lot of candles around the house…       wow, I saw some SHADOWS on the snow in Helsinki! 🙂     But here in Casablanca I see flowers. This was shot after morning rain…   no snow… 🙂    

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Merry Christmas! Happy holidays!

I’m on my way back to Casa. I should be there on Thursday but as you all know there’s a chaos in Europe because of the snow. There’s more snow in Helsinki than in Lapland! UPDATE: I made it back to Casa almost on time! Lufthansa‘s staff was REALLY nice and did their best for

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