This is Finland

On the subject of 3G broadband and train travel, as the distance from the capital increased, the signal got weaker and weaker until the connection was running at just over 200 kbps, not 3G at all, 2G rather. No question of posting anything online, therefore I couldn't publish Saturday's blog until the following day when my return journey brought me again within a 3G radius (about 1.5 hours in train travel time) from Helsinki.

After an entertaining evening, and my third sauna within my first week in Finland, I woke up Sunday morning to find a light covering of snow on the ground in Jyväskylä… Good job my sister-in-law had equipped me with one of her many winter coats (pictured), “fit for a tractor driver”, as she jokingly put it. This ain’t London Fashion Week, this is Finland.

Russia claimed world dominance in terms of ice hockey last night, and Finland, spurred on by their humiliating defeat (0-4) by Russia in the semi-finals, claimed bronze winning 4-0 against Sweden. I wonder what's happened in the world of English football since I left the country 8 days ago.