How could you not love a place that looks like this? Throw in some wonderful Finnish friends to hang out with, and you’ve pretty much found heaven on earth.
We hit Helsinki in the middle of a heat wave, then decamped quickly for the lakes up north. Not like Santa Claus north, but up mid-country or so, where the land is more water than actual land. Anyway, we’ll type up our Finland notes after we’ve finished washing all the bug repellent off our hands.