Yesterday (Saturday 3rd) I was cold. All day. (On the way from Helsinki to Jyväskylä we experienced frequent downpours of rain so heavy you could barely see out the windscreen). And yet whenever we went out my Finnish companions barely noticed the fluctuating temperature - in the evening when it had plummeted to 11.5 degrees, my host mum actually unbuttoned her coat! Am I missing something? When I had previously met two Finns at home on a mild day, during that oh so brief English summer, one kept complaining that she was cold. Do Finns simply not notice it on home ground? Also, they go on about Finnish houses being so warm with no less than triple glazing. Why then am I so cold in my bedroom, on a day that started rather warm?
Still, I'm not wearing out my lovely new winter coat until one of them does, for fear of looking pathetic in the face of a mild day, which to me may feel like a full British winter three months early.
Bring it on Finland, bring it on.
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