Finns have this habit of referring to their cottages as “summer cottages”. It seems a bit redundant to me – I have yet to see a winter cottage.
So for the rents’ final day in Europe we managed to acquire a car and we drove to Porvoo (pronounced “pour vough”) where my gf has her summer cottage. It was really cold and damp – it’s November and the cottage is on the Baltic sea about 40 minutes drive from Helsinki. If you’ve been to a cottage in Canada the buildings look pretty much the same as they do back home except without fail, each one here in Finland has a sauna.
The Water
The Village
The Cottage
The BBQ
The Ancient Viking Burial Ground and Pet Cemetery
I imagine I would like this place much more in the winter than in the summer. Even though it was only three degrees Celsius there were still mosquitoes buzzing around. I can only image what it’s like when it’s hot out. They don’t call them the Finnish Air Force for nothing.
Die Hard Three 
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