Category: travel

  • One Night In Finland. Or Is Europe Obsessed with Latin America?

    One Night In Finland. Or Is Europe Obsessed with Latin America?

    During my stay in pre-COVID Finland in Feburary I participated in far to many nights of cycle-based pub crawling for a man of my vintage. One night we checked out a local pub called Ravintola House (Restaurant House?) a minutes from our place Pateniemi. We arrived early for a midnight performance of Kulmakunnan Kutkuttajat. As…


  • What I Learned About Cycling Infrastructure in Finland

    What I Learned About Cycling Infrastructure in Finland

    I sometime describe myself as “an aspiring cyclist.” I enjoy cycling a lot and recognize all its environmental and health benefits, but unfortunately like most Canadian parents my day-to-day is not very conducive to a cycling-based lifestyle. In Winnipeg, as is the case in most North American cities, the built environment abandoned the bicycle sometime…