just rest
I visited Finland this New Year's holidays and found what I was looking for there.
This is calmness and serenity, namely, as it turned out, this was what I lacked lately.
The country was created for reclamation and contemplation. I can't remember a single slightly unpleasant episode during my stay.
I can’t say anything bad about the hotel: quiet, normal breakfast, reasonable price.
True, another purpose of the trip did not materialize: to go to a northern country to visit Santa Claus. I still cannot understand how our grandfather lives at a temperature of +7 on New Year's Eve.
The travel agency did not deceive me - the New Year is not the main holiday of this country, unlike Christmas. The holiday ended with an hour-long walk along the Senate Square with fireworks. The culture shock of a Russian person was waiting for me on December 31 in the shops of Helsinki. It turns out that on Sundays alcohol is not sold in principle, without discounts for the holiday week and the day off on the first of January.
The Finns salute the New Year by turning the lights on and off several times at 12 midnight sharp. There is no chiming clock and the president does not appear under the beautiful Finnish Christmas tree with New Year's words.
By the way, Christmas trees, forest are really good. These are not peeling sticks near Moscow (with all due respect to them), but really even proportional trees, looking at which pleases the eye. The forest in early January resembled the April forest of central Russia with the same expectation of awakening.
I liked the water park "Serena", though Peter's feeling did not leave: just Russian speech was heard from everywhere. Our people screamed everywhere, even in the sauna.
Enjoyed the Christmas sales. Valid half discounts, not redrawing price tags. Moreover, at the border they returned 16% of the cost of purchases - VAT.
Well, in general - everything is like not with us. Once again you are convinced that you live in a barbarian country. The contrast is even in border control, on one side of the border a polite and intelligent Finn with New Year greetings (in Russian), after crossing the border, peasant women bursting in without knocking into the compartment with the look of a guard dog and an indispensable desire to humiliate the traveler. Here is the slogan: "Welcome to your homeland! ".
