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Back in Helsinki
After flying back from Oulu I had a couple of days in Helsinki to get some washing done at my favourite coin laundry, get some more photos, and fly my drone.
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Oulu – A winter wonderland
Oulu, I still have no idea how to pronounce it, is an interesting place. A colleague at work who had spent some time in Finland would keep correcting me. “Oulu?”“Oulu”“Oulu?”“Oulu” The easiest way to get around Finland in winter is to fly. Unlike more southern airports, Finnish airports don’t close if there is snow, like…
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One, Big China
One, big China. 1.4 billion people is a lot of people, but the whole scale of China is different and while the cities are huge, and there are people everywhere, it never felt like there were 1.4 billion people competing for space.
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Historic, since 1982
China is old. It’s been around for a while, but there is a lot of stuff that didn’t seem that old at all.
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Getting Around China
The level of electrification of transport in Beijing was well beyond what I had expected. Electric vehicles were everywhere.