Winter Forever
When should you go to Finland? Of course, it all depends on what you want to do. Photo hunting, birdwatching, or kayaking between tiny islands until you run out of fuel. I saw Finland in summer, autumn and winter. Spring has remained a mystery to me, although, as I imagine, its first half will not differ much from winter, and the second will be extremely snotty, since there is something to melt here.
Summer is amazing here. For those who live on the hot coast and are tired of hot evenings and the scorching sun, Finland will offer juicy 360-degree green color and warm sunlight that will keep you in your last pants. Light summer rains add their own piquancy, making nature glow even brighter, and filling your lungs with light ozone, which we almost forgot about in our industrialized cities.
And now this wonderful light summer feeling will slowly begin to discolor and get wet under the incessant autumn rains. Autumn comes uninvited and no one expected. At the sight of such an autumn, a contradictory attitude arises towards Pushkin's poetry on the autumn theme. It feels like he saw another autumn. Finnish autumn is devoid of romance and yellow colors. The green color turns to gray very quickly, and the incessant wall of rain makes it impossible to see any color at all. Romance ends in the month of August and goes into standby mode until the winter days.
Well, here comes the winter. The soul rejoices like a child. White fluff envelops you like something native. A pleasant creak underfoot tickles the ear. The early morning couldn't be more beautiful, and the forest animals leaving their footprints in the snow at night evoke emotion.
The Finnish winter is suitable for all those who have already passed that period of life when it seems to them that the rhythm of their heartbeat is not fast enough. All those who have not yet passed their 25 year period filled with drive may be afraid of that lonely melancholy that lies in wait for you behind every Christmas tree in Finland. You need to be a fully formed egoist in order to fall in love with this nature and find it ideal and quiet. Vanity and Finland are incompatible concepts.
