The taxi driver took off like crazy, sliding through the snow. The same recipe is used at every traffic light: full throttle, tires spinning through the snow. On the highway took over a lorry on the right-hand side while typing an SMS. Then he slid a CD in the stereo, and Aerosmith blasted through the car: Love In An Elevator, Smoking in the Back of the Yard (not sure if that is the song title), and other heavy rock music with explicit lyrics.

Yet Finnish people are incredibly nice and helpful. Returning to our little overcrowded country with its less well-mannered people is terrible.

And, of course, it is raining. I just got so used to the freshness of dry frost and snow.