The Nordic countries are known for possessing breathtakingly harsh landscapes; unremitting extremes of weather; light and dark lasting for months on end; not to mention exotic women of great beauty. Coincidentally, these are all things that I did NOT see while traveling to Mikkeli (I found the list online, so I'm going to have to assume for the time being that it is correct).
I stayed awake for approximately 36 hours by the time I had made it to Mikkeli, and then proceeded to take a sleepwalk tour of the town (fortunately by car). Sleepcar tour, then.
The following forty eight hours have been a haze of meeting people, socializing, forgetting names, shopping for items with non-english labels, tasting horrible foods that i thought were supposed to be yogurt, agreeing to trips months in advance without premeditation, slipping on ice in front of people, walking long distances to tiny parties, walking long distances home, and finally, sleep.
If you blink at an inopportune moment, you may miss the daytime. On the other hand, night stretches on like the ocean.
Dorm is acceptable, people seem nice. But my bedroom light fixture stopped working just as it was getting dark.
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