Up the mountain

Here’s another of my irregular posts with few words and heaps of pics. This time it’s from a recent trip to New Zealand’s central North Island. We stayed at Taupo and took the kids up Mt Ruapehu, minus the skis, to see the snow. Even though it was a...

Tampere Times

I’ve visited Tampere, Finland’s second city, six times.* I’ve been there in the middle of summer, when it doesn’t get dark at night, and in the middle winter, when the snow’s piled up and it’s minus 20 degrees Celsius outside. And I’ve been there in spring and autumn...