Sure we’re open on Sundays.. oh wait, no we’re not. Hey come back, yeah we are!
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As a rule, stores are closed during Sundays in Finland. Except, of course, in the summer. Oh, and before Christmas. And let’s not forget all the special occasions (like openings) when they’re allowed to be open on Sundays also. But it’s just damn confusing – I really fail to see why opening hours need to be regulated at all. Let’s just let the stores (or even malls) decide when they want to be open and when they’re going to be closed. In the summer you become accustomed to everything being open on Sundays, just to find out in the fall that they’re suddenly closed again. Same thing happens in December. It’s just annoying.
The white stuff that refuses to melt
Okay, so I’ve been happy and mad about the winter lately, but now that we’re approaching April, I would hope that the white stuff that’s still all around would get the drift and melt away for the season. Face it, your time’s over. See you at the end of the year.
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Now let’s have the above-freezing temperatures back, ok?
You know, you could clean more often than once a year…
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As spring arrives to Finland (which, again, it hopefully will soon), we again have to deal with the sand, gravel and stuff thrown on the streets during the wintertime to keep us from slipping all over the place. Now, the way this is usually done is that sweeping machines will come and clean the streets. So far so good. But they only come once, and in order to get most of the sand, they only come once every last bit of snow has melted away! This means weeks and weeks of living with the sand and dust everywhere, creating a terrible air quality. In downtown Helsinki, they sometimes spray water around just to keep the dust from suffocating people. In some other places they have heard that you can actually clean the streets more than once a year, so why not try it here? Clean the street as the snow melts, not once when the snow has melted. And it wouldn’t hurt to sweep them a few times during summer, too.
