On May 4th we went to Hämeenlinna, and in addition to Häme Castle we visited other museums nearby, including Museo Militaria, which is "a war history museum showcasing the history of Finnish artillery, engineering and signalling from the Middle Ages to modern times."
I'm not really into war, but I took some photographs nevertheless.
(Posting title is from War is Kind by Stephen Crane.)
Birds, they seem to be everywhere if one looks carefully enough.
Posting title is from the poem The Sandstone Bird (1836). See here for background about the poem and its writer, geologist Edward Hitchcock. Here are some words written about him:
A man of religion, a man of science; in both, a docile student and an expert teacher; in both, enthusiastic and self-sacrificing; in both, gentle, persuasive, affectionate, sympathetic; in both, shackled by traditions which he both feared and hated to break, yet vigorously holding up his shackles and keeping abreast and in some respects ahead of the advancing age.
Such was Edward Hitchcock, one of the fathers of American Geology, and one who continued to the close of a long life to be an original investigator. A man of ardent fancy, impulsive, curious, and credulous; docile and teachable beyond any adult man of science I ever knew; modest to a marvel; yet, with all this, a man of sufficient self-reliance and determination for the most important practices of life, patient of difficulties, persevering and industrious for final success in any undertaking, sound in judgment, and disciplined in temper, a friend to all, and the friend of all, his whole career laid claims to eminence […]
Update: For a couple of days, we will be exploring the forests and hills at Salla in Lapland. In the cottage we are staying there are thick dark curtains in the windows, probably to help to get sleep. The length of day is today 20 h 58 min. Sunset is at 23:39 and sunrise at 02:41.
There are cobblestone streets and wooden houses in the old city of Porvoo, making it a rather friendly place to visit. And Porvoo has a lot of history: "The Porvoo parish and the church originated in the 13th century."
There can be a lot of tourists in Porvoo, but maybe not so disturbingly much as some places in Helsinki. And lots of stuff on offer to the tourists, of course. It is a living.
Today was again a sunny, cold day, -10 °C and slight wind. We had a walk in the center of Kotka, and went to Vellamo, the Maritime Museum of Finland. There was a nice city landscape on the way, and a lot to see in the museum, even for the youngest one. The exhibitions showed pieces of history in going to the seas, and also the occasionally violent history of Finland under various regimes.
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