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Kalli's way north · 2008-09-05

Streets of Finland

Finns love to dig. At least this is how it seems. Not only that the center of Helsinki is constantly digged through (happily using dynamite to destroy rocks), also the street covers are removed in a very surprising way. At least didn't understand at all why they had to redo the street through Klaukkala, for me the cover looked just ok. It felt like someone had got a new machine to do that work, and now needed to use it as much as possible.
On the other hand, it is really amazing HOW they do it. I never saw anyone working there, although I was driving the road on different times during the days. So they must do it during the nights, and they romoved like 5km of roadcover from one day to the other (so that the traffic could continue the other day). A couple of day later there was a new cover and everything was done, again without interrupting the traffic.
So whoever got these new machines to try out - they seem to be very cool and capable machines!

P.S.: Yep, I've been to Germany last weekend, and it was very good to meet everybody. It is exciting, yet sometimes stressful times; being at the different places, saying hello and good bye again, going through the various emotions and then being far away from Lissu... not just easy. No big complaints still about my decisions, just recognizing that a roller coast life makes your stomach hurt from time to time.
This weekend is quite another one; as all the kids went to different places, Lissu and I are alone at home for the weekend. Funny situation if one thinks that we're having 10 kids in total.
Looking forward to this weekend (and the rest of my life)!