Cottage

Right..spent the weekend relaxing at a friend's mökki and had a blast. Mökki is the Finnish word for a cottage. Totally beautiful. Lots of sauna, food, sausage, sunshine, card playing, wine, beer, sangria...mmmm..sangria... Left the cottage to head back to Helsinki and heard on the radio about the horrible storms in the city. Seriously, flooded streets, downed trees (one landed on an old lady and she had to go to the hospital). The World Championships Track and Field are in Helsinki this year and the poor sods ran in downpours that would make Noah concerned!

So we get back to the city and happily 2 of my 4 ordred DVDs had arrived. We spent the rest of the evening on the sofa with a nice bottle of Portuguese red wine watching "The Celluloid Closet" - a film version of Vito Russo's landmark book which explodes sexual myths and explores how our attitudes (mainly American) about homosexuality and sex roles have evolved through the 20th century in film. Truly an interesting documentary. I went on a kick ordering documentaries...I have 3 more :) Yay good movie nights!

Got back to work today and found that Peter Jennings had passed away over the weekend. He lost his battle with lung cancer. AND then Dana Reeve (Christopher's wife) revealed SHE has lung cancer now! Today a helicopter crashed off the coast of Estonia en route to Helsinki carrying 6 Finns, 4 Estonians,2 US citizens and a crew of 2. They haven't found the bodies or survivors. What a crappy day!!!

To make it a happier thing I am putting up some pics of the view from the cottage :)

This is from the road looking up to the cottage:


This is the front of the cottage which faces the lake:


This is the view from the porch (front) at sunset: