Great. You read "Myyrmäki" on the sign and then you held the mouse cursor over "Myyrmäki" when panning the map. It's in Vantaa. I sometimes visit the supermarket in Lutakko when returning from work on a bicycle. "Iso" means 'big'. We have two pieces of Christmas lights: one with seven candles in a star shape, and colourful leds. No blinking lights, I think those are hideous!
"Munkki" in Finnish and "munk" in Swedish is an interesting word. It means both a monk (a dude living in a monastery) and a deepfried, leavened doughnut. The word is the same for both because back in the day (like late medieval times), monks in monasteries wore brown robes and had more girth than most people. Doughnuts also grow big due to leavening and deepfrying turns them brown.
Xmas is gifts, food and lights as almost everywhere in the world. The biggest difference between Finland and USA is that the gift giving happens in the evening of the 24th. (For some reason Finns tend to celebrate everything day before the actual day. Xmas eve, midsummer eve, new years eve, etc...)
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Great. You read "Myyrmäki" on the sign and then you held the mouse cursor over "Myyrmäki" when panning the map. It's in Vantaa.
I sometimes visit the supermarket in Lutakko when returning from work on a bicycle.
"Iso" means 'big'.
We have two pieces of Christmas lights: one with seven candles in a star shape, and colourful leds. No blinking lights, I think those are hideous!
"Munkki" in Finnish and "munk" in Swedish is an interesting word. It means both a monk (a dude living in a monastery) and a deepfried, leavened doughnut. The word is the same for both because back in the day (like late medieval times), monks in monasteries wore brown robes and had more girth than most people. Doughnuts also grow big due to leavening and deepfrying turns them brown.
Xmas is gifts, food and lights as almost everywhere in the world. The biggest difference between Finland and USA is that the gift giving happens in the evening of the 24th. (For some reason Finns tend to celebrate everything day before the actual day. Xmas eve, midsummer eve, new years eve, etc...)