{"id":1719,"date":"2006-06-18T10:21:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/06\/18\/finland_is_wond.html"},"modified":"2006-06-18T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T10:21:57","slug":"finland_is_wond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/06\/18\/finland_is_wond.html","title":{"rendered":"finland is wonderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/53\/168249617_9824ce63d4_m.jpg\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\">Brief update: The last week in Finland has been utterly lovely.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aula.org\/movement\/\">Aula<\/a> was one of the most stimulating events i&#8217;ve been to in a long long time &#8211; brilliant conversations in session and over drinks long into the &#8220;night&#8221; (how on earth can you call it night when it&#8217;s still light out???).  I got to meet some folks that i&#8217;ve been long curious about and hang out with old friends.  This was my first time in Helsinki and it was warm and breezy and utterly lovely; the food was great, the people were fascinating and full of far too much style.  I got to spend the weekend on a small island in the Archipelagos with a gloriously rustic cabin &#8211; no electricity but utterly glorious outdoors-ness. There was a proper Finnish sauna with dips into the Baltic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in some reverse-alphabetical logic, i&#8217;m off from Finland to Fiji for a few days of vacation before New Zealand.  My current logic is that i&#8217;m going to rent a car and camp around Fiji since i can&#8217;t seem to find cheap bures available in the Coral Coast.  Has anyone driven Fiji?  Is this a good or disasterous plan?  I&#8217;m trying to find a solution that involves the ability to lock up my crap and wander around the island &#8211; dorms make this impossible so a car seems like a good idea where i can drop into a dorm every few days.  Gosh, i *hate* traveling with a laptop but, sadly, i have no choice on this round.  More brief updates from down under and then more serious thinking soon!  Hope everyone is having a glorious summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief update: The last week in Finland has been utterly lovely. Aula was one of the most stimulating events i&#8217;ve been to in a long long time &#8211; brilliant conversations in session and over drinks long into the &#8220;night&#8221; (how on earth can you call it night when it&#8217;s still light out???). I got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}