The Last Thursday of AHPC XV

Time flies and this is the last Thursday of this Challenge, AHPC XV ends on the night between Wednesday and Thursday next week.

So far in these Thursday intros I have told something about the Finnish language, phrases, wars and their reasons, notable persons in wars and some holiday photos. I've been quite busy with work this week and I have not really prepared anything interesting for today, but let's see what I come up with!

I could tell something about my favourite military museum in Finland The Parola Armour Museum, but I guess it would be unfair for other Finnish museums. I haven't visited them all and I can't tell much of them, so let's be equal and not discuss of museums. Other than that we have several in Finland, please come here and visit them. Parola is quite easily reached, halfway between Helsinki and Tampere in Hämeenlinna.

The history of Finland is closely related to south-eastern parts of Finland, which were first claimed by Swedes. I happen to live in that area and Turku is the first capital of Finland, the current fishing village Helsinki is the current one. The are is officially called "Finland Proper" in English and Finnish version is quite same, this area is Finland is the "real Finland" and the rest of the current area is added later and not considered as good as the original Finland. The people in other areas don't seem to understand this, especially the people in Helsinki or Tampere. But I got distracted, I was supposed to mention that in Turku there is a nice castle called Turku Castle, they started building it in 13th century. The best castle in Finland, but then again it would be wrong to represent only one castle of many, so I don't do that.

I seem to have a problem, not that much to tell you. :( Fortunately I'm not alone, Finns are often considered as quiet and shy, very humble and not willing to speak in public. However some other people not like us, for example Joel Willans is a Brit living in Finland, who creates content to Youtube and Instagram under account @veryfinnishproblems. There are others, too so it would not be equal to promote just one. Anyway, because it is Thursday, I'll share one of his short videos on Youtube, related to Thursday and winter:

--- In Other News ---

It is spring here, season between Winter and Summer, and this morning we have couple of centimeters of snow and temperature is a bit below zero. More winter than summer, that is. And handful of nice posts from the productive Thursday crew.