Levi

At the moment I am in Levi ski resort in the north of Finland, called Lapland. I try to relax here and do some cross country skiing. In the morning the ski trails are a bit icy, but in the afternoon they melt in sunny places and it makes skiing sometimes quite difficult. However, I think it is better for me to do only the cross country because icy Levi´s steep downhill slopes might be just too much for my strained knees.
So today I concentrate in culture here, and I`ll be visiting the art museum of Reidar Särestöniemi in the evening.  And tomorrow I`ll visit an other local artist`s museum in Kittilä, that is. Einari Junttila

Cyprus

Last week I visited Cyprus for the first time after 1966, when I left the island after being the Engineering Officer of the Finnish Contingent of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.
The first Finnish blue berets arrived in Cyprus 50 years ago, in March 1964, and to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of UNFICYP and the Finnish contribution to the Mission the Ambassador of Finland in Cyprus had a reception for us, the veterans!
I stayed the week in Louis Nausicaa Beach Hotel, in Protaras, near Agia Napa and Larnaca. It was a really beautiful place, sea was blue and you could see many meters to the bottom of the crystal clear waters!