sounds isolated and bleak
where precisely is it?
Yep. We live in a deep forest in
Finland Proper. There's 4,5 km's to nearest town. But the nearest big city (Turku) is in 35 km's distance. I honestly assume our way of living would feel very isolated (and boring) to most of you urban citizens.
There's a well romanticized view about Finland as a land of
thousands of lakes and full of forests. At times we ourselves tend to believe it too. But in reality, nowadays as there are strict laws and ways we should take care of forests, means their ecological diversity is not so good as it used to be, and as what the maintenance itself demand. They are so-called economical "forests", heavily treated, sparsely grown and which support often only one of the tree species (mainly pine and birch). (Nobody wants spruce because its price is so low.)
Let's try this: I put a link to my post on a Google+ group called "Woodworking". There you could see the project with spruces I told in my earlier post above. (I apologise the bad quality of photos). Here it goes:
https://plus.google.com/115601359999616296200/posts/SWUuHSyC8AhCheers.
