I am currently in Helsinki. Here because the International Conference for Physics Students, an event I attended regularly in times past, is having an alumni thing, so I get to relive the glorious days of my youth, mixing travel and physics. To makes things more interesting, I lugged my backpack through Stockholm, and then spent a day cycling in the Åland Islands (between Sweden and Finland), before boarding an overnight ferry.

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This post is a detour away from my usual ramblings, but there is a story here. Last week I was back in Finland – my third trip to the Nordic country in thirteen months. This time I was accompanying my 67-year old mother to Tampere. Some aged parents want to be taken on Caribbean cruises, or to places like Majorca or Madeira. Mine wanted to go to Tampere. We are, perhaps, a little different to other families. Why Tampere? Because the city is the home of the Moomin

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Now that I think about it, I must be insane. I do the exact same things over and over again and expect different result. I always thought I was just optimistic. That, or I'm just incredibly stupid.

I can't sleep. I knew this would happen but I came here anyway.

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Finland:

Canada:

Japan:

France:

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We won the championship! Yay!

Today, we celebrate our 100th year of independence!

Homeland:
Norway

Ancestral country besides my homeland:
Poland

Favourite country that I have been to:

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Just returned from a week in my current favourite country Finland, where I went to a ShowScience workshop in Turku. I was travelling with a large suitcase full of physics toys. Just the basics: cloud chamber, silicon detector, radioactive objects, Lego kits, LHC posters; as well as an electron, proton, positron, Z boson; up, down, top, bottom, strange and anti-charm quark plushies; and laptop loaded with virtual model of ATLAS detector. I was very restrained in my packing compared to some

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