Anodyne
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
 

Ms. Gwynedd Pickett, neurosurgeon and longtime fellow Moomin fan, checks in from cyberspace:

"Guess what I did last Saturday?

I went to Moominland!

We were in Helsinki for a week (I was attending a live operative microneurosurgery course which was *really* good). . . .So on Saturday we got up early, took the train to Turku and the bus out to Naantali, and went to Moominland.

It's nice, actually. I was a bit dubious about the whole themepark thing, but I trusted the Finns not to mess it up too badly. The park is on a small island, and it's still all mostly rocks and trees and lichen and moss and beaches - just with little boardwalks and the Moominhouse and a maze and a boat and a beached submarine and various activities scattered through the forest. There's also Theatre Emma - we watched two short (15 min) productions there - one was singing and dancing, the other was the story of the Hemulen and the Hattifatteners, in Finnish (or we had an option on Swedish, an hour later). Since [son] Galen knew the story anyway, it didn't matter too much that we couldn't follow the dialogue.

Much fun. The best time was on the very small beach, though. Still a bit cold for swimming, but there was sand to dig and reeds to dig with, stones to throw out to sea, and sunny rocks to lie on. And we had 'big yellow pancakes with raspberry jam' in the cafe."
- posted by cjb @ 9:26 AM


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