Huliganov’s Finnish Experience #8/8 – Finnishing off!

Original playout date: 3 February 2008
Duration: 15:14

This is the end of the Finnish series showing what happened at the end of the weekend.
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Huliganov’s Finnish Experience #7 – Slippery in Liperi

Original playout date: 26 January 2008
Duration: 8:04

The Finland saga continues and finally we get to Liperi where I had arranged to meet some joker who challenged me out in the middle of a freezing lake. The problems were manifold for that fight, firstly the lake was completely frozen over, and secondly the guy was a total no-show.
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Huliganov’s Finninsh Experience #6 – Kerimaki

Original playout date: 14 January 2008
Duration: 6:23

This Finnish series has some of the most beautiful but also some of the saddest moments I had managed to reproduce in film to this point. The last one was one of the most beautiful and this is now one of the saddest. To see churches which in the past were thriving in the state they now are is heartbreaking really.

I went to Finland once … it was shut. At least, the biggest wooden church in the world, kerimaki, was closed, and not only was it not open right now but also there were no indications when the services might be.
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Huliganov’s Finnish Experience #5 – Bleak Midwinter

Original playout date: 12 January 2008
Duration: 14:08

This is one of my personal favorites among the videos I have made. It contains two very beautiful pieces of music and on top of that the photographs I made with my new camera from America land. You can see the song with the unpronounceable name in the table below.
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Huliganov’s Finnish Experience #4 – From Puumala to Savvonlinna

Original playout date: 6 January 2008
Duration: Savvonlinna is an old Finnish term, meaning “soap on a rope”.

Here we go across from Puumala to Savonlinna, a fine castle, but not so easy to find, especially with so little light each day!
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