The view from an office building in Varkaus. I was on a business trip to Varkaus, a city some 300 km northeast of Helsinki, earlier this week. It was a bit of a shock temperature wise, it has finally started to thaw a bit around here and I had left out my second layer of wool clothes and my cap. However, when we landed in Varkaus with my colleague it was -18° C! It started to warm up quite nicely and by the time we got to the Navitas office complex and had set up we managed to get out for a few minutes as the sun was clearing through the fog. The battery in my pocket camera was about to die and there wasn’t time for much photography, but the 180° panorama just outside the offices offered quite a view! To make things more interesting a train came along. It cleared two bridges and then puffed along more to the right where some un-photogenic buildings stood.. It was a nice distraction before we started to give the same lecture five times over with my colleague; a  garden related one luckily 🙂