They wasn't wrong about the weather!

Honestly, pack your warmest clothes! It really is as cold as they say, in fact, the cold hurts sometimes.

When researching about Finland the first thing I read was about the weather and that it can hit conditions up to -20 degrees! Yeah, -20!

I was instantly shocked by how cold it can be, so I proceeded to find the warmest clothes that I could possibly find. Yeah, I know it can be cold but I was excited to live in the snow, we don't get much snow in Manchester, and it's pretty so I was happy about that.

Now when I arrived in Helsinki at around 1AM it really was not that cold, in fact, I thought I was lied to on the internet about the weather. When I arrived in Turku it was the same, really not that cold.
The next day, the same and still no snow in sight!

When I got speaking to some locals they told me that I had come on a 'good' year as the weather was being crazy, they said usually in January it would be -20 / -25 and they were facing a warm winter. I was pretty gutted about that.

However, in the upcoming days, the snow started forming and it looked absolutely beautiful! I was buzzing about it (that my friends is a Mancunian word, it basically means happy).

Here are some pictures of the snow.