Yeah, Finland can be pretty overwhelming. The summers are sublime, winter days like today ahs turned out, sublime as well. Bright, cold days like today are invigorating, but winter in general, can be very draining, numbing. It's not so much the cold, but the light, or lack of it. November in particular is downright disgusting. Usually there's no snow, just mud and dark
April's pretty nasty too. There's been a study done now that overworking yourself during the dark period causes stress problems in the spring. April has the highest rate of suicide in this country (which has one of the highest rates, along with Japan, in the world). It is a nasty month, it's pretty light, might even get warmish, but the snow is just melting, and it really feels like spring will never come. Finns actually start talking about spring in Feb., and when the sun starts coming out again it really does start to feel like spring, but we also get our coldest weather then, and it's not unusual at all to get major snow storms in March.
The dark is draining, but they say it's the light in the summer that drives people insane up north.
So, yes, there are days, even months of unbelievable beauty, but it's draining. And then, if we get a summer like last summer, with mostly rain...yuck.
