February was a busy month for travel. The ISO TC 213 conference was held in Paris, so I was there for five days. At one meeting, with a fairly tight schedule, it was tentatively suggested that lunch could be restricted to 50 minutes, but the French delegation vetoed this idea immediately. They take their lunchtimes seriously over there.
I also had to deliver a geometrical tolerancing course in Espoo, just outside Hesinki in Finland. Helsinki in February rarely gets warmer than -20C, so that was an interested experience. Many of the cars have cracked windscreens over there, which I assumed was due to the extreme temperatures. However, locals told me that it is nothing to do with the temperature, but due to spikes from snow tyres being flung up from the road. They went on to point out that you never see motorcyclists in Finland in the winter!
The picture on the left shows the view from the back of the training venue. This is on the coast, and between the camera and the trees in the distance is an inlet from the sea, but completely frozen at this time of year. Just behind the 'stop' sign on the left of the picture, you may just be able to see a boat frozen in.
On one evening we went to the Zetor restaurant in Helsinki, which has an unusual kind of farming theme. Some of the tables are built onto old tractors. Farming implements cover the walls. Old buckets are used for lampshades. The food was very good.
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