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One thing I really miss from Australia (especially Cairns) is the range of fresh produce. Finland has a limited capacity to provide fresh foods and because of the nature of the culture, the imported range is not especially wide. 

One thing that is quite interesting though is that Finland is one of the largest exporters of bananas in the world and therefore these are very cheap here. But, don't expect to drive along the lake sides and see row upon row of Banana plantations, there isn't even one. For some reason, Finland is a major banana distribution point for Europe and Russia and sees very high volumes come through. Strange.

One thing that Finland does excel at though is strawberries. There are many places where the strawberries are perfect heart-shaped and large enough for pavlova decoration. Here however, they are quite a bit uglier but they taste incredible, They can get very expensive, especially early on and in a bad season, they can run out quickly.

In fact, Finland has some awesome berry opportunities overall and I will do some posts about it when the blueberry season starts. The forests are littered with blueberry bushes, raspberries and wild strawberries and it is a very popular past time to go picking them. When they come in, I will show you how easy it is and how local the places are. It took me a long time to try this for the first time, I don't know why.

This strawberry was delicious too but I had to get a photo of its honker first.

I wonder how many will get the reference in the title of the post?

Taraz
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