I hadn’t visited Paris since 2007, so it was quite nice to make a quick visit to France (more photos here). Had good meetings and was even able to meet a couple of friends.
Christmas tree at Galeries Lafayette
Opéra at night
Mexican tourism ad in CDG
Spent some time in England and Wales for Rally Wales GB, and was able to catch up with some friends at the end of it. As usual, more photos and videos here.
Sunrise over Amsterdam
The legendary Subaru Impreza, the only car I'd probably buy for pleasure.
WRC Live for Nokia Lumia
Dyliff gorge
Finally a sunny day, and lots of lambs.
Visited London for another one of those lightning business trips. One of these days I’ll have a chance to catch up with all my friends there. More photos in the usual place.
Pink skies over Helsinki-Vantaa. Always make me think I live in Mars.
London Chinatown
London skyline featuring the London Eye.
Spent a long weekend in the Catalonian countryside for work. I’m starting to become quite well acquainted with rally now. More photos in this set.
Rally de Catalunya ceremonial start
Finnish drivers in the Spanish countryside
Spent a long weekend right after Mexico in Jyväskylä and Lahti for Rally Finland. Some of my best pictures and videos below (the rest are found here).
You can follow live every WRC race straight from your Nokia device.
Lake in downtown Lahti
Driving back to Jyväskylä
Abandoned cabin in Urria
Awards ceremony. Loeb won again.
Overall it was a very nice experience and now I understand why it is one of the iconic races in the WRC calendar. The only sad part was a small run in with a drunk racist jerk after I had briefly met MP Hakkarainen in my last night in town (“Smile and wave, smile and wave”). And people ask me why I tend to avoid the cities between Tampere and Lapland… 
One of my favourite books growing up was an illustrated introduction to Greek history and mythology, with photographs of the most important archaeological sites. In 11 years living in Europe I hadn’t had a chance to visit Greece until now. It was too short and a history buff like me will have to return.
The story in pictures (more here, as usual).
Modern Corinth doesn't have a lot of sights, but the flora more than made up for it.
Finally, my childhood dream, the Parthenon. 
Not a bad sight to start your event at.
The state of the Greek economy is all over the news. Thankfully this is as close to the protests as we got.
Vroom.
The Corinth Canal.
I'll have to come back on holiday to really enjoy the place.
I had visited Argentina before in 2004-05 (during their summer) and had a chance to do so again recently. This time I didn’t have the opportunity to stay in Buenos Aires, beautiful city as it is, but was in the province of Córdoba for work. The people have always treated me well (even if someone did remark I speak like somebody from TV due to my accent 
), the food is wonderful and the landscapes of such a varied country are very beautiful.
Pictures are more eloquent than words, so some below (more here).
Mate is an institution.
Villa Carlos Paz is the main holiday destination in Córdoba. No wonder why.
The Falklands (Malvinas) war is still a sore point.
The amount and quality of the beef on offer is not for the faint of heart. I can't imagine there being many vegetarians around.
Not your standard grill.
One of the mythical stages of WRC, El Cóndor. We even saw condors there (no kidding).
Rally has a huge tradition (and traction) in Córdoba as you can gather from the ads below (1, 2).
Attended the Nokia Social Summit. The best set of notes I’ve seen were taken by Jussi Wacklin, and the links you can find below:
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Visited Sardinia for work. Beautiful, sunny place with a climate and landscape pretty similar to that of the coast of Sonora in spring (heresy, you’ll say).
It had been a while since I had been to Italy, which was the first country I visited in Europe back in the summer of 1997. Funny how I see certain bits of their behaviour with Finnish eyes now, even if I still speak something resembling Italian and can communicate with them.
I attended #n2hub last week and was originally planning to post my notes, but noticed the full presentations are now available online for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy:
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