Why Kisko? Page Content Don't put anything here Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text While looking through comments that got sent to my overly-aggressive link-spam filter, I found one that I thought was quite funny: > You've been to so many places... Big cities and great > monuments...But then in Finland you visited Kisko, my home > village. may I ask a simple question, why? The short answer is of course that I was invited to [Kisko](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/kisko/entries/) by someone who has a house there. But, apart from that, I _am_ a fan of small places. One of my most pleasant memories of France was [the country side in Champaign](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/entries/2005/07/23/small_towns_in_champagne). [Boppard](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/rhein/entries/2005/07/29/boppard) has topped my list in Germany. In US, I have fond memories of [Hoquiam, WA](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/washington/albums/2003-02-08-hoquiam/). In Belgium, while [Ghent](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/ghent/entries/) is hardly a little village, it is a lot less known than the nearby [Brugge](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/bruges/entries/) and I thus liked it more. I am not a huge fan of wilderness, but I like seeing places that seem stuck in time. In Beijing, I found [the hutong](http://www.freewisdom.org/en/all/entries/2006/08/29/the_rest_of_our) most interesting. (I am of course fully aware of the difficulties of life without running water and am not glorifying the hutong.) Amuzingly, when talking to someone in Vladivostok about Beijing I head them say: "I didn't like Beijing. It's all fake. There is a beautiful façade of modern buildings, but once you step behind you see the ugly dirty alleys." The "beautiful façade of modern buildings" is what I found precisely _least_ exciting about Beijing. (Shanghai's over-the-top modern architecture makes it interesting as a kind of "city of the future". Beijing's modern architecture makes it look like a generic 20th city century.) Don't put anything here Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Page Content Template Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel
