Fin Visit 1

There was a delegation from the Finnish Department of Defence, The Defence Staff, and the different trade unions within the Defence Forces in Aybak today. The visit and its arrangements took up most of our time today. It went quite well, actually, and the visitors were satisfied with what they saw and heard. The weather in Afghanistan does not cease to surprise. At noon the sun was shining and it was warm. At 1600, there was a hailstorm with hail the size of a grape, which peeled the paint from the walls of buildings. After the storm, there was a perfect rainbow for a few minutes, but the air had turned at least 10 degrees colder.


There was enough time to take out the camera...


...to talk back to the Swedes who said that it was gay to take pictures of rainbows...


...and to take three pictures, but not enough time to take one panorama picture!