Bagpipes are something, are they not? The ancient Scott's used them to scare the enemy when entering into battle. Nowadays it's more ceremonial as you don't WANT to give your position away. I certainly wouldn't want a neighbor who played them! If they were 4-5 miles away, that would be OK!
Just curious, but what would a piece of property like that which you described cost over there? Here in the US it would be prohibitively expensive for most. Especially when you add in the "ocean front" piece. Sounds ideal though, I must say.
Pardon my asking, but where (& when?) did you learn your English? In all the posts I've read, your use of the language has been virtually perfect! Grammar, spelling, punctuation... Impressive!
Here's a search for property in Uusimaa, South Finland where I live. Most of these are quite far from Helsinki, the capitol, but within 200km. The search shows properties over 5ha (about 12 acres), the euro is around 1,35USD at the moment I believe. I don't think 100ha really is realistic, but that should give you some sort of picture of property prices. Way up north you can pick up property for next to nothing, but I could never live in Lapland, too dark in the winters, and cold too, plus it's so sparsely populated that finding even a small grocery store might mean a hundred kilometer round trip.
I do confess to using spell check, although I think everyone does (They should, nothing takes away gravitas from your point like writing worse than a fifth grader). Not really that many red squiggly lines showing up anyway.
When I was 8 years old, we moved to a new house, and most of my friends where left behind. It was a pretty rainy Summer, and we had a satellite antenna. Couple months of Cartoon Network and i spoke English. Never really studied the language before high school, where I had to take three courses (each six weeks with 6 hours per week) in order to be allowed to do the broader English finals.
*Edit* I also reread most of the longer stuff I post and edit it afterwards.*/Edit*
Most decent TV programming is made in English speaking countries, and I like to read. That means I have a decent vocabulary, and I care about the way I present my opinions. Also, I'm bilingual to begin with, my dad's native language is Swedish while my mom is a native Finnish speaker. Swedish shares many similarities with English, so it's not that hard to learn.
My German however, is not as good, I've studied that since the third grade, but I still can't produce proper sentences, especially in written form. Lately I've been getting some more practice though, since our neighbors family lived in Germany for many years, and the dad is German. Today I explained the building process of my coop to their guests in German, I hope they understood something, I've never discussed construction in German before.
Lastly, if you get to this point of this novel I seem to be writing (Funny thing, in Swedish "Novell" is a short-story), I'd like to say thank you for the compliment, it's always nice to receive recognition.
*Edit* Us Finns used guerilla tactics to scare the Soviets during our war, I think that was more effective than bagpipes =) Nowadays we just put up a hell of a fight in hockey (In case you followed the world championships that ended a week ago).
