Herring Festival

« A herring salesman with fur hat and a few other photos from the herring festival. »

Everything I know about Baltic herring, which is very little, I learned in Finland. The Helsinki Baltic Herring Fair [a live webcam shows the market as well] has herring in just about every form imaginable and even some that aren't. Herrings apparently communicate with each other by farting [the url for the wav is wrong in the article and you'll find it here.]. Farts are pretty sonar-riffic so I suppose this shouldn't be very exciting.

I'm still not that keen on the fishy taste of herring, no matter how sexed up in some sort of sauce they are, but they're impossible to avoid here so I'm working hard to like the little buggers. Given the choice between eating herring or spending the day at Malmi like I did today, I'd eat the herring so they can't be all that bad. :)