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Sorry for the blogging hiatus.  I will attempt to catch up but it will be out of order and in spurts as I did not manage to get all the pictures to the same place at the same time. 

So as not to be a complete waste of a post here are some points on pizza in Finland. 

• There are lots of pizza places.  Most deliver if you want.  Finnish restaurant pizza seems similar to Pappa Murphy/Pizza Hut crust with a more diverse set of ingredients and different style of cheese.
• I have been making a lot of pizza.
• Fresh mozzarella is $3 a pound.  
• Tomatoes are sold mostly in boxes.  Not sure why that wouldn't work in the US, seems cheaper. And your tomatoes don't taste tinny.  That box below is $1 so tomatoes are about the same price as the US.
• If you did not already try it, putting pizza toppings on a tortilla, once baked, makes a pizza wrap that tastes great and is ready in 10m.
• One of the popular tortilla companies here makes an actual 'pizza tortilla' that cooks in 4m.  It makes a stiffer more pizza like thin crust.  But its about $2.50 for 4 tortilla sized crusts.
• As previously mentioned you buy the whole spice plant here for $1-2 instead of a cutting of Basil.
• If your following, if you use a regular 12 a pack tortilla or make your own crust you can get the price of a fresh mozzarella basil margherita pizza down to about $2.  Yum.