Went to hanhiniitty with my girlfriend Odile to do the puukko knife course had a brilliant time ..Martti is an excellent teacher with an extraordinary skill level and he likes to do everything the traditional way ,he is also very skilled at saving your project if it starts going wrong.The whole course was conducted in English even though we were the only English people there. We both managed to make two knives in the four days .Martti s wife Sanna cooked superb food for us each day and as Odile is vegan and gf Sanna made her her own meals each day .We stayed in their tiny guest house which is beautiful and has a sauna behind it and a frozen lake behind that .Transport from Helsinki was very straightforward two buses got us to Puumala and then Sanna came and picked us up and dropped us off again after the course . I highly recommend a visit to hanhiniitty even if you have no experience of forging.Many thanks to Martti and Sanna for being such wonderful hosts .Mark and Odile