[DrTung]

Born i Stockholm, I remember taking the ferry to Finland as a young boy for some cheap vodka (and you only had to be 18 years old, not 20).

This was in the late 70's and my first visit to Helsinki, I tried to order a drink in a bar. But no service until I discovered my mistake: I had spoken in Swedish.

Switching to English got me a nice Finnish beer. That was my first glimpse of Finland's "complicated" history.

[euroderf]

But also the accent of your Swedish probably pegged you as Swedish, not Finnish. And are you quite sure they actually even understood you ?