Blogs

The Valley That Was Born in a Year of War

Open the first page of a Moomin book — any of them — and you already know where you are. A round blue house. A garden that has gone slightly...

Am von Soposopo 0 Kommentare

Three Weeks of Red

The light in Helsinki changed this week. Not the temperature — that has been sliding for a while — but the angle. In August the sun comes into the shop...

Am von Soposopo 0 Kommentare

The Country Where Sweets Happen on Saturdays

There is a quiet rhythm to a Finnish week that most visitors never notice. It builds towards Saturday. Go into a Finnish supermarket late on a Saturday afternoon and you...

Am von Soposopo 0 Kommentare

Every Milestone Is Marked with Coffee

This time of year, two kinds of orders come through the same till. One customer wants candles for a cake with a number on it and asks, laughing a little,...

Am von Soposopo 0 Kommentare

The Party Where the Math Never Works Out

🦞 The party where the math never works out By late August, a certain kind of table has started appearing in Finnish gardens and rented function rooms: paper cloth, paper...

Am von Soposopo 0 Kommentare