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    The City Gets One Step Quieter — retro illustration of a quiet Helsinki street at dusk in October, with a street lamp and stacked chairs

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    In October the terrace tables in Helsinki go in, the clocks go back on the last Sunday of the month, and the street outside the shop grows quieter. A short...

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    Korvapuusti 101 — the bun called a slapped ear, retro illustration

    Korvapuusti 101: The Bun Called a Slapped Ear

    In a Finnish café at four in the afternoon, the counter tells you what time of day it is. Filter coffee stands in a tall metal thermos. Beside it sits...

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    The Valley That Was Born in a Year of War

    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...

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    Three Weeks of Red — Finnish ruska, retro illustration

    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...

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    The Country Where Sweets Happen on Saturdays — karkkipaiva, retro illustration

    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...

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    Every Milestone Is Marked with Coffee

    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,...

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