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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

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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Gold of the Bog: What Cloudberries Actually Cost, and Why

🫐 Gold of the Bog: What Cloudberries Actually Cost, and Why Ask a Finn where they picked their cloudberries and watch what happens. The eyes drift somewhere over your shoulder....

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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

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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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...

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