Category: Migration
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Spring in Finland
Once February has gone, the days seem to lengthen rapidly. Here in the South of Finland, the six hour days of December and January are long gone and already in early March, we have over ten hours of daylight. The signs are there too. The birds sing louder on the warmer days and some are…
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Learning the Lingo
Almost ancient history now, back in Britain in 2010, I thought it a little exotic to be dating a Finnish girl. She had almost perfect English, the locals thought that she might have come from The Netherlands, because after living in the UK for a decade had picked up all the slang and mastered understanding…
