Midsummer in Helsinki is a curious experience.The city is pretty much deserted, as everybody is in the countryside spending time with friends and family, visiting sauna all night long, drinking lots of beer and Sima etc.. Shops, museums, almost everything is closed and cycling through the empty, quiet streets has a feel of “alien on…
…that illustrate the difference between a first-class and “normal class” venue. I work as one of the moderators for Sibelius Finland Experience during the summer months – a beautiful, one-hour concert event in Helsinki where young master students and musicians present music composed by Jean Sibelius to guests from all over the world (piano-violin). This…
I have registered for using the city bike. Still, I picked up my ancient (read: even unlocked nobody will steal it) bike from a friend where it had hibernated while I was gone. Being a Finn, even she wasn’t sure whether laughing or getting depressed would be the more appropriate reaction to the weather. You…
The season has started and I survived my first tour, taking cruise guests through Helsinki and to Winter Wonderland. It seems that half of the world’s population spends half of their time on cruise ships nowadays. Helsinki gets a fair share of them each summer. Good for me, working as a tour guide is fun,…
So…Bonn has just lost one of its landmarks and I heard the detonation of the blasting 16 km away from Bonn. I was visiting the house of Konrad Adenauer in Rhöndorf, 1. chancellor of Germany after WWII when we heard the blast…it sounded like a rolling thunder or a bomb (there are still many bombs…
I made it. After 13 years abroad, on my first visit to Berlin, I climbed up to the dome of the German Bundestag, the former “Reichstag” (responsible architect: Norman Foster). But before I did that, I stood in front of this massive building and I had to digest some curious feelings. This building exudes an…
Meanwhile, two weeks have passed and I lost track of all the things I have seen. This weekend I took a longer trip to Aix on Provence and then I stopped for a few hours in Marseille. Aix is the historic capital of the Region of Provence and mostly well-known because of Paul Cézanne, who…
Today was the first day at Language school. Je ne comprend rien. Well, that is not true, I understand a lot, but the talking is difficult. It is always the Finnish words that come first, they seem to be located in the same drawer in my head. In the afternoon, as the planned tour to…
As much as I love Helsinki and Finland in the summer, November is and has always been a depressing time for me. So this year, I decided to leave the North for good and learn some French in the South: Côte d’Azur, Nice. In the morning I attend a language school, in the afternoon I…
Does architecture influence the creativity, flexibility or skills of shop owners when it comes to solving problems for customers? This question came to my mind after a curious customer service experience in Helsinki.
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