Boreal Expat

We’ve been having great weather in Helsinki recently, unseasonable warm for so early in the year.  Highs this past week have been in the mid...

The great thing about Easter in Finland is that it’s always a four-day weekend, thanks to the fact that, as the most important holy day in t...

This past weekend, the first this year with weather pleasant enough for some serious yard work, Finland held a parliamentary election.  To s...

Last November one of the richest men in Finland visited my daughter’s school to join the country’s foreign minister in a small ceremony kick...

I’m not a golfer, and in fact I have a certain prejudice against the sport.  But even here in Finland I can’t help being keenly aware when t...