The biggest news item on TV and the various plasma screens in trams and the metro last Sunday in Finland was the arrival of Mr Beckham to Turku for an operation on his Achille's tendon. The retired Finnish surgeon, Sakari Orava, a world-leading expert in the field, seemed baffled by the media … [Read more...]
Landlocked
I've always had a thing about islands. I was born in Tampere, an industrial city pegged between two of the 190,000 lakes in Finland, Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. When my family moved to Stockholm, we didn't get very far from water. The capital of Sweden is made up of beautiful islands. But as a Finn I … [Read more...]
