Finnish from Afar Blog

As 2014 draws to a close, I have to admit that it hasn't really been a great year for this blog (just one post so far!?!).  You know, ...

Recently, Finland selected the song that will represent the country in this year's annual celebration of kitsch and bland that is the ...

There are some things I feel that, as a foreigner, I will never quite understand about Finland and the Finns. One of those is the Finnis...

Ppntori Today, I join the very select group of bloggers who are able to break some news ahead of the mainstream media. Oh yes. For tod...

The very first time I went to Helsinki, many years ago, it was for a business trip, in the middle of winter. It was very cold and very ble...

One of Finland's largest company specialises in lifts, escalators, and moving-walkways. The company is called rather brilliantly Kone,...

Let's face it, if learning Finnish was graded like judo, I would still be a white belt. This despite years of training with an excell...

Apparently, the Finnish word for "meerkat" is "nelisormimangusti", or "four-fingered mongoose". Well, well...

The first time I saw him was on a warm summer's evening in Helsinki. He was standing near the parliament, patiently waiting for the tr...