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Europe » Finland » Päijänne Tavastia » Heinola June 20th 2013

On the second weekend of June, I was invited to Scott and Virpi’s wedding in Finland. They both live in Newcastle, Australia, but Virpi is originally from Finland, and so they had decided to celebrate in the village of Hartola, about 180 km north of Helsinki, where Virpi had grown up. When I landed in Helsinki the day before the wedding, it was pouring down with rain, and I was hoping for conditions to improve because I knew that Scott and Virpi were planning some outdoor activities. I was going to share a rental car with Virpi’s friend Inga from Düsseldorf, and I met her and Virpi’s friends Corinna and Nino at Helsinki airport. The four of us arrived at the mansion in Hartola where the wedding would take place in the evening. It was so ... read more
A bilingual wedding
Hartola Museum I
Hartola Museum II

Europe » Finland » Päijänne Tavastia » Heinola December 28th 2011

Jari Tukiainen has just stamped his favourite entry for the harbour competition with a "this is the best" sticker. He hopes the entry is ultimately selected and the competitors' ideas become the blueprints for the harbour's redevelopment plans. Tukiainen and I are doing the rounds at the Helsinki City Planning Department's Laituri building, an exhibition space created by the Planning Department for town planning enthusiasts like him and curious tourists like me. And everyone in between. The harbour area competition was held to tap creative minds from across the world to find ways to integrate the harbour area into the city's urban space. But even the most talented urband planners can overlook some aspect of the city's character that makes it what it is and fail to account for the same in the plan. An alert ... read more
Open House Every Day
The Keeper of the Past
The epic that binds the Finnish people




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