Life is seasoned with food; food is leavened with stories. In Finland, life and food are salted and peppered with finesse, substance and an impeccable style all their own.
is mellowing us on the tannoy. The song stays in my head as I walk towards Esplanadi, a broad boulevard and park that runs towards the shore of the Gulf of Finland and the water that is blood and succour to Finns. In the centre island of the boulevard, a monument to knowledge and books is adorned by the moon on high;.
Finns conduct their daily lives with courtesy and respect, for themselves and for you, even if they have only just met you and will never see you again. You’re made to feel that you count. I find myself taken with the Finnish way, and wishing we were all like that, from the way they dress to the clean environment and devotion to sustainability. Where others say it, the Finns do it and live it.
So here I am within sniffing distance of Estonia and St Petersburg. Tallinn is not far across the water. I have flown over Amsterdam and across Denmark and Sweden to reach here. It is the closest I have been to Russia. Then, as happens once you’ve landed in any foreign country, you’re suddenly immersed in the ways of others.
The Finns are the best example I have seen of how we can all be, how we can live, how we can behave; and looking around my own country at how very badly we have done by comparison brings only one utterly clear solution: that we would be foolish not to take advantage of their generosity. Their Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, Ville Skinnari, visits our country in November.
The first was cellular technology and how Nokia started it all; the Finns smile wryly when someone says, “Oh, we thought Nokia was Japanese.” “Everyone thinks that,” is the swift reply. But no, Nokia is Finnish. And, questioned as to how badly Nokia had been knocked by the advance of iPhone technology and others, he explained how Nokia was deeply involved in core technologies that underpin much of the world’s cellular technology, and others.
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