Together, Apart

Skis to Success! (get it? It’s a pun on keys to success) - The absolute practical guide to learning how to cross country ski as an adult,...

Dear Finnish people, You warned me about winter and I didn’t listen. Winter has been like a bad relationship. At first it seemed really...

You can take a handy tour (AKA, Bomfunk MC’s music vid for Freestyler) of my local metro station, Hakaniemi. Who knew Bomfunk MC’s was a...

It seems an age ago that I wondered what I would see in my walks around my new home. Over the last two days, I've been able to capture...

What with all this working from home (oh yeah, I’ve been working from home; it’s amazing, you should try it), I find it really very easy...

Warnings of there maybe being 'no snow' in winter adorned my first 6 months in Finland. But ... when you say 'no snow' ... does it mean...

Nick and I recently took an Autumn ride to a farm in Helsinki, and sat down for a farmhouse lunch of soup and bread rolls. Our soup...

A reasonably common response I get from Finns and non-Finns-who’ve-lived-through-a-winter alike, is (in a deep foreboding voice) ‘make...

Last week we went away to England for a week. In May we went away for a weekend, and during our absence, Spring flew into Finland and...

A while ago (quite a while ago now) we were joined by a friend who came to stay with us from Hamburg, and we all toddled down the road...