The Polar Night Counter shows how long kaamos, the season with no sunrise, lasts in northern Finland. It also shows how long is left before the winter solstice.
Finnish companies are producing new fibres, fabric and fashion from old clothes. Discarded textiles find new life as clothing, accessories or even flooring material.
In early July, Alma Miettinen dropped her first song, “Karma,” just to see what would happen. Less than two months later, “Karma” became the second-most streamed Finnish song of the 2010s on Spotify, right after “Hollywood Hills” by Sunrise Avenue.
Newcomers continue to expand the ongoing trend of artisanal beers and spirits in exciting directions in the northern Finnish cities of Oulu and Tornio and beyond.
Every year for one July weekend the population of the town of Joensuu, near the Finnish-Russian border, virtually doubles when music-lovers flock in for the Ilosaarirock festival. Volunteer workers make an essential contribution to the organisation of this popular event.
Whether it’s on a table or in a proverb, rye bread has long been a cultural and nutritional cornerstone for Finns. It was also voted Finland’s national food for the centenary celebrations of the country’s independence, in 2017.
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