No Ordinary Örö!

As we headed along the river and out into the islands, I remember thinking of what military life must have been like for soldiers and sailors in the archipelago. The

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A Sailor’s Life For Me – Katanpää and the Galley Olga

Strolling down the harbour in Uusikaupunki, we followed the sight of a tall mast piercing the blue sky, a compass in helping us to locate our vessel and the rest

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Discovering Dali – A reincarnation in Pargas

Ted Wallin is a local entrepreneur, philanthropist, art collector and general community figure in the archipelago town of Pargas (or Parainen in Finnish). It all sounds pretty unspectacular until you

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Talking Turku – The People, Places and Pastimes of the ‘poshest’ part of Finland

About the Blog I’ve got three points to make about this blog series. The first, and this probably won’t come as a surprise, is that I love Turku. Olen turkulainen

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