World Walker

Finns speak Finnish. It makes sense then that the official language of Finland is Finnish. But it is also Swedish. Just about five and a half percent of the population speaks Swedish as their native language.
This is not a large amount of the population. Despite this, the street signs in Helsinki are [...]

This year I’ll be seeing in the New Year down in Australia, where we’ve just passed the longest day of the year and have streaming sunshine at five o’clock in the morning. It’s a far cry from my New Year celebrations a couple of years ago in Europe, when I welcomed the New Year in [...]