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As a short recap, here's what I love most about Paris:

The weather affects the quality of your life less here than in Finland.

You see many more people with different sorts of gorgeous curly hairstyles.

You hear Italian and Spanish often around you. I especially love the metro announcement in S...

Since living in Paris again, I've rediscovered the wonder of doing a passeggiata.

It's just the Italian and fancier way of saying 'a walk' (that is often taken after dinner). In plural form they are called passeggiate.

I know this may be an unpopular opinion (especially amongst my Finnish countr...

After I'd dragged my suitcases up to my new apartment on the fourth floor, I video called my parents.

As I opened the big windows for the first time, I said:

"It smells like Europe here."

I know Finland is part of the European Union too, but the world definitely doesn't smell the same there. Fi...

Last time I indulged in some exploration on the topic of air travel and airport design.

Those weren’t the only architectural thoughts I had on that day of my arrival in Paris.

During the flight and on my way to my apartment I was reading a book called How to be French by Janine Marsh – I know, ...

The morning of my departure for Paris I realized once again the important effect architecture has on our lives.

I arrived at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport at the crack of dawn and was welcomed by the light and airy design of the recently renovated terminal building.

I've always loved airports, bu...

Here are the most light and airy songs I've discovered so far in my life:

• Drip-dry waltz composed and conducted by Henry Mancini for the 1963 film Charade with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant
• One Day I'll Fly Away – Randy Crawford
• La Gioconda, Op.9, Act III, Scene 6: Danza delle ore (Amilcare
...

I wrote a blog article this spring about my experience with Finland's climate, and now that I'm back in Paris, I have to congratulate myself.

I managed to find beauty in Helsinki's endless winter-spring limbo even though it was really rough.

I was only there for half the winter, but it felt like...

We talked about the sleekness of Formula 1 the other day.

You know which other sport is very cool?

Tennis.

This year's British Open at Wimbledon happened a few weeks ago and I must confess I didn't follow the matches much this time.

Last summer when I was living in Paris, I saw a couple of ma...

May I present you a marvelous piece of poetry from a certain Adele Laurie Blue Adkins:

"Everybody loves the things you do from the way you talk to the way you move.

Everybody here is watching you 'cause you feel like home—you're like a dream come true.

– – You look like a movie.

You sound like...