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By Joel Willans 🇬🇧 Brit-in-Helsinki author 🇫🇮 💙 1.3M VFP fans across all socials 📧 joel@veryfinnishproblems.com 4 collabs 😍 Coffee, cake, karate + #ITFC

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This 100% 👊

07.03.2025 15:38 — 👍 56    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0
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Märket, the world’s smallest island split between two nations, is a 3.3-hectare Baltic islet shared by Sweden and Finland. In 1885, Finland accidentally built a lighthouse on Sweden’s side—but being good neighbours, they simply redrew the border in 1985 to fix it! 🇫🇮🤝🇸🇪

24.02.2025 13:26 — 👍 58    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 1
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Ex-Finnish PM, Sanna Marin, in The Economist - "To start, Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it” 👏👏👏

19.02.2025 22:17 — 👍 920    🔁 256    💬 17    📌 31
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According to Human Freedom Index, 13 of top 20 freest countries are European and 9 of the top 10. US wallows in 18th behind the rest of the Anglosphere. It’s not us that need a lecture.

15.02.2025 11:52 — 👍 104    🔁 42    💬 6    📌 4
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Babies bossing it 💪👶

03.02.2025 21:15 — 👍 35    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Why does it feel like January has 100+ days? 🤔

24.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 41    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0
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Kicked off the new year in fine style with a light show from Mother Nature in Lapland. Wishing everyone a fantastically fun-filled 2025! 🥂🎉

02.01.2025 21:04 — 👍 47    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 2
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The Finnish language - Destroying Google Translate since 2006 😉

14.12.2024 11:12 — 👍 47    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Which would you choose? 🤔

22.11.2024 20:34 — 👍 61    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 1
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Any members here? 😉

21.11.2024 13:37 — 👍 58    🔁 11    💬 6    📌 1
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This always cheers me up

21.11.2024 12:50 — 👍 100    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2

I’d have thought Kane, Janoi and Brandon Williams would have been snapped up.

21.11.2024 12:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

World’s Top 15 Most Beautiful Countries Ranked 😍

1. New Zealand 🇳🇿
2. Italy 🇮🇹
3. Canada 🇨🇦
4. Switzerland 🇨🇭
5. United Kingdom 🇬🇧
6. Norway 🇳🇴
7. Australia 🇦🇺
8. Greece 🇬🇷
9. South Africa 🇿🇦
10. USA 🇺🇸
11. Chile 🇨🇱
12. Iceland 🇮🇸
13. Argentina 🇦🇷
14. Croatia 🇭🇷
15. Costa Rica 🇨🇷

Source: Rough Guides

20.11.2024 18:29 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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The shortest walk ever

20.11.2024 15:50 — 👍 90    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 4
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How many people know the Baltic Sea is a crocodile eating Finland? Scary times 😬

20.11.2024 15:13 — 👍 40    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks! 🙌 Warm words are exactly what I need when it's blowing a blizzard outside 🥶

20.11.2024 15:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Anyone got any others? If so, let's see them 🙂

17.11.2024 13:13 — 👍 39    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Playing it cool 24/7 😐

15.11.2024 14:04 — 👍 55    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 5

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