Finnish Winter and Nature

For a few months each year Finland goes properly dark, properly cold and properly quiet, and Finns respond by going outside anyway. This is a country where the forest starts at the back door, the sea freezes solid enough to walk on and the sky occasionally catches fire in green.

This is the part of the blog about the Finnish winter and the nature that surrounds it. The northern lights, the endless forest, the snow that means business and the small stubborn rituals Finns use to get through the long dark and out the other side. It is harder than it looks and more beautiful than it sounds.