Celebrating India

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #119, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. Walking around the block One of the things I missed while vacationing in Barcelona was walking around the streets and trails of Helsinki. Sure, Barcelona is a walkable city, but walking in Barcelona is walking on sidewalks. Walking in Helsinki is walking in nature. And I will always prefer that. Since returning, I have done a lot of that. Back to normal. The first walk I did was around Töölö. It was a mostly quiet walk. I saw people dancing in the park near the lake. Then, a couple of times, in different stretches,…