I think you're correct that Finland doesn't get enough attention, so thank you for these. I love the photos of Helsinki, especially the train station and that fountain with the sea lions or seals, or whatever they are. For some reason it really makes me smile to see a classical-style fountain or statue that incorporates the flora and fauna native to the place where the artwork is located.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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