Author: Arnaldo Pellini

Which way?

11 July 2022
by Arnaldo Pellini
Landscapes

Which way? Left? Right? Straight? I saw this sign at the end of the small platform. It speaks a language I do not understand, known only to the train staff. There are four passengers’ trains passing through this small rural station each day. Just two carriages linking Joensuu and Pieksämäki plus few villages in between. Now and then a locomotive passes by on its way to pick up a train at the next station. I […]

How is it to live in Finland?

5 July 2022
by Arnaldo Pellini
Forest / Nature

I am back in Finland. I have been in Italy for three weeks. In my hometown, Cremona. It has been the longest I have been there for many years. A question that I was asked few times has been: how is it to live in Finland? We came back to Europe, and chose Finland, five years ago. That was June 2017. We chose Tampere over Helsinki because we lived here about 10 years earlier. It […]