Blue Wings Lush issue April 2019

Lush issue 4 / 2019

BLUE WINGS MOMENTS IN THE WILD

LIVE & LE ARN

Looking for the Japanese secret to a good life C ITY RE B ORN

Bordeaux in new bloom SCANDI ZE ST

Gothenburg reinvents Swedish flair

DON’T BE SHY – HELP YOURSELF TO THIS ISSUE AND SHARE IT WITH A LOVED ONE!

Editorial Welcome onboard

bluewings.finnair.com

ARJA SU OMIN EN

FO KUS M E D I A F I N L A N D

SVP, communications and corporate responsibility

Managing editor Amanda Soila Art director Aino Ahtiainen Web editor Shelly Nyqvist Visual designers Sesilja Lindell, Iris Mark Editorial assistant Aino Vähälä English editing Silja Kudel Reprographics Teemu Salovaara, Faktor Oy Cover Jasper Pääkkönen by Kim Öhrling Behind this issue George Baxter, Tim Bird, Laura Feasey, Mark Fletcher, Laura Iisalo, Kalle Kirstilä, Leena Kisonen, Silja ­Kudel, Kristian Luoma, Katja Pantzar, Robert Seger, James Silverman, Heli Sorjonen, Elisa Suokko, Peter Weld, and Kim Öhrling Submissions and feedback bluewings@fokusmedia.fi Blue Wings online bluewings.finnair.com issuu.com/finnair_bluewings Editorial Offices Hämeentie 135 A, 00560 Helsinki, Finland, tel. +358 40 630 8253 firstname.lastname@fokusmedia.fi Advertising Sales Jaana Lindvall-Harki tel. +358 40 582 1416 jaana.lindvall-harki@fokusmedia.fi Publisher Fokus Media Finland Printed by Punamusta, Joensuu, Finland 2019 Paper UPM Valor 61g, Cover paper Stora Enso LumiArt 200g ISSN-0358-7703

Editor-in-Chief Arja Suominen arja.suominen@finnair.com Finnair Head Office Tietotie 9 A, Helsinki Airport, 1053 Finnair, Finland, tel. +358 (0)9 818 81, Postal address: P. O. Box 15, 01053 Finnair, Finland Customer feedback finnair.com/feedback or by mail: Customer Relations, SL/403, FI-01053 Finnair finnair.com, finnair.fi, finnairgroup.com

Finding joy secret to happiness? I’ve often been asked that question after the Finns were voted the World’s Happiest People in 2018. My answer is that one of the most important aspects is maintaining a good quality of life, which means taking proper holidays from work and the hustle and bustle of daily life.

In Finland, one of the most popular ­vacation choices is spending a few weeks relaxing at a summer cottage by the lake or sea. Being in or near nature helps me to rest and recharge. The restorative power of ­simply gazing at the sea on a warm ­summer day is immeasurable.

As the holiday season approaches, it’s a good time to start making plans. Finland is a fabulous summer destination offering a range of healthy activities from sailing in the archipelago to hiking in Lapland or enjoying life in a l­aidback city such as Helsinki, which is surrounded by the sea. You can find out more at VisitFinland.com.

Wishing you many inspiring journeys, Arja Suominen

W H AT I S THE FI NNI SH

Being in nature helps me to recharge.

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G-1000® ECO

Durable, adaptable, timeless Fjällräven’s own fabric. Made from organic cotton and recycled polyester with fluorocarbon-free impregnation.

Adaptable with Greenland Wax

SOMETIMES, THE INNOVATION LIES IN NOT INNOVATING AT ALL The Fjällräven Greenland Jacket in today's fast-paced society you tend to get used to a certain rate of development and change. Being still for a moment in time feels strangely ineffective and counterproductive. Likewise, here at Fjällräven, we have become used to a certain rate of innovation throughout the years, not that we're trying to actually innovate anything. But our drive to develop the best, most durable and functional clothes and equipment, often involves an innovation or two along the way. Like the Fjällräven Greenland Jacket back in 1968 – innovative in both design and textile material. But since then it has been remarkably resilient to change. Is that by chance? Hardly.

1966 – The adventure begins In 1966 a team of Swedish and Norwegian alpinists and glacier researchers started a challenging expedition to Greenland.

Among the explorers was Per-Åke Sjöman, an experienced alpinist who had heard Åke Nordin, founder of Fjällräven Company, talk about raising the standard and function of outdoor equipment and asked for his help. Åke custom-made seven different-sized tents and also supplied the team with backpacks.

Coming home after six weeks of extremely rough conditions, Per-Åke submitted a written report testifying that the tents and backpacks had worked “surprisingly well”. The team was, however, disappointed with the clothing that was provided from other suppliers.

Per-Åke Sjöman and his mountaineering friend Hans Hellström, discussed the problem with Åke, who immediately

saw the opportunity to solve another outdoor-ware challenge.

A unique fabric is born Working with Hellstöm, Åke set out to make a jacket suitable for rock climbing, that was both functional and strong enough for life on vertical rock. On the chest he placed two sturdy pockets, one for folding maps and one for cigarettes.

(Smoking had yet to be designated a major health hazard back then). Side pockets were deemed unnecessary and in the way of ropes and harnesses. But what material to use? Åke chose a fabric he'd once considered for tents that had proved too heavy for the purpose - a blend of polyester and cotton that was extremely durable. (Little did he know that he was creating Fjällräven’s now famous outdoor fabric, G-1000, that serves as the base-material in most of our outdoor clothes and equipment).

He sewed the jacket according to the pattern he and Hellström had drawn and decided to try the finished product on an expidition.

A unique jacket is born After two weeks, Åke was more or less satisfied. Just one thing needed improving: the fabric's water-resistance. He thought back to his ski-jumping days and the trick they'd used as they sat and waited for their turn to jump.They used ski-wax on their trouser seats to repel moisture and keep the chilly winter at bay. Why not try the same idea with the new jacket? Åke experimented with a mixture of beeswax and paraffin. Using the heat from his wife

Elisabeth's hair dryer, he applied a wax blend to the fabric and the result was a water-repellent, yet breathable material with tremendous abrasion resistance.

Now the jacket would work perfectly for mountain climbing and outdoor recreation. He named it the Greenland Jacket and it was soon worn not only by sportsmen and alpinists, but a whole generation of outdoor enthusiasts.

The 2019 Greenland Jacket During the fifty years that have passed since then, there have been only three changes. One in 1972 when it received side pockets due to popular demand; one in 2006 when it came in a winter version with pile fleece; and one in 2018, when all production of the Greenland collection went from using g-1000 to G-1000 Eco (recycled polyester and organic cotton) and it received new trims and minor modifications to the fit. That's it.

Born timeless There is good reason for the Greenland Jacket’s time-resilience. It was developed to solve an actual problem in real life. It made sense to mountaineers and it made sense to outdoor enthusiasts. And when you put your new Greenland Jacket on before you go outdoors, it will most probably make sense to you too. That's because function, comfort and durability don't go out of style. Neither does the compulsion to take deep breaths of fresh air in stunning outdoor surroundings or tread softly on pine-needle-covered forest floors. So off you go. Nature is waiting.

www.fjallraven.com

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Contents April

Dream 1 3 LO ND O N

Scentspiration 15

GLO B AL P U L S E

Mindful practices

19

P RO D U C T I N S PI RAT I O N

Danish style

The star of our waters.

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Gothenburg colours up

2 0 GRE EC E

Island hues

PAG E 42

2 2 LOS ANGE L ES

Hipster haven

Eco-haven in Bordeaux’s bobo district PAG E 3 2

Explore Perfumer H’s resident dog, Pop

2 8 PR OFI L E

Actor Jasper Pääkkönen 3 2 B OR D E AUX

France’s capital of cool 42 G OTHE NB UR G

PAGE 1 3

Sweden’s second city 49 SMAR T STUFF

Clever thinking by companies 53 CONVE R SATI ON

Katri Saarikivi on the power of example

What’s eating Los Angeles?

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Contents April

Create 58

Find your happy place.

Page 68

PASS IO N P ROJ EC T Japan’s art collective

63 S H OWRO O M

Global design 6 8 INV E STIG ATION

Japanese ikigai

73 Q &A

Romance of Florence

Fly

teamLab’s experiential office PAG E 5 8

79 FI NNAI R NE WS

What’s new

82 FI NNAI R SE RVI CES

Fly the short northern route 83 FI NNAI R PLUS

Frequent flyer rewards

84 SHOPPI NG

Finnair Shop wish list

86 MY FI NNAI R

Passenger stories

87 SKY FOOD

Nordic kitchen

88 W E L L NE SS

Comfortable flying

Lost in Florence

89 E NTE R TAI NME NT

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91

HOL I DAY SAMPL ER

Southern European sun

Stay connected

90 STAFF TI PS

Travel the moment

92 SUSTAI NAB I L I TY

Push for Change

93 FL E E T

Modern fleet at your service

94 MAPS

Minimalist fashion by Tauko.

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Helsinki Airport and destination check-list

98 FI NL AND FACTS

Fascinating figures

www.kia.fi @kiamotorsfinland

Intohimosta ajamiseen.

Teho

370 hv

Kiihtyvyys (0-100 km/h)

4.9 sekuntia

Saatavana

taka- tai neliveto

Kia Stinger. Henkeäsalpaava Gran Turismo.

Kia Stinger yhdistää rohkean muotoilun ja sykettä nostavan tehokkuuden klassisessa Gran Turismo -hengessä. Tämä auto vie tyylikkään tehokkuuden ja ajettavuuden aivan uudelle tasolle. Kaiken perustana on intohimo ajamiseen. Koe aikaisempaa syvempi, elämyksellisempi ja intensiivisempi ajonautinto, joka inspiroi muillakin elämän osa-alueilla.

Mallisto alkaen 50.374 € Vapaa autoetu alk. 920 €/kk, käyttöetu alk. 755 €/kk

VUODEN TAKUU

Kia Stinger alk. autoveroton hinta 38.078,67 € + arvioitu autovero 12.295,56 € + toimituskulut 600 € = kokonaishinta 50.974,23 €.

Vapaa autoetu alk. 920 €/kk, käyttöetu alk. 755 €/kk. CO2-päästöt alk. 179 g/km. Hinnat ja päästöt uuden mittaustavan mukaiset.

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Dream

Keep your curiosity alive

Just a hint of lilacs Perfumer Lyn Harris finds inspiration in the surrounding scents (p. 13) APRIL 2019 BLUE WINGS 11

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Wise craft Local talents to watch

Lyn Harris creates her signature scents in her lab in ­Marylebone, London.

Scentsational fragrancier that perfume was reserved for the gods, and there is definitely something otherworldly about finding a great fragrance. Britain’s first classically trained nose, Lyn Harris knows the importance of finding the ideal scent.

“What I’m creating are beautiful smells that give way to a feeling, an emotion, a picture, a painting, or a name… and the story they portray,” says Harris.

Inspired by everything from her childhood trips to Scotland and the “damp, wet, and mossy” landscapes of Yorkshire to the lilacs and pines near her north London home, Harris has created scents for Jane Birkin and Manolo

IT’S SAID

Blahnik, establishing brand Miller Harris before setting up her boutique perfumery, Perfumer H in 2015.

Offering a seasonal collection of scents and candles, the Marylebone atelier also provides a bespoke fragrance service, whereby Harris will craft your own, one-of-a-kind scent.

At a time when consumers are demanding a more personal, unique experience, Perfumer H’s products couldn’t be more fitting.

“People want to see the process, rather than getting a faceless product, and a product that doesn’t speak to them,” says Harris. “I think it’s very telling of the era that we’re living in.” 

FI NNAI R FL I E S TO

London (LHR) six times a day.

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Tutustu uuteen kevät & kesä kuvastoomme newwaveprofile.fi

MISTÄ YRITYKSESI MUISTETAAN? Mainosta brändiäsi, edusta tyylikkäästi ja ylläpidä asiakassuhteita.

YRITYSTEKSTIILIEN JA MAINOSTUOTTEIDEN HANKKIMINEN ON NYT HELPPOA! New Wave Profile on valtakunnallinen ja koko maan kattava jälleenmyyjäverkosto joka tarjoaa kokonaiskonseptin yrityksesi yritystuotteiden hankkimiseen. Tunnettujen tuotemerkkiemme laajasta valikoimasta löydät varmasti tuotteet, jotka muistetaan pitkään.

Espoo: IDÉ House of Brands Finland Oy, www.idegroup.fi Espoo: JRC-Markkinointi Oy, www.jrcmarkkinointi.fi Forssa: Beoprint Oy, www.beoprint.fi Hamina: Roseprint Oy, www.roseprint.fi Hanko: Mainosprint Oy, www.mainosprint.fi Helsinki: Fais Finland Oy, www.fais.fi Helsinki: Intergift Finland Oy, www.intergift.fi Helsinki: Jamis Mark Oy, www.jamis.fi Helsinki: Roseprint Oy, www.roseprint.fi Helsinki: Sanser Oy, www.sanser.fi Huittinen: JK-Brossi Oy, www.brossi.fi Joensuu: Bellabit Oy, www.bellabit.fi Jyväskylä: Artepro Oy, www.artepro.fi Kajaani: Seripoint Oy, www.seripoint.fi Kemi: Speedline Oy, www.speedline.fi Kerava: Novema Oy, www.novema.com Klaukkala: Nisa-Tuote Oy, www.nisa.fi Kokkola: Oy HW-Company Ltd, www.hw-company.fi Kouvola: Silén Oy, www.silenoy.fi Kuopio: Frame Brodeeraus Ky, www.framebrodeeraus.com Lappeenranta: Selosella Oy, www.selosella.fi Lempäälä: Hoo-Hoo Oy, www.hoohoo.fi Mikkeli: Mixsep Oy, www.mixsep.fi Mustasaari: Oy Tai-Tex Ab, www.tai-tex.fi Oulu: Temrex Oy, www.temrex.fi Parola: Hämeen Mainostuote Oy, www.hameenmainostuote.fi Pirkkala: Tamline Oy, www.tamline.fi Pori: Sanser Oy, www.sanser.fi Riihimäki: Markku Hjelm Oy, www.mhoy.fi Seinäjoki: Unique Branding Oy, www.uniquebranding.fi Salo: Promopaja Oy, www.promopaja.fi Tampere: Halftime Oy, www.halftime.fi Tampere: JM Concept Oy, www.jmc.fi Tampere: Tammerkki Oy, www.tammerkki.fi Tampere: Sanser Oy, www.sanser.fi Turku: Griippi Oy, www.griippi.fi Uusikaarlepyy: Oy Pre-Print Ab, www.preprint.fi Vaasa: Almanda, www.almanda.com Vantaa: Mainio Suomi Oy, www.mainiosuomi.fi

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Global pulse COMPILED BY KATJA PANTZAR

Ideas for good life from around the world

Book nook

ZEN GETS CREATIVE Designed for beginner meditators, THE DAILY Z E N JOUR NAL : A C REAT IVE COMPANI ON F OR A B EG I NNE R ’S MIN D

(Penguin Random House) promises to ease stress and help you set priorities in your life. This ZenBuddhist-influenced journal is written by Charlie Ambler, the creator of popular blog, Daily Zen, while the illustrations by Brooklyn artist Iris Gottlieb bring in playful visuals.

Sober it up

PHOTOS ISTOCK, ANNIE SPRATT, KARI SHEA

MOCKTAILS, PLEASE! TH E M IND FUL drinking trend – cutting back on alcohol consumption or totally abstaining as a lifestyle choice – is extending far beyond the dry January tradition held in many parts of the world. According to Real Simple.com, mindful drinking is all about a conscious attitude towards consuming alcohol: “The technique has become popular in the U.K., where a group called Club Soda teaches the approach and hosts mindful-drinking pub crawls. Research shows there has been a rapid decline in drinking among young people across Britain.” To that end, a range of events including an annual Mindful Drinking Festival in London and alcohol-free pub nights are popping up, as well as spreading to other cities around the globe.

TU RKU

The Finnish Houseplant Association (Huonekasviseura Ry) hosts a plant and seed exchange meetup on April 29 at Hansakortteli.

F U N FAC T

Benefits of going alcoholfree include looking younger and getting a better night’s sleep.

Green therapy

SHARING IS CARING Plant-swap events bring a social spin to the house plant trend.

PORT LAN D

The Portland Plant Swap on May 4 offers a great way to socialise while giving away or picking up indoor and outdoor plants for free.

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UNIQUE LOOKS

URBAN ESSENTIALS

KÄMP GALLERIA

KÄMP GALLERIA IS HOME TO THE FINEST SELECTION OF NORDIC DESIGN AND FINNISH FASHION. ENJOY THE UNIQUE SETTING, CAREFULLY SELECTED BRANDS AND CASUAL DINING – WELCOME TO THE MOST STYLISH SHOPPING CENTER IN FINLAND!

kampgalleria.com Pohjoisesplanadi 33

2ND FLOOR CENTER FOR FINNISH FASHION

Global pulse Ideas for good life from around the world

LET’S MOVE IT Fitness trends for 2019 embrace simplicity and easy access.

Life hack

WALK THE TALK Everyone knows that sitting is the new smoking, which is why scheduling a one-on-one walking meeting outdoors is the way to go. A few practical tips ensure that in addition to getting some exercise and fresh air, you’ll tick off all the items on your agenda: review the relevant documents in advance, plan a route, and follow up with notes when you get back to your desk.

All natural: Niki Newd’s Vegan Set.

PHOTOS ANNIE SPRATT, KARI SHEA, NIKI NEWD, ISTOCK

Beauty boost

BACK TO BASICS an artisan skincare boutique based in Helsinki, comes a fresh skincare line crafted from food grade ingredients with no preservatives, alcohol, additives, or synthetic ingredients. Products are made bespoke and monthly to ensure freshness. The vegan and unisex Oatmeal Soap, for example, features Finnish ingredients including gluten-free oat flour, cold-pressed organic linseed and rapeseed oils, baker’s yeast, and Arctic spring water.

E X E R CI SI NG AT HOME

There’s no need to head for a gym as you can create your own yoga class in your living room with the help of online streaming.

SHOR TE R WORKOUTS

Three 10-minute sessions of exercise have the same benefits as one continuous 30-minute session, according to Tom Holland, an exercise physiologist at Healthline.com

FRO M NIKI NE W D,

SMAR T TRAI N IN G

Track your cycling course using a tablet, or ride and workout with a friend who lives further away via a buddy app.

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Culture swap Destination inspiration

COMPILED BY LAURA IISALO

Delectably Danish Copenhagen’s spring style brings a fusion of quirky prints and bright shades.

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FI NNAI R FL I E S TO

Copenhagen (CPH) four times a day.

Effortless cool with this pink posh blouse!

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4 Call it spring with these ankle boots!

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE COMPANIES

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The soft and smart Printed Poplin Shirt has an eye-catching placket detail. €129 from ganni.com The yellow Mayflower leather bag is spring-approved. €135 from day.dk 3 — DANG L E I T Iuo Sky Jade statement earrings are a mix of colourful acetate and shiny brass. €100 from woodwood.com 4 — HAPPY HE E L S Colour-block leather Koko boots have a curvy yet comfortable heel. €349 from stinegoya.com 5 — W I L D SI D E Wilma animal-print pants are a soft dream in lightweight yellow viscose. €135 from simoncarter.net 6 — FI E R CE LY FE L I NE Mixing pink and gold, Lexine’s leopard silk scarf adds roar to any outfit. €54 from baumundpferdgarten.com 1 — P RE T T Y I N PI N K

2 — ARM CAN DY

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Coordinates A place to be

N 36° 27’36” E 25° 22’22” LOCATIO N

Oia, Greece

sunset on the island of Oia is an experience unlike any other. As the sun dips below the horizon, the crowds cheer and clap in gratitude over the warmth of the day. Minutes after sunset during twilight, the white-chalked patios glow in deep purple and warm orange hues as the first stars start to appear across the night sky.

GAZING AT TH E

– Kristian Luoma is a traveller and photographer from Oulu, Finland.

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PHOTO KRISTIAN LUOMA

EXPLORE ARCHIPELAGO IN DESIGN See it. Feel it. Sense it.

FROM TURKU

FROM OULU

CAILAP

HALTIAN

Coming from the coastal city of Turku, the uniqueness of the Finnish archipelago is reflected in everything Cailap does. These beauty products encourage us all to be who we are, as free as seabirds flying over the ocean.

Take a look at the products at cailap.com/en

Haltian’s products are as unique as the Finnish archipelago. This design house enables smart innovation by creating tailormade miniaturized products. Read about their projects, from smart rings to hyperspectral cameras haltian.com

FROM NAANTALI

FROM KUOPIO

FOODDUCK

LUMOAVA

Who said practical can’t be fun? Foodduck is a hygienic and environmentally friendly automatic spread dispenser for serving fats, cream cheeses and other spreads. This Finnish duck spreads joy for kids and adults alike. Waddle to www.foodduck.com

Lumoava jewelry enchants with unique design inspired by the forever changing Finnish nature.

The jewelry has been made in the northernmost jewelry factory in the world since 1942. See more dazzling designs from the city of Kuopio at lumoava.com

Roam with us into Finnish nature and design Finnish nature and Finnish design are inseparable. The extremes of our nature – from the nightless nights of summer to the polar nights of winter – affect everything we do and design. We grant the Design from Finland mark to Finnish design that elevates and surprises, but more importantly, feels like it’s designed for you. Continue your design journey at www.designfromfinland.com/explore

Inside track Los Angeles

Savoury and sweet are featured on Sqirl’s menu.

ALL IN FLAVOUR In L.A.’s Silver Lake hipster haven, authentic ideas are finding deliciously modern reinterpretations.

TEXT KALLE KIRSTILÄ PHOTOS ROBERT SEGER

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C L ASSI C L . A . ST R E E T S N AC KS

JAMPACKED was formerly a one-woman preserves company run at the local farmer’s market by Southern Californian chef Jessica Koslow. Today it has evolved into a breakfast-cum-lunch restaurant with an hourlong midweek queue. Tasty jams are still on the all-day breakfast menu, served on brioche toast with ricotta cheese. The lunch-time bestseller is the sorrel pesto rice bowl, which comes with goodies like pickled radish, Meyer lemon, and poached egg. Koslow’s cooking covers the spectrum from healthy foods to renditions of hearty comfort classics like potato hash.

SQI R L

It’s worth the wait at Sqirl where guests line up for homemade comfort food.

G O NUTS FOR DON UTS

You don’t have to travel far to find an amazing donut shop, where these sugarinfused beauties come in all imaginable flavours from classics to oddities.

COR N STAL KIN G

Mexican sweet corn elote is a street food staple in L.A., served either in a cup or on the cob with mayonnaise, cotija cheese, chili, lime, and coriander.

JEWISH DELI REBORN With its eclectic retro design and odd location at a strip mall, FRE ED M A N ’ S is an unlikely contender to be selected fourth best new restaurant in the U.S. by Bon Appétit magazine. Co-owner Jonah Freedman reveals that he simply wanted to bring back the old-school Jewish delis of his youth, but with a cooler vibe and later opening hours.

The menu features classics like matzo ball soup, latkes, brisket, and Reuben sandwiches – all geared towards modern customers. >>

FI ND A RAI NBOW

The Mexican fruit salad makes a perfect hot day snack. A mix of fresh fruits sprinkled with salty Tajin spice mix and lime juice comes in a small bag to go.

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Purple yams are the “secret” ingredient in many of FrankieLucy’s specialities.

SWEET FILIPINO DREAMS

FINNAIR FL IE S TO

Los Angeles (LAX) three times a week.

F RA N K I ELU CY BA K ESHOP in the heart of Silver Lake serves the trendiest sweets in town, plus local craft coffees. Housed in a mid-century building, the cosy, minimalistic coffee shop is run by two well-known professionals: Kristine de la Cruz, the woman behind celebrated sweet shop Créme Caramel in Sherman Oaks, and Annie Choi, owner of Found Coffee in Eagle Rock. The house specialities are custard-based goodies as well as Filipino-inspired upside-down cakes made with purple yams (ube).

ONLY YOLKING

A little bit of everything can be found at Yolk.

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D E SI G N G I FT SHOP YOL K at Silver Lake Sunset Junction seduces customers with its pretty shopfront and great tag line “Free Range Design.”

The tag reflects owner C.Y. Chang’s quest for freedom of expression, individuality, artistry, and sustainability.

Yolk offers a vibrant but well-thought out selection of creative brands, designer goods, and local artisan handicrafts blending the hottest of California with the coolest of Scandinavia. 

Find Scandinavian, Finnish and Baltic retailers at www.barbour.com

PHOTO KIM ÖHRLING

Explore

Think beyond the box

And a river runs through it Jasper Pääkkönen keeps fighting for healthier waters (p. 28) APRIL 2019 BLUE WINGS 27

Hot times ahead: Pääkkönen will soon reunite with Spike Lee for a new Vietnam movie, Da 5 Bloods.

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Think again

MAN OF THE WATERS Actor Jasper Pääkkönen’s life-long passion for fishing has led him to champion for healthier waters.

TEXT SILJA KUDEL PHOTOS KIM ÖHRLING

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I would never have believed how asper Pääkkönen is seated at deeply rooted racism is in modern-day his favourite corner table at America,” laments the actor, an admirer Helsinki’s Löyly. He’s a regular of Spike Lee since his teen hip hop days. at the waterfront restaurant: he bathes “Spike is one of the most influential daily in the adjoining sauna – and also figures fighting for everything I believe happens to own the place. The actor is right – racial equality and justice. has newly returned from Los Angeles, Two years ago, if someone had told me where he is lining up new projects off I’d star in one of his biggest films and the back of his acclaimed performance become his good friend, I would have in BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee’s Oscarsaid they’d lost their mind.” winning, sharp-edged examination of The flashing brown race relations in America. eyes that add chilling It seems ironic that intensity to the character an articulate freethinker “Spike fights of Felix have been from the happiest nation on earth was chosen for for everything Pääkkönen’s calling card since he started his career the bad-guy role of Felix I believe in – in a long-running Finnish Kendrickson, a fanatical racial equality TV series at the age of white supremacist. Many 18. Those baby browns well-known American and justice.” adored by legions of teen actors vied to play the fans have injected volatile Colorado Klansman, but energy into the highly Lee refused to consider varied roles he has played since then, anyone but the “guy with all the weird from the disturbed skinhead in Heart of a umlauts in his name.”

Lion to Halfdan the Black in the TV series A life-changing ten-minute audition Vikings. landed Pääkkönen a plum role in the most significant project of his career.

The film’s theme struck a chord with A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT the Finnish actor, who experienced culture shock while spending a year as Pääkkönen’s two-decade love affair an exchange student in Baltimore. “I with the camera has finally led to upset the local community by taking international stardom – but there’s an African American girl to the prom. plenty about this unpretentious celebrity >

JASPE R PÄÄKKÖNE N is a Finnish actor in Hollywood W HO I NSPI R E S ME

Spike Lee. On top of his films and activism, he has made a huge impact on hip hop, music video, and many fields of modern-day black culture.

W HAT ANG E R S ME

Hydropower, damming, agriculture, and peat production have destroyed the vast majority of Finland’s salmon rivers.

The idea that hydropower is clean and green is a myth.

It’s a major contributor to climate change.

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My fishing rods. When I fish, all my thoughts are gone and nothing is left but the ever-flowing river in which I’m standing.

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“If I had to choose one title that defines me better than anything else, it would be fly fisherman,” says Hollywood celebrity Jasper Pääkkönen.

that might surprise Hollywood. For that my grandchildren can continue to starters, he’s a razor-sharp businessman enjoy fish in our waters. Is that selfish?” and committed environmentalist. He has The actor’s enduring passion for fly invested a significant sum in projects fishing has evolved beyond a “primitive ranging from renewable energy to hunter-gatherer urge” towards a new recycling fishing nets. form of mindfulness: “It’s about standing At the mention of “fishing,” those in a river that’s been flowing there for an brown eyes light up. It’s a littleeternity. You don’t have to catch a single known fact on Hollywood Boulevard fish for a fishing trip to be successful. that Pääkkönen has dedicated half a When you’re alone in nature, it’s a form decade of full-time work to promoting of meditation. You’re completely aware – healthier rivers and fish without being aware of populations. “The few being aware.” times that I felt I truly Interrupting his fishing “When you’re accomplished something bliss, Pääkkönen will meaningful were when my alone in nature, spend spring shooting activism had an impact a new Vietnam film with it’s a form of on policies,” he states Spike Lee in Asia. After modestly. that, he’s set to make a meditation.”

One of his proudest documentary with Yvon achievements was his role Chouinard, eco-activist in pushing legislation to and legendary founder of outlaw the killing of endangered fish adventure-wear brand Patagonia. The species in Finland. documentary is Pääkkönen’s idea – and Perhaps paradoxically, Pääkkönen’s will involve plenty of fishing. For once, environmentalism springs from a lifelong he doesn’t have to choose between the love of fishing. “I’ve been fishing movie camera and his fishing rods. since I was two. For me it’s a natural “At the wrap party of BlacKkKlansman, progression from being a kid who loved the film’s editor asked me which I would fishing to an adult with a deep passion choose if I had a gun to my head: acting for conserving our waters.” or fly fishing. I said ‘Ah, that’s an easy When asked whether his activism question!’ The editor replied: ‘Oh, sorry, of comes from a selfish place, he fires a course you’d choose acting!’” ready response: “I want to make sure How wrong he was. 

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Nature boy: ­Hollywood knows little about ­Pääkkönen’s fierce commitment to environmental causes.

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Field Trip France

RED HOT The former sleeping beauty of the French west coast wakes up with creative energy.

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BORDEAUX Thomas Nero, Lucas Maraton, Félix Clerc, and Simon Chollet are redefining bordelaise cuisine in their acclaimed neo-bistro Symbiose.

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Ecolodge des ­Chartrons is a chic, calm haven in the heart of bobo district ­Chartrons.

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t’s early morning in the heart of Bordeaux, and the first rays of sunshine are pushing through the glass ceiling of ECOLOD G E D E S CHAR TR ONSE .

We are in the quartier of Chartrons, a once-forgotten neighbourhood of blackened sandstone façades and empty narrow streets. Recently, however, it has been transformed into a true bobo district, with an ambitiously run bistro, coffee shop, cocktail bar, or queue-worthy bakery on every street corner. This transformation has helped Bordeaux shake off its old nickname “Sleeping Beauty” and adopt a new one: “Portland of Garonne.”

“We moved from Paris to Bordeaux three years ago. It’s a magical combination of metropolitan vibe and rural life. You are in the heart of a city, but the sea, countryside, and mountains are just a stone’s throw away,” says Muriel Roudsovsky, artistic director and owner of Ecolodge des Chartrons, a bed and breakfast that has earned its “eco” prefix by choosing solar energy, rainwater harvesting, and hemp insulation – and by serving a delicious breakfast of vegan croissants and organic fresh fruit.

Roudsovsky runs the bed and breakfast with her husband, IT entrepreneur and former F-Secure collaborator Arnaud Roudsovsky. The forty-something couple is what the new Bordeaux is all about: inspired small-scale businesses that create urban culture through ecological and artisanal thinking. This is the Bordeaux spirit that is pulling in Parisians, start-up entrepreneurs, and some of the best talent in French cuisine.

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Darwin ecosystem, a right bank neighbourhood, turns climate action into new businesses and open-for-all events – and invites guests to explore.

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Magasin Général is the largest organic­­ r­estaurant in France – and open for creative entrepreneurs.

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GREEN SQUAT TOWN Bordeaux is an old port city split in two by the caramel-coloured River Garonne that once provided a route to the Atlantic and beyond. Most of Bordeaux is built on the left bank, including the newly booming bobo quarters and the UNESCO-listed city centre. But on the right bank, there is something totally fresh: the Darwin ecosystem, the most innovative and bizarre neighbourhood in all of France.

“Urgence climatic!” – visitors are welcomed to the Darwin ecosystem in knee-high block letters calling for climate action. A decade ago this was an abandoned military base, but now the remaining brick and corrugated iron barracks host the biggest organic restaurant in France, an indoor skate park, a gallery, the headquarters of eco-oriented start-ups, a bike co-operative, a bee garden, and a school.

At lunch time, M AG AS I N G ÉN ÉRA L is packed regardless of its ample space. Long tables are crowded with Darwinians digging into their savoury kale crepes.

“You can also bring your own picnic here. You don’t need to buy anything,” says Darwin founder Philippe Barre, who, as the story has it, invested his advertising fortune into these old barracks to show that you can run a business without roasting the planet. Barre is wearing a Saint James fisherman knit, dark glasses, and a year-round tan you only get from decades of surfing. Five per cent of the cost of the café allongé he is sipping goes to non-profit organisations operating in Bordeaux.

It is estimated that businesses in Darwin produce five times less carbon emissions than

Above: Designer Mathieu Courtois volunteers at the bike repair shop l’Étincelle.

Left: A vegan kale crêpe at Magasin Général.

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A decade ago, this was an abandoned military base, but now it hosts an organic restaurant, a bike co-op, and a bee garden.

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Bordeaux (BOD) two times a week.

average, which surpasses the COP21 (Paris Agreement) goal. This is achieved mainly through energy conservation, recycling, and lowcarbon transportation.

“Our main goal is to show that you can do more with less, and that frugality feeds creativity,” Barre says.

MICHELIN-QUALITY TONIC In France, cocktails are seldom ordered before six in the evening, but when Estelle Sauvage is behind the bar, exceptions can be made. She mixes ice cubes, juniper berries, a rosemary sprig, and a splash of tonic water in a high glass and slides the drink over. It tastes like the freshest gin and tonic – except without the gin. Sauvage is the creator of A R C H I B A L D , a distillery-made premium tonic water headquartered in Darwin.

Arts, culture, pleasure, and good atmosphere make people want to be involved in change.

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“Originally, we created the tonic to accompany our liqueurs, but it’s so good that it stands very well on its own. The bitterness is very smooth, the bubbles small and elegant, and there’s only a hint of sugar,” Sauvage explains.

She and her business partner Olivier Fichot chose to replace the traditional tonic ingredient, imported quinine, with French-grown gentian root, which has a more sophisticated taste. The plant-based ingredients are distilled to bring out all the aromas.

“Even Alain Ducasse and Anne-Sophie Pic are using it,” Sauvage muses. Ducasse is one of the most celebrated chefs of all time, with 21 Michelin stars under his belt, and Pic is the fourth female chef to gain three Michelin stars.

Archibald is not strictly an eco-brand, but it’s making many smart moves. Apart from using only organic French ingredients, Sauvage and Fichot manufacture their labels from sugar cane residue.

They also convert cardboard waste into coasters and make their deliveries with hybrid cars.

It is precisely this kind of gentle, pleasant change that Darwin is pushing forward.

“Issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and populism can paralyse us with fear. Arts, culture, pleasure, and good atmosphere are an antidote to that. That’s how you make people want to be involved in change,” says Philippe Barre.

THE SWEET SPOT In front of Darwin, visitors can borrow a city bike and pedal back into the city centre across pedestrian-only Pont de Pierre bridge. Bordeaux

ranks sixth in the Copenhagenize Index of bicyclefriendly cities.

This ranking is source of pride for Michel Duchène, city planning advisor for the legendary mayor Alain Juppé. Duchène is seated in one of the finest new pastry shops in Bordeaux, PÂT I SS ER I E S , with a matcha choux pastry and his recently published book La grande metamorphose de Bordeaux in front of him. His cycling helmet sits neatly on a nearby chair – in Bordeaux, even a high-ranking city official in flawless suit-and-tie rides a bike.

During the 25-year reign of Mayor Alain Juppé and his team, the city has undergone a massive transformation that has turned riverfronts into beautiful walkways, pushed cars out of the city centre to make way for trams, and transformed old port hangars into hubs of urban culture. These communal areas have become a popular venue for carnivals, outdoor flea markets, and neighbourhood picnics.

“We wanted to recreate a city that makes its citizens happy. We stole good ideas from cities around the world and put them into action – all of them simultaneously. Had we gone step-by-step, it would have taken 30 years,” Duchène explains.

The transition was not an easy one, but it’s bearing fruit. In recent years, Bordeaux has been voted as France’s favourite city. For all newcomers, there is a special ceremony.

“Anyone who dips their feet in the central pool, the Miroir d’eau, becomes an honorary Bordelaise – no matter who they are or where they come from.

It’s a place of social heritage, not only cultural heritage.”

Olivier Fichot and Estelle Sauvage are distilling the go-to tonic of Michelin chefs (no gin required).

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Chef Félix Clerc turns locally-sourced fish and self-grown vegetables into savoury yet fresh dishes in neo-bistro Symbiose.

A BORDEAUX LOVE STORY Simon Chollet, Félix Clerc, Lucas Maraton, and Thomas Nero dipped their feet in the Miroir d’eau in 2015. These 28-year-old friends, who met whilst working in a high-class cocktail bar in Paris, run possibly the most ambitious neobistro of the Chartrons district, SYMB I OSE .

The chef, Félix Clerc, creates the daily lunch and dinner menus exclusively from ingredients produced within a 50-kilometre radius of Bordeaux – which means fresh fish, meat, vegetables, and herbs, some of which are grown in their own little garden near the city. At dinner time, the small stone-walled bistro is full: booking a few days in advance is highly recommended.

“We wanted to challenge Félix a bit, so we came up with this concept,” Maraton says, with his signature grin. Maraton and Chollet are in charge of the cocktail bar of Symbiose, a speakeasy style bar hidden behind the grandfather clock at the back of the bistro. Here you can sample mouth-watering cocktails mixed from kitchen leftovers – which means glasses filled with vegetable infusions and fermented fruit.

This spring, the band of friends is opening a second restaurant, Résine, serving gastro cuisine.

“Everyone said that working with friends is a bad idea but for us it’s working really well. We bring out the best in each other and learn from each other. When you do something unexpected instead of something classic, you inspire people,” Chollet says.

This kind of inspiring unexpectedness is what Bordeaux is doing exceedingly well right now. 

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A Gothenburg ­institution, many of the city’s bakery chefs have been trained by head baker Robin Edberg.

A combined coffee bar and concept store, Heyday is a millennial-pink boutique where customers can sip a red velvet latte while browsing pastel earrings, cheeky enamel pins, and eclectic home décor items.

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Tucked behind a garage door, the restaurant, bar, and events space at Studio HPKSM serves up music, wine, and atmosphere−with a menu boasting rustic Italian flavours.

A little treasure with an industrial feel, Olssons Vin is where crowds feast on budget-friendly charcuterie platters and generous pours of Bourgogne blanc.

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Seminarieparken used to be where teachers-to-be trained in botany.

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Colour is an understatement at Heyday, a cafĂŠ and shop sporting the opposite of typical Swedish design and showcasing an array of local brands.

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The power of example

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KATRI SAARIKI V I

is a cognitive neuroscientist leading a research project that investigates how people and computers could best interact.

lady enters a doctor’s office and takes a seat in the waiting room. Suddenly, a bell chimes, and all the other patients in the waiting room stand up. And sit back down. Then the bell chimes again, and the same procedure follows. At some point, the patient joins in, convinced that since others are doing it, this is the correct way to behave. Of course, the whole thing is a gag, and the “patients” are in on it.

Besides being an amusing waste of time, this viral internet video is a case in point of the power of example.

Watching others and interacting with others is how we humans learn about how to behave, what is appropriate, accepted, and valued in different contexts.

In short, culture and learning about all it entails, takes place in interaction with others.

Corporate culture has a gigantic impact on individuals’ performance and wellbeing. In terms of success, it can truly make or break a company. Culture can either support or hinder individuals in learning, development, and collaboration. The same also seems to apply in animal culture. In a recent article published in Science, researchers describe how many animals including primates, birds, whales, and elephants pass knowledge down through generations. The successful functioning of this culture is vital for the species’ survival, and the effects of a single animal on culture can be huge.

Could the same apply in business?

And if so, how can we identify whether

culture is helping to ensure the health and longevity of a business? Very often culture is expressed outwards as a lofty set of values and principles on the company’s webpage or in interim reports. Sometimes these statements truthfully reflect the culture, but at times they seem to reflect the opposite. As such, the best way to understand culture is to look at the actions and the quality of interactions between individuals in the company.

What if you find a discrepancy between desired culture, and the actions that people take in reality?

How can that change a culture? Recently, many companies have created very specific guidelines for what is appropriate interaction between individuals.

For instance, a while ago Netflix allegedly instructed their employees that looking at a co-worker for more than five seconds could be considered sexual harassment.

It is important to clearly state key principles and write down the values that the company believes as a powerful practice for goal setting. However, as a method for changing human behaviour, guidelines are probably powerless. A better way would be to influence the interaction that takes place. And how does one go about this? By taking part.

By infecting others with behaviours you wish to see. By making the good values and cultural aspects contagious.

Think about interaction. How are you treated and how do you treat others?

Who are the newcomers and what do they perceive−before they adapt? 

Corporate culture has a gigantic impact on individuals’ wellbeing.

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In “Wander through the Crystal Universe,” part of teamLab Planets, visitors can change the LEDs’ colours with their smartphones.

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Passion project

Fantasy in 4-D Takashi Kudo of digital art collective teamLab helps shake up the assumptions of what art is supposed to be.

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rt is something we can’t express with words,” says Takashi Kudo.

But then the words start pouring forth, and for most of the next hour, he talks quickly, excitedly, passionately about teamLab, the Tokyo-based art collective of which he’s one of the key members.

“One of the key members” is an incredibly vague description−the kind of thing that a writer usually writes only when they forgot to ask a question that they should have been asking. But for teamLab it seems appropriate.

“If you really need a title for me, you can use ‘Communications Director,’” he says, “but titles are almost meaningless at teamLab because there’s no hierarchy. What matters is your skill set, not your title. Contributions can come from anybody, anywhere, at any time.”

And it seems as though everybody, everywhere, all the time is talking about teamLab, at least in Tokyo. Their two installations, teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets, opened in the middle of last year near central Tokyo and have been a massive success. Borderless alone drew more than one million visitors over the course of just its first five months, and even now the lines snake out of the building, down the block, and around the corner by lunch time on most days.

This giant digital waterfall is one of the highlights of teamLab Borderless.

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scope to have been realised by just five people− or even 50. The number of teamLab members is somewhere in the neighborhood of 650, including computer graphics animators, hardware engineers, software engineers, architects, sound engineers, mathematicians, coders, and even machine learning experts. Kudo refers to all of these people simply as “ultratechnologists.”

Surprisingly, though, he’s not really one of them.

At university he studied philosophy and literature, not physics or robotics. After graduating and toiling in corporate Japan for a year, he fled, spending the next six years travelling the world. He eventually settled in Stockholm, where for more than four years he worked as a magazine editor.

Now in his early forties, he has been in teamLab for almost a decade, helping to articulate the collective’s message.

“Are Borderless and Planets really art? That’s not for us to decide. We just want people to come and experience them.”

What both installations share is the immersive aspect; you’re not just looking at two-dimensional artworks on the wall in front of you, but rather you’re surrounded in what seems like four dimensions. Visitors can interact with the art, changing the colours in a room full of hanging LED strips, for example, by sending commands from your smartphone. Try doing that with the Mona Lisa.

The bottom line is that teamLab’s installations are some of the trippiest experiences you can have in Tokyo these days, and it’s fun to think about what other envelopes the group will be able to push in the years ahead. But don’t ask Takashi Kudo where teamLab will be in ten years.

“Nobody knows,” he laughs. 

At teamLab’s offices in Tokyo, the meeting room is as colourful as some of their installations.

Takashi Kudo stands outside Planets, which is slated to close in late 2020.

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S URP RIS E Borderless is powered by 520 computers and includes 470 digital projectors.

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Investigation

The happiness quest How to find ikigai, the Japanese secret to a long and healthy life.

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hat do the world’s oldest competitive speed skater, the oldest active commercial pilot, and the oldest professional club DJ have in common? They’re all well into their eighties and nineties, and they’re all Japanese.

World Health Organisation statistics for 2016, the most recent year for which the data are available, show Japan at the top of the life expectancy charts, a position it has held for quite a number of years.

What could the secret be? Is it the Japanese diet?

Getting plenty of exercise? Drinking green tea every day?

Héctor García and Francesc Miralles think they know the answer. They’re the authors of the bestselling book Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Healthy Life, which has become something of a worldwide phenomenon: since its original 2016 publication in Spanish, it has been printed in 43 languages and has sold over one million copies.

Roughly translated into English, the word “ikigai” means “a reason for living.” While not downplaying the role of a healthy diet and an active lifestyle in helping people live longer, García and

Miralles argue that the Japanese are particularly adept at finding purpose in their lives, and that sense of purpose keeps them going long after people in many other countries would have retired to armchairs in front of their TVs. Over lunch at a restaurant in Tokyo, his home for more than a decade, García expands on his and Miralles’ findings. Not content just to study the long lives enjoyed by the Japanese population as a whole, they travelled to Ogimi, a village on the southern island of Okinawa that has earned the nickname “Village of Longevity.”

They found a community in which even the elderly exercise every day, not jogging on treadmills or lifting weights but raising vegetables in their gardens and walking to friends’ homes. They found a community in which people “eat the rainbow,” consuming a wide variety of foods, including lots of fruits and vegetables, but everything in small portions. They found a community in which virtually everybody has known everybody else since birth and where helping friends and neighbours is as important as taking care of oneself.

And as García and Miralles interviewed Ogimi elders, they discovered another common denominator: everybody had an ikigai, a reason to

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hop out of bed each morning and look forward to the day ahead. These ikigai varied from person to person: for one interviewee, it was weaving things out of wicker, while for another it was growing her own vegetables and cooking them herself, and yet another mentioned getting together with her friends to belt out tunes with a karaoke machine.

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García’s ikigai; though his daytime job is in IT, before going to work every morning, he tries to fit in two hours of writing. “If I don’t write, I get grumpy,” he laughs.

“Keep trying new things,” he adds, “and decide after doing them whether they make you feel better or worse. And remember that everybody is different: you might find an activity you enjoy so much that when you do it, the hours feel like minutes, but when your friend tries it, he keeps looking at his watch to see whether it’s time to stop yet.”

Sometimes the search for your own ikigai can be a short one: by carefully examining the life that you’re living today, you might find that you already have one. A diagram in García and Miralles’ book shows ikigai occupying the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for doing—or to put it a bit differently, ikigai is where your passion, your mission, your profession, and your vocation come together.

Ikigai is where your passion, your mission, your profession, and your vocation come together.

The idea that having a purpose in life can extend your time on this planet isn’t hard to believe, but how exactly do you go about finding that purpose? That’s a tricky question—so tricky, in fact, that García and Miralles wrote a follow-up book which focused solely on practical techniques for finding your ikigai.

“For example, at the end of each day,” García suggests, “spend five minutes writing down the three best and the three worst things that happened to you that day.” Writing is clearly

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But don’t just take Héctor Garcia’s and Francesc Miralles’ word for it; listen to the pros.

For example, Mayako Muroi’s passion, mission, profession, and vocation all refer to the same thing: the piano. She started playing it at the age of six, going on to graduate with highest honours from Tokyo Music School, and playing with the Japan Symphony Orchestra. Then came further piano studies in Germany, the beginning of several decades in Europe before she returned to Japan in her sixties. Today she’s the nation’s oldest performing pianist, less than three years shy of her hundredth birthday.

In the meantime, Zenjiro Nakashio has been winning track and field events and setting all-Japan records for nearly 30 years now, but in stark contrast to Mayako Muroi, he was a retiree, not a child, when he found his passion in life. Now, at 95, he still trains four times a week with the javelin, the shot, the discus, and the hammer. It doesn’t seem likely that he’ll bring

home any medals next year, when the Olympics return to Tokyo, but at the national and local levels he continues to dream of glory just like athletes a fraction of his age.

And speaking of people who got a late start, Sumiko Iwamura was seventy-seven years young when she signed up for a class at a school for DJs. She quickly realised that she had a knack for DJing and started to mix the music at local social events. One thing led to another, and now, at 84, she regularly performs into the wee hours at Tokyo nightclubs as DJ Sumirock, combining the techno beats that you’d expect of a DJ with classical music and other genres that you’d never dream of hearing in a club.

Amazingly, she still works in her family’s Chinese restaurant during the day, making hundreds of gyoza, or fried dumplings.

Dumplings by day and techno by night: with not one but two ikigai, DJ Sumirock might have several more decades of life to look forward to. 

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€ 103 + 2 ,000 P

FINNAIR PLUS

Pre-order € 49

OFFERS

SAMS ON IT E SUI TCAS E

The S’Cure Spinner cabin suitcase lets you travel in style.

Home delivery 1.0 00 P + € 147 ÖGON PASS PO R T H O L DER

This elegant black quilted passport holder has two separate compartments.

Keep your passport stylish!

Pre-order € 73

B AL MUI R SCAR F

The Milan scarf is a beautiful combination of the finest cashmere and silk. Two colour options.

Pre-order € 99

FI SKARS KNI FE SET

The Norden Knife set is made of durable steel.

Home delivery 1.00 0 P + € 129

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World of Finnair Flying stories

Q&A

Flying stories IT’S THE CUSTOMERS who make Finnair

and that’s why we’ve dedicated this page to your travel stories.

SHAR E YOUR Finnair

moments on Instagram!

Use #feelfinnair, if you want to be featured.

Meet the frequent flyer.

TAR U STAUD I NG ER

Finnair Plus member from Finland FI NNAI R PLUS TI ER

thisprettydestination Jardín de Cactus has 450 different species to choose your favourite cactus. This was mine. #lanzarote

katriswan I think I’m in fairytale. #japan #itsukushima #hiroshima

Basic W HI CH FI NNAI R PLUS B E NE FI T D O YOU US E?

I tend to use my points to pre-order meals.

NE X T D E STI NATI ON ?

I plan to drive to Lofoten with a friend over the summer.

W HE R E I S YOUR AL L-T IME FAVOUR I TE D E STI NATION ?

Copenhagen, Denmark.

AR E YOU AN ADVE NT URESE E KE R , CULTUR E - BUF F,

nikkinenmikkopetteri The light house. For two people, with scenery. Sleep on the ice.

For rent. #ourfinland

arquilinn One of the many amazing views from the weekend’s hiking trip. #visitspain #workation #alicante

OR SUN- LOVE R ?

I’m the no-plans-type.

I go where gay people are welcome.

I F YOU COUL D TRAVEL ANYW HE R E , W HERE

TAKING PHOTOS AND VIDEOS ONBOARD your travel experience? The use of small cameras or mobile devices for photography and video to capture your own travel moments is welcome onboard Finnair flights. Please respect the privacy of others onboard, and always ask the WANT TO S H A R E

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crew and your fellow passengers for their consent before including them in your memories. Please follow crew instructions: crew members can prohibit photography or video if it disturbs other customers or the crew’s work, or causes a safety concern.

WOUL D I T B E AND WHY ?

I guess this might be a bit boring but I love Scandinavia, plain and simple. I still haven’t been to Skagen, Denmark. It seems like the perfect place with its dunes and beautiful nature!

World of Finnair Nordic kitchen

3 ways to a tasty meal Fancy a snack onboard? Finnair offers a wide selection of seasonal and healthy options that are inspired by untouched Nordic nature and its pure flavours.

Pre-order You can choose from a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, breakfast, or dinner by pre-ordering.

Onboard The onboard menu includes a selection of tasty snacks, sweets, and beverages to mix and match.

Delicious fresh salmon!

Complimentary Complimentary coffee, tea, water, and Finnair’s signature blueberry juice are served on Finnair flights.

Complimentary meals are served on all intercontinental flights.

Healthy snacks!

Business Class Swedish top chef Tommy Myllymäki’s spring menu ­emphasises the fresh flavours that bring out the Nordic best of the ­season.

Pick of the month Starting April 10, check out the renewed onboard menu, complete with a new selection of sandwiches as well as a packaging face lift.

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World of Finnair Wellness & comfort

Onboard wellness

3X TIPS FOR CABIN COMFORT

STAY HYDRATED

It is recommended to drink 1-2 decilitres of water every hour. If possible, minimise the amount of tea, coffee, and alcohol you drink.

HEALTHIER AIRCRAFT

The Finnair A350 combines the latest technology with advanced passenger comfort features to help you rediscover the thrill of flying. An advanced HEPA filtering system changes the cabin air every two to three minutes ensuring comfort and health for all passengers. Large windows let natural light flow into the cabin and LED technology emits lighting and colours that are customised to fit the time of day, destination, or season. The noise level is 16 decibels below the standard requirement, so resting and relaxing while onboard is easy.

GET SOME SLEEP

The best way to tune out is to wear an eye mask and ear plugs. Keep warm, too – have a jacket or blanket handy in case you need it.

2X COMFORTABLE UPGRADES NORDIC BUSINESS CLASS Finnair’s Business Class seats let you fully recline on your intercontinental flight. The seats transform into a 200 cm (6’6”) horizontal bed, so you can enjoy a good night’s sleep.

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ECONOMY COMFORT Finnair’s Economy Comfort seating in the front of the Economy Class cabin makes intercontinental travel even more pleasurable with 8–13 cm (3–5 inches) more legroom.

GENERAL WELLBEING

Try to bring something to snack on.

Fruit and veggies are always a great healthy option. And remember to wear comfortable clothing.

World of Finnair Flight mode

Stay connected THE NORDIC SKY portal is available on all inter-

continental flights and most European flights, and gives you access to news, destination information, and Finnair services. You can use the portal to connect your own devices to the internet.

HOW TO GET STARTED

1 Join the Wi-Fi ­network Nordic Sky

3 Start exploring at nordic-sky. finnair.com

urn your T device to flight mode and ­enable Wi-Fi

WI-FI PRICES

1H

3H 12 H

2 Open the browser of your choice

4

7.95€

YOUR TRAVEL COMPANION

0-2 H

11.95€

19.95€

2+ H

Long haul

BROWSE 4.95€ STREAM 9.95€ BROWSE 6.95€ STREAM 12.95€

Short haul

WHAT’S PLAYING SPI D E R - MAN: I NTO THE SPI D E R -VE R SE

VI CE

B E N I S B ACK

YOUNG SHE L D ON

The limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.

Ben Burns’ mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean.

D UMPL I N’

LOOKING FOR A READ? Choose RE AD IN G to access all magazines available on the Nordic Sky portal.

Get boarding passes, book flights and travel extras, view your Finnair Plus balance, and much more with the Finnair app.

The app supports your Finnair journey all the way from home to your destination and back!

Willowdean aka Dumplin’ the plus-size, teenage daughter of a former beauty queen.

The epic story about how a bureaucratic insider became the most powerful man in the world.

This single-camera comedy gives us the chance to meet Sheldon Cooper in childhood.

THI S I S US

Sometimes life will surprise you.

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World of Finnair Staff tips

Morning light at the Old Port in Marseille, France.

Enjoying the moment in Collobrières, the south of France.

Wall paintings like this in Lisbon make buildings much more interesting.

Lisbon’s nostalgic tram 28.

The art of now Finnair cabin crew member Karoliina Åman’s travel philosophy is to capture the moment.

as my companion, I seek out those little details, the h ­ idden spots that have a story to tell. Most of the time the best cafés can be found tucked away in an alley, away from the WITH M Y CA M ERA

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swarm of tourists. Sitting under an olive tree, drinking my coffee, and just being in the moment is really my cup of tea (or coffee)! Travelling is not something that I need to check off my to-do list but something I want to cherish, taking in all the new things that come my way.

MY AL L-TI ME FAVOUR I TE destination is Southern France with its beautiful ­quaint villages and amazing colourful alleys. Next time you are walking around, choose the alley less travelled.

Who knows what hidden gems await!

KAR OL I I NA ÅMAN

is a Finnair cabin crew member and travel blogger. She enjoys taking photographs especially in the soft morning light − not to mention in a warm ­destination, too! lotta.karoliina

PHOTOS KAROLIINA ÅMAN

I LOV E TO take in a destination by s­ imply w ­ alking around, taking ­photos, and breathing in the atmosphere.

Whether it’s in a big city like ­Lisbon or in a small French village, I try to stay away from shopping malls and choose to wander the colourful little streets and alleyways.

World of Finnair Holiday sampler

Experience more with Finnair

TOP 3 SOUTHERN SUN Get a head start on summer and choose one of these Southern European holiday destinations from finnair.com/holidays.

D UB R OVNI K. The surrounding mountains and gorgeous seaside offer a change of pace for visitors to this medieval Croatian city. Why not head into the nature for an adventure?

EXPLORE FINNAIR HOLIDAYS The South of France is all about enjoying life with its many cafĂŠs, bistros, and terraces. Gather your friends and family for a delicious dinner with amazing views over the city or the Mediterranean!

NI CE .

FINNAIR HOLIDAYS takes you straight to where the best

stories are born. Flights, hotel, experiences, and triple Finnair Plus points can now be found from one place. Finnair Holidays is available in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden. Find your story at finnair.com/holidays.

Over 100 destinations

Entire trip from one place

Triple Finnair Plus points

Finnair Holidays opens the door to the most intriguing places in the world. The story of a lifetime awaits!

Pick a set combination or tailor your own trip: flights, hotels, and experiences all in one place.

Every euro you use for your Finnair Holidays trip will gain you three Finnair Plus tier and award points.

The Portuguese capital is famous for its many parks, dotted with charming kiosks. Visit one for some local delicacies and spend a day people watching.

L I SB ON.

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World of Finnair Sustainability

Push for Change in the air and on the ground

BETTER PLANET Finnair’s sustainability strategy is built on three principles – cleaner, caring, and collaborative.

DO GOOD

The latest initiative that helps customers choose Finnair is the Push for Change service launched in January by means of which customers can offset and reduce the emissions of their flights.

“We introduced this service based on research results,” says Ihamäki. “Push for Change offers customers the opportunity to purchase biofuel to be used in our flight operations or support the use of low emission cooking stoves in Mozambique.”

The report also describes every aspect of ­Finnair’s sustainability activity, ranging from modern fleet investments to occupational health and wellbeing at work, human rights, and waste management.

• The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation • Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) • The Association of Friends of the University Children’s Hospitals • The Cancer Society of Finland • Finnish Red Cross • UNICEF Finland • Hope • UN Women

90+ YEARS AND COUNTING 1 92 3

1 924

Finnair, known as Aero, is founded

Finnair receives its first aircraft: Junkers F 13

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1 9 47

1952

1968

1969

1980

1992

Finnair air hostesses take to the skies

Helsinki ­ irport opens A

Finnair reveals its new logo and name change

First Finnair trans-Atlantic flight to New York City

Blue Wings launches

The Finnair Plus program is introduced

PHOTOS FINNAIR

WH E N IT CO M E S TO sustainability in air travel, customers these days have a choice. ­ Finnair recently published its Sustainability Report 2018 which is filled with detailed information about the company’s longstanding commitment to environmental and corporate responsibility.

Looking back over ten years of reporting, Kati Ihamäki, Finnair’s Director, Corporate Sustainability, recalls that the discussion about climate change and efforts to minimise it has been ­ongoing. “Airlines decide whether to invest in modern technology, recycle waste, reduce energy ­consumption, and care for employee wellbeing,” she says. “As the customer, you decide on the kind of airline you support.”

Finnair Plus members can make point donations via finnairshop.com to

World of Finnair Fleet

AIRB U S A35 0- 9 0 0

Number 13 + 6 on order Seating capacity 297-336 Length 66.8 m Wingspan 64.75 m Cruising speed 903 km/h Maximum cruising altitude 13,000 m AIRB U S A330-3 0 0

Number 8 Seating capacity 289/263 Length 63.6 m Wingspan 60.3 m Cruising speed 870 km/h Maximum cruising altitude 12,600 m AIRB U S A32 1

Number 19 Seating capacity 196–209 Length 44.5 m Wingspan 34.1 m Cruising speed 840 km/h Maximum cruising altitude 11,900 m

* gradual roll-out by 2019

AIRB U S A32 0

Number 10 Seating capacity 165 Length 37.6 m Wingspan 34.1 m Cruising speed 840 km/h Maximum cruising altitude 11,900 m

* gradual roll-out by 2019

AIRB U S A31 9

Number 8 Seating capacity 138 Length 33.8 m Wingspan 34.1 m Cruising speed 840 km/h Maximum cruising altitude 11,900 m

* gradual roll-out by 2019

E M B RAE R 1 9 0

Operated by Norra Number 12 Seating capacity 100 Length 36.2 m Wingspan 28.7 m Cruising speed 850 km/h Maximum cruising altitude 12,300 m

ATR 72

Operated by Norra Number 12 Seating capacity 68/72 Length 27 m Wingspan 27 m Cruising speed 463 km/h Maximum cruising altitude 7,620 m

1 995

Finnair’s website launches

1 999

1 999

2 004

Finnair joins oneworld alliance

Arrival of ­ irbus A320 A

Online check-in opens

2 013

Launch of Marimekko for Finnair ­collection

2 014

2 015

2018

Finnair celebrates its 90th anniversary

Arrival of ­ irbus A350 A

Finnair celebrates its 95th anniversary

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World of Finnair Airport info

Welcome to Helsinki Airport CHECK YOUR GATE and

departure time on the airport monitors. All Finnair and Nordic Regional Airlines (Norra) departures are located in the same terminal.

If you do not have a boarding pass for your connecting flight, please contact the transfer service desks in T2.

HAPPY LANDINGS

Fly the short northern route FLY VIA HELSINKI and take the most direct route between Europe and Asia. Thanks to Helsinki’s location, Finnair’s northern route is a geographically convenient way between Europe and Asia. The northern route also offers competitive travel times to destinations in the US from many European cities.

The Helsinki Airport is efficient, compact, and easy to navigate, making it ideal for transferring between Europe, Asia, and the US with short transfer times.

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HE L SI NKI AI R POR T has 35 automated border control gates for travellers flying to or from destinations outside of the Schengen area. Fifteen are located in the departure hall; 15 are located in the upstairs arrival hall; another five are available in the downstairs arrival hall (for EU/EEA/CH citizens only).

Passengers from the EU, EEA, CH, Japan, and South Korea with biometric passports can use the automated border control gates.

Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and U.S. citizens with biometric passports may use the automated border control upon departure only.

All other nationalities must use the manned border control booths in the departure and arrival halls.

Those passengers travelling with infants, baggage trolleys, or wheelchairs must use the manual control lane.

World of Finnair Airport info

FINNAIR CITY BUS

55

54

53

49

48AB

47

46

45AB

44

43

42

AUKIO

TRANSFER SERVICE 3

52

to the Helsinki Railway Station leaves from platform 10 at T2 every 20 minutes. Travel time is approx. 30 minutes. €6.90 THE RING RAIL LINE

connects Helsinki Airport to downtown Helsinki via train. There is direct access from the corridor between T1 and T2.

TAXI RANK

BUS GATES 51 A–D

T2

FINNAIR LOUNGE, FINNAIR PREMIUM LOUNGE

39AB BUS GATES 50 A–M

40

NONSCHENGEN AREA

38

36AB Security check

NONSCHENGEN AREA

35

34AB

37AB TRANSFER SERVICE 2

33 Passport control

31A–31E 32 30

Security check

CHECK-IN 240–270

GATES 5–11

T2

CHECK IN 101–114

T1

13

14

Helsinki Airport offers free Wi-Fi throughout the airport.

PLAYROOM

Children’s playrooms offer toys, videos, and baby care facilities.

WATER DISPENSER

Passengers can refill their water bottles with drinking water free of charge.

SECURITY CHECK

27

PASSPORT CHECK

26

CHECK-IN AREA

Security check

SCHENGEN AREA

12

WIRELESS INTERNET

29 28

FINNAIR CHECK-IN + SERVICE 201–229

2ND FLOOR

Agency-specific price information is available in front of the terminals on the information screens.

15

16 17 18 19

20

21

22

25 24

ARRIVALS AREA

23

BAGGAGE STORAGE

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World of Finnair

Domestic and European destinations Russia

Tromsø Reykjavík

Ivalo

Iceland Kittilä Rovaniemi

Finnair Destinations New Finnair Destinations 2019/2020

Umeå

Norway Oslo Bergen

United Kingdom London

Amsterdam

Visby

Yekateringburg Kazan

Samara

Lithuania

Moscow

Copenhagen Hamburg

Gdansk

Minsk

Hannover Berlin

Poland Warsaw

Belarus

Netherlands Brussels Germany Düsseldorf Belgium Paris

Kajaani

Saint Petersburg Tallinn Estonia Tartu Latvia Riga

Stockholm

Denmark Billund Manchester

Kuusamo

Finland Kokkola Kuopio Joensuu Sweden Vaasa Jyväskylä Tampere Turku Helsinki Mariehamn

Gothenburg

Edinburgh

Dublin Ireland

Kemi Oulu

From Helsinki

Ivalo 931 01:35 Joensuu 360 01:00 Jyväskylä 235 00:50 Kajaani 464 01:20 Kemi/Tornio 609 01:35 Kittilä 823 01:25 Kokkola/Pietarsaari 391 01:10 Kuopio 335 01:00 Kuusamo 667 01:15 Mariehamn 282 00:55 Oulu 514 01:05 Rovaniemi 697 01:20 Tampere 143 00:35 Turku 150 00:35 Vaasa 348 00:55

Kraków Prague Frankfurt Czech Republic Stuttgart Vienna Salzburg Zurich Munich

France Geneva Budapest Innsbruck Austria Hungary Switzerland Slovenia Venice Ljubljana Verona Lyon Milan Croatia Pula Bologna Nice Pisa Rimini Split Italy Dubrovnik Rome Barcelona Bordeaux

Porto Spain

Portugal

Madrid

Lisbon Malaga

Ibiza Menorca Palma de Alicante Mallorca

Greece Skiathos Mytilene Preveza Athens Kos Zakynthos Santorini

Turkey

Corfu

Antalya Dalaman Alanya Cyprus Rhodes

Malta

Canary Arrecife Islands Tenerife Norte Fuerteventura Tenerife Sur Las Palmas

Varna

Naples

Catania

Madeira Funchal

Bulgaria

Great Circle Estimated distances / km flight times

Chania

Heraklion

Paphos Israel Tel Aviv-Yafo

Eilat

From Helsinki

Great Circle Estimated distances / km flight times

Alanya/Gazipasa 2722 03:45 Alicante 3034 04:25 Amsterdam 1525 02:35 Antalya 2638 03:50 Arrecife 4518 05:55 Athens 2490 03:40 Barcelona 2632 03:55 Bergen 1112 03:30 Berlin 1123 02:00 Billund 1060 01:50 Bologna 1976 03:00 Bordeaux 2417 03:30 Brussels 1651 02:40 Budapest 1481 02:20 Catania 2636 03:45 Chania 2756 03:50 Copenhagen 895 01:40 Corfu 2329 03:25 Dalaman 2639 03:40 Dublin 2030 03:10 Dubrovnik 2027 03:00 Düsseldorf 1512 02:25 Edinburgh 1717 02:40 Eilat 3457 04:45

From Helsinki

Great Circle Estimated distances / km flight times

Frankfurt 1543 02:35 Fuerteventura 4578 06:05 Funchal 4310 05:45 Gdansk 768 02:00 Geneva 1994 03:00 Gothenburg 785 01:25 Hamburg 1 172 02:00 Hannover 1278 2:15 Heraklion 2777 03:55 Ibiza 2897 04:00 Innsbruck 1701 02:35 Kazan 1521 02:30 Kos 2620 03:45 Kraków 1 186 02:00 Las Palmas 4700 06:10 Lisbon 3369 04:50 Ljubljana 1713 02:40 London 1863 03:10 Lyon 2081 03:10 Madrid 2950 04:25 Malaga 3357 04:35 Malta 2822 04:15 Manchester 1817 03:00 Menorca 2688 04:05

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From Helsinki

Great Circle Estimated distances / km flight times

Milan 1953 03:05 Minsk 734 01:15 Moscow 876 01:40 Munich 1577 02:30 Mytilene 1471 03:35 Naples 2283 03:25 Nice 2202 03:25 Oslo 766 01:30 Palma de Mallorca 2777 04:00 Paphos 2898 04:00 Paris 1900 03:05 Pisa 2093 03:20 Porto 3117 04:20 Prague 1322 02:10 Preveza 2397 03:25 Pula 1865 02:55 Reykjavik 2429 03:50 Rhodes 2668 03:45 Riga 382 00:55 Rimini 1993 03:00 Rome 2235 03:25 Saint Petersburg 301 01:00 Salzburg 1592 02:30 Samara 1698 02:35

From Helsinki

Great Circle Estimated distances / km flight times

Santorini 2660 03:40 Skiathos 2353 03:30 Split 1956 02:55 Stockholm 400 01:00 Stuttgart 1637 02:45 Tallinn 101 00:30 Tartu 245 00:50 Tel Aviv-Yafo 3230 04:25 Tenerife Norte 4691 06:10 Tenerife Sur 4745 06:10 Tromsø 1078 01:55 Umeå 459 01:20 Varna 1911 02:55 Venice 1847 02:55 Verona 1903 02:55 Vienna 1462 02:30 Vilnius 633 01:15 Visby 481 01:25 Warsaw 940 01:40 Yekaterinburg 2098 03:05 Zakynthos 2526 03:55 Zurich 1781 02:45

Winter season 2018–2019 Finnair adds flights to popular winter destinations in Lapland, including new non-stop flights from London, Paris, Tallinn, and Zurich London Gatwick – Ivalo 2 weekly flights London Gatwick – Kittilä 1 weekly flight Paris – Kittilä 1 weekly flight Tallinn – Kittilä 1 weekly flight Zurich – Kittilä 1 weekly flight

World of Finnair

Intercontinental destinations

Sapporo

Beijing Seoul South Korea

Xian

China

Nanjing

Nagoya Osaka

Japan Tokyo

Fukuoka

Shanghai

Chongqing Delhi Dubai United Arab Emirates

From Helsinki

Guangzhou

India

Hong Kong

Thailand Bangkok Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City Phuket

Krabi

Singapore

Chicago San Francisco

Bangkok 7912 09:45 Beijing 6325 07:55 Chongqing 6736 08:40 Delhi 5229 06:50 Dubai 4537 05:55 Fukuoka 8060 09:30 Guangzhou 7693 09:30 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 8510 10:50 Hong Kong 7821 09:35 Krabi 8350 10:20 Nagoya 7780 09:40 Nanjing 7165 09:35 Osaka 7751 09:30 Phuket 8312 10:05 Sapporo 8013 09:35 Seoul 7050 08:40 Shanghai 7410 09:05 Singapore 9272 11:30 Tokyo 7849 09:45 Xian 6421 07:50

New York

United States

From Helsinki

Los Angeles

Miami Mexico

Great Circle Estimated distances / km flight times

Great Circle Estimated distances / km flight times

Chicago Havana Los Angeles Miami New York Puerto Plata Punta Cana San Francisco

7139 09:15 8703 11:15 9016 10:35 8342 11:10 6626 08:45 8410 11:15 8404 11:05 8724 10:45

Havana Cuba Puerto Plata Punta Cana Dominican Republic

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FINLAND FACTS Nature

188,000 lakes

75%

land covered by forests

Government

1917

Sovereign parliamentary republic

1995 area

390,909 km2*

Monthly avg. temperatures in Helsinki (2018):

Member of EU since January 1995

200 members

elected for four-year terms

Parliament *includes water area

whooper swan

land used for agriculture

Population

5.5

million

Languages SÁ

President

SE

Economy

Education

GDP

(2017*)

€224

FI

billion

the annual change in volume 2.7% *preliminary

88% speak Finnish 5.2% speak Swedish 0.04% speak Sámi

elected every six years; current president is Sauli N ­ iinistö, who was re-elected to a second term in January 2018

Currency

EURO

Fun facts

72%

14

Universities *incl National Defence University

of students have ­studied beyond basic ­education

25

Universities of applied sciences

Consumption of coffee per capita

9.6kg*

12.3 l*

*per year

National food: rye bread

Ice cream consumed per capita *per year

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2,300,000* saunas *estimate

(December 2018)

*preliminary

788,000*

overnight stays by foreign travellers

SOURCE: STATISTICS FINLAND ILLUSTRATION: ANGELINA LUZHINA

7%

National bird

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