Finnishness, what does it bring to my mind? Four seasons, unique nature, weird traditional food, friendly and modest people and quite silent but more social when talked to. We have four seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall but they vary every year. We always hope that we will have winter with snow and sun so that we can enjoy skiing, downhill skiing and ice swimming. We also hope for warm summer that will last longer than just few days during summer months. We have this common joke in Finland that this year summer lasted only for one weekend. I think only Finnish people might get that.
Unique nature is definitely one of the attractions for tourists in Finland. Of course we Finnish people appreciate it too. Our land is called as the country with thousand lakes. We have beautiful forests where you can go and pick berries and mushrooms or just to have a walk in the woods. In Northern Finland where the weather is colder you can see deadwood. Our nature changes as the seasons change too. It feels like a privilege to have this kind of nature where you can go at anytime and enjoy peacefulness… and unfortunately some bugs too.
Weird traditional food is one thing that tells about Finnishness. These foods are either included to some holiday like Easter or then they have been developed in different regions of Finland and have that way become traditional foods of our country. I think that these few pictures will speak for themselves and you can decide if you are brave enough to taste those.
Rise porridge (traditional Christmas food with cinnamon and sugar or plum kisel: 
Karelian pies ( usually baked as rye crust with rice porridge filling, eaten with egg butter): 
Easter pudding (traditional Easter desert,
made from water, rye malt and rye flour, eaten with sugar and cream):
And then us Finns. We appreciate timetables and things that are agreed to be done. We are good with non-uncomfortable silence but don’t get me wrong, some of us are very talkative. I like to believe that we all have this thing called Finnish willpower. I think that characterizes us pretty well.
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