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During a stop at Malmi Comprehensive School on Talveltie Street in Helsinki, I saw the magnificent, all-round education system of Finland on display. Elsewhere, I explored a patch of the country’s vast “magical” forests, savoured memorable moments in a sauna – Finland’s iconic traditional steam bath chamber – and dipped myself in one of the Nordic country’s 188,000 lakes. After all of these in two days, I concluded that nothing else could beat my imagination in the remaining days I was going to spend in Helsinki, the capital of this vastly forested country in the north of Europe.

What was left to be seen in the capital city of over 670,000 people, I imagined, was going to be the usual expected in an advanced democracy and economy on the cutting edge of technology. As we stepped out of our bus in Merihaka, a residential area in central Helsinki, on Thursday (23 May), my eyes quickly caught a man with an expressionless face, and a woman lavishly smiling towards us. Both were resplendently dressed in their dark uniform, with the man setting his glasses on his forehead.



After two days, Tuesday and Wednesday (21 and 22 May), in Helsinki, I was already Beyond first three citizens I asked Mr Rask if he was aware of anything that compared with Finland’s extensive underground bunkers to protect a mass of citizens in other countries. He sighed and said, “Every country in the world has some form of protection like this for the first two or three citizens to guarantee c.

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