Helsinki - Post Report Question and Answers

If you move here, you can leave behind your:

90% of your summer wardrobe, maybe 10 days of the year are warm enough to require shorts. - Dec 2022


Non-waterproof winter clothing. You need outerwear with a rating of at least 8,000 mm. waterproof. - Oct 2018


obsessive bottled-water drinking habits. - Jul 2012


Summer wear, flip flops, dry cleaning. - Jan 2011


mosquito repellent. - May 2010


Your shorts and bikini. - Apr 2009


Big, fluffy bed comforter as they don't fit in the much smaller European washing machines. Anything that has to be dry cleaned as it is expensive. - Mar 2008


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