19 Pictures That Tell You More about Finland than Most Guidebooks Ever Written

#1 The local equivalent of the mounted police

#2 All you need is the right kind of snow

#3 For those who miss the spring too much

#4 Social distancing vs. National sport

#5 The moment you can't find your car in the morning (though you remember where you parked it yesterday)

#6 The place where babies have a nap outside

#7 When winter paints your national flag

#8 A predator-moose - the Finnish equivalent of man-eating sharks

#9 The leader of the country does not travel like his counterparts

#10 There is so much you can read from their faces

#11 There is only one color in Finnish version of rainbow

#12 The free upgrade you get for your Mercedes logo

#13 Enjoying the spring (but still feeling sentimental for the winter)

#14 Because it's really hard to buy a BEWARE OF THE MOOSE warnings

#15 Be careful with some phrases – small differences can prove fatal

#16 The behavioral pattern in elevators all over the world. And in Finland of course

#17 Finns every day. And Finns playing ice-hockey

#18 This is what it would look like if the Beatles had lived in Finland

#19 This job needs to be done fast. Or not at all