When I arrived in Turku I was wondering why the street name had two different names.

So I asked my student tutor why they did that! She smiled at me and said” the street don’t have different names it’s just that the first one is written in Finnish and the second one is written in Swedish”.

She then explained me that there is a Swedish minority in Finland.

Semla a swedish pâtisserie

So it’s important to remember that there’s a Swedish minority in Finland so it’s not that surprising to hear the Swedish language  or to see food from Sweden.

See you for the next blog

Olivia x