My relationship with Finland is certainly important to me. Finland is the homecountry of too many things that have now become permanent parts of my life: the forests, the lakes, the (frozen) sea, the snows, the incredible sunsets and the refreshing dawns. Summer in Finland is the best possible choice I could ever think for a holiday. But above all the people, with their apparent shyness hiding a complex, reflexive and seething inner world - the kindness and honesty of men and women, their restrained smile concealing a deep-rooted sense of hospitality and the pride for their Suomi, the country of a thousand lakes. In Finland I feel at home, because this is much more than "the country of thousand lakes".