Last year, Luxembourg became the first country to have free public transport. Tallinn has also had free public transport for residents since 2014, if I remember correctly. Why other countries do not have free public transport. Is this a crazy idea, financially or...
I was watching a music video by the group Otava Yo with a German exchange student, where the background was a living museum event in Russian Karjala; Karjala/rice pies were being prepared in the video. Exchange student asked if this was filmed in Finland— no,...
In my opinion, public sector social and health services are more efficient than the private sector, but maybe efficiency is not the only criteria. Society sometimes needs services of less efficient private sector services to allow for (freedom) of choice. Having a...
My mother speaks Sinhala, and I have spoken Sinhala at home until I left home. My primary school education was in Sinhala medium as well. This leaves my Sinhala proficiency at quite a low level. On the other hand, English proficiency is at C1 level at worse because of...
As you might be aware I took part in Wife Carrying World Championship last weekend with Anna who was part of the TV crew that came to make a feature about the competition for the German TV show “Life”. It aired today on RTL in Germany. Great memories and...