Rapid city: the place to defrost your soul Tampere showcases Lenin and the Moomins - that must be the strangest place in Finland? It certainly is, says Andrew Spooner

The Independent on Sunday | January 11, 2004| | Copyright

At its best, life throws up all kinds of possibilities and bewildering juxtapositions. Take Lenin and Moominpappa. Hard to imagine them inhabiting the same sentence never mind rubbing shoulders. But, in idiosyncratic Finnish style, there they sit, a stone's throw apart.

I'm walking through Tampere, a city in central Finland, once the hub of the Finnish industrial revolution, now on the tourist trail thanks to cheap flights. These days, large-scale industry is mostly a memory, although red-brick mill chimneys still throng the Tammerkoski rapids that cut through the grid-like city centre of ...

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