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Let’s talk about the weather
May 16, 2012 — Global Writer: Markus Hippi
When I woke up recently I checked the weather forecast. For the oncoming weekend it was London 13c, Helsinki, 24c. A couple of weeks ago I followed the same routine. I got up, flipped open the laptop. London was 9c. My other favourite city, Berlin, 29c – depressing. Don’t get me wrong – of course I knew what I was getting myself into when I decided to move to an island in western Europe. I had prepared myself to be battered by winds and drenched by the rain coming from off the Atlantic.
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Today (this column was written on Thursday at 18.14 in the Asiana lounge at Seoul’s Gimpo airport) marks day six of a two-week world tour that’s so far touched down in Stockholm, Helsinki and Tokyo and will carry on to Tokyo again followed by Hong Kong, Singapore, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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