I still remember where I was when my husband came home and presented the idea to me. As I sat up reading in bed to keep warm on a cold Auckland day, he stood near my feet, hands spread wide like a gameshow host making me an offer too good to refuse. “How about moving to Finland?” he asked.
Having moved home from Australia 20 months earlier, we planned to spend two years in New Zealand before moving overseas again to experience life in a different country. We hadn’t decided where that would be, and I had not even considered somewhere so far away – a place with almost a third of its land inside the Arctic Circle.