Our 1/3rd of an acre of prime Finnish Real Estate? 25 10 1
When I first came to Finland in 1960 I had worked 5 years in the British Paper Industry for a company owned by British American Tobacco, a BAT Company, and I got to work at Kymene Aktiabolaget as it was known to the Swedish speaking owners, or alternatively as Kymin Osakeyhtiö, to the greater Finnish speaking population: a company which manufactured one of the many wood pulps, their "Bond Special" grade of fully bleached softwood sulphite, BAT used to make a part of their range of wrapping papers. So successful was our collaboration that as I was departing, after working 6 weeks in the company's Central Laboratory, I was invited to return another summer, together with a good many other students, who provided cover while the more permanent staff and workers took their summer holidays, during the months typically June through August. Perhaps unsurprising I returned the following year in July and stayed on until September, maybe 2 months altogether. And in the following ye...