Local people on the archipelago sense ‘an opportunity in the north’ as southern Europe swelters
Jenny Björklund was out on an island in Finland’s Åland archipelago with a friend when they saw a boat approaching across the Baltic Sea. She assured her friend, who was visiting from Gothenburg in Sweden, that they would be left alone.
“Don’t worry, they won’t come here because we are here. This is our island,” Björklund, a co-owner of a restaurant and distillery on the archipelago, says she told her friend. Sure enough, she was right.
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