Rent a Finn - The Ultimate Immersive Experience
How is happiness taught? This must have been thought of by Visit Finland, the department in charge of promoting and developing the image of Finland at an international level, and they quickly have launched into the adventure-experiment-experience of renting Finnish citizens with the intention that these serve as guides to happiness for travelers who visit the happiest country in the world in summer.
A total of eight people residing in Finland – who do not have to be natives, just be in tune with the mental state of calm and well-being that characterizes the country – are now being carefully selected so that during the summer months open their homes to those who want to live the authentic life of a Finn.
A voluntary candidacy of these ambassadors of happiness that is accompanied by a personal video with which they must convince the organizers of the project that the activity they wish to share with foreign visitors transmits the true Finnish essence and culture.
And you have the opportunity to be their guest. How? Filling out this application until April 14 .
They will teach you to enjoy nature in their own way.
THE WAY TO PROCEED
You can now prepare your getaway to Finland by renting – depending on the accommodation and the day-to-day in which you wish to participate – the Finn you prefer from among the eight proposed on the Rent a Finn website. Although the objective, in any of the cases, will be the same: be accompanied by a happiness guide who helps us reconnect with nature.
Because it is not the same to walk on your own among the pines and birches than to take a person who knows the forest like the back of his hand and that, at the same time, he tells you the fruits and seeds that you must collect with the intention of later preparing a delicious traditional recipe with those wild ingredients at home.
Nor is taking a steam bath without more than participating in the social event that in Finland is the sauna: with quality fragrances and bathroom accessories, a bundle of birch branches to whip yourself with to improve blood circulation, and that final refreshing dip in the sea, lake or pre-drilled hole in the ice.
Your guide will explain that a bundle of birch branches is indispensable in a Finnish sauna.
Another aspect to take into account when choosing one host or another will be the accommodation they offer. Because, although the hotels in Finland are wonderful and perfectly connected with the natural environment that surrounds them, Wouldn't a remote cabin overlooking a small lake be more idyllic? What will help you discover the genuine love for Finnish nature?
While we wait to learn the names and lives of the eight Finnish citizens who will be responsible for representing the leisurely and happy lifestyle of the country, We can only look hypnotized at the countdown marker on the Rent a Finn website so that we don't miss the opportunity to be the first to rent our own guide to happiness.
*Report published on February 6 and updated on March 21, 2019
Finns who have a cabin in the archipelago, you are already taking time to send your application.