Am I a Finn inside?

I was in Moominvalley yesterday, the museum on Moomin books and their author Tove Jansson, and found that I had been impressed a lot by these books when I was a kid of four or five. All the characters I met in the exhibition were very familiar to me. Now I saw them again like half a century later, they told me even more than when I was a kid discovering the world thru picture books.
I bought a very small book, sadly enough with the comic Moomins, not the real Tove characters, starring Nuuskamuikkuinen (Snufkin in english), the traveling guy. He's the great adventurer of the Moominvalley with a philosophical attitude to life, a sociable hermit who is friends with everyone. For the winter he wanders down south. (!) Part of his philosophy is: Things get difficult when you want to have things. "Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free because I don't have a suitcase."
Listen to Too-Tricky: "All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured."
And Little My with the red hair (not curly): "You'll never have a face of your own until you learn to fight."
Their world built my world, in a way. So Sami aka bbwolf might be right, and I might be a Finn inside. ;-)
And I definitely like finnish food, karelian pies and pulla and kalakukko. Even mustamakkara. For lunch yesterday I went to the market hall and had some of this blood pudding with jam (for 1, 20 Euro). Delicious!
The day was grey and rainy, more like early autumn than late summer. But it was still quite warm when I strolled through the streets and admired the industrial heritage buildings from early 19th century onwards. Factories had been most important to this city for a long time, and now they closed down there are cultural centres in there. They have a workers' museum as well which I'll visit today.
At 2:30 I'm gonna see my dear host Yoavick for a last few hours in Tampere. He was so nice! Lots of nice chats, and coffee, cooked great pasta and won't allow me to do the dishes and really made me feel at home! I'm happy I got to know him in chat, and now in real life.
But in the afternoon I'll leave and take the train to Helsinki and meet Temmi under the balls. Pub crawl with Pulina and Gru was arranged for last night in chat. And then on to Espoo with Temmi. :-)